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Beverley - thanks for considering it. Yes I should know Eyam was weekend before as I did it myself!. Guess no date would please everyone but would be great if you see see if there's a consensus one way or another and maybe trial it out to see if it makes any significant difference in entries.

I did this race 2 years ago and really enjoyed it, but I like to go away over the BH weekend - excluding christmas/easter we get so few.

Would the organisers ever be willing to trial it out on one side of the weekend (2nd to last in May or first in June) one year?

Sure I can't be the only one?

As far as I can make out Eyam is ~1200ft ascent and Buxton is ~1400ft. It depends on distribution I guess as well. Did Buxton a few years ago and the really big climb is at the start.

Also thanks to the marhsalls at the start. I was a few mins late and they helped me get my number on. I got to Grindleford station at 9:30 and thought I had ages but IMO Eyam's quite confusingly sign-posted and ended up walking (running) the much longer HGV route to get there (4.5 miles).

I did Keswick a few weeks ago, which looked as if there was more climb but I found them about the same (though I think I was more tired when I started Eyam due to trouble getting there). All 3 are very good races.

I want to do this but meant to be doing a full marathon following weekend. If I just took it easy for this do you think it would have a big impact?

Hi, can someone plkease advise me if there are place left for this? As far as I know you can enter on the day but when trying to regiester online I get told the closing date has passed/ online entries have closed (depends on site).

Would I be ok to turn up on Sunday and get a place?

Thanks,

Kevin