KAC AGM 13th Dec 2020
It’s time for our Keswick AC Annual General Meeting which we have decided to hold via Zoom this year, on Sunday 13th December at 8pm. It would be really helpful if we can get lots of you to dial in as…
A Message from Slats
Well, taking over as Chair twelve months ago was spectacularly poor timing on my part and none of us could have imagined what 2020 would bring. After all your fantastic success in 2019 and a really enjoyable Club Dinner the…
Club Champs for 2020
Our Club Championships are ‘officially’ underway with our first ‘New Look 2020’ update being supplied by Patrick Butler! Club Champs, along with all our other events and training, have had to adapt for 2020. Our committee have worked hard to…
Recycle your old Kit
“The average life of a running shoe on our feet is 4 -6 months, if sent to landfill they then hang around for a further 11,994 months before starting to decompose.” Alongside shoes, the amount of other kit such as…
Wainwrights 7 Summits Challenge Report
On 5th September, postponed from 22nd August due to bad weather, 24 intrepid Keswick AC ladies, mostly veterans (over 40s) but not all, undertook a relay of Wainwrights 7 Summits. This is a challenge starting and finishing in Ambleside linking…
Rachel Mellor’s Tea Round 2020
I set off from George Fisher just after 8am in the morning on Thursday 8th October in cool, still conditions with some cloud touching the high tops. I enjoyed a run out by myself over Catbells and Robinson, meeting few…
New Club Committee Roles Oct2020
Lucy Burnett had volunteered for a new club committee role of Welfare & Inclusion Officer. Contact her HERE Jacob Tonkin has volunteered for the Press & PR role. Contact him HERE
Keswick Athletic Club – Update on Covid-19 Measures
UPDATED 5th October, 2020 The Director of Public Health in Cumbria has issued the following new advice as a result of increased case numbers and hospital admissions. “By law in England people must not meet indoors or outdoors in groups…
Golden Trail National Series
2020 should have seen the inaugural Golden Trail National Series in the United Kingdom, a national series of fell/trail running races, sponsored by Salomon. The Serpent trail 50km (south downs national park), The Snowdon Trail Marathon (Wales), The Scafell Pike…
Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge 12 September 2020 by Craig Smith
“Just think next year you get another 3 hours” – the prospect of another run across the Lake District was the last thing on my mind having just completed something I had been focusing on for over three years. I…