Overload Run — Brailsford / Mercaston Lane (historical)

Reports and event feedback

• Wil Chung — varied obstacles, good spectator access and a compact village ↗

  Wil Chung / participant blogger with declared ambassador relationships · 2017

  Enjoys the obstacle variety and two-lap course. Praises spectator access, registration and the compact event village, and says he would return.

  The complete original narrative and conclusion were read. The body explicitly identifies the 2017 return at Brailsford; the current CMS displays 22 April 2023, so that date is not treated as the raced day. Wil reports two roughly six-kilometre laps. Measurements, exact day, results and personal entry funding are unverified; a quoted race price is not proof he paid it. His current footer declares ambassador relationships with Tough Mudder, 361° and Enertor, which do not establish funding for this old Overload entry. Colleagues are not additional reviews. The account is not a Farmyard Jam assessment and supplies no numerical overall.

Event details

Dates

Last listed edition: Sat 18 Jul 2026

Formats

Advertised 2026 Original Overload 5K · Historical 2017 two-lap outing — approximately 12K reported

Place

Mercaston Lane, Brailsford, DE6 3BJ; precise historical race gates unverified, Brailsford / Mercaston, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Series

Overload Run / UKOCR

• The organizer’s original homepage separately advertises the Original Overload Run on 18 July 2026 as a five-kilometre obstacle adventure at Mercaston Lane. It links that programme to a different entry URL from Farmyard Jam’s six-, twelve- and twenty-four-hour programmes. Linked checkout bodies were not read; the advertisement does not independently prove occurrence.
• This short named programme is kept separate from the existing Farmyard Jam endurance listing. The participant report describes a 2017 Brailsford outing, not the listed 2026 course or the 2027 Farmyard programme. No future Original Overload date is verified.
• Wil Chung reports approximately six-kilometre laps and a two-lap outing of roughly twelve kilometres. Those estimates, the exact raced day and historical start gate are unverified. His description of a changed crew, obstacles and course concerns the return in 2017 relative to 2015. No overall numerical score is stated.
• Racecheck’s Overload listing at Mercaston links Wil Chung’s article from a 2017-labeled card. That source connects the historical account to the named event, without proving an unchanged start gate. Its mixed Overload/Farmyard aggregate is not imported as a short-programme score; the link-only card is not a separate participant review.

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