The Great Knaresborough Bed Race returned for 2022 with a special appearance from The HACS Wombles
After two years of cancelled events The HACS Group were proud to both Sponsor and take part in this years Great Knaresborough Bed Race. With a theme of 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' our focus was on HACS Environmental and our special guest appearance from The Wombles of Wimbledon who helped us clean up our act!
Saturday 11th June 2022
The Great Knaresborough Bed Race is something different: it is part fancy dress pageant and part gruelling time trial over a 2.4 mile course, ending with a swim through the icy waters of the River Nidd.
The event was born out of the enthusiasm of the newly-formed Knaresborough Round Table in 1966, an organisation looking for a major charity fund-raising push. They came up with the idea of a time-trial in which teams would follow a pre-determined course pushing beds around the town. The unique combination of Knaresborough's almost perpendicular climbs and cobbled streets, the swim across the Nidd and the fancy dress pageant have worked together to make this such a huge and successful community event each year. Since 1998 the event has been run by The Knaresbourough Lions who stage the event for charity.
Each team is made up of 6 runners and a passenger. This years those brave HACS runners were; Chris Smith, Will Kellett, Spencer Drake, Damien Bedau, Rachel Jones, Ash Wilson, Eddie Ashworth, Paul Mayhew, Ben Whyte, Giles White, Josh Mann and Colin Green, and the lucky passengers being Dan Ashworth and Jacob Tiller. The HACS teams came 42nd and 44th out of 79 finishing beds. A great effort by all!
Also a bg shout out to all the HACS Traffic Management team who work hard to close the roads and manage the crowds to make the event run smoothly on the day.
This years race was a glorious sunny day which made a great day out for spectators but all the more challenging for runners and staff so thanks to all for all your efforts and we're already looking forward to 2023!
