Russell Parrington is targeting the Dublin Marathon at the end of October and as part of his build up to it, he has done the English Half Marathon.  Russell ran a great time of 1:15:47 in this race, finishing 6th and just edging out Nick Leigh of Horwich who is a top performer on the road.  The race winner was Daniel Cliffe of Liverpool Harriers in 1:07:44.  Looking good for a big pb at the Dublin Marathon.

 Take a short(ish) journey to Lancaster next year and you’ll enjoy 6 miles of flat, fast competition in this well organised event, which can be entered on the day.  But beware of the “sting in the tail”.  To enable you to finish running through the portcullis of Lancaster Castle, the last 0.2 miles involve an unwelcome uphill grind.

Just one Barlick rep, in this race won by Dan Balshaw (C Le M) in 35.27. 173, took part receiving medal, tech t-shirt etc for his efforts.

44  TERRY LONERGAN   2ND M65     47.56

Yet even more success for Barlick Fell Runners this weekend.  Gary Shaw won this race quite comfortably with and Andrew Chew finishing third.

1 Gary Shaw 35:20
3 Andrew Chew 37:33

What a weekend for Jimmy Craig.  Yesterday, he ran the fastest leg for Barlick in the Road Relays and today, instead of putting his feet up, he took part in this race.

Ted Mason was there and both Jimmy and Ted have their eyes on the 2015 BOFRA championship title.  If Ted had won today, the championship race would have been over.  The only way to keep the title race alive was for Jimmy to get a win.

Jimmy found it tough after yesterday.  He set off in front, but half way up the hill, Ted passed him and was slowly pulling away.  When Jimmy got to the summit, he felt like he could not move his legs, but he dug deep and managed to get them moving again and pushed hard.  He caught Ted on the descent, passed him and pulled away, but it was a hard and close race.

It is now down the the last race at Wasdale Head to decide who wins the title. 

In the ladies race, Angela Donlan finished 2nd lady and 1st LV40 and in the junior races, we had three girls.

1 Jimmy Craig 18:53
34 John Boothman 25:40
38 Angela Donlan 26:22 2nd Lady, 1st LV40
48 Craig Child 27:34

U12 Girls

11 Jenna Boothman 11:4

U9 Girls

19 Clover Edwards 6:29
21 Chloe Boothman 6:44

The Barlick lads took to the roads again in the northern 6 stage following on from the 5th place in the North west 4 stage relays and the silver Lancashire medal.  The six quickest after Matt Lalor were picked because he was on holiday.  Jimmy Craig was 2nd quickest last week but was quickest Barlicker on the day and came home 19th after the fast and furious first leg.  He was only 50 seconds behind the leg winner just to show you how stacked the field was.  Next up was Chris Singleton who pulled a few places back and brought the team home in 16th.  Gary Shaw also had a quality run and consolidated the 16th position.  Marc Hartley then took up the baton and pulled 3 places back and the team were sniffing a top 10 finish.  Tom Corrigan pulled another place back to get the team up to 12th.  Ian Livesey then ran hard and pulled another spot back to bring the team home in 11th overall.  This week the lads were first Lancashire team beating lLncs champs Preston and Blackburn.   A cracking performance which bodes well for the 12 stage, with the quality the club now possess'.  

The winner of this race was Danny Hope and hot on his tail in second place was the ever improving Luke Maude.  Richard Lowther and Nic Kendal allso took part. The following appear to be the times and positions of the Barlickers.

2 Luke Maude 1:08:29
26 Richard Lowther 1:21:11
43 Nic Kendall 1:40:26

1 Lucas PAYNE 18:12
78 Kathryn PAYNE 28:40
92 Susan HIRD 29:47
116 Graham WADSWORTH 31:54
131 Julie BRYAN 33:19
138 Patricia WADSWORTH 36:04 New PB

48 Craig CHILD 22:38 New PB

Peter Wilkinson was our sole representative at Garstang and finished 88th in a time of 1hr 53.  It's a tough hilly course, but Peter managed to snaffle the V60 category as well as the V65 category.

The absence of Ben Mounsey left the Yorkshireman Half Marathon wide open this year. At the head of the race, there was a group of 5, including Julian Hood, pushing on up Lee Lane.  This number whittled down to 3 along the conduit and up onto the tops towards the old Withins pub. Julian and the eventual winner, Joe Baxter pushed on until mile 10, when Joe slowly pulled away and established a good lead by the end to take first place with Julian coming home 2nd.

Further down the field were Rob Hodgkinson and Lucy Beresford. Rob finished in 32nd place with a time of 2:05:04 and Lucy was 132nd with a time of 2:36:57.  There were around 300 in the race.

Pete Beresford ran in the full marathon which he completed in 4:42:45.