12 Nick Treitl 24:35

Welcome back to Virgil Barton who was the only Barlicker in this championship race.  He celebrated his return to the club with a very creditable performance, finishing 44th out of the 201 finishers in the men's race.

44 Virgil Barton 1:33:40

This is a tough challenge.  It is 40K of mountain terrain with 3,000 meters of ascent and it was a quite incredible run from Luke Maude to complete the course in just over five and a half hours.

8 Luke Maude 5:33:50
99 Tim Pigott 8:34:12

22 Andrew Carson 39:00
40 James Austin 41:31
407 Aamanda Haines 55:47

It was a cracking run by Craig Shearer who came home in second place, having just been pipped to the finishing post by Jack Cummings of Ilkley Harriers.

2 Craig Shearer 40:38
48 Tony Duffy 61:43
63 Richard Treitl 73:27

75 finishers

Great run by Danny Mills to finish second in this race and a top twenty finish too (just) for Scott McCredie

2 Danny Mills 19:17
20 Scott McCredie 23:18

67 finishers

This is quite a new race and is similar in elevation to Hendon Brook.

5 Andy Berry 1:36:51 (1st M40)
8 Daniel Plant 1:39:55

29 Nicola Muller 24:57 (New PB)

276 Graham Wadsworth 37:21

A great performance from Lorraine Slater in this 55K race to finish 13th overall in this race and also 2nd lady and first V40.

13 Lorraine Slater 6:31:56 (2nd lady, 1st LV40)

375 ran

The race was won by David Rigby in 1:21:36 and was a great performance in hot conditions.  However, there were some terrific performances too from the Barlickers, who were led home by Tom Corrigan, with three finishers in the top ten and six finishers in the top twenty.

The Barlick ladies excelled too with Rachel Villiers leading them home in 3rd position, with Jacqueline Collins 5th and Paula Cullen 12th. 

 2 Thomas Corrigan 1:25:00
5 Jon Cleaver 1:27:42
6 David Mirfield 1:28:51
11 David Poole 1:34:34
12 Andrew Collins 1:34:36
16 Andy Berry 1:38:43 (2nd M40)
28 Jimmy Wright 1:43:05
33 Daniel Plant 1:46:13
38 Andrew Carson 1:46:50
40 Lucas Payne 1:47:20
45 Rachel Villiers 1:48:03 (3rd Woman, 2nd F35)
59 Jacqueline Collins 1:53:01 (3rd F35)
65 Andrew Smith 1:53:35
83 James Austin 1:58:37
84 Paula Cullen 1:58:47 (2nd F40)
90 Zac Kaye 2:00:21
94 John Boothman 2:02:05
10 Heather Driver 2:05:18
12 Cloey Mason 2:13:44
140 Jean Rawlinson 2:23:18 (1st F65)

49 John Boothman 10:15 (1st MV50)
58 Tony Duffy 10:32

11 Andy Berry 40:40

142 finishers

36 Tony Duffy 1:00:24

Lots of Barlickers out in this race and were led home by Jonathan Cleaver for the men and Rachel Villiers for the women.  A good effort by all the ladies saw them come home with the team prize.  Knowing the man, it was perhaps not surprising that John Boothman turned out for this race, despite his incredible 108 mile run last weekend.  Given that he has given his legs little time for recovery, he did remarkably well. 

6 Jonathan Cleaver 443:41
14 Andrew Collins 46:29
15 Lucas Payne 46:57
17 Andy Berry 47:06
42 James Austin 51:31
50 Rachel Villers 52:16
51 Andrew Smith 52:18
53 Jacqueline Collins 52:23
54 Scott McCredie 52:24
68 Shane Muller 54:24
79 Daniel Plant 55:04
88 Paul Elcock 56:03
105 John Boothman 58:02
118 Paula Cullen 59:31
146 Cloey Mason 1:03:30
157 Tony Duffy 1:04:17
200 Gary Parkinson 1:08:30
202 Nicola Muller 1:08:37
209 Jean Rawlinson 1:08:57

Richard Treitl was out in this 9.6m / 2700ft race and came home in 2hrs 17mins 49secs, finishing 94th out of 99 finishers.  It was very hot with the temperature around 30^o, so it was good to get all runners back safely.

2 Lee Parrington  18:56

2 Lucas Payne 18:44
3 Andy Berry 18:54
6 Alex Mason 19:42
11 Paul Elcock 20:52

307 Sara Hardacre 36:41

A few Barlickers went over for this race instead of the usual pub run.  It was a very pleasant setting and after the race, the prize giving took place in the local church where everyone could enjoyed a cheap pint of good draught ale.  Andy Collins led everyone home with Carl Pawson in close persuit.  Young Jack Villiers had a great race to secure a top twenty finish and last, but by no means least, Jacqueline Collins finished second woman and first F35.

10 Andy Collins 30:31
11 Carl Pawson 31:53
19 Jack Viliers 34:26
35 Jacqueline Collins 36:21 (2nd woman, 1st F35)

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78 Richard Treitl 2:19:12

22 Lee Edwards 15:11
27 Scott McCredie 15:59
58 Cloey Mason 21:08
60 Tony    Duffy 21:24

Imagine training for and running in a marathon.  Quite an achievement and great respect to everyone who has done it.  But imagine running in four back to back marathons without a break.  Then imagine a few of the well know fell races, such as Withens, the Lothersdale Fell Race or Pen Y Ghent.   Then imagine adding in a few more hills that are part of the Pennine Way between Derbyshire and Hardraw and mix them all up and you have the challenge which John Boothman took on this weekend.  One hundred and four miles of serious fell running with no sleep and just stops for sustenance. 

John not only completed this, but he came second in the race.  The winner, Michael Harrison,  put in a tremendous performance.  In the early stages, he looked as thought he might have gone off too fast, such was his lead, but he managed to keep up that blistering pace to the end.  Behind him, by the time they reached the Cowling / Lothersdale area, John Boothman and Matthew Wilkinson were having a fair old tussle and it was nip and tuck between them both.  But John had great determination and he pushed on relentlessly, so by the time they reached the summit of Pinhaw, there was a full nine minutes separating them.

Both ran on through the night up to Malham and then across Fountains Fell towards Pen y Ghent.  After over twelve hours of running John made the ascent up the end of Pen Y Ghent as Matthew seemed to fall even further behind.  From then on John seemed to dig deep and push on relentlessly until he reached the summit of Ten End from where he could see the town of Hawes and the finish just beyond at Hardraw.  At that point, only a disaster, like crocking an ankle separated John from what felt like a famous victory, even though it was second place.  Luckily, he descended at a fair pace, but managed to keep on his feet to go through the centre of Hawes and jog alongside the river  up to the finish.

That was over thirty hours on his feet, apart from meal breaks and it says a lot about John's strong mental character, in addition to his incredible physical fitness.  The times for the first three were:

1 Michael Harrison 27:45:02
2 John Boothman 30:33:34
3 Matthew Wilkinson 32:24:29

1 Jack Villiers 18:46 New PB
2 Lucas Payne 18:58 New PB
9 Alex Mason 20:23 New PB
10 Scott McCredie 20:36
21 Rachel Villiers 21:34 New PB
25 Lucilie Pickles 22:23 New PB
35 Tony Duffy 23:41 New PB
46 Ciara Duffy 25:33
72 Marie Beech 30:06
86 Lisa Pickles 32:16 New PB 

15 Ian Cocks 19:22
37 Derek Walkden 21:19
301 Sharon Newbold 30:41 New PB

28 Daniel Plant 20:55

73 Angela Donlan 34:46

5 Lucas Payne 18:50
162 Susan Hird 34:29

 Great competition in these races between team mates, with a close battle going on between Matt Lalor & Lee Parrington in the Elite Race and with Craig Shearer and Jon Cleaver in the A Race.

Sub 16:30 Race

28 Matthew Lalor 15:55
29 Lee Parrington 15:56

A Race
2 Craig Shearer 16:05
3 Jon Cleaver 16:09
9 David Mirfield 16:45
14 Dan Mills 16:54
29 Andrew Carson 17:33
45 Lee Edwards 18:20

B Race 
11 James Austin 19:05
16 Daniel Plant 19:12
35 Derek Walkden 19:49
39 Rachel Villiers 19:51
43 Paul Elcock 19:57
50 Andrew Smith 20:14
58 Shane Muller 20:40
59 Zac Kaye 20:44
79 Paula Cullen 21:40
93 Heather Driver 22:22
109 Cloey Mason 23:12
130 Nicola Muller 24:35}
147 Susan Hird 26:24
152 Jean Rawlinson 26:47