This \"little\" Saturday morning race on a cold day in January attracted an amazing 299 runners with a results sheet that reads more like a championship race. The course is sort of out and back with a loop over the moor at the far end featuring and hands and knees ascent followed by a gradual and very fast descent. The sting in the tail comes when you descend into the quarry where the start was held only to find the race finishes in the field above the back of the quarry reached by a steep path up the head wall!
Several Dark Peakers made the 1.5 hours journey North with Bob Toogood taking a creditable 33rd and 1st over 50 nearly 5 minutes ahead of his nearest rival.

299 starters