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Wensleydale Wander 2021 Report

Wensleydale Rotary Club's Annual Wensleydale Wander returned to the dale yesterday. It was a friendly and sociable walk through The Dale in aid of our usual charities. The principal charity for the event is Yorkshire Air Ambulance.


Both Walks were started at 9.00am in Grove Square, Leyburn, by Club President Mrs Ray Wilkinson,though walkers first gathered for registration at Wensleydale School. There was a choice of two circular walks, one a 23 mile challenge and a shorter one of 12 miles, both starting and finishing in Leyburn. We had 312 entrants.

There were liquid refreshments at various checkpoints on both walk. The routes were well sign-posted and marshalled.
The walks ended at the school, where a choice of hot soups (kindly sponsored by JMP Food Services) and cakes, plus more liquid refreshments were served to some very hot and tired walkers.
Regrettably we had to endure some confusion due to some of our direction signs being mischievously removed ! Otherwise the sunshine which graced us on the day heralded a very successful event.

The numbers were much lower than in previous years, but then, it has not been a normal one, has it! 312 entered, 179 started and 178 finished. It was interesting to see that a lady, Melissa McGuire, from Morecambe, reached home first on the Short route in 1hr 52min, 3min before Alison Eagle and John Coates, both from Skipton. First home on the Long Run was Paul Ellis from Leeming Bar in 3hr 7min, while First lady home on the Long Run was Jess Young from Darlington in 3hr 23min

For those who would like to see how their time to complete the course compared with others, click on Results

We would like to thank the RAYNET volunteer radio operators, our wives/husbands who have helped, and of course all walkers and runners for supporting the event, especially this year! We will have raised a significant sum for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, and I will add this when we have counted up.

Finally, thanks to Rtns Dave Muscroft and Chris Wheatley for the photos, and also Doug Binks who took many photos at the Rubbing Houses shown here 

Wander 2022- We plan to return to our usual April event, probably April 9th

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