Festival of the Outdoors March 2019 Festival Guide @TheOutdoorCity #FestivaloftheOutdoors www.theoutdoorcity.co.uk/festival-of-the-outdoors Kicking off Sheffi eld’s outdoor season with a bang! The Festival of the Outdoors offers a full month of events and activities celebrating the city’s outdoor communities. Taking place 1 - 31 March with everything from city centre mountain bike racing, trail runs and fi lm screenings to urban caving, there’s lots of opportunity to get involved - come and join us! Kendal Mountain The Rab Climbing Works Trail Advantage: MTB Trek Sheffi eld Events Festival Tour International Festival Fundamentals Taster (CWIF) Friday 1 March major lines in high-altitude 2 - 3 March competition where amateur and Saturday 2 March Trek Sheffi eld, Fox Valley, S36 2AB mountaineering. professional climbers have the Abbeydale Picture House, S7 1FS Lady Cannings Plantation, S11 7TS This isn’t like most climbing opportunity to compete side by Cycle Maintenance Clinic Starts: 7.30pm Holly Page is a British fell, trail Morning session: 10.30am Sunday 3 March | 10.30am – 12.30pm competitions. Yes, it attracts side. Afternoon session: 1.00pm The award winning Kendal and skyrunner, and this year she professional competitors from A free cycle maintenance clinic with the Trek Team’s expert technicians. Mountain Festival is back on the stormed the Migu Skyrunner around the world. Yes, it offers As well as an opener to the Aimed at riders who are just road with its UK Tour. World Series – winning 3 of prize money. But, far above all World Cup Season, this year’s starting their mountain bike The Science of Precision Fit the 8 races she competed in – competition will also make adventure or riders who want to Wednesday 6 March | 6pm - 8pm They’ll be showing some of the else, the CWIF exists for the becoming the Sky Classic World Olympic history as the debut get the basics dialed in. By the Meet Trek’s professional fi tters and world’s best adventure fi lms fun of it. Champion. outing for the GB Bouldering end of the session you will be physios, to fi nd out about the most and giving you the opporunity comfortable position on your bike. One of the opening spectacles Team, ahead of Tokyo 2020. riding with more confi dence and to hear from two incredible in The Festival of the Outdoors ready to explore the fi ne trails 20% of all bikes fi tted on the night . Free to attend. speakers. and a huge event in the around The Outdoor City. bouldering calendar, expect Trans Pennine Way Ride Out British alpinist Tom Livingstone 10 places available on both Saturday 30 March | 10am -12pm has a penchant for trad, winter big crowds, big talent and big moves when this event morning and afternoon sessions. Head out with the Trek Team to and alpine climbing - the bigger Cost is £20 per person with £5 explore the nearby section of the and harder, the better. In 2018 returns to Sheffi eld’s Climbing Trans Pennine Trail. Meet at the Trek Works. Being open to all going towards Ride Sheffi eld, he successfully climbed Latok the city’s MTB advocacy group. Sheffi eld Shop. FREE to attend. I in the Karakorum, Pakistan. climbers, regardless of age or For more info visit: The North Ridge of Latok is For tickets visit: ability, makes CWIF the only To book on a session visit: For more info contact: UK international bouldering www.climbingworks.com recognised as one of the last kendalmountaintour.com trailadvantage.com trekstoresheffi [email protected] Running Events Round-Up Cycling For All Sessions South Yorkshire Orienteers Events Sheffi eld Together 10k Wednesday Night Hump Run Sunday 3 March Wednesday 6, 13, 20, 27 March Start: 11am, from Ecclesall Woods Start: 6.20pm, from Front Runner, S11 8ZL Orienteering - give it a go! Urban Orienteering Race Northern Orienteering Urban Night Orienteering The run that will push you to the This social 5k is about enjoying limit and make a difference to being out/about and keeps the Championships local people who are affected by pace amenable for a wide variety Tuesday 5, 12, 19 & 26 March supporters who are able to cancer every day, raising money for of runners averaging around 10 provide help, advise and assist Cavendish Cancer Care. minutes per mile, the usual distance Hillsborough Park, S6 2AB Saturday 2 March Saturday 9 March Sunday 10 March Thursday 14 March Time: 10am - 1pm throughout the session. sheffi eldtogether.co.uk for a run is 3 miles. Norfolk Heritage Park, S2 2PL The Ponderoa, S3 7PZ Wharncliffe Woods, S35 8RS Kelham Island, S3 8SA frontrunnersheffi eld.co.uk Sheffi eld’s Cycling For All This session is open to all. First 1pm - 3.30pm 1pm - 3.30pm 10am - 1pm 6.45pm - 7.30pm Goodgym Sheffi eld Runs enables anyone to enjoy session is free during March, These events are perfect for The third event in the 2019 UK Taking place in Wharncliffe Woods, Come and experience the challenge Monday 4, 11, 18 & 25 March WoodRun cycling, whatever diffi culties or Start: 6.45pm, from the Showroom Cinema Thursday 7, 14, 21, 28 March £3 per rider thereafter. Carers introducing new people to the sport Orienteering League, this urban this is a fabulous chance to compete of night orienteering around the GoodGym is a community of Start: 10am, from Ecclesall Woods disabilities they face. always ride free! and also provide a local orienteering orienteering race offers fast and in one of SYO’s best orienteering streets of Kelham Island. Join Accelerate for a fun, guided runners that combine getting fi t challenge to experienced orienteers. furious orienteering through the areas, with courses planned by With a choice of three different with doing good. They head out run through the picturesque trails The volunteer run organisation There should be no need to intricacies of social housing and former GB orienteers Oli and Jenny of Eccesall Woods. Meeting at the hold weekly sessions in There’ll be a choice of seven courses, this race caters to every Monday on their runs to book, though at busy times you inner city parkland. Johnson. experienced orienteers, runners and do physical tasks for community J G Graves Discovery Centre for Hillsborough Park where you different courses catering to all may need to wait a short while The area was previously used newcomers alike. organisations. a run in Ecclesall Woods followed can ride various cycles each ages and abilities. Individuals, It will provide an interesting contrast by some friendly chit chat. All for a particular bike to become pairs and groups are all welcome. with the Northern Champs race for the British Championships in Award winning pub, The Fat Cat will goodgym.org/areas/Sheffi eld built to cater to specifi c needs. abilities welcome taking place every available. Longer courses offer excellent at Wharncliffe. Before the main 2011 and will provide a signifi cant be the event hub for the evening, Up and Running Social Runs Thursday. Try one of their specially sprint orienteering in Norfolk Park urban races, there will be an elite physical and technical challenge to which aptly coincides with Sheffi eld Wednesday 6, 13, 20, 27 March groups.runtogether.co.uk/WoodRun adapted trikes or get a lift on combined with a challenging urban sprint race, as part of the Elite the country’s best orienteers. Beer Week. Start: 6pm, from Up & Running Shop, S1 2GL one of the side-by-side tandems section around the surrounding Orienteering League. The event This event is the second race in the Work in the city centre? Come or wheelchair trikes. intricate housing estates. includes courses suitable for 2019 UK Elite Orienteering League, straight from work, use the shop’s newcomers. fourth in the 2019 UK Orienteering changing rooms and leave your For more information on The session is run by a qualifi ed League and is a key selection dedicated Run Groups in belongings safely in the shop while and experienced cycle leader For more info visit: race for juniors. Courses suitable out. Sheffi eld visit: and a minimum of two cycling sheffi eldcycling4all.org for newcomers will be available For more info or to enter visit: srg.upandrunning.co.uk/runs runtogether.co.uk/cities/Sheffi eld alongside the Championship Races. southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk Great Sheffi eld Flood Sheffi eld and Eastern Moors Events Longshaw Events Anniversary Walks Rotherham Wildlife Trust Volunteer Days 14 - 28 March 8 - 9 March Walk Moor Weekly Drop-In Walks Sheffi eld City Centre Abbeydale Picture House Thursday 7 March | 10am- 1pm 3 & 6 March | 11am - 1.30pm Fancy getting outside while Here’s run down of the events Monday 11 March Tuesday 12 March Taste The Outdoor City With an emphasis on great This 3 mile led walk will take you Explore Longshaw on one of the giving something back to taking place in March. from Curbar Gap and along Baslow free walks led by their team of Time: 10.30am - 1pm Time: 10.30am - 1pm during Dine Sheffi eld for just quality, independent, craft the beautiful green spaces, Edge. The weather on the moors volunteers. £5, £10 or £15 in the heart of beer from across the UK and Blacka Moor | 2 March A fi ve mile walk with local A linear walk along the Loxley woodland and nature reserves is changeable so come prepared. Sheffi eld. around the globe, the Indie Meet at Curbar Gap car park. Litter Pick at Burbage archivist Malcolm Nunn, to the Valley and up to Dam Flask with across the city? Crabtree Ponds | 4 March Sunday 10 March | 10am - 12.30pm Beer Feast kicks off Sheffi eld site of the breach of the Dale local archivist Malcolm Nunn, to Eateries across the city Bilberry Planting Muck in with essential conservation Beer Week in style.