For this weekend, Garry Bailey, his wife Emma together with Scott Boardman went down to Wales where they camped over, having borrowed a tent from Pete Jackson. After it rained, the tent was renamed "Leaky McLeakface".
As for the race, it is the UK's toughest half marathon, with a 1:6 gradient after 11 miles. Scott and Emma ran it together and after injury, Emma finished 3rd lady overall and 2nd in category.
56 Scott Boardman 1:48:50
57 Emma Bailey 1:48:50 (3rd woman, 2nd FV40)
439 finishers.
Report by Stephen Chew
Well a good day which could have been so much better. Firstly, thank you to all the runners who ran and the guys that came in at the last minute, even when not fully fit. All the runners do the club proud and it was great to get a full ladies team out and finish the race this year. As you can see from the results, the club had a good solid day with the A team finishing 2nd for the 3rd year running. That however is only half the story. Any club with three men's teams in these relays has to find 36 runners and quite often, people have to be drafted in at the last minute.
5 Dan Balshaw 36:20
3 Harley Treitl 8:02 New PB
6 Connor Fitzpatrick 8:40
13 George Fitzpatrick 9:28
34 Summer Fitzpatrick 11:15
In the men's A team, there were some great performances, especially from runners who were not fully fit, but turned out on the day to represent their club. However, despite what was a great team effort, events on the day conspired against us and once more we were runners up to Calder Valley.
The B team also put in a cracking team effort and by Blackshaw Head were in 9th position, but they slipped later in the race and finished 13th. The early details and finishing times are as follows:
1 Calder Valley 5:56:55
2 Barlick Fell Runners 6:04:34
3 Wharfedale Harriers 6:10:30
13 Barlick "B" Team 6:58:44
27 Barlick "C" Team 7:32:23
54 Barlick Ladies 8:20:39 (5th Ladies Team)
Further details follow.
This is a 10.5 mile race with 3002 ft of ascent
237 Richard Treitl 2:37:07
267 finishers
58 Vicky Holgate 25:28 New PB
329 Graham Wadsworth 32:46
30 Lucille Pickles 26:24 NEW PB
47 Anne Marie Beech 28:32 NEW PB
48 Heather Mitchell 28:50
71 Lisa Pickles 33:21
72 Wendy Duffy 33:28
U9
6 George Fitzpatrick 3:19
8 Garth Duffy 3:21
9 Chloe Boothman 3:22 (5th girl)
15 Daniel Wood 3:28 (
17 Isaac Reeday 3:30
21 Evie Scott 3:34 (8th girl)
24 Summer Fitzpatrick 3:37 (9th girl)
28 Holly Milligan 3:42 (10th girl)
U11
12 Lucille Pickles 4:14 (2nd girl)
33 Max Villiers 4:34
U15
2 Jack Villiers 16:06
4 Aaron Slater 20:07
21 Nicolas Kendall 30:21
40 Andrew Smith 32:48
66 Hannah Watson 36:14 (5th lady)
101 finishers
13 Paul Elcock 20:50 New PB
94 Susan Hird 27:56
30 Lucille Pickles 26:24 New PB
47 Ann Marie Beech 28:32
48 Heather Mitchell 28:50
71 Lisa Pickles 33:21
72 Wendy Duffy 33:28
329 Graham Wadsworth 32:46
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.