Editing Lyke Wake Walk (section)

==Lyke Wake Race==
Once the route became established as a clear track, the Lyke Wake Club considered the possibility of holding a race. The first Lyke Wake Race was held in 1964 and was held annually on the nearest Saturday to 10 July (except 2001 when it was cancelled because of an outbreak of [[foot-and-mouth disease]]) until 2014, its 50th anniversary when the organisers ceased to be involved.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} In 2015, the race continued with the organisation undertaken by the Quakers Running Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://quakersrunningclub.org.uk/lyke-wake-walk-2015/ |title=2015 Lyke Wake Race |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Quakers Running Club |access-date=3 February 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925103120/http://quakersrunningclub.org.uk/lyke-wake-walk-2015/ |archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> It has been held every July since, until the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], resuming in 2022.

The first race was organised to coincide with the Osmotherley Summer Games. It started at Beacon Howes with the finishing line in Osmotherley. Both events were organised on the same date for a number of years. In the early years the Puckrin brothers, Arthur, Philip and Richard, were prominent amongst the leading runners with the first two brothers winning nine of the first ten races between them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Puckrin |first=Arthur |date=2014 |title=Racing Through Life |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1-49742-984-0}}</ref> Other winners have included prominent athletes/fell runners such as [[Joss Naylor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lykewakewalk.co.uk/results/Shield.pdf |title=Lyke Wake Shield |date=2015 |website=Lyke Wake Walk |access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref> A history of the race up to 1981 has been given by Bill Smith.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Smith (fell runner) |date=1985 |title=Stud Marks on the Summits: A History of Amateur Fell Racing 1861-1983 |location=Preston, Lancashire |publisher=SKG Publications}}</ref> Since the Quakers took over the race, it has been held in an eastern direction, starting at Sheepwash and finishing in Ravenscar.

The tradition of the Lyke Wake Walk and Lyke Wake Race is that crossing times are rounded to next whole minute; seconds are not recorded.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cowley |first=Bill |date=1988 |title=Lyke Wake Walk and the Lyke Wake Way |edition=11th |location=Skipton, Yorkshire |publisher=Dalesman Books |isbn=0-85206-959-6}}</ref>

The race is held under a handicap basis, with runners estimating their time beforehand and being given a different starting time on the estimation that all runners finish at the same time. Prizes are awarded for first male and female finishers and fastest male and female runners.

The race was first held in 1964, running from Ravenscar Beacon to Osmotherley. In 1976, due to moorland fires, the race was run out-and-back, starting in Osmotherley and taking in the first half of the traditional route. By 1998, the race was run from Sheepwash to Ravenscar, and in 2001 was cancelled entirely due to foot-and-mouth disease.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lykewakewalk.co.uk/race.html |title=Annual Lyke Wake Race Report |date=2014 |website=Lyke Wake Club |access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>