Nick Gant reports
Sunday 12th October
Peak Raid 2025, Event 2, Hayfield
On Sunday a contingent of MACs went to the West side of the Pennines to enjoy the delights of the second of this year’s Peak Raid events based around Hayfield and up on to the Southwestern edge of the Kinder plateau.
The mist cleared nice and early, so we had a lovely clear crisp morning, unlike Matlock apparently. We all spent several hours running, walking and looking confused in my case trying to find the various controls placed to test the participants navigation, route planning and decision-making skills.
At the start of the event, you are handed a map showing the controls you can try and reach. Each control has a different number of points available. The idea is to try and get as many point as you can in the 3-hour time limit. If you exceed three hours you have points deducted, if you are 20 minutes late you lose all points! The maximum points available for this course was 600, although this will probably be 580 after a grumpy farmer removed one of the controls.
I saw most of the other MACs out on the course as I had decided to go clockwise on the loop and the smarter people had gone anti-clockwise. I had to deal with the low sun in my eyes for a good portion of the route. At least I learnt one thing from my previous event last year and managed to suppress my ambition to try and reach some of the far flung controls. I enjoyed the event and would recommend them to anyone who wants a change from just racing the clock (https://explorerevents.co.uk/entries/)
Rich Bradbury / Adam Hayden – 380pts 22nd O/A and 6th in MV50 (Rich was running under his Dark Peak affiliation)
Nick Gant – 340pts 37th O/A and 15th in MV40
Sally Hale – 320pts 44th O/A and 2nd in F
Tom Withers – 274pts 62nd O/A 10th in M
Ayako Yokoyama-Nichols – 270pts 68th O/A 3rd in FV50
Kate Ruffell – 266pts 69th O/A and 1st in FV60
Amy Jones – 265pts 71st O/A 7th in FV40
The results are quite difficult to summarize as there are various team configurations and individual so rather than try and go through all the combinations here is a link to the results:- Provisional Results – Race 2 Hayfield 2025 – 12 Oct 2025
