Gary Bradley entered this race last year whilst he was on holiday, where he was joined by Richard Treitl who had made the trip down for the day. This year, this pair once more returned to Wales and were joined by Barlick new member Virgil Barton, who was making his inaugural run for the club. Virgil, running with the 118 number, got off to a good start by leading the Barlickers home.
23 Virgil Barton 1:41:01
66 Gary Bradley 1:55.49
215 Richard Treitl 2:37:40
The grand old man of fell running showed once more that he still has it by leading this race out and back and beating Ted Mason on his own midden.
There were four Barlickers at the race with Andy Berry having a good race to secure a top ten finish. The Barlickers finished as follows:
9 Andy Berry 41:35
20 Sam Wadsworth 45:04
30 John Boothman 48:01
51 Angela Donlan 50:28 (2nd FV40)
118 finishers.
16 Paul Elcock 21:20 New PB
22 Emma Bailey 22:04
35 Laura Craig 23:56 New PB
40 Hannah Watson 24:09
51 James Milligan 25:26 New PB
54 Daren Holdsworth 25:42
85 Karen Naylor 27:34 New PB
98 Amanda Haines 28:06
102 Elle Honeyman 28:30
125 Abigail Park 29:41 New PB
127 Gary Bailey 29:43
128 Clover Edwards 29:44
135 Tabitha Berry 30:27 New PB
136 Andy Berry 30:27
147 Chloe Boothman 31:16
148 John Boothman 31:18
6 Andrew Chew 18:17 New PB
21 Jonathan Phillips 20:22 New PB
33 James Tingle 21:18
182 Hazel O'Hara 28:40 New PB
The senior race was won by Sam Watson of Wharfedale, with Julian Hood, who was in third position the first time at the monument, finishing second. Sam Wadsworth was the other Barlicker in the top ten and he finished 7th. The Barlickers finished as follows:
2 Julian Hood 26:48
7 Sam Wadsworth 28:22
16 Carl Pawson 29:55
20 Andrew Driver 30:26
23 Jonathan Boothman 30:52
31 Mick Keegan 32:06
32 Scott McCredie 32:17
37 Jonathan Phillips 32:33
38 Peter Jackson 32:49
50 Lorainne Slater 33:50 (1st FV45)
55 Glenn Whitaker 34:17
69 Craig Child 37:07
79 Hannah Newbold 37:54
82 Rachel Lowther 38:15
There was a good turn out of 21 juniors at this race
24 Nicolas Kendall 27:46
51 Richard Treitl 35:52
58 starters - one DNF
107 Richard Lowther 1:47:58
198 Craig Child 2:03:00
6 George Fitzpatrick 8:51
44 Summer Fitzpatrick 12:01
All too often, relay races start with much optimism and particularly with two man legs, end up with disappointment. This year was the first year that we had a complete ladies team in the race and we were hoping for great things. Sadly this came to an end all too quickly. Kelly Whiteside and Angela Donlan set off on the first leg and they were still in the park when Kelly keeled over and was laid on the ground, obviously in great pain. She had to be carried back to her car by Stephen Chew and Gary Shaw. It turned out that she had ruptured her achilles tendon and her leg will be in a cast for for a little while. Everyone feels sorry for Kelly and wish her a speedy recovery. Angela Donlan continued with her leg and everyone ran their subsequent legs for the experience, but the failure of both runners to complete leg one meant that the ladies team was automatically disqualified from the race.
In the meantime, the A team got off to a good start and it soon boiled down to a battle with Wharfedale. However, Tom Corrigan and Matt Lalor managed to build up a lead and they handed over in first place with a 35 second lead over Wharfedale.
Chris Singleton and Julian Hood set off on leg two and increased this lead to around a minute before handing over to third leg runners Shaun & Stephen Chew. However, in this leg, they were caught by the chasing Wharfedale pair who managed to pull away and establish a lead of around one minute.
Jimmy Craig and Nick Treitl took over on leg four against what was probably the best pairing in the Wharfedale team – Sam Watson & Ted Mason, who increased the lead even further. On the fifth leg, Gary Shaw and Luke Maude clawed back a bit of the deficit and going into the final leg, Wharfedale had a lead of around two and a half minutes. Marc Hartley and Ian Liversedge started to eat into this lead and when they left the canal, they had reduced it to around one minute, fifty seconds. They continued to whittle this lead down and when Wharfedale turned off the road into the finish at the rugby club, the Barlick pair could be seen coming under the bridge after them.
It had been an exciting tussle throughout the day between Wharfedale & Barlick and at the end of nearly six hoursa racing , only 47 seconds separated them, but it was Wharfedale who took the honours and they ran out worthy winners. It was almost 12 minutes before the third place team of Calder Valley came home.
As Wellington once said, “It was a damn close thing”. As it happened, a 2 minute penalty was imposed on Barlick for the leg four runners taking the wrong route, even though it made little difference to the final result. Even with this penalty, the overall time was still under six hours and few teams have ever achieved this. It was disappointing to come second, but that takes nothing away from the whole of the A team who put up such a great battle against a very much in form Wharfedale team.
The B team also put in some good performances and finished 12th overall. The C Team finished 29th.
1 Wharfedale Harriers 5:56:43
2 Barlick Fell Runners 5:57:30 (before imposition of a 2 minute penalty.
3 Calder Valley 6:08:12
12 Barlick B Team
28 Barlick C Team
Another good turn out from our juniors this morning at Kirby Malham for the third FRA English Championship race. Results as follows;
Under 8s
10 George Fitzpatrick 5.09 (9th Boy)
19 Lucille Pickles 5.33 (4th Girl)
35 Annabelle Hoyle 6.24 (8th Girl)
36 Hayden McKenzie 6.25 (9th Girl)
37 Chloe Boothman 6.26 (10th Girl)
39 Isabelle Chew 6.28 (11th Girl)
46 Summer Fitzpatrick 6.50 (15th Girl)
50 finishers
Under 10s
9 Harley Treitl 8.18
14 Jacob Reeday 8.27
40 Jack Latham 9.12
72 Elle Honeyman 10.41 (20th Girl)
78 finishers
Under 12s
34 Elliott Phillips 12.22
38 Jack Villiers 12.38
58 Aaron Slater 13.24
73 Jenna Boothman 14.31 (27th Girl)
75 Connor Fitzpatrick 15.22
76 Oliver Whipp 15.28
78 finishers
Under 16s
1 Joshua Boyle 15.34
36 finishers
4 Scott McCredie 20:47 New PB!
9 John Boothman 21:33 New PB!
31 Laura Craig 24:47 New PB!
39 Jenna Boothman 25:29 New PB!
41 Logan McCredie 25:36 New PB!
76 Graham Wadsworth 32:25 New PB!
15 Paul Elcock 21:29
98 James Stead 28:39
112 Emma Bailey 29:54
127 Clover Edwards 31:34
131 Deborah McKenna 32:02
Quite a night for Barlick Fell Runners. Julian Hood comfortably won the race outright. We had 8 runners in the top twenty. We won the men's and women's team prizes, we had the 2nd woman and we had the first women V40. What more can we say other than the Barlickers finished as follows:
1 Julian Hood 30:24
4 Shaun Chew 31:27
8 Sam Wadsworth 32:11
9 Andrew Chew 32:12
14 Lee Edwards 33:11
16 Ian Cocks 33:13
17 Dan Taylor 33:15
19 Carl Pawson 33:22
41 Scott McCredie 36:06
44 Jonathan Phillips 36:20
56 Jen Hird 37:26 (2nd woman)
69 Angela Donlan (4th Woman 1st W40)
78 Lorraine Slater 37:26
103 Hannah Newbold 41:44
106 Heather Driver 41:54
110 Rachel Lowther 42:17
181 Sharon Newbold 53:21
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.