Calderdale Way Relay

[Jez Hellewell]

a big thanks on behalf of the P&B team. Feedback from the runners was really good, everyone enjoyed it. No doubt bouyed by their cracking performance

And beating us by 26 seconds aswell !! I put it down to your ladies tactics of slipstreaming me & my partner on the long drag up Lumbutts Road ! However, I must concur, a great performance !

[alfa_scud]

Just to second what others have said, a big thanks to HH and all helpers for sorting the race again. It is a top day out. My only half grumble (and it's not really) is that it's only a symbol, but there's something about carrying a relay baton that adds to the team spirit, and unless you're pretty quick, you're gonna end up missing the cut offs and running as sets of pairs rather than a team.

However, I fully appreciate that there has to be a cut off at some point, to stop folks marshalling for hours on end. Ran leg 5 and nice to see the lack of bull (animal not verbal, I talked loads of that!), but boy I don't know how anyone could run down those steps; the top boys must just fly down them. Happy to get 13th fastest time on the leg.....if only we hadn't have been charitable and called back the Keighley boys, we would've been 12th.....but then that's what camaraderie is about!

Massive well done to CVFR on your win, and to Whafedale & Barlick too! Trawden will be back for another do next year (although maybe not challenging these boys!)

[manothemoors]

All the pics up on flickr now. Check your lovely selves out.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/halifaxharriers/

[LM]

Thanks to all the organisers for a splendid event, it was great to be part of it. I've done the CWR many times in winter but this was my first time in May, funny as it's still cold and drafty at Wainstalls! There was a photographer at the road crossing in Wainstalls and near Queensbury on leg 5, has anyone seen his pictures at all?

[Hobbsy]

Thanks to all the organisers for a splendid event, it was great to be part of it. I've done the CWR many times in winter but this was my first time in May, funny as it's still cold and drafty at Wainstalls! There was a photographer at the road crossing in Wainstalls and near Queensbury on leg 5, has anyone seen his pictures at all?

Hi, Linda,

It'll have been Holmfirth's finest snapper, Norman Berry, at Wainstalls. He's usually pretty swift at uploading photos, so will post a link as soon as he's done it!

Phil

[GrahamPilling]

And beating us by 26 seconds aswell !! I put it down to your ladies tactics of slipstreaming me & my partner on the long drag up Lumbutts Road ! However, I must concur, a great performance !

Well run to the Ilkley team, great to have it be such a closely run one.

Thanks again to HH and all involved in organising, and all the other teams taking part.

[Rob Furness]

Horsforth Harriers men's team 18th overall, which I'm pretty pleased with given we're not a fell running club. Only gripe is how tight the cut off is in leg 4. Our leg three team (our weakest leg) came in ten mins before cut off and me and my partner thrashed ourselves to try and make the cut for leg 5 but missed it by hardly anything. Really annoying when our time was 6th fastest for the leg. Still, not a big deal, our target was to get round inside the cut offs and our leg 5 team pulled it back so overall target achieved.

Thanks Halifax for organising it again. Next year can we have less rain please?

[manothemoors]

Aye up Rob. Thing is, the leg 4 finish at Wainstalls is the most exposed spot and is marshalled by runners who have already run leg 1....into a headwind and the rain. Bear in mind that they have to hang around for the slowest runners on your leg who will have rolled in about an hour and a half after you. Well done though.... 1hr 13 is seriously quick for that (the toughest, I think) leg. You should have come to say hello...I was the fella with the camera at changeover (at Blackshaw Head).

Awesome battle down the finishing straight between our A team and yours....proper racing.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/halifa...s/13981259519/

And your ladies on leg 1 made me smile
https://www.flickr.com/photos/halifa...s/13977255059/

[Hobbsy]

Hi, Linda,

It'll have been Holmfirth's finest snapper, Norman Berry, at Wainstalls. He's usually pretty swift at uploading photos, so will post a link as soon as he's done it!

Phil

Hi, Linda,

Loads of shots here (Blackshaw Head/Wainstalls/Leg 5/Leg 6/Finish):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhac/s...7644687958413/

And you're saying, 'It's this way I'm sure':

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhac/1...57644687958413

Cheers,
Phil

[woodenlegs]

Not that I need proof that I ran it, but just for the memories...any leg 2 pics in circulation? Seem to remember a soggy photograher on road by Shepherds Rest? I gave him the best smile I could muster