Race Date: Sunday 4th June 2023

The Striders’ party bus was back for the short trip up to Holmfirth for the road relays. Tim Holt did a brilliant job in galvanising us into action and he painstakingly sorted through the interested Striders to make up 9 full teams of 3. Hopefully next year we can get more because, although the running is only a small part of the day, the social side is brilliant and I can highly recommend the day out.

On arrival, we didn’t have much idea of where we were racing so took a recce down the half mile of tarmac which swiftly became like Houndkirk Road and we were pretty non-plussed. However, we were soon to learn that the race was to be 3 laps of a one mile circuit with an uphill out and a downhill back – hardly a hill however until you looked at the Strava elevation graph and it looked like 3 ascents of Everest – never trust a graph

We all had a really great day out. There were 5 Striders teams in the medals which was an excellent performance and more than any other club. Highlight for me was Neil’s explosive sprint finish to get us 2nd place in the MV50 by a narrow 2 second margin. Only glad I was on leg 2 and not leg 3!!

Men’s Results

We had no MV 35-39 team.

MV40-49 came 9th out of 16, with 2 incomplete teams and 50 runners in total