Simon Fenton writes:-
14th July 2018.
This race is the curtain raiser for the Buxton Carnival when Buxton gets swamped for Carnival Day. My parents moved from Sheffield to Hope in the Hope Valley when I was very young and the main event of the rustic year was the Wakes Week which had events every evening including a senior hill race. Maybe it was there I first took interest in running but Hope Wakes was a village version of Buxton so returning to run the summer series a few years ago was quite nostalgic. Also running was ex Buxton resident and Buxton A C member Andrew Whittingham.
The course starts through the main shopping street, past the Opera House, then one loop, all on roads of which nearly half go uphill so not a fast course. Andrew was nursing a sore Achilles so pleased with his first V45. I was again the sole representative of V75 – and V70 as it as it turned out – so hardly surprisingly I won that, but I did manage to break the “soft” course record which was very pleasing.
1st 20.45 William Strangeway Lincoln Wellington
7th 23.29 Andrew Whittingham Wilmslow R C 1st V45
21st 26.18 Amy Clarke Buxton A C
108th 35.47 Simon Fenton Wilmslow R C 1st V75
146 ran.