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—Osmotherley Show Fell Race. (YKH Club Champ’s Race)
Course Report and Notes by Ed Roberts 
After several days of rain, the single track lane leading to the Osmotherly Show was marked
with many muddy puddles, very suitable for James’ sparkly white Skoda.
MIle 1
We all gathered on a lovely muddy field and someone must’ve whispered “Go” as we started
moving. Down the puddle strewn lane we are running single track lane, through puddles lying on
tarmac onto a cinder track lane leading to farm houses and sheds. Fairly gradual gradient on
easy surfaces. Checking strava, we have some gradients between 7% and 16%.
Mile 2
Left hand turn and we face a 5 metre wide river, stream, gushing water source whatever you
want to call it. I did laugh as I watched Claire plough through it whilst I took the drier foot bridge.
More cinder track with some decent percentage inclines. We hit the Cleveland Way steps and
“have to” climb 60 metres in 400 metres…. Heart is exploding.
Mile 3
We hit the wide sandy stony paths that the Moors are known for. A little bit of rest bite and the
incline to the top of Black Hambleton. Run walk strategy engaged to the top with a path that
curls around like a worm. I’m sure there are some nice views but I didn’t take much in.
Mile 4
At the top, we found a cracking headwind which took any warmth away. Get to see and cheer
people on at the top which is always good. Fairly firm fell running terrain here which was nice.
Back down the stoney path with a decline that my knee did not appreciate. Look good for the
camera man. Great views across the piece, not bad.
Mile 5
Slightly down hill, slightly undulating cinder track with some puddles that you could bath in. A
few people caught me up which was more than a tad annoying. Navigate our way around a
cattle grid thanks to a marshall. I’m sure there were some woods here so i’m going to say there
were because I like woods. Ohh dropping some decent elevation that is very runnable.
Mile 6
Follow the tracks and go through some kissing gates (no one offered though 🙁). Make a slight
boo boo and we go right. We were told that we shouldnt be crossing any unmarshalled cattle
grids and we found an unmarshalled cattle grid. Following our club mate, he takes us over the
field in a straight line to get back to the path. Scaring sheep and many expletives to each other
and laughing to myself internally, we get back to the path. Lost a couple of places here.
Mile 0.68
Running directly across the field with the second place lady was an absolute treat as we both
laughed at the bloke who went the long way round. So much fun running on the soft grass on a gentle done hill gradient. A bit more cattle grid avoiding and onto the concrete surface at the
farm sheds. Stretch the legs, shout something at Barry. Hit the muddy showground and cross
the finish line. I don’t think it even rained during the run, result!
6.68 mile, 1145ft elevation(10kish, 349m elevation).
Brief highlight of note. Scoffing beer, cake and beige food post run in the tent.
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- 10th Tom Ratcliffe 48:23
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- 1st Female/11th Clare Jones 48:32
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- 13th Ed Roberts 51:36
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- 1st M60/15th Barry Atkinson 51:58
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- 21st Kieron Niven 53:15
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- 25th Ste Robson 54:23
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- 27th Graham Gill 54:49
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- 40th Ursula Moore 59:15
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- 1st F34/41st Orna O’Toole 59:16
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- 2nd F45/51st Clare Wake 69:03
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- 2nd F60/71st Jane Morby 98:52
—Borrowdale Fell Race.
Classic 17 mile fell race in the Lake District, taking in Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Dale Head.
50th Ewan Sewell 3:59:09
—Windmill Half Marathon.
A three lap course on Lytham promenade on the Fylde coast.
14th Richard Walker 1:25:36 1st VM55
—Lotherton Hall Trail Race.
79th Kelly Temple 50:11
—York 10k.
Becky Penty was 2nd Female overall, Jean Snelling was 2nd F80, Kathryn Dickinson 2md F60, David Smithers 2nd M50 and Anita Ruddock 3rd F60.
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- Pete Downes
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- James Samford
| POS. | NAME | |
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| 25 | David Morrison | |
| 32 | David Smithers | |
| 39 | Becky Penty | |
| 61 | Matthew Lunn | |
| 70 | Adrian Stipetic | |
| 155 | Steven Bell | |
| 157 | Rory Henderson | |
| 180 | Andrew Barker | |
| 188 | Tim Cowham | |
| 199 | Francesca Sawer | |
| 259 | Steve Ruddock | |
| 279 | James Chambers | |
| 281 | Nick Griffin | |
| 288 | Gavin Thomas | |
| 289 | Thomas Sermon | |
| 309 | Simon Downes | |
| 365 | Pete Downes | |
| 434 | Kathryn Dickinson | |
| 439 | Anita Ruddock | |
| 459 | Phil Witcherley | |
| 501 | David Baker | |
| 640 | Izzy Ardron | |
| 659 | Vicky Green | |
| 676 | Steve Benson | |
| 784 | Emily Nicholls | |
| 856 | James Sampford | |
| 859 | Mark Sullivan | |
| 909 | Tom Mullen | |
| 1042 | Caroline Docherty | |
| 1255 | Cat Matthews | |
| 1288 | Hannah Johnson | |
| 1364 | Peter Grayley | |
| 1526 | Colin Lea | |
| 1561 | Izzy Rhodes | |
| 1603 | Keith Hamer | |
| 1638 | Richard Underwood | |
| 1843 | Jude Watson | |
| 1931 | Izzy Thurland | |
| 2441 | Pam Anderson | |
| 2544 | Nicholas Stafford | |
| 2756 | Julie Rookes | |
| 2891 | Lucy Buykx | |
| 3029 | Jon Husler | |
| 3146 | Richard Anderson | |
| 3343 | Jayne Fligg | |
| 3599 | Jean Snelling | |
| 3627 | Susan Adams | |
| 3628 | Paul Adams |
—Hardmoors Farndale Marathon Race Report by Ed Roberts.
Kick off time of 0900 meant we were leaving York at 0700 to get registration at Hutton Le
Hole for 0800ish then crack on with some frollicking through the moors. General goal was
just to get around to run another day.
The race brief was one of the loveliest ones I have been to with awards to people running
1000 (!) miles of Hardmoors, shout outs to volunteers already on the course and the telling
of a bridge where you turn right, but let’s not get bogged down with minor details like that.
To note, I seem to have forgotten quite a bit of this and a bit of blur, no real sense of when
and where I was in relation to much i’m afraid.
Mile 0 – 10
Determined to make friends and find myself a decent group I can sit in for the rest of the
race. We plodded alongside hedges, through forests even found a wee bit of BOG BOG
BOG. Going pretty steady but slowly pulling ahead and legs doing ok. Lots of fairly
undulating terrain.
Mile 10 – 19
The food station stop was a fun affair, the old boy stuffing gels into my hands and pockets
“they are out of date but it’s good for you” or something like that anyway. Then into our first
proper hill, drop a couple of gears and off we go. This peters out and a short while later we
find the first proper proper hill and we start walking. Meet Gary and Jordan who ran the
Osmotherly Fell race with us on Saturday so had a good natter about that.
We might be about 13-14 mile and legs feeling a wee bit tired which i’m not keen on.
Some glorious super sloppy mud to be found. Find some pretty decent sandy paths and into
some woods and now running with a old boy from Selby.
Highlight was a few of us navigating the stream, some Indiana Jones type stuff that.
Promptly reminded that we aren’t in the jungle but in Yorkshire when we find loads of sheep
rather than snakes.
Wooo purple heather, can tick that off my list of things to see.
After a few more miles we break into that 17-18 mile territory and legs are now moving
decently but feel all sorts of tightness but mainly in my calves.
Shout out to Mark who looked after me at the food station with sorting my shoe laces,
topping me up with coke, water and other sugary goodness. A good stretch on road here for
some reason. Met up with Matt here a few times which was a laugh.
Mile 20 – 29
Another cracking hill and now walking with my new mate Andy with some great views down
the valley. Got to the top and thought this looked familiar and knew the next downhill bit was
going to be rough.
Next food station was getting absolutely tanked up on coke and Dr. Pepper, some more
haribo and some ate some crisps (this was properly miles back at this stage) which fixed that
savoury itch. Absolutely buzzing.
Had a good all chin wag with Andy about running stories which was really nice.
Running along the river on the flag stones was a breeze and legs were pretty decent and
even got some strides in to use some other muscles but lost my friends at this stage, boooo.
A big ol’ hill on the road and got perplexed by a farmer closing a footpath. A slog up a hill
now and get into some more sloppy mud. Dont see anyone now for a good 30 minutes
maybe.
Next food stop and absolutely buzzing and feeling really good at 26 miles and will soon be
my first marathon event done. Discovered a mix of water and coke was doing a great job.
Foodwise, I gave up on anything that required chewing at this stage.
- Met Daryl who was struggling a wee bit and kinda swept him up a bit, ran and chatted to him
a bit but he slowly came alive with me chatting absolute bollocks to the poor lad. I proceed to
get lost like twice and lose time and get a bit miffed.
Some lovely cinder lane running through the woods. Expressing my disappointment to some
farmers who had only bottles of water as a beer would’ve been great 😀
Get to a road section which is a long slog up but start run walking. See new faces in the
distances and ask the marshalls if they are marathon runners.
After feeling pretty good for the last 7-8 mile the competitive edge starts to kick in and let
Daryl know that we are now chasing the two people in front of us.
Get to the main road that passes through Hutton le Hole and reeled in the two guys in front
of us. Traffic makes it difficult to pass safely but I can hear Daryl wanting to play the same
game.
Open the legs up and embrace the very runnable downhill section to the village hall. See
Rob who asks im ok which did make me question things but anyway. Keep running, can’t
hear Daryle now and getting cheered on by other runners, pub dwellers and coffee drinkers.
This is a good laugh aint it? Yes, yes very much so.
The lady shouts out my bib number, 229 and it’s all done. Very curious to know what position
I was in and we thought 20th, let’s wait for the results.
All in, 29.1 miles ran, 1356m of ascent, fair bit of chafing and finished 19th. Job done, what’s the next one?
—York Area Parkrun PB’s.
-York parkrun.
Luke Whiteley 21:35
-Heslington parkrun.
Andrew Barker 20:49
Atul Shahane 22:49