WHILE the weather continues to pretend its mid autumn, not mid summer, it fails to deter Okehampton Running Club members from taking on challenges that would normally be held in much better conditions.

Two ORCs took part in the Yelverton Six Moor Miles race and were lucky to only experience one shower, although the recent rain had made for a muddy course.

Mags Jarvis ran a good race, although frustrated at the bottle-necking in the first mile, and finished in 64 minutes 54 seconds with Janet White ten minutes behind her.

On the other side of the moors, five more ORCs took up the challenge to run the Dartmoor 600s. This is not a race, there is set route and no time limit to complete it in, but a self-navigated challenge to run all the Dartmoor hills over 600m in one go.

For ORCs Chris Turner, Katie Littlejohns, Mike Baker and Charlie Galley this was the first time they had attempted the challenge, but Christine Fritsch was revisiting these five peaks for a second time. She had not felt well on her first tour round them and enjoyed this one better, despite the downpours of rain in the last two hours which led to them being drenched by the time they finished. They were joined on their run by Haldon Trail runner Lizzie Dyson.