In years gone by, there was a half marathon across Morecambe Bay – may still be for that matter. I did it in either 2016 or 2017. That year – and possibly for a year or two beforehand – they ran a fat bike challenge over the same route – I think it was something like 15 minutes head start – and like a fool I entered the half marathon. They’d had to do a hurried replan of the route as the sands had shifted – if I recall, we set out from Silverdale rather than Hest Bank as intended, and ran out into a headwind for quite some distance – probably around 8 or 9 miles before turning and heading back to dry land, and onwards to Flookbrough airfield.
As others have commented, it’s never really properly dry across the bay – the rivers that discharge into the bay keep flowing at low tide, and I can recall wading through with water a good way up my thighs within the first mile or so. I’m pretty sure I recall some of the fat bikers were having issues with floatation – not the good “not sinking into the sand” type, but the “trying to keep tyres on river bed” type.
