Sam Tosh won this championship race and was followed home by Simon Bailey. Luke Maude (25th) led home the Barlickers.
25 Luke Maude 2.16.58
56 David Poole 2.29.37
81 Virgil Barton 2.36.44
133 Andy Berry 2.47.38
168 John Boothman 2.57.14
224 Pete Beresford 3.08.42
267 Pete Jackson 3.19.26
287 Dave Halliday 3.27.33
311 Glen Whitaker 3.35.07
343 Rachel Lowther 3.54.36
344 Leanne Dinsdale 3.54.37
378 finished and 11 retired
4 Charles Morgan 17:40 New PB
5 Daniel Mills 17:43 New PB
8 Andrew Chew 18:02 New PB
71 Daniel Chew 23:00
221 Graham Wadsworth 29:33 New PB
103 Susan Hird 30:12
118 Gary Bailey 32:48
A few of our juniors are taking part in this competition. The qualifying was a couple of weeks ago and those who did qualify went forward to the semis today at Giggleswick. Jacob Reeday representing Cracoe school won the year 5 boys race. Lucille Pickles finished 3rd and Chloe Boothman 6th in the year 4 girls.(Thornton in Craven). All three now go forward to the whole of Yorkshire finals at Whitby in March. Jayden Whitelock finished 12th in the year 6 boy's race, a good run in a hard fought race.
32 Paul Elcock 20:57
This race was part of the Great Run series in Glasgow with Scotland's premier mass run. Conditions at the start were cold ( 6 deg C) and foggy. The fog lifted for the start at 11.35 and with the sun shining, conditions were perfect, reaching 14 deg. The special Scottish atmosphere can not be mirrored anywhere else, with Pipers at every mile marker. It was televised on BBC 2. Paul Elcock was there soaking up the unique atmosphere and he came home in 949th position.
949 Paul Elcock 1:34:39
Sometimes in relays you have to say that it was just not our year and that applied to this race. Nick Treitl & Ian Beresford ran the first leg and were up in contention behind the leading teams and on the ascent, Ian was leading. As the terrain levelled out, Nick took up the running. It was a bright sunny day and the sun was getting in your eyes and there was a tendency therefore to put your head down and press on. Nick was doing this and was following the team in front. Sadly, that team took a wrong turning and Nick followed them. Ian was a little way back and could see what was happening and he shouted out to Nick to turn back. Unfortunately, Nick could not hear him. By the time this first pair sorted themselves out, they were down to 27th position at the handover, whereas Wharfedale, who they had been chasing, handed over in 5th.
From that point, we knew that we had a battle on our hands, but our second pair of Luke Maude and Julian Hood did a sterling job and pulled back 14 places and handed over in 13th position at the Kirkstone Inn. Andy Berry and Chris Smale were the next leg runners and ascending Red Screes, they were gaining on the Dark Peak Vets. However, they could not keep that pace up and over the leg, they slipped back and lost 6 of those hard won places gained by Luke and Julian.
The last leg runners were Tom Corrigan and Jimmy Craig. Both had been suffering from stomach upsets and could easily have pulled out, but to their credit, they turned out on the day, so as not to let the side down. They would have normally been expected to pull back a few places, but they were too drained to do that, although they did keep hold of their hand over position and the team finished in 20th place, which is our worse performance in this race since the club was founded. As we said, it was just not our year.
At the front of the field, a great battle took place between Dark Peak Borrowdale, Keswick and Calder Valley. Borrowdale have won this race for the past nineteen years, but this year, they were knocked off their perch by Dark Peak who came home a comfortable five minutes in front of them and may have set a new course record in the process. The Dark Peak vets came home in 10th place overall, but were first vets team and the Dark Peak ladies finished in 32nd place and were the first ladies team. Quite a performance on the day from that formidable club.
Full leg times and splits are in the results section.
Ian Livesey managed to secure an elite entry to this race and he was rewarded by being the first Brit and finishing 5th overall in a time of 2:35:39.
A great performance from Ian.
6 Ian Cocks 19:36
195 Graham Wadsworth 30:16 New PB
4 Scott Boardman 20:03
43 Danny Butterworth 23:51 New PB
108 Susan Hird 30:23
152 Charlotte Porter 35:31
153 Clover Edwards 35:31
This is a nice little fell race set in the Howgills and Carl Pawson was rewarded by a top ten finish for his trip up there.
8 Carl Pawson 46:59
The Barlick 6 man team made the short trip to sport city in Manchester hoping to improve on last year's 11th place. Tom Corrigan was running on leg 1 and put in a cracking performance bringing the team home in 31st out of 110. It was then Jimmy Craig on leg 2 and as always he put in his usual charge on leg 2 taking back 12 places and bringing the team up to 19th. Leg 3 was the turn of Gary Shaw who took another 2 places and the team were on their usual charge and in 17th. Leg 4 saw Matt Lalor take another 2 places and the boys were 15th. It was turning out to be a big battle with Blackburn Harriers and it was up to Ian Livesey to hold off Blackburn's main man, Ben Fish. Livers responded to the challenge and ran the fastest Barlick leg of the day. The team were now 13th and were in touching distance of a top 10 spot. Luke Maude then ran hard, pulling two places back quickly, but Blackburn held on for 10th with the lads equalling last years 11th place. The standard of competition was however quite a bit higher this year. It was a cracking performance from the lads. The Nationals now await them at Sutton in two weeks time.
The leg positions and leg times were:
31 Tom Corrigan 17.38
19 Jimmy Craig 17.31
17 Gary Shaw 17.49
15 Matt Lalor 17.44
13 Ian Livesey 17.15
11 Luke Maude 18.19
Our girls seem to be showing the way at the moment. First woman in this race was Lorraine Slater. She is a tough cookie in any race, but definitely one to contend with on the fells.
32 Lorraine Slater 42:53 (1st woman, 1st FV45)
89 Richard Treitl 57:43
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.