146 Andy Berry 3:38:41
78 Sara Hardacre 27:03
A trail marathon with over 7,000 ft of climb. That was the latest challenge for Cloey Mason. She finished in 67th position and 12th female in a time of 4:29:28. There were 297 starters.
We had no team selected for these relays, but Sam Boardman stepped up to the mark at the last minute, put a team together which qualified for the finals in Birmingham. Well done to Sam and to everyone who turned out and put in such good performances. Sam has put together a report of the day.
It was good to see a record number of Barlickers taking part in this race and it was good to see Jimmy Craig back racing. He is not yet back to his old self, but he was up there, coming home in 6th place. We had quite a few women out and they all put in some great performances. Leanne Dinsdale was back out racing and although she was nursing an injury and ostensibly going steady, she still led the girls home, finishing 6th female. The conditions were not the best for this race, as in view of the recent inclement weather, there was quite a bit of mud about which made the climbs even more energy sapping.
6 Jimmy Craig 17:01
17 Andy Berry 18:54
53 Zac Kaye 21:07
67 John Boothman 22:07
72 Leanne Dinsdale 22:31 (6th female)
93 Victoria Peel 23:41
106 Hannah Newbold 24:29
112 Jenna Boothman 24:51 (GU15)
128 Eleanor Moore 26:42
135 Eve Boothman 27:22
163 Anne Marie Beech 30:34
Only one Barlicker out in this race and he was the one man you could have forgiven for not running this week after his 55 mile run last week in arctic conditions. Considering the state of his legs after last week he had a pretty reasonable run finishing in 47 position.
47 John Boothman 2:40:41
2 Andy Berry 19:37 New PB
7 Alex Mason 21:13 New PB
12 Scott McCredie 21:44
16 James Austin 22:31
17 Rachel Villiers 22:31
28 Lucille Pickles 24:39 New PB
32 Garth Duffy 25:09
33 Tony Duffy 25:27 New PB
39 Ciara Duffy 26:25 New PB
44 Nicola Muller 27:05
62 Anne Marie Beech 30:17
81 Susan Hird 28:10
132 Amanda Tarn 32:26
This was a race put on by Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team and it attracted a few of our Wednesday pub runners. The race was won by Sam Watson of Wharfedale. The Barlickers finished as follows:
3 Andy Collins 50:22
15 Andy Berry 51:28
22 James Austin 54:24
38 Zac Kaye 57:30
61 Paul Elcock 60:43
68 Victoria Peel 61:32
84 Jacqueline Collins 67:14
174 starters
This event was held at Dalby forest and was the North Yorkshire Schools Cross Country finals. This was the culmination of several rounds covering all North Yorkshire Schools.
Jacob Reeday ran in year 6 boys and had a storming run. He was well clear coming out of the woods, finished way ahead of the rest of the field and winning in amazing style. What a way to win a final.
Lucille Pickles and Chloe Boothman ran in the year 6 girls. Lucille had a great run and was 4th coming out of the woods, but she got pipped by a couple of other runners and finished 6th. Chloe had a really strong run, finishing somewhere mid field.
This is an incredibly hard challenge, but even more so in the conditions which prevailed on the day. Read all about it from the account of the day by John Boothman, from the link below.
Our two intrepid runners John "three races a day" Boothman and Lucas "ironman" Payne decided together to take on this challenge which is a 55 mile race, including 6,561 ft of ascent. John was determined not to go off too fast but, as can easily happen in a race, he got swept along with the crowd and completed the first nine miles to CP1 at an average pace of 5.81 mph. This was much faster than his target pace of 5 mph. Lucas went off even faster, finishing the first leg at over 6 mph. By CP2, there was a 12 minute gap between our runners and this is very much how it was throughout the rest of the race. Sometimes, John would close the gap and then Lucas would extend it again. On the tops, all the runners were exposed to prolonged periods of extreme weather. The wind would bring you to a standstill and your supply of water completely froze up. The last big climb was Roseberry Topping, by which time, the gap was down to eight minutes, but John's water had frozen up again and he entered a real bad spell. He forced some food down and drove himself on finishing quite strongly. In the meantime Lucas pushed on finishing in 11h 14 m 54 seconds a full 22 minutes ahead of John. Given that they were up against specialist runners and the conditions on the tops were horrendous, this was a remarkable performance from both of them.
27 Lucas Payne 11:14:54 (31st overall)
34 John Boothman 11:37:39 (40th overall)
343 started. 164 finished. 179 retired.
106 Maddison Parrington 29:31
1 John Whiteside 18:52
3 Andy Berry 20:01
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.