This followed the first part of the senior course over Great Borne and Red Pike before returning and was won by Dave Cannon.
[5] In the 1986 event, Billy Bland waited at the start until five minutes after everyone else had begun so that the other runners could not follow him and take advantage of his detailed route knowledge.
Around that time, the event became part of the Lakeland Classics Trophy series of races and numbers recovered in subsequent years.
[7] On some occasions, Ennerdale has been one of the counting races in the British and English Fell Running Championships, including in 2014 when a shorter lower-level course was used due to forecast lightning.
C The SPORTident results[12] show Nicky Spinks one second ahead of Kirsty Hewitson but they were credited with a joint win in a time of 5:32:54 by race organiser Colin Dulson.