Running Int' Fells

16/10/2025

13/03/2025

🏃‍♂️ INOV8 MUDTALON SPEED Demo Day – This Saturday! 🏃‍♀️

Get ready to grip it and rip it on the fells! Join us at Force Café, Ambleside this Saturday, 15th March, as we team up with INOV8 and The INOV8 FORGE STORE for an epic MUDTALON SPEED Demo Day!

🔥 Try Before You Buy – Test out the brand-new MUDTALON SPEED, designed for ultimate grip on muddy fell terrain, and take on our Wansfell Dash Challenge!

How It Works:
🔹 Pick up your demo shoes anytime between 9am – 3pm and hit the trails solo
🔹 OR join our 10am social run for a group challenge!

What’s in it for you?
✅ 10% off at Force Café, Ambleside ☕
✅ 15% off voucher for The Forge Store, Staveley 👟
✅ INOV8 freebies! 🎁

📅 Date: Saturday, 15th March
⏰ Time: 9am-3pm (Social run at 10am)
📍 Location: Force Café, Ambleside
🏔️ Route: Wansfell – up the main path & back down

👟 Ready to run? Sign up for the 10am social run via the link in our Facebook event page or through the INOV8 Forge Store. The weather is looking sunny, so we are excited for this one... Let’s hit the fells together!

24/02/2025

Weekend Plans? Let’s Do This! ⛰️🍽️

🏃‍♂️ Wansfell Dash Challenge
Lace up, hit the fells, and see if you can take on our Wansfell Dash! Once you've conquered the climb, reward yourself with a well-earned refuel at Force.

🍽️ Saturday Night Supper
After a day of adventure, kick back with great food from our evening menu (served until 7pm). Whether it's date night or mate night, we’ve got you covered! Bookings essential! 📞 015394 68335 | [email protected]

🍗 Sunday Service – The Ultimate Comfort Food
From 12pm, tuck into our legendary Sunday Roast (veggie options available!) or go for a lazy brunch, served until 1pm.

📍 Find us at Stock Ghyll Lane, Ambleside
🕖 Opening Times:
Mon-Fri: 9:30 AM - 4 PM
Sat: 9 AM - 9 PM (food served till 7 PM)
Sun: 9 AM - 5 PM

🍳 Brunch: Served until 11:45 AM
🍴 Lunch: 12 PM - 3:45 PM
🍗 Sunday Roast: 12 PM - 3 PM
🍰 Cakes & Ice Cream: All day, every day!

🚗 Limited parking (don’t forget to register your reg!)
🐶 Dog friendly | ⛰ Views: 11/10
🎉 Private hire available

See you this weekend! 🙌

14/01/2025

21/12/2024

That's all folks! Running Int' Fells has finished in first place 🏆

Thank you to all our staff, trustees, volunteers, supporters and visitors for making 2024 so special - we couldn't have crossed the finish line without you 🏅

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📸 The Armitt Collection

Image description: A black and white photo of a fell runner collecting his trophy at a county show in Cumbria. A middle aged man in a three piece suit with incredible sideburns and a cigar in hand shakes the hand of a fell runner in shorts and a vest with the number twenty on the back. A crowd of onlookers is visible in the background. The yellow Armitt logo is in the top right corner. To the left, green text above the white Armitt logo reads: At the finish line. In the bottom left corner, green text above the logos for the ULTRA magazine, the Climbers Shop, Kong Running and VOOM Nutrition reads: with support from

15/12/2024

As Christmas approaches and 2024 draws to a close, let's reflect on the year with our final Running Int' Fells Joss Naylor's Lakes, Meres and Waters of the Lake District by Vivienne Crow with 🥳

Part guidebook, part inspirational regaling, this book interweaves tales of past and present as Naylor reflects on his 1983 epic on a re-walk 37 years later. In the company of award-winning author, Vivienne Crow, Naylor recalls that magical day, sharing stories and anecdotes from, not just his run, but the 1980s fell running scene, his working life and growing up in the Wasdale Valley.

Joss passed away earlier this year, he is sorely missed by the fell-running community.

"As long as I can I’ll carry on going out on the fells. It’s been my life.” - Joss Naylor, Issue 4 of Avaunt Magazine

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Image description: A photo of Wast Water in the Lake District. The sky above is cloudy with sunlight peeking through, lighting the mountains surrounding the lake. To the left is the front cover of Joss Naylor's Lakes, Meres and Waters of the Lake District by Vivienne Crow with Joss Naylor. It shows Joss Naylor, an elderly white man wearing a blue cap, walking jacket and black rucksack, with a wooden walking stick in hand. He stands before the Wast Water valley with the bright sunrise peaking over the horizon. Above the scene is the book's title in blue letters. To the right of the book is the red silhouette of a running shoe. Inside the shoe outline, black text reads: hashtag Speed Read

13/12/2024

👟RUNNING INT' FELLS: ENDS SAT 21st DEC⛰

Don't miss the last four days of our exhibition Running Int' Fells before it ends on Saturday 21st December at 4:30pm 🏃

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📸 Lloyd Taggart

Image description: Two men in running gear look across a lush green valley in the Lake District on a cloudy day, their backs to the viewer, as though they have paused midway through a fell race. Green text above them reads: eighteenth to twenty first of Dec Last Week. The yellow Armitt logo is in the top right corner. To the left of the runners is the black Running Int Fells logo. In the bottom left corner, black text reads: With support from, with the logos for ULTRA, The Climbers Shop, Kong Running and Voom Nutrition underneath

08/11/2024

Writer and journalist Eileen Jones joins us next Friday to relate the love story between herself and Loughrigg fell near Ambleside 💕

Eileen’s books are full of stories about people who love running, about the parkrun community, the fell-running community, as well as the people who walk over Loughrigg, live on the lower slopes, have painted it, and written poems about it.

Tickets are £10 per person, book here: https://tinyurl.com/46pv8f3c

You can buy copies of her new book, Loughrigg: Tales of a Small Mountain in our shop and at this event 📚🏔

Learn more about fell-running in our exhibition Running Int' Fells, on until 21st December 👟

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Image description: Eileen Jones stands on top of Loughrigg Fell, holding her book about the mountain. She is a middle aged woman with strawberry blonde hair and a huge grin on her face. She wear a light blue waterproof jacket with a pink fleece underneath. Mountains and a cloudy sky are visible behind her. The logos for Running Int Fells and The Armitt are in the top corners. Below Eileen, pink text on a light pink note with a heart at the top reads: Eileen Jones A Love Story of Loughrigg. Friday fifteenth of Nov five thirty to seven pm. To Eileen's left, pink text in a light pink heart reads: Ten pounds per person

06/11/2024

🍁 NOVEMBER TALKS AT THE ARMITT 🍁

Don't miss our incredible talk programme this month, including two events in our , when you can learn about:

🖋 Sunday 10th: Norman Nicholson in the Cumbrian landscape with Dr Laura Day
🏔 Friday 15th Nov: Running Int' Fells: A Love Story of Loughrigg with Eileen Jones
🤔 Tuesday 19th Nov: Curious Cumbria with Gordon Emery
🐋 Tuesday 26th Nov: The history of whale arches in Cumbria with Dr Chris Routledge

Book tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/3dcjv42s

Image description: Against a blue background with an orange speech bubble, white text reads: November Talks. Next to photo of the poet Norman Nicholson, white text reads: Sunday the tenth Norman Nicholson and me with Dr Laura Day. To the right of a photo of Eileen Jones on the top of Loughrigg fell, white text reads: Friday the fifteenth Running Int Fells A love story of Loughrigg with Eileen Jones. Alongside a picture of the book cover of Curious Cumbria, white text reads: Tuesday the nineteenth Armitt Talk Series twenty twenty four Curious Cumbria with Gordon Emery. White text next to a photo of the Burneside Whale Arch reads: Tuesday the twenty sixth Armitt Talk Series The Burneside Whale Arch with doctor Chris Routledge

02/11/2024

As the nights draw in and we curl up at home with a good book, November's is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami 👟

World famous Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, best known for literary novels like The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, IQ84 and Norwegian Wood, first began running when he sold his jazz bar to write full time in 1982. In the decades since, he has written many books and competed in many races and triathlons. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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Image description: Jingu Gaien gardens in Tokyo, on an autumn day. Tall Ginkgo trees with yellow leaves line a long promenade on either side, as people stroll in the sunshine. To the left is the front cover of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. The simple black cover has a red circle in the middle, with the white silhouette of a a quill pen nib. A small red runner runs along the slit in the nib. To the right of the book is the red silhouette of a running shoe. Inside the shoe outline, black text reads: hashtag Speed Read