16 Helen Harrison 22:52
21 Lucy Brown 23:41 PB
50 Emma Pease 28:10
88 Anne Marie Beech 33:08
132 John Wadsworth 26:07
382 Graham Wadsworth 41:46
50 Sean Fitzpatrick 24:40
90 Stephen Jackson 27:44
5 Jethro Whitfield 45:10 (2nd M40)
6 Sam Horrocks 45:11 (3rd MSEN)
8 Andy Berry 45:43 (2nd M45)
10 David Poole 46:10 (3rd M40)
21 Carl Nevison 48:21 (1st M55)
29 Mark Horrocks 49:57 (1st M60)
35 Andrew Smith 50:38 (2nd M60)
101 Raymond Banks 1:03:44 (2nd M70)
DNF Paula Cullen
9 Robert Cranham 28:25
19 Glenn Whittaker 34:56
30 James Wadsworth 23:54 PB
40 John Wadsworth 24:34 PB
101 Mark Wadsworth 28:54
157 Barbara Wadsworth 36:15
16 Robert Cranham 25:33
200 Richard Shilton 29:15
16 Andy Berry 51:53 (2nd M45)
50 Andrew Smith 58:22 (1st M60)
7 Andy Berry 50:48 (2nd M45
12 Ian Cocks 53:24 (3rd M40)
18 Robert Cranham 54:20
78 Raymond Banks 1:11:03 (2nd M70)
Ladies Race
3 Lucy Brown 1:02:49 (2nd W40)
40 Lisa Gee 1:24:23
71 Anthony Brown 24:58
83 Lucas Payne 25:54
185 Richard Shilton 29:42
11 Robert Cranham 23:51
12 Lucy Brown 23:55 PB
15 John Boothman 24:39
38 Emma Pease 29:38
Craig Shearer set off on this race like he meant business, taking an early lead. He maintained this lead up the hill out of Silsden and right up the Nab on to the moor top. He was going well and looked like he was going to completely boss this race. But, being out in front means that you have to know where you are going and on the moor top, he went astray. To get back on track meant climbing a gate covered in barbed wire and once back on course, he found that he had lost his leading position. At this point, he was very annoyed with himself for throwing away a lead which he had worked so hard to achieve. Everyone is different in how they deal with such a situation. Some people just give up thinking that they have thrown away the race. Craig could have been forgiven for taking such an approach as the race leader was now Andrew Cairns of Wharfedale and he is no slouch when it comes to fell running. But Craig turned the anger with himself to his advantage. He was so furious that he put that fury to work and chased Andrew down and once more took the lead, so that by the time they came to descend the Nab, he had built up a lead of several seconds. One tends to think of Craig as a bit of a speed merchant on a good surface, but not particularly fast on descent on the fells, but he came down the Nab so quickly that he could have given Ted Mason a run for his money. When he reached the lane at the bottom of the Nab, he had built up a lead of ten seconds. But from then on, the surface suited Craig and in the end, he ran out a comfortable winner, by almost a minute. It was nice to see Craig take the honours, but he had to work really hard for it.
Next home for Barlick was Julian Hood, who finished in 6th place and first M40. He seemed to have had a good race, although he, himself was a little bit disappointed with it. He was shortly followed by Jethro Whitfield in eighth place who was reasonably satisfied with how he had performed.
1 Craig Shearer 43:01
6 Julian Hood 46:18 (1st M40)
8 Jethro Whitfield 47:27 (2nd M40)
24 Robert Cranham 52:01
54 John Boothman 1:02:33 (2nd M60)
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.