The Great Barrow Challenge - day 4 - 26/7/26
- Jul 26
- 1 min read
🏃 Great Barrow Challenge 2026 — Day 4
📍 Suffolk Running Centre, Bury St Edmunds · 10.6k lap
Day 4 of 10 — and the field just keeps growing! 98 runners today, from 5k up to marathon-plus-20k.
🏅 Course records tumbling — SIX today:
• Sarah Sparkes — 5k — 37:04
• Callum Taylor — 10k — 47:45
• Katie Parker — 10k — 59:15
• Matt Graham — Half — 1:27:39
• Alex Rodger — Full — 3:06:43
• Alex Marshall — Ultra + 20k — 6:38:45 (four days, four CRs — remarkable!)
Well done to Hazel for completing her 99th marathon today.
Congratulations to Robert on his birthday too
A full day of celebrations
🌍 Distance covered today: ~2,687km (~1,670 miles) — yet another daily high.
📈 Running total after 4 days:
• Day 1: 2,099km
• Day 2: 1,813km
• Day 3: 2,544km
• Day 4: 2,687km
• Combined: ~9,143km (~5,681 miles)
Perspective: that's further than running from here to New York and on down to the Caribbean — and we're not even halfway through! 🌎
🍰 Medals and cake all round. Everyone's a winner. Below you will find the results for today, updated course records and future race diary. Until the next run
Stephen & Zoe
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