Bingley Harriers had designed a brand new course for this race, but sadly on the day, it turned into a bit of a shambles due to horses on the course.  The first problem occurred with horses after the first two runners had past a group of horses, when one of the riders lost control of her horse and it started rearing.  Then to make matters worse, further on the course, there was a group of horses with someone leading them and they refused to let the runners past as they said one of the horse was injured and did not want to disturb it and apart from the leaders, this backed up everyone in the race.  They reached some stables and everyone thought that she would take her horse into the yard out of the way to let the runners past, but when she did not do so, against her protestations, the runners went past anyway.  However, by this time, the race, as a race was over as the leaders were completely out of sight.

The winner was Frank Beresford of Otley in 41:08 with Tim Midgley of Bingley in 2nd place in 41:18.  Gavin Lund of Ilkley was one of those caught up in the horse shambles and he finished in 4th place in 43:28.  Had it not been for the horses, he might have been pushing the leaders.

Sam Wadsworth finished in 6th place in 48:38.  The delays probably did not make a great deal of difference to his race position, as he was still suffering from the effects of the Saunders last week.

31 Daniel CHEW 23:13 new PB

10 Rachel LOWTHER 23:44 new PB
11 Emma BAILEY 23:45

This is a low key out and back cross country race, in a beautiful setting and organised by John Thompson.

It is principally a race for Wharfedale members, with a few outsiders making up the numbers.  The race was won by Sam Haggar of Wharfedale in 35:35.

The three Barlickers who turned up finished as follows:

20 John Boothman 43:36
21 Dave Halliday 43:39
25 Glenn Whittaker 46:09

This took place at Lytham St Annes and Lucas Payne gave it a go.  He finished in 11th place, in a time of 1:23:48, out of 481 finishers

There was a good turnout of Barlickers at this race, including quite a few of our girls.  Andy Berry just managed to keep his nose in front of  Screw to lead the Barlickers home.  Lorraine Slater was our first lady back and first V40 overall.  Sarah Tipler suffered a bad sprain to her right ankle, but luckily the club doctor was on hand to administer an ice pack.  

Everyone finished as follows:

14 Andy Berry 58:27
15 Andy Driver 58:33
41 Stuart Bryan 1:06:17
42 John Boothman 1:06:39
43 David Halliday 1:06:49
47 Glenn Whittaker 1:08:48
54 Des Walkden 1:09:59
67 Lorraine Slater 1:10:59 (5th female & 1st FV40)
84 Rachel Lowther 1:15:29 (8th female)
88 Jean Rawlinson 1:17:25
89 Jen Hird 1:17:26
101 Leanne Dinsdale 1:23:29
102 Sarah Tipler 1:23:39 (injured)
109 Emma Bailey 1:32:04
DNF!!!! = Peter "Massive" Jackson (After only 100 yards!)

Report of the day by Stephen Chew

1 Marc Hartley 38:40
2 Jimmy Craig 39:09
3 Nick Treitl 40:30
15 Andy Berry 44:24
17 Andrew Driver 44:38
31 Sarah Tipler 47:05 (1st lady)
33 James Tingle 47:12
44 Andrew Chew 48:47
48 Chris Smedley 49:16
67 Lorraine Slater 51:54
95 Richard Starkie 55:43
99 Jennifer Hird 56:01
105 Jean Rawlinson 57:11
109 Lucy Beresford 59:02
111 Emma Bailey 59:29
112 Leanne Dinsdale 59:44

Sam Wadsworth & Kirsty Hall entered this event in the Harter Fell Class.  At the overnight stop, they were in 5th position and 2nd mixed team.  However, on the second day, they were the 2nd fastest team and made up a few places to finish in 3rd place overall and 2nd mixed team.  The winning man and daughter team of Fiona and Nigel Bunn were quite awesome and finished 1hr 20 min in front of the rest of the pack.  The leading times were:

139 teams set off on the 1st day and of those, only 106 completed the event.

Race Report by Sam Wadsworth

Another Top Ten Finish for Screw

There used to be a race associated with Addigham Gala going up Addingham Moorside, but the building of the by-pass put an end to it.  Ilkley Harriers have now put on a new race going up to the summit of Beamsley Beacon and is growing in popularity every year.  This year, two Barlickers turned out, Andrew Driver and Pete Beresford.  Pictures of both, courtesy of Woodentops are above.

The race was won by Simon Pass of Saltaire Striders in 43:41.

7 Andrew Driver 47:04
30 Pete Beresford 58:12

16 John Boothman 22:20
27 Emma Bailey 23:54
71 Jenna Boothman 30:25
79 Gary Bailey 32:40