A lovely clear night for this race, which ensured that the summit marshal successfully found the trig point. The first figure to appear looked to be going at a fair pace and it was no surprise that it was the Peter Pan of fell running - Ian Holmes. After passing the trig, he went over the edge of Pendle and descended in true Ian Holmes fashion - like a stone. Chewy was chasing him, but the descent put paid to any hopes of catching this formidable fell runner.
Another runner who can always be guaranteed to put in a good performance was Kirt Livesey and he was in third place. Thereafter followed many of the familiar faces that you expect to see on these head torch runs, but is was especially nice to see U21 James Bancroft and junior runner Cieran Crabtree