Cat Lane Canter (2024) – route & GPX download

Cat lane Canter – race report 2024

This year was the first time I’ve done the Cat Lane Canter – a well-established Sheffield race I’ve certainly heard of, but never known anything about. Turns out it’s a really good one. That is if you enjoy lots of mud and some really big hills! I had a good injury-free winter season, so keen to keep the momentum going, I signed up for a lot of the local races I’ve always wanted to do. From my experience, that’s the really tough bit out of the way.

The day arrived and we turned up for registration. By this point, the only things I knew about the race were it’s off-road and the weather was looking good. A friend at registration told us the race is ‘undulating’, which was reassuring, but turned out to be a pretty big under-statement.

The Cat Lane Canter is a low-key running race fundraiser for Newfield Secondary School in Norton, jointly organised by Carfield Friends, Friends of Meersbrook Bank and Friends of Newfield. It turns out there is a huge ancient woodland behind the school that stretches from Lees Hall Golf club in the south, all the way down to Hangbank Wood in Gleadless, with Blackstock Road Recycling Centre in the East. The race starts in the school field with a loop before descending into the woods. There is a choice of a 5k race which is one loop of the woods and back to the field, or two loops for 10k race. Each loop includes around 150m of overall ascent on muddy trails or 300m in total for the 10k race. As you may have already gathered, if you don’t like hills, this race might not be the one for you – the ‘undulations’, as they were described to me, are actually some pretty tough climbs. Besides some decent climbs along the way, the ‘final slog’ of each loop goes on for about 1.5km with about 65 metres climb in the first loop and about 76 metres on the second loop to the finish

Although they ask for runners to car-share or make their way to the race on foot, there is ample parking at the school. Just over a 100 runners took part in the 10k race and just under 60 ran the 5k route. Beautiful spring weather on the day, just a slightly chilly wind in the exposed areas

Cat Lane Canter 2024 – 10k results

Position	Race number	Time	Name	Category	Club	Notes
1	177	0:41:02	Felix Watts	OSEN	Dark Peak Fell Runners	Winner
2	141	0:41:18	Laurence Piercy	OSEN	Dark Peak Fell Runners	2nd place
3	176	0:41:41	Katie Walshaw	FSEN	Holmfirth Harriers AC	3rd overall and 1st Woman
4	71	0:41:59	Brent Carlin	O40	Kingstone Runners Barnsley	3rd male and 1st M40
5	185	0:42:41	Toby Waterhouse	OSEN
6	163	0:43:38	Sam Strain	OSEN	Hillsborough & Rivelin Running Club
7	180	0:44:20	Louis Wood	O40	Steel City Striders RC	2nd M40
8	91	0:45:34	Will Doyle	O40	Totley AC
9	76	0:46:14	Michael Cockings	O40	Steel City Striders RC
10	162	0:46:52	James Storey	O50	Steel City Striders RC	1st M50
11	129	0:47:00	Dan Morton	OSEN
12	107	0:47:28	Jack Hetherington	OSEN
13	67	0:47:33	James Bradbury	OSEN
14	143	0:47:35	Darrel Porter	O40	Steel City Striders RC
15	161	0:47:36	Russell Stevenson	O50	Steel City Striders RC
16	171	0:47:53	Jed Turner	O60	Steel City Striders RC	1st M60
17	123	0:48:22	Aritri Mandal	FSEN	Dark Peak Fell Runners	2nd Woman
18	119	0:48:50	David Lovatt	OSEN	Kingstone Runners Barnsley
19	114	0:48:54	Alistair Kerr	OSEN
20	83	0:49:03	Alex Cozens	OSEN
21	184	0:49:56	Elliot Waterhouse	OSEN
22	85	0:49:59	Chris Day	O40	Totley AC
23	109	0:50:27	Scott Hussey	O40	Steel City Striders RC
24	169	0:50:31	Paddy Treehowes	O50	Steel City Striders RC
25	172	0:50:34	Paul Turner	O40	Totley AC
26	170	0:51:22	Nick Tripp	O60	Sheffield Triathlon Club
27	92	0:51:46	Helen Elmore	F50	Dark Peak Fell Runners	3rd Woman, 1st F40 and 1st F50
28	100	0:51:49	Steve Gourlay	O40	Steel City Striders RC
29	103	0:51:55	Nick Hails	O40	Hillsborough & Rivelin Running Club
30	58	0:52:12	Jessica Banks	FSEN	Sheffield Triathlon Club
31	73	0:52:34	Ricky Charlesworth	OSEN
32	128	0:53:11	Gabriel Morrison	OSEN
33	159	0:53:26	Martin Slack	O50	Steel City Striders RC
34	106	0:53:41	Richard Heath	O50	Sheffield Steel City Striders
35	150	0:53:50	Henry Roe	OSEN
36	57	0:54:21	Liam Alderson	OSEN
37	65	0:55:32	Steve Blake	O40	Steel City Striders RC
38	147	0:55:42	Jawad Qasrawi	O50	Mangers
39	108	0:55:44	Andy Hinchliffe	O60	Steel City Striders RC
40	132	0:55:54	Mark Murphy	O60	Porter Valley Plodders
41	118	0:56:00	Martyn Lorimer	O40
42	66	0:56:13	David Bocking	O60	Steel City Striders RC
43	166	0:56:17	Clare Thompson	F40	Hillsborough & Rivelin Running Club	2nd F40
44	121	0:56:26	Peter Malcolm	OSEN
45	72	0:56:35	Liz Carthy	F50	Totley AC	2nd F50
46	139	0:57:03	Neal Pates	O50	Steel City Striders RC
47	126	0:57:28	Ash Mellors	O40	Steel City Striders RC
48	153	0:57:35	Kevin Rowles	O60	Killamarsh Kestrels
49	104	0:57:37	John Hamshaw Thomas	O50
50	165	0:57:38	Ed Teale	OSEN
51	105	0:58:00	Cara Hanson	F40	Steel City Striders RC
52	178	0:58:29	Will Winlow	OSEN	Steel City Striders RC
53	183	0:58:33	Sam Cooper	OSEN
54	98	0:58:39	Louise Gillman Petty	F40	Killamarsh Kestrels
55	77	0:59:37	Leighton Collins	O40
56	89	1:00:00	Martin Downham	O60	Steel City Striders RC
57	74	1:00:14	Charlotte Civico	FSEN	Steel City Striders RC
58	94	1:00:17	Alex Evans	F40	Dronfield Running Club
59	135	1:00:22	Stephen Oram	O50
60	179	1:00:48	Kevin Wong	O40	Steel City Striders RC
61	56	1:00:52	Lucy Alderson	FSEN	Steel City Striders RC
62	96	1:01:05	Mark Gamsu	O60	Dark Peak Fell Runners
63	130	1:01:35	Anna Morton	FSEN
64	140	1:02:04	Stephen Petty	O40	Killamarsh Kestrels
65	79	1:02:16	Sharon Colyer	FSEN	Steel City Striders RC
66	152	1:02:18	Liz Rowe	F40	Hillsborough & Rivelin Running Club
67	75	1:02:24	Karen Clark	F60	Steel City Striders RC	1st F60
68	137	1:02:35	Esther Palfreyman	FSEN
69	122	1:02:44	Lisa Malloy	FSEN	Kingstone Runners Barnsley
70	69	1:03:27	Nick Brignal	O50
71	167	1:03:40	Diana Tottle	F60
72	156	1:04:10	Nicola Sewell	F50	Smiley Paces
73	102	1:04:21	Kevin Haighton	O60	Steel City Striders RC
74	155	1:04:39	Jo Sessions	F40
75	148	1:04:39	Liz Roberts	F40
76	120	1:05:11	Peter Macfarlane	O60	Dark Peak Fell Runners
77	78	1:05:21	Shaz Colwell	F50
78	99	1:05:23	Jo Gleig	F60	Steel City Striders RC
79	117	1:06:10	Deborah Lodge	F50	Totley AC
80	112	1:06:37	David Jolley	O60	Killamarsh Kestrels
81	110	1:06:56	Charlotte Hussey	F40
82	160	1:07:03	Emily Stelmach	F40
83	138	1:07:38	David Parry	O70	Steel City Striders RC	1st M70
84	95	1:07:42	John Exley	O50	Kingstone Runners Barnsley
85	80	1:07:50	Andrew Cooper	O60	Dambusters Running Club
86	82	1:07:50	Anthony Couch	OSEN
87	94	1:08:32	Alex Evans	F40	Dronfield Running Club
88	168	1:08:50	Amanda Towers	F50	Dronfield Running Club
89	146	1:09:04	Jo Priddy	F40
90	87	1:09:40	Julia Delaney	F50	Dronfield Running Club
91	136	1:10:00	Erica Oram	F50
92	113	1:10:26	Emily Jones	FSEN	Steel City Striders RC
93	149	1:10:26	Ben Robertson	O50
94	157	1:10:49	Alicia Sewell	FSEN	Smiley Paces
95	175	1:10:52	Joan Waller	F60	Dark Peak Fell Runners
96	115	1:12:14	Natalie Khoaz	F40	Vegan Runners UK
97	134	1:12:14	James Norton	O40
98	151	1:12:33	Kate Ross	F40
99	164	1:14:55	Naomi Taylor	F40
100	60	1:18:16	Jane Beagley	F50
101	145	1:20:05	Daisy Pound	OSEN
102	144	1:20:05	Isabelle Pound	F60	Smiley Paces

Cat Lane Canter 2024 – 5k results

Position	Race number	Time	Name	Category	Club	Notes
1	17	0:23:21	Denny Frazer	OU18		Winner & 1st U18
2	34	0:24:14	Al McGregor	O50	Mrs Mellors Cellar	2nd place & 1st M40 and 1st M50
3	181	0:25:10	Matt Ritchie	O40		3rd place & 2nd M40
4	30	0:25:17	Jasper Kerr	OU18	Hallamshire Harriers Sheffield	2nd U18
5	142	0:25:29	Neil Piper	O40		3rd M40
6	19	0:26:45	Stuart Garner	O40
7	116	0:27:24	Jake List	OSEN
8	4	0:28:43	Alex Batten	OSEN
9	18	0:29:51	Sarah Gandee	FSEN		1st Woman
10	26	0:30:15	Connor Hibbert	OU18		3rd U18
11	127	0:30:23	Andrew Moore	O60	Totley AC	1st M60
12	25	0:30:40	Danni Hibbert	F40		2nd Woman and 1st F40
13	35	0:30:44	Castor David Merino Perez	O40
14	62	0:31:04	Chris Bennett	O50
15	7	0:31:06	Anna Butler	FSEN
16	2	0:31:10	Elliot Baldwin-Dial	OU18
17	10	0:31:11	James Dial	O40
18	40	0:31:38	Arnold Oram	OU18
19	47	0:31:44	Seth Ross	OU18
20	46	0:31:44	Simon Ross	O40
21	1	0:32:25	Sam Baldwin-Dial	OU18
22	37	0:32:59	Ann-Marie Mulvey	F40	Sheffield Steel City Striders	2nd F40
23	8	0:33:21	Lucy Critchlow	FSEN
24	31	0:33:55	Karam Kheder	OSEN
25	3	0:34:11	Amelie Barnett	FU18		1st FU18
26	182	0:34:21	Eleanor Hooper	F40
27	43	0:34:32	Helen Raynes	F40	Totley AC
28	29	0:34:33	Jill Kenny	F40	Totley AC
29	49	0:34:37	Lucy Smith	F40	Totley AC
30	52	0:34:51	Helen Wakefield	F50	Smiley Paces	1st F50
31	11	0:36:06	Alexi Dimond	OSEN
32	33	0:36:13	Maya Martínez	FU18		2nd FU18
33	51	0:36:34	Dan Tully	O50
34	63	0:36:40	Alyce Biddle	FSEN
35	187	0:36:40	Anna Wiggins	F40
36	24	0:37:04	Andy Hibbert	O50
37	53	0:37:18	Martha Walker	FU18		joint 3rd FU18
38	48	0:37:18	Eliza Sheppy	FU18		joint 3rd FU18
39	36	0:37:47	Mandy Moore	F60	Totley AC	1st F60
40	13	0:39:02	Daisy Edwards	FU18
41	41	0:39:03	Paul Piwowarczyk	OU18
42	12	0:40:03	Zoe Drew	F40
43	27	0:40:04	Karli Holmes	F40
44	20	0:40:31	Tracey Gledhill	F40	Steel City Striders RC
45	84	0:41:15	Helen Crimlisk	F60	Smiley Paces
46	15	0:41:27	Louisa Fairest	F40
47	32	0:41:56	Alan Marsh	O70	Lonely Goat RC	1st M70
48	44	0:42:11	Rachel Ripley	FSEN	Goodgym Sheffield
49	50	0:42:31	Maya Stelmach	FU18
50	186	0:42:43	Sarah Morley	F50
51	23	0:43:05	Fred Harriott	F50
52	9	0:43:11	Denise De Marco	F50
53	21	0:43:18	Helena Grady	F40	Meersbrook Milers
54	39	0:45:43	Nicole Nield	F70	Steel City Striders RC	1st F70
55	14	0:47:22	Scarlett Edwards	FU18
56	28	0:47:22	Phoebe Holtom	FU18
57	42	0:49:24	Caroline Poland	F70
58	6	1:02:28	Joel Borkin	OSEN