Down to Wales for Virgil this weekend.
17 Virgil Barton (58 minutes)
117 Terry Lonergan (M65) 48:32
By all accounts, it was a muddy venue and hard work for Rachel & Jack Viliers tin these races. Rachel came home in 88th place with a time of 38:17 out of a field of 360 and Jack finished 145th in a time of 13:41 out of a field of 213.
12 Laura Craig 23:41 New PB
27 Nicola Muller 28:53
48 Anne Marie Beech 32:57
60 Sara Hardacre 35:47
12 Scott Boardman 20:37
14 Emma Bailey 20:47 New PB
21 Paul Elcock 21:26
48 Hannah Newbold 23:39
56 Heather Driver 24:00
60 Richard Starkie 24:13
67 Aaron Slater 24:49
122 Susan Hird 29:09
138 Wendy Duffy 31:11 New PB
145 Lisa Pickles 32:07 New PB
18 Scott McCredie 20:48 New PB
144 Logan McCredie 28.06
221 Graham Wadsworth 32:12
A great run by Lee Parrington to have a top ten finish and by Rachel Villers who led our ladies home.
10 Lee Parrington 24:50
78 Rachel Villiers 29:29
111 Laura Craig 32:20
156 Karen Naylor 35:36
Under 15
13 Jack Villiers 11:24
It does not seem four years ago that we first joined this league and put a team out in Division Four. We gained promotion that year and in each of the subsequent years and after only four races in this season, we are already Mid Lancs Cross Country Champions. Quite an achievement which says a lot about the team spirit within the club.
But our success is not just confined to the men. After another brilliant performance today from our women left them leading division two, having taken maximum points in every race this season, and they also cannot now be beaten and they are Division Two Champions and assured of promotion to Division One next year. The strength and spirit of the ladies squad is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the ladies 'B' team is heading Division Three and the ladies V35 team are 2nd, but on equal points with the top club Wigan.
Finally, it was only last year that we started a junior section and yet our U11 boys are leading their league. However, there is more work for them to do finish top at the end of the season.
Great all round individual performances and great team spirit today. The individual finishing positions were:
Men
2 Tom Corrigan 33:16
12 Marc Hartley 34:49
14 Jimmy Craig 35:05
19 Stephen Chew 35:38
22 Nick Treitl 35:57
35 Mark Holgate 37:26
40 James Tingle 38:12
47 Lucas Payne 38:45
49 Virgil Barton 38:51
68 Lee Parrington 39:45
79 Lee Edwards 40:36
84 Dan Taylor 40:48
93 Andrew Carson 41:10
121 Scott Boardman 42:23
137 Gary Bradley 43:17
142 Derek Walkden 43:36
145 Scott McCredie 43:47
157 Paul Elcock 44:25
158 John Boothman 44:27
219 David Cockell 50:57
244 Daren Holdsworth 56:39
Women
7 Sarah Tipler 22:28
15 Lorraine Slater 23:19
21 Rachel Villiers 24:05
26 Emma Bailey 24:31
29 Leanne Dinsdale 24:59
36 Laura Craig 25:31
45 Karen Brindle 26:23
63 Paula Clark 27:37
74 Hannah Newbold 28:49
98 Nicola Muller 30:55
111 Sally Scothem 32:09
U20 Women
3 Hannah Newbold 28:49
U13 Boys
12 Jack Villiers 11:12
43 Aaron Slater 13:00
52 Connor Fitzpatrick 13:40
56 Oliver Whipp 14:23
U13 Girls
25 Emily Shuttleworth 11:12
39 Jenna Boothman 11:58
U11 Boys
27 Harley Treitl 8:13
34 Jack Latham 8:21
45 Arran Byrne 8:43
47 Logan McCredie 8:43
57 George Fitzpatrick 9:12
72 Alex Byrne 10:59
U11 Girls
30 Lucille Pickles 8:59
61 Chloe Boothman 9:53
63 Maddison Parrington 9:58
64 Annabelle Hoyle 10:01
71 Evie Scott 10:30
Great to see one of our juniors already out racing this year. Maddison Parrington went up to Kendal for this opening race of the new Winter League season. In the U13 girls race, she came home in 31st position with a time of 10:18.
It was pretty mild up at Kielder and made for perfect race conditions. David Poole went up on Saturday and camped over with race winner David Murphy and new member Michael Harluow.
5 David Poole2:18:30
22 Michael Harulow 2:42:23
111 took part.
17 Andrew Carson 18:31
18 Scott Boardman 18:39
20 Annabel Ralph 18:43 (1st Woman)
25 Scott McCredie 19:41
28 Emma Bailey 20:13 (3rd Woman, 1st FV40)
42 Terry Lonnergan 23:48 (1st MV65)
9 James Tingle 36:39
22 Lucas Payne 38:21
269 Victoria Holgate 53:33
15 Paul Elcock 21:10
61 David Cockell 24:50
149 Susan Hird 29:38
170 Anne Marie Beech 31:37
A New Year and a new start for Chewy who decided three months ago that this would be his first race back. He knew that it would be a fast and furious race, having done it five years ago. It was quite boggy up to the giants tooth summit. On the approach to the summit, there was a leading group of six, led by Joe Crossfield, who had pulled away from the rest of the pack. Ali Burns from Valley Striders made a decisive break on the descent, taking the lead which he held until the finish. There was only about 40 seconds separating the top 5 which made it a good competitive outing.
This was Shaun & Stephen Chew's first outing since the Calderdale Way relay last May and Stephen is happy being up there again. Shaun had a good run to finish 8th and Nick Kendall also had a good run to finish 27th.
Thanks must go to Ian Lewis and Caren Crabtree for putting on a well organised race.
1 Ali Burns 18:02
4 Stephen Chew 18:31
8 Shaun Chew 19:27
27 Nick Kendall 21:10
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.