You're not wrong. The Hutchinson 100 used to be run in the reverse direction. And going off at a slight tangent, some car races used to run the wrong way round Mallory. I think more than a few of them ended up in the lake!

Jan, I don't know if it's still run but on the Sunday before practice there used to be a marathon race around the TT course that finished down by the war memorial, so not only have people walked it but plenty of mad buggers have actually run it!!