A few Barlickers took part in this race and here are the results:
5 Andy Berry 37:47 PB
18 Dan Taylor 39:59
63 Richard Starkie 45:59 PB
100 Garry Parkinson 48:43 PB?
Ian Livesey followed up his sterling run yesterday in the road relays, by winning this race in style with a new PB.
1 Ian Livesey 1:18:03 New PB
22 Barlickers made their way to Birchwood for the the Northern Road Relays. The first time the club has entered a road relay and everyone did the club proud. The men got underway with Gary Shaw in 31st, Dan Taylor in 115th and Richard Starkie in 138th. The ladies went 5 minutes later with Lorraine Slater getting proceedings underway in 53rd.
For the A team Nick Treitl came back in 34th on leg 2, Ian Livesey pulled a few places back with a cracking run to take Barlick to 30th. Andy Berry had a solid run and stepping in at the last minute bringing the baton back in 41st. Shaun Chew had a good run and clawed a couple of places back to 39th then Steve Chew finished off in 35th.
Andrew Carson had a cracking run for the B team on leg 2 pulling back 9 places and the team up to 103rd. Des Walkden pulled another place back up to 102nd. David Poole pulled another 3 back with a strong run and the team were up to 99th. Pete Beresford did a solid job and pulled another place back and James Fent finished it off and came back 99th.
The C team amazingly pulled back 4 places on leg 2 even though Mad Bob Jackson decided to stop and have a chat after the first lap. Michael Alexander pulled 6 places back on his first run for a while after injury. John Race machine Boothman pulled 2 more places back. Andrew Chew had a great run and pulled 8 places back. James stead pulled 3 back on the last leg and they finished in 115th.
The ladies had Emma Bailey on leg 2 and she turned an ankle but still managed to get round only losing 1 place. Rachel Lowther had a solid run only losing 1 place also and then Jen Hird pulled 6 places back on the last leg to finish 49th.
A good learning experience for the club, with a few of our best runners unavailable we more than held our own. The next road relay will be interesting to see if we can push on and qualify for the nationals.
Out of the 140 teams who started the men's race, the Barlick teams finished as follows:
35 Barlick A 2:07:16
99 Barlick B 2:28:37
115 Barlick C 2:46:57
Ladies
49 Barlick A 1:52:50
The results for the ladies' race are not yet available
4 John Boothman 21:07
69 Jenna Boothman 31:05
6 Carl PAWSON 20:49 New PB
24 Lorna HARGREAVES 24:27 New PB
Chris Smedley finished in 42nd place in a time of 2:10:23
244 finishers
Well done to new member Charlie Murgatroyd who finished 14th in this race with a time of 17:56.
Ian Livesey was 4th in this race in a time of 1:20:43.
12 Jennifer HIRD 22:35 New PB
3 Ian LIVESEY 17:34
4 Andrew CARSON 18:15 New PB
16 Andrew CHEW 20:25
Lorraine Slater was out in this race and finished 2nd lady behind former GB International Carly Needham. The details were:
15 Lorraine Slater 18:56 (2nd lady, 1st LV40).
These are the provisional results for this race and are subject to verification:
14 Luke Maude 29:03
24 Lee Edwards 31:10
47 Craig Child 34:56
After finishing second lady at the Golf Ball, this race saw Lorraine Slater take her first ever win in a Barlick vest. The details were:
36 Lorraine Slater 43:12 (1st lady, 1st FV35, 1st FV40)
Mo Farah becomes the first British man to win this race since 1985. Although Farah missed going under an hour for the half-marathon for the first time, he was delighted that his time of exactly 60 minutes broke his personal best by 10 seconds.
The Barlickers finished:
67 Julian Hood 1:16:17
1361 John Boothman 1:34:11
25073 Rob Whipp 2:23:17
34156 Abi Park 2:43:51
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.