West Yorkshire Winter League (WYWL) 2025-26 Race 4
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Crossgates Harriers WYWL Race 4 2025/2026 (no new entries)

Course: The course remains this year for those who remember last time round, I have just ordered a little extra mud!! I expect this route to be a fast one based on last years times, with elevation relatively low, but plenty of ups and downs, and of course plenty of mud to make a classic cross country route! 5.2 miles long and is mainly on woodland paths, fields and tracks. It is a bit technical in places with a mixture of heavy Mud allied to stones and broken branches, roots, rocks, slopes and as per demand….. we have a stream crossing (wahoo) to finish on approx 600m before the finish line! It’s a decent XC layout, but wet feet near the end… thise that don’t fancy the leap of wetness can opt for the narrow bridge crossing to the side if necessary!! I will be sending the Strava route out also, alongside a mini go-pro video for those as a visual ahead of the race that we made last year on facebook…. We keep the whole route to public footpath starting off in farmers field, where we complete a large lap clockwise around the boggy perimeter, then over the footbridge and round under the Road bridge and off through the fields where we meet the uphill climb of bog lane up and around to loop back and off up to the top of the woods, lots of raised roots and branches here, but a lovely speedy downhill section to the course before climbing back up. Back down bog lane and across the relatively new gravel path … We head up the ELOR and down into what will I’m sure be the photo gallery of the Sunday night as we cross the stream, it’s only about a foot deep at the min, then it’s an uphill finale to the finish line.