if you're going to do your first 100 miler, this is a good one to do it at - a friendly community, a legendarily nice race director who ran all over the course checking on runners from start to finish, on each of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, breathtaking scenery, and only a few hours of darkness for the overnight section on account of it being held around the summer solstice.

The course was almost entirely runnable, the aid stations well stocked/manned, the ability for crew to get to the runners in multiple places, and a whole load of photograph opportunities, you soon forget you're covering an obscene amount of distances on the two laps of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, while racking up a lot of vertical gain in the process.

I genuinely hope to run this again soon.
(Personal account of the race here: https://goodwillruns.blogspot.com/2018/06/race-report-pennine-barrier-100.html)