ON Saturday in the glorious private setting of the Flete Estate at Holbeton in Devon, runner Chris Anthony represented the Bere Alston Trekkers. He took part in the Puretrail Run-ning’s inaugural ‘Race the Tide’.

This was a multi-terrain event with three distances for competitors to chose from — a full marathon ( although actually 29 miles in distance), a 16 mile ‘half-mara-thon’ involving racing the tide at the Erme Estuary 6.4 miles into the race, and a 10k race set within the estate on beautiful Woodland trails.

Start times were cal-culated to coincide with low tide, and Chris chose the middle distance race, a mix of private footpaths, coastal path, bridle paths, country fields and woodland, and completed his race in 2.38.37.