13/09/2026
Darkwood Demon - Third Time's a Charm ✨
It's hard to put a morning like this into words, but as we reflect on this year's race and everything that led up to it, we'll start with 'well done' and 'thank you':
💚 Well done to this year's winners:
Male
🥇 Luc Burnip - Stadium Runners
🥈 Rob James - Royton Road Runners
🥉 Leo Timmins - Stadium Runners
Female
🥇 Margaret Beever - Stainland Lions Running Club *NEW COURSE RECORD*
🥈 Lucy Taylor - Meltham AC
🥉 Amy Sanderson - Holmfirth Harriers AC
The link to the full results has been emailed to all participants, or can be found here: https://timemyrace.co.uk/darkwood-demon/
💚 Well done to everyone who raced - we had 176 runners over the line, the largest number of participants we've ever had!
💚 Thank you to our club sponsors, particularly Clearview Bifolding Doors for letting us use their yard for event parking, ZAPATO BREWING 🖖🏼 for hosting us once again and providing facilities and refreshments, and Dark Woods Coffee for accommodating us around their own event this morning 🤝
💚 Thank you to our marshals, parking stewards, organisers, bakers, photographers and supporters - lots of work went into putting this race on, both on the morning and over the last few months, and each year it's a team effort to make it all happen.
Do keep tagging us in your posts about the race, we love seeing how you all got on! We'll be uploading and sharing more of our own photos over the coming week, but in the meantime here's a snippet of what Darkwood Demon 2026 looked like:
Photo credits: Iwona Kaminska and Strider volunteers 📸
