Martine Scholes digs deep to beat the Icart cliff course women’s record. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0814644)

STEVE DAWES produced a brilliant course record on the penultimate evening of the popular All-Terrain series.

The Division One champion-elect extended his advantage at the top of the leaderboard with a superb time of 31min. 29sec. for the five-mile cliff time-trial which has its start and finish point at Icart.

The time was 11sec. inside his own record and, moments earlier, Martine Scholes had stripped 15sec. off the women’s course best held by Louise Perrio.

Every runner in the series started at one minute intervals with the slowest heading out first.

For many, it meant running blind with no-one in sight to judge pace.

But that wasn’t a problem for Dawes who passed several fellow Division One runners on his way to victory.

The big moves of the night came in Divisions Three and Four where both overnight leaders lost possession of the yellow vest.

In Division Three, Chris O’Neill ran quicker than he did over the same course in race conditions last Sunday, but still found himself blown away by Pete Beausire.