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between6and16miles

Sometime writer and artist. Based in Sheffield, near the Peak District. Articles, blogs and art at

Remembering Rich Pastrami, 5 years later, on his f

Remembering Rich Pastrami, 5 years later, on his favourite running route and past the spot that he made his final exit. Not a bad looking place to bow out.

#agden #damflask #damflaskreservoir #running '#trailrunning

It's hard to get the details of my pencil work acr

It's hard to get the details of my pencil work across on here. All of my pencil art is designed to be looked at closely, again and again. There's always an overall "thing" or design, but it's made up of handdrawn renditions of clouds, trees, bones, sun and moon, rocks, faces, tiny mountain ranges, grasses or whatever else it looks like in the light you're viewing it in. The details are designed to be sort of Rorshach blots.

There's an A3 print on fine art paper of this available to buy in my www.between6and16miles.co.uk shop. All hand drawn in pencil.

#pencilart #art #pencilsketching #pencilprint #artprint #handdrawn #noai #finartprint #illustration #illustratior #pencilandpaper #drawing #drawnbyhand

Pencil Drawing Of An Old Man In A French Church.

Pencil Drawing Of An Old Man In A French Church.

Came back from France with loads of stuff to draw and I haven't drawn anything in this intense pencil style for a while so I was pleased to do something in it again.

It'll look good big I reckon, this. Its hard to see anything at first, but the window, the lights and the man gradually come to you, which I think would be great at a larger size. Its really textured too, but but its hard to grasp that at this magnification.

#art #pencilart #pencilonly #illustration #penandaper #pencildrawing #handdrawn #noai #noaiart #drawnbyhand #surreal #graphicart #surrealpencildrawing #sketch #sketching #between6and16miles #drawingpractice

Signed up for the Hurtle again. It's hard to hurtl

Signed up for the Hurtle again. It's hard to hurtle up 2000+ feet (from Yorkshire Bridge to the top of Stanage!) and over 31km to be honest (and I always want to curl up and die by the bottom of Burbage) but it's still a blast. Let's get the 25km training runs going soon @jawad.qasrawi @tony.ado @matt_hybrid3.

Pics from last year

#hathersagehurtle #hathersagehurtle2025 #running #fellrunner #fellrunning #peakdistrict #peakdistrictrunning #trailrunning #trailrunner

This time last year, Lis and me were in Finland in

This time last year, Lis and me were in Finland in -20 and below (it was so cold that phone cameras stopped working after a few minutes), looking for auroras and exploring the ice sheets. Now its cold here, I want to go back to the far North again. Maybe Svalbard next time.

#finland #auroras #thenorth #minus20degrees #northernlights #northernlightsphotos #levi #kittilä

It's that time of year where the hospital looks li

It's that time of year where the hospital looks like it's on fire on clear, cold mornings. The sunrise gets caught in the windows and it glows orange and gold for 10 or 15 minutes.

#sheffieldissuper #sheffield #sheffieldhospital #meersbrook #meersbrookpark #sunrise #urbansunrise

I've put the text and some scans (including the ar

I've put the text and some scans (including the art) of my piece on the Pommie Panter fell race (I placed top 20 in that one if memory serves - its not often that happens!) at my Between6and16miles website.

Go and have a look and a read - www.between6and16miles.co.uk/pommie-panter-run/

#pommiepanter #likethewind #ltw #fellracing #fellrunning #running #trailrunning #peakdistrict #peakdistrictrunning #magazine #magazinearticle #illustration #illustrator #writing

Got a load of short-form reading material through

Got a load of short-form reading material through the door from @nightjarpress. Never read any of these people before (I'm stuck in the 1900s at the moment 😂), so from start to finish these'll all be new to me.

#reading #nightjar #nightjarpress #fiction #shortformfiction #shortstories

Best pair of road-to-trail shoes I ever owned and

Best pair of road-to-trail shoes I ever owned and I'll be sad to see them gone.

"Good night sweet princes and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

Got well over 600 miles (and 600 quick ones too) out of them.

#inov8 #inov8shoes #inov8g280 #shoes #runningshoes #running #trailrunning #trails #sheffield

Off to France with The Daughter tomorrow (her firs

Off to France with The Daughter tomorrow (her first time on a plane) so I'm choosing reading material for the airport and the aircraft. Instead of drinking pints at 7am and letting her play games on someone's phone, I'm gonna try to persuade her to read Flatland.

#reading #books #edwinaabbott #flatland #borges #jgballard #fiction

Night in with old deep house records and a beer or

Night in with old deep house records and a beer or two. Haven't played some of these in a while, but they all sound great after being out in the Peak in the wind and the rain all morning.

I reckon Charles Webster makes the perfect music for driving and running in the Peak District as autumn falls.

#housemusic #vinyl #records #saturdaynight #deephouse #charleswebster

Deer in the mist on White Edge Moor. We watched ea

Deer in the mist on White Edge Moor. We watched each other for a while and then went our separate ways.

Tough run and wet but still glad to be out.

#trailrunning #running #stag #deer #whiteedge #peakdistrict #fellrunning #ukcountryside

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