HPH Marathon Relay – 14 September 2025

It was all Dan Stevenson’s fault.

On the HPH club trip to Lisbon last year, Dan mentioned the idea of HPH attempting a marathon as a relay. This sounded like great fun and I filed it away as a future plan for the club. It’s taken nearly a year, but today we put it into action!

Huge thanks to everyone (28 folks in total!) who came down to Woodhouse Moor to do a lap or two (or three or four…!) of the Summer Mile loop – we managed the full marathon distance in 2:56:53! Just for those wondering, we ran 54 laps on the basis that the loop was slightly under half a mile, so 54 would definitely mean we ran more than 26.2 miles in total.

I’ve set out everyone’s lap times below – there were some fantastic times and, very impressively, lots of people got faster in their second or third laps! Special mention to Matthew B, who ran four laps – the most out of all of us!

Given this seemed to work well, I think we’ll do it all again in the future and see if we can improve on our time… Watch this space!

Lap Number	Participant	Lap Time
01	Naomi A (first lap)	3:57
02	Pablo C (first lap)	2:35
03	Jayne G	4:09
04	Amaia I-B (first lap)	3:44
05	Matthew B (first lap)	2:57
06	Raymond H	5:18
07	Andy B	3:20
08	Analise B (first lap)	2:59
09	Dave H (first lap)	3:25
10	Amber E (first lap)	3:35
11	Rich C	2:58
12	Clare E (first lap)	3:22
13	Pablo C (second lap)	2:36
14	Amaia I-B (second lap)	3:37
15	Lucy B (first lap)	3:07
16	Matthew B (second lap)	2:48
17	Harrison G (first lap)	3:23
18	Joe H (first lap)	3:03
19	Lois B (first lap)	3:53
20	Emily L (first lap)	3:47
21	Mo M (first lap)	3:56
22	Sam J	2:46
23	Will D (first lap)	3:06
24	Analise B (second lap)	2:57
25	Dave H (second lap)	3:21
26	Coralie B (first lap)	3:05
27	Abdu A	2:51
28	Jonny S (first lap)	2:33
29	Lee T	2:38
30	Joe W (first lap)	2:58
31	Amber E (second lap)	3:35
32	Clare E (second lap)	3:29
33	Mo M (second lap)	4:05
34	Naomi A (second lap)	3:52
35	Joe H (second lap)	3:03
36	Matthew B (third lap)	2:41
37	Harrison G (second lap)	3:36
38	Coralie B (second lap)	3:04
39	Matthew A (first lap)	2:57
40	Lucy B (second lap)	3:24
41	Lois B (second lap)	3:45
42	Emily L (second lap)	3:51
43	Joe W (second lap)	3:04
44	Amber E (third lap)	3:31
45	Jonny S (second lap)	2:33
46	Joe W (second lap)	2:58
47	Will D (second lap)	3:26
48	Sarah U (first lap)	3:22
49	Matthew A (second lap)	2:51
50	Matthew B (fourth lap)	2:46
51	Toby A (first lap)	2:43
52	Sarah U (second lap)	3:21
53	Joe W (third lap)	2:54
54	Toby A (second lap)	2:51
Total	–	2:56:53