{"id":8955,"date":"2025-11-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:13:29","slug":"hathersage-night-race-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/hathersage-night-race-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hathersage Night Race 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In contrast to last year&#8217;s event, we had good visibility for the whole of this year&#8217;s Hathersage Night Race, along with a smattering of snow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hathersage_night_race_1-940x705.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The view across Stanage illuminated by some seriously-bright headtorches.<br>\u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/edalemountainrescue\/posts\/pfbid0A42GLB6Rc4BBhsRuu9qDztuSJCTaJGojPmR4SdX2ZbCPaiEBdAcWcZ7GRAkwyqJDl\">Edale Mountain Rescue<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was my second time doing this particular race, and I followed last year&#8217;s template of sticking with Alex on the uphill whilst holding a bit in reserve to try and keep up when he tore off downhill. Everything played out in almost an exact copy of last year, and I was within a gnat&#8217;s whisker of my 2024 time so I&#8217;m happy with that. We did temporarily lose Alex&#8217;s sister, who chose this as her first fell race, but disaster was averted and we finished up with smiles all &#8217;round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to last year&#8217;s event, we had good visibility&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[420,1442,243,396,376],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-fell-running","tag-hathersage-night-race","tag-peak-district","tag-running","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}