4 Andy Collins 1:26:33
13 Nick Treitl 1:36:45
41 Andy Smith 1:50:43
50 John Boothman 1:54:01
56 Peter Jackson 1:56:01
123 Jamie Fox 2:22:58
136 Richard Treitl 3:15:37

15 Lucy Beresford 25:02 

131 Lily-Grace Clayton 27:24
161 Oscar Clayton 28:10
292 Kristian Clayton 34:57 

87 Kai Paton 27:33 

What a difference between the race last week, in this Rossendale Harriers mid-week series, and this one.  Last week it was gentle runnable hills over firm ground.  This week, it was very much like a traditional fell race, with several steep climbs, lots of mud and just to complete the picture, there was clag on the tops and continuous gentle rain.  You leave the village of Cowpe and almost immediately start on a long ascent, at first on the road and then on to a muddy footpath and then a muddy track.  This leads to the site of an old quarry where there is some respite as the wet and muddy track levels out before the runners make a short descent before starting a further climb,  So this race goes on, culminating in the final climb up Whittle Pike itself.  All in all, a tough course.

After the descent from the summit,  the first three finishers, Joe Mercer of Horwich, Darren Kaye of Calder Valley and Andrew Worcester of Todmorden,  had broken away from the rest of the pack and were in a race of their own.  There was nothing to choose between them and they were all seriously racing.  This left 4th place Peter Bray running on his own, before the pack came into view, with Andy Collins in 6th place shouting, " I got lost".  David Poole followed shortly after, as did Stephen Shorrocks and then Carl Pawson, still showing his new lease of life.  Four runner in the top 16 must have put Barlick in a good position for the team prize.  But it was not to be, Horwich not only had the race winner, but his two team mates also finished in the top ten and the honours went to them.

This was a tough race and the ladies were half way down the field, with Anne-Marie Hindle of Rossendale leading the way on the ascent.  She was shortly followed by Lorraine Slater and completing the top three was Jacqueline Collins.  This was how it finished.  

The next Barlick lady to finish was Paula Cullen who looked absolutely shattered on the way back down and she confirmed how she felt by ruefully shouting, "That was bloody hard".  However, her efforts were good enough to once more ensure that the Barlick ladies took the team prize

 There were category prizes too for Barlick with Andrew Smith finishing first V55 and Peter Jackson finishing 2nd V60.  Apparently, this was the first time that Andrew, had won a prize, who afterwards modestly confessed that the conditions just suited him..

As usual with Rossendale, this was a well organised event and well flagged and marshaled, with results very quickly published.  Well done Rossendale.J

Race winner: Joe Mercer 44:08

6 Andy Collins 48:37
10 David Poole 49:38
13 Stephen Shorrock 50:26
16 Carl Pawson 51:27
29 Ben Whitehead 54:59
31 Barrie Charnley 55;09
33 Zac Kaye 55:28
40 Andrew Smith 57:39 (1st MV55)
53 Pete Jackson 1:00:06
54 Lorraine Slater 1:00:13 (2nd lady, 2nd LV45)
57 Jacqueline Collins 1:00:48 (3rd lady)
63 Glenn Whittaker 1:03:32
75 Paula Cullen 1:07:23 
97 Katie Towers 1:17:31

121 starters.

Trawden Show might have been cancelled, but the race was still on, although it was a bit of a miserable day for a summer race.  As in previous races, Ben Fish showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the pack, although David Mirfield had a good run to finish in 2nd place.  Together with top ten finishers Jon Cleaver and Alex Mason, it was enough for Barlick to easily finish as first team.

2 David Mirfield 44:18
6 Jonathan Cleaver 45:55
6 Alex Mason 45:55
28 Barrie Charney 49:41
39 Karl Robb 51:48
39 Zac Kaye 51:48
41 James Austin 51:51
52 James Crook 53:43
81 John Boothman 57:30
109 Tony Duffy 1:02:16

Five Barlickers braved the dismal weather to take part in this race and were led home by Ian Cocks.

8 Ian Cocks 25:26
11 James Austin 26:00
20 Shane Muller 27:16
47 Emma Pease 30:57
71 Nicola Muller 33:22

It was a wet and windy day for this race, but better perhaps than all the recent heat we have been having.  A good run out by Emma Bailey saw her get a PB for a 10 mile race by 2 minutes, as well as a podium finish and 1st FV40.

3 Emma Bailey 1:09:32 (1st FV40)

17 Laura Craig 24:51
40 Abigail Park 30:37 New PB

49 James Macdonald 23:48
204 Zac Kaye 30:53

What a pleasant evening for a fell race.  Well, it is more of a trail race than a true fell race.  There are no serious steep ascents and it is on good paths over the hills.  It therefore suited speedy runners such as Ben Coop of Bury AC,  who absolutely flew round to comfortably take the honours.  Oliver Heaton was in second place and was chased by Andy Collins throughout the race.  However, early on, Andy suffered a fall and although nothing was damaged other than his pride, at that point, Oliver opened up a gap of around twenty seconds.  Although Andy pushed hard, he found it impossible to close that gap which remained until the end of the race.  Still a cracking race by Andy to finish third.

Stephen Shorrock got off to a good start and was well placed in the top ten the first time they went passed the cross.  However, on the return, he was in 4th place behind Andy and despite being pushed by a couple of runners, he managed to hold this position to the end.  That was the second Barlcker in the top ten.

They say that a man is just as old as the woman he feels.  Well something is inspiring Carl Pawson.  At the weekend, he finished in 8th position.  In this race, he was in the same position when he first went passed the cross but on his return, he had managed to improve by one position and so it finished, with three Barlickers in the top ten. In this race, it was the less elitist four to count for the men's team prize and Zac Kaye finishing in 16th position, just one second in front of Ben Whitehead, meant that Barlick took the men's team prize.

Further down the field, Glenn Whittaker and John Boothman were battling it out for the the Whitman Cup.  It was a very close thing, but in the end John just managed to get ahead of Glenn.

Whilst all this was going on, there was also the ladies race taking place.  On the outward leg, Jackie Collins had a good lead and looked really up for it, doing star jumps over the muddy patches.  Again, on the outward leg, Lorraine Slater was in second place and knowing her prowess in longer races, would she be able to pull back on Jackie's lead?  By the time they returned, Jackie was still doing her star jumps, but Lorraine looked to be really struggling.  It turned out that she had only just returned from chilling out on a  cruise in the Mediterranean, which she admitted was not the best preparation for a race.  Nevertheless, it was a great performance from a woman who is only just still within the W45 category.  Further down the field, Paula Cullen was battling away and was rewarded with 6th position which meant that Barlick also won the ladies' team prize.  

What with individual prizes, category prizes and team prizes, the Barlick table looked overloaded by the end of the evening, but it concluded a good evening of fell running.

3 Andy Collins 50:00
4 Stephen Shorrock 51:32 (1st M40)
7 Carl Pawson 53:22 (1st M45)
16 Zac Kaye 56:40
17 Ben Whitehead 56:41
33 David Pease 1:01:21
38 Jacqueline Collins 1:01:57 (1st lady)
46 Lorraine Slater 1:04:19 (2nd lady)
52 John Boothman 1:05:00
55 Glenn Whittaker 1:05:20
79 Paula Cullen 1;11:17 (6th lady)
112 Katie Towers 1:18:33 (17th lady)

26 Lucy Beresford 24:39 New PB

35 Danny Butterworth 24:27
39 Harry Driver 25:00 New PB
40 Andrew Driver 25:01

17 Emma Bailey 17:42
23 Lucille Pickles 21:18

Well what a race for the Barlickers.  Alex Mason led them home finishing in 4th place, but just look at who was in the top ten with him - none other than Carl Pawson.  What a race he had.  Another runner to have a stormer was Jacqueline Collins who romped home to win the ladies race.

4 Alex Mason 43:29 (2nd M23)
9 Carl Pawson 46:00 (1st M45)
15 Barrie Charnley 48:12 (2nd M40)
18 Ian Cocks 48:30
32 Jacqueline Collins 50:39 (1st lady, 1st F35)
35 Zac Kaye 50:57
37 Shane Muller 51:32
38 James Austin 51:43
81 Gavin Spencer 1:00:23
83 Hayley Whitehead 1:00:36
85 Heather Driver 1:00:55 (3rd F35)
117 Nicola Muller 1:06:08 (3rd F45)
134 Jean Rawlinson 1:09:07 (1st F65)
137 Sarah Spencer 1:09:53

2 Ian Beresford 33:38
10 Tim Chadwick 36:34
11 Andy Berry 36:36
23 Ben Whitehead 39:22
26 David Pease 40:30
27 Andrew Smith 40:46
37 Jen Hird 43:52
40 John Boothman 44:10
44 Lucy Brown 45:26
48 Heather Driver 47:05
49 Hayley Whitehead 48:02
51 Emma Pease 48:16
54 Gavin Spencer 49:06
71 Anne-Marie Beech 57:40
72 Susan Hird 58:06
74 Richard Treitl 1:03:06
78 Krystian clayton 1:15:17

8 David Pease 25:30
12 Tony Duffy 27:43
22 Richard Treitl 34:37
23 Susan Hird 34:54
24 Kristian Clayton 39:39

28 Julian Hood 3:52:50
57 Stephen Shorrock 4:10:42
220 Karl Robb 5:42:38

Results

Race Pictures Courtesy of Dave & Eileen Woodhead

2019 Hellifield Gala Senior & U17 fell race photos  https://photos.app.goo.gl/xtgZGhNWvfD7kFCL7

2019 Hellifield Gala U13 & U15 fell race photos  https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zz737Us1kqYwDK2w5 

2019 Hellifield Gala U9 & U11 fell race photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/tCbTbaK6h92JStZL9

2019 Hellifield Gala Parade, Gala Queen & Fancy Dress photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/fRKUEYYDp7JGA3gg8

2019 Hellifield Gala - Kids Sports & Egg Throwing Competition photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/A18tKcSdkKukmNMD7

 Harry Coates of Wharfedale not only won this race, but he won it by such a margin that he had the time to pick up his daughter and carry her over the line.  The ladies race was won by U21 runner Helen Thornhill of Ribble Valley.  The Barlickers finished as follows:  

13 David Pease 32:16
34 Emma Pease 38:18
35 Laura Craig 38:44

A good turnout for this Lakeland classic which was very testing in the heat and quite a Lakeland debut for Jamie Fox and Gavin Spencer.

14 Julian Hood 1:43:56
19 Jimmy Craig 1:46:53
44 Stephen Shorrock 1:55:25
73 Andy Berry 2:04:30
119 John Boothman 2:18:12
134 Glenn Whittaker 2:21:35
146 Jacqueline Collins 2:26:11
181 Pete Jackson 2:33:37
185 Paula Cullen 2:34:18
208 Hannah Newbold 2:44:27
236 Katie Towers 2:54:13
248 Jamie Fox 3:01:56
253 Helen Harrison 3:06:17
255 Gavin Spencer 3:09:30
263 Cloey Mason 3:17:42

This was the Inaugural Tolkien Trail Race starting at Stonyhurst College in Hurst Green. The heavens opened just before the start and everyone got a right soaking. It was described as great trail racing over varied terrain. Jonathan Cleaver had a great run to finish 3rd behind Tom Adams of Ilkley & Ben Fish of Blackburn.

3 Jonathan Cleaver 36:49
42 Michael Alexander 49:30

8 Nick Treitl 17:09
33 David Pease 21:03
84 Kristian Clayton 41:03

1 Ian Beresford 17:51
3 Alex Mason 18:40 New PB
31 Cloey Mason 26:23
48 Anne-Marie Beech 29:31

321 Graham Wadsworth 37:34
334 Wendy Duffy 40:19

3 Lucas Payne 19:01
7 Martin Carson 19:42 New PB
77 Sarah Jones 26:44

Uphill out and downhill back, so not really a course where you would expect to achieve a PB.  Nevertheless, it was a pretty impressive performance from race winner Ben Fish of Blackburn.  The rest of the field, led by Jonathan Cleaver gave chase, but could not close the gap he had built up

2 Jonathan Cleaver 16:26
6 Alex Mason 17:21
26 Steven Roberts 18:58
52 Shane Muller 20:11
64 David Pease 20:52
76 Jen Hird 21:29
115 Heather Driver 23:21
121 Gavin Spencer 23:33
131 Emma Pease 24:10
153 Helen Harrison 25:10
155 Nicola Muller 25:18

5 Nick Treitl 24:21
16 Andrew Smith 28:18
18 David Pease 28:52
53 Tony Duffy 34:50
55 Emma Pease 35:44
65 Nicola Muller 40:52
74 Kristian Clayton 56:38

This was a well organised run supporting local charities, with plenty of BFR support.  It produced some good Barlick performances with young Alex Mason finishing 5th overall and Emma Bailey 3rd woman and 1st W40.

4 Alex Mason 36:25
29 James Austin 40:50
39 Emma Bailey 41:57 (3rd woman, 1st W40)
563 Richard Shilton 1:02:18

Eight Barlickers were out in this race where conditions, by the mid afternoon start,  were perfect for racing, cloudy but dry with a tailwind for the climb.

Results:

16 Andy Berry 56:42
54 Gary Bradley 1:03:44
59 Karl Robb 1:04:34
63 Barrie Charnley 1:05:29
69 Shane Muller 1:06:21
71 Peter Jackson 1:06:32
79 Glenn Whittaker 1:07:24
83 John Boothman 1:08:34

Barrie took a nasty fall on the descent & was patched up by the medics at the finish.

John & Glenn were contesting for their own private Ingleborough trophy which Glenn re-took back from John  ... The Whitman Cup?

All in all a great afternoon’s racing.

50 David Poole 1:20:42
85 Tim Chadwick 1:25:16
132 Zac Kaye 1:33:27
244 Victoria Peel 1:40:49

1 Julian Hood 17:48

77 Daniel Van Essen 35:02

18 Lucille Pickle 21:17 New PB
64 Garth Duffy 23:46 New PB
68 James Macdonald 23:56
75 Ciara Duffy 24:13
266  Wendy Duffy 37:13
267 Tony Duffy 37:41