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Leeds City Guide: The Otley Run Pub Crawl
National World - LocalTV
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09/02/2024
We wander along the route of The Otley Run and meet some of those undertaking the infamous Leeds pub crawl.
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"I've never done it."
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"This is our first time doing the Otloo Run. It's just a pub crawl basically and everybody
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dresses up in costumes. We've come for our mates 21st birthday so everybody is dressed
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up in the background."
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From far Headingley to Leeds City Centre, the Otloo Run is Leeds' infamous pub crawl
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largely undertaken by students along with former students, professionals and stag and
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hen-doos. There's often debate about which establishments are included but it's generally
00:29
considered to be 15 stops beginning at Woody's Alehouse before heading to The Three Horseshoes,
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The New Inn, Headingley Taps, Manahatta, Box, The Skyrack, The Original Oak, Hyde Park,
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The Library, The Pack Horse, The Eldon, Leeds University Union, The Fenton and then down
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to Dry Dock. The vast majority of participants wear a fancy dress and there's a working group
01:05
of police and council workers who regularly review it to reduce antisocial behaviour.
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"I think I've done it about, I think it might be my fourth time. I think I've only completed
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it once though. I keep getting held back by, you know, people that aren't worth it."
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"We're here for Georgie's birthday, we've met Miss British Icons, got Claudia Winkleman,
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Harriet Curtin, Gordon Ramsay, Cassie Pollard, the Queen, rest in peace and Boris Johnson."
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"I'm actually a Leeds girl born and bred and I went to school in Otley which is a town
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about nine miles away where the Otley Run officially starts. I've done the whole Otley
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Run maybe about five times but most people do it starting at this pub called Woody's
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which isn't the official start so arguably are they a real Otley Runners but no it's
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a great atmosphere in the summer, it's really lively, everyone's having fun."
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"We've completed every single pub, like every time, yeah. And we go hard, like we get like
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all the drinks and we just feel different. We shop at every pub, that's our tactic, you
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know. It works honestly and you'll be fine by the end of it, just have like a glass of
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water and go to bed."
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"This is my third or fourth Otley Run, can't really remember for obvious reasons. When
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I've done it previously I was a student here in Leeds, I studied at Leeds Uni and now it's
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my stag do so everyone's in Ireland jerseys except for me."
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"I'm Fergus's dad and this is my first Otley Run, not my first pub crawl, my first Otley
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Run."
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"We're just going to pace ourselves and see where we make it to."
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"If you get through it, you get through it, if you don't, you don't."
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"We're speaking to our friends and our aim is to get to the 11th pub, they've not made
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it past there yet."
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"For anyone who hasn't done it before, you won't complete it. You think you will but
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you won't. Also eat. Like people say eating is cheating, no no no no no no no. If you
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don't eat, you don't complete."
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