Barrow Runners’ Boxing Day Handicap 2019

Every Boxing Day, since I moved to Barrow, I have been entranced by the fairies, Scotsmen, Batmen (and Robins) and many more, who gather to race Barrow Runners’ Boxing Day Handicap.

How these hardy folk can face dressing up and running six miles after Christmas Day always amazes me. But even more, the setting up and organisation of such an event takes much planning and graft and we in the village are all indebted to those people who arrange it. It has become an annual village event.

This year, changes in Humphrey Perkins hiring policy, left the running of the event in doubt. But the Runners were determined it should go ahead, even with reduced numbers, which it did. Well done and thank you to all the people who organised it and made it possible. What a shame the weather was so unseasonable!

Helen Sadler