Richard Webster and Nick Holt completed the 51 mile Yorkshire Ultra. Richard takes up the story, "After a very eventful journey nearly 6 hours to Whitby for the start of the Yorkshire Ultra a 50 mile off road ultra (actually 51) with 4700 ft of climbing. An 8 am start at least gave us a chance to get some sleep after our journey , the start was fairly cold around 2 degrees with a stiff wind blowing from the North Sea. Starting from Whitby Abbey the route took us along the very scenic undulating coastal Cleveland Way to Robin Hoods Bay. After check point 1 we followed a very pleasant cinder path for about 4 miles only spoilt by being bitten on the bottom by a dog and being told to where to go by its owner when I complained!? After the cinder path we turned inland with a short steep climb towards the radio mast at Ravenscar. Then crossing the A171 check point 2 over onto the North Yorkshire Moors towards RAF Flyingdales were the terrain of the moors was extremely challenging with mud and knee deep water slowing our earlier progress we made a 20 mile loop with checkpoint 3 in the middle visited twice and then re tracing our steps towards Whitby Abbey and the finish. Overall winner came in 8:40 second shortly after with Rich Brown third in 8.55 me in 4th in 9.13 a massive 2hours 20 improvement on last year ( it did help not getting lost ) Nick came in in 11.38 well done to all the finishers in tough conditions."