Transpires the favourites, a builders merchants, won the Knaresborough bed race and their second team came third. Obviously carrying building materials about is useful training for pushing a castor fitted bed frame.
Worryingly Armed Forces Fitness were the second last.
Not evident in the photo I used in the earlier posting but there were a number of hose pipes in use to cool the runners on the climb but even then some pushing at the rear were looking the worse for wear.
The bend the distance on the photo is pretty sharp and coupled with the gradient invariably means on a bike you end up on the wrong side of the narrow road.