Spidershankes

My name is Bobby.  I am a dry stone waller from Cumbria. I live in Troutbeck and race for Ambleside AC.

This website is a collection of my writing about running, much of which was created originally for The Fellrunner, which is the journal of the Fell Runners Association.

I also do writing about things other than running, which you can find here.

Spidershankes is supposedly an old local dialect insult for a lanky person*. I have lived in Cumbria most of my life, and never once heard it used, but people do call me lanky, and every website needs a name.

* ‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of Cumberland Dialect’ by W. Dickinson, as referenced in ‘The Lake District in 101 Maps and Infographics’ by D. Felton 2019