Saltburn was the latest trail marathon for Cloey Mason. It is 29 miles / 4,250ft and the 4th race in the series of 7 Hardmoors races along the coast of Saltburn-by-Sea, before heading inland and climbing up to Highcliffe Nab and across the moors. Cloey was 5th lady and 24th overall on what was another very hot day.
This race took place from Hutton-le-Hole and was 29 miles with around 4500ft of ascent. Cloey Mason was 35th overall and 5th lady.
15 Sean Fitzpatrick 23:32
These are the finishing times for the Barlickers taking part in the above series of races.
Andy Berry 17:55
Barrie Charnley 18:37
David Pease 19:10
Molly Ralphson 19:16
Laura Craig 20:13
Andrew Smith 20:37
Lucy Brown 21:45
Gemma Carson 24:04
What a perfect day for a fell race. There was a shower of rain in the morning but by the start of the race, it was a bright cloudy day, with a slight breeze – ideal running conditions. The race starts with a long climb. Coming up the hill out of Worsthorne, there was nothing to chose between Jimmy Craig, Gary Shaw and Stephen Hall. After the first initial climb, there is a slight downhill section before anther climb to the race summit. As the runners disappeared from view, the race opened up and it rapidly became a two horse race between Jimmy Craig and Gary Shaw. The race has a sting in its tail in that after passing the second reservoir, there is another climb before the final descent back to Worsthorne. As the two leading runners approached this last ascent, Gary Shaw made a challenge on Jimmy. To those watching, it was fascinating. There was a vet runner was taking the lead from a “young Turk”. The fact that he was able to do so says a lot about the fitness of Gary Shaw. One assumes that at this point, he was trying to break Jimmy and build up an unassailable lead. But Jimmy did not allow this to happen and settled in behind him and kept up with him. As they approached the top of this climb Gary was leading, but Jimmy Craig was on his tail and it left everyone wondering who would come out tops on the run in. As it turned out, Jimmy just had the edge and he passed Gary on the downhill run and with a bit of a sprint at the finish, he made it home with an eleven second gap. However this was a race and a half and it says much that Gary could push Jimmy so close. This was racing at its best.
Further down the field, Barlick had two runners in the top ten, with Ian Beresford finishing 5th and Andy Berry finishing 9th. Afterwards Ian admitted that he owed his position very much to being pushed by Andy during race.
In the ladies’ race, Jackie Collins led the Barlickers home in 5th place with Molly Ralphson close on her tail. Laura Craig has an excellent run to finish 8th overall and third Barlick lady.
After such a long break, it is good to see Park Runs starting again in this Country. Just one Barlicker out this weekend in the Skipton.
11 Lucas Payne 20:31
Wow - what a run from Lorraine Slater. She has certainly not spent the past 12 months of lockdowns sitting by the fire. This is a tough ultra race over forty five miles. Lorraine finished 6th overall, not just 6th in the ladies race, out of a total of 93 runners. Not only that, but she was just 3 seconds from coming home in 5th place. With a performance like that she naturally set a new course record. Over the years, we have got used to seeing some great performances from Lorraine and this has been another one to add to that long list.
Further down the field, John Boothman and Mark Storey both had a top twenty finish. Cloey Mason finished 4th lady.
In the shorter 30 mile race, Tim Pigott took the honours coming home in first place.
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.