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 last race of the year attracted some top runners and it was won by Chris Farrell of Horwich RMI in a time of 41:37.
15 Luke Maude 46:28
16 Julian Hood 46:38
153 John Boothman 59:25
167 Paul Elcock 60:30
318 Karen Naylor 69:52
395 Richard Treitl 81:54
9 Scott Boardman 20:09
15 Emma Bailey 21:06
79 George Fitzpatrick 26:30
85 Hannah Newbold 26:38
146 Sharon Newbold 31:21
230 Graham Wadsworth 32:27
This race was won by Great Britain International Jonny Brownlee, with Tom Adams of Ilkley not all that far behind in 2nd place. Our sole representative was Julian Hood who finished 9th in this quality field.
9 Julian Hood 52:55
Tom Adams of Ilkley likes these races round Haworth and once more, he took the honours running out an easy winner in a time of 30:14.
David Poole finished in 13th position in what was a quality field.
13 David Poole 36:02
Junior Results
U8
9 George Fitzpatrick 3:19
11 Lucille Pickles 3:25 (4th girl)
20 Chloe Boothman 3:46 (7th girl)
41 Summer Fitzpatrick 4:36 (18th girl)
U10
28 Edie May Poole 10:01 (7th girl)
U12
20 Connor Fitzpatrick 8:28
23 Jenna Boothman 8:50 (9th girl)
The news is that the Barlick ladies power on, finishing in 6th position overall and once more first ladies team in this event.. In doing so, they finished only 11 seconds behind the men's team , with the Barlick Vet's team leading the Barlick teams home in 4th place overall.
1 Bingley 3:30:39
2 Keighley 3:46:14
3 Wharfedale 4:00:09
4 Barlick Vets 4:05:15
5 Bingley B 4:07:17
6 Barlick A 4:11:18
7 Barlick Ladies 4:11:29
8 Keighley B 4:14:06
9 Wharfedale Ladies 4:18:28
10Wharfedale 4:21:30
11 Bingley Ladies 4:25:34
12 Skipton Mixed 4:26:54
13 Keighley Ladies 4:27:10
14 Unknown (Team 38) 4:27:19
15 Bingley 4:27:27
16 Keighley 4:36:23
17 Bingley Ladies 4:41:20
18 Pudsey Pacers 4:42:24
19 Pudsey Pacers 5:01:05
20 Keighley Mixed 5:03:30
21Pudsey Pacers 5:04:38
22 Pudsey Pacers 5:07:32
23 Keighley 5:08:50
24 Keighley 5:09:58
25 Keighley 5:14:32
26 Unknown (Team 57) 5:14:48
27 Keighley 5:15;38
10 Jack Villiers 23:35 New PB
2 Lucas Payne 19:01
20 Danny Butterworth 22:34 New PB
86 Nicola Muller 27:40
103 Susan Hird 29:56
3 Charles Morgan 17:59
194 Graham Wadsworth 31:44
This race was won by Ian Mills of Pennine in 41:30. Chris Smale was the only Barlicker to turn out for it, but he managed a top ten finish and first V50.
6 Chris Smale 44:49 (1st V50)
Richard Treitl did this 5 miles / 1001ft ascent race couple of years ago. He was 28 seconds slower this year. It was nothing to do with Richard's declining years, but was down to the significantly larger field holding him back at the start.
The race was won by Chris Donnelly of Sale Harriers in 37:18. Richard finished 170th out of 208 in 1:01:36.
Three Barlickers took to the roads this weekend in this race. All ran well and came away with 10 mile pbs. The race was won by Robert Affleck of Preston Harriers in 54.11. Lee Parrington was 1st Barlicker back in 56.13. Mark Holgate also had a good run and looks like he had a battle finishing 17th in 61.11, with James Tingle 20th and not too far behind in 61.37.
1 Rob Affleck(Preston)54.11
4 Lee Parrington 56.13
17 Mark Holgate 61.11
20 James Tingle 61.37
The Villiers family seem to be getting a taste for cross country running and were out this weekend at this event. Young Jack was 11th out of 41 in the U13 boys race whilst mum (Rachel) was a top twenty finisher in the senior ladies race.
U13 Boys
11 Jack Villiers 9:42
Senior Ladies
19 Rachel Villiers 23:17
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.