Radcliffe Athletics Club members were across the North of England last week running a range of 10k races, with the odd exception.

There were a trio of Radcliffe runners at the York 10k, a popular route which takes in some of the highlights of the historic city. Helen Kay was first over the line first in a time of 1hr 2mins 59secs, followed by Deborah Warrington and Beverley Quinton, who both ran 1:22:01.

Louise Shield took on the Pennine Trails Gisburn Forest 10k and made her way around the “enchanting forests, bewitching trails and captivatingly immense woodland horizons” in a time of 1:18:40.

Elsewhere, Mark Taylor finished fifth at the It’s Grim Up North Marsden 10k in midweek, with a time of 48:17, and Ryan Hallworth completed the Southport 10k in 38:19.

An exception to the 10k rule was Mark Garner, who ran the half-marathon at Workington Festival of Running in a time of 1:47:03.

Another exception to the rule was the impressionable Ian Swan. Never afraid to take things a little too far, he ran the brutal Borrowdale Horseshoe Fell Race in a time of 5:14:08. Including more than 2,000 metres of climbing and the ascent of England’s highest point of Scafell Pike, before coming all the way down again to summit its neighbour Great Gable and seven other fells along the route, Borrowdale Horseshoe is not for the faint hearted.