Stanbury Splash 2023

Stanbury Splash – 15th January 2023

212 runners gathered in a quarry on a hilltop near Haworth on Sunday 15th January, including 18 in Holmfirth vests, for the first event of our 2023 Fell Championships. After weeks and weeks of rain,the paths were sodden, but the sun was out. The start was a splashy surge up out of the quarry and out onto an equally splashy Haworth Moor.

The highlights of the event are the three valley crossings, each with a 150-ft grassy or heathery hurtle down to a beck, a knee-deep wade through fast-flowing water and a steep, muddy clamber up the other side. The rest of the route is a 50-50 mix of soaked moorland paths and runnable firm tracks.(The tracks are well-equipped with puddles, in case you start to miss the splashing)

For Holmfirth, Tim Street was 8th man, Sally Coldwell was 7th lady, and there were plenty of impressive runs from the team (results below). It’s a tough event, but some of it is delightfully absurd – it’s not hard to see why it’s so popular – and it was great to be part of an event with such a good team showing on the start line and such positive feeling at the end.

With no real clue about the route beforehand, I thought I’d aim for 70 minutes. I gave it all I had but ran out of steam at the end; Jon Burdon had that extra bit of endurance and flew past in the final half-mile, and I missed my target by one second. I’ll definitely be back.

Thanks to Dave Woodhead, Hannah Victoria & Phil Hobbs for the great photos attached to this post.

Bob Dickinson

 

Pos

Name

Cat

Time

No.

8

Tim Street

Man

53:48

146

15

Curtis Firth

Man

56:26

72

32

Michael Sanderson

Man

59:56

115

45

Adam Sunderland

MV50

62:24

10

60

Sally Coldwell

LV40 (2nd)

64:38

24

84

Chris Beadle

MV50

68:10

178

98

Fran Whitworth

LV50 (3rd)

69:39

197

101

Jon Burdon

MV40

69:53

78

102

Robert Dickinson

MV50

70:01

113

112

James Durrans

MV50

71:22

38

117

Philip Hobbs

MV50

72:31

82

130

Debbie Hall

LV40

75:30

143

131

Sophie Cromwell

Lady

75:45

140

172

Diane Lee

LV40

86:33

76

187

Becky Burdon

LV40

93:45

31

193

Mark Henderson

MV60

97:03

2

195

Bill Hunter

MV70 (2nd)

97:23

189

203

Richard Whale

MV60

99:58

114

Stanbury Splash 2023
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