Last updated June 28, 2024

The 2024 edition of the Cyril Bean Annual Challenge took place on 7 April 2024. Event HQ was again the Heart of England Social Club in Meriden.

Due to continuing diversions around the HS2 construction site the Challenge event route was different in places from that used in 2023.

Due to weeks of heavy rain leading up the the date the course was waterlogged in many places and extremely boggy and with stretches of deep mud on the narrow paths.

219 started the course and 197 finished. Considering the conditions a really good result.
View the list of finishers.

You can follow the progress of the day through the lens of Dave Mellor’s camera. View Dave’s photos in the Challenge photo gallery.

Check out the video of the event.

Photos from the checkpoints

Checkpoint 1

Checkpoint 2

More info about the Challenge event.