It was ideal conditions for this race and Chris Holdsworth of Clayton made the most of it by setting a blistering pace to the summit. He continued on the descent in the same vein to comfortable win this race by over two minutes. In actual fact, he was only 20 seconds outside the record and had he been challenged more in the race, the record might have been broken. Second home was Adam Wale, also of Clayton and near the summit Ben Whitehead who was in third place started to close the gap, but on the descent Adam opened up a comfortable lead on Ben. Sam Horrocks had a good race to finish in 6th position.
In the ladies race, Louisa Powell-Smith has a goo record in the series and she once more showed her prowess by comfortably taking the women's race ahead of April Thorpe of Clayton.
The Barlickers finished as follows:
Men's Race
3 Ben Whitehead 24:06 (2nd M40)
6 Sam Horrocks 24:48 (3rd MSEN)
12 Carl Nevison 25:58 (1st M55)
22 Jack Villiers 28:30
29 Shane Muller 29:19
34 Nick Trutwein 30:41
42 Glenn Whittaker 32:49
65 Raymond Banks 38:19
Women's Race
5 Laura Craig 29:36 (2nd FSEN)
7 Jacqueliine Collins 31:00 (1st F45)
15 Emma Pease 36:07
16 Lucy Brown 36:08
23 Nicola Muller 37:43
29 Lydia Hirst 45:00