This was the first marathon for Ben Whitehead. His approach was to take it steady right from the start and to try and maintain that pace throughout the race. His plan worked to perfection with his pace in the second half of the race almost matching that of the first. His feelings on finishing was that he found it easy and much easier than doing the full Three Peaks! He would now like to have another go, but next time to target a time below 2:30. Ben used his run to raise money for prostate cancer.
1719 Ben Whitehead 2:52:10
6201 Emma Law 3:19:08
Jimmy Craig suffered an injury leading up to this race, but some good physio treatment saw him not only make the start line, but to finish in 5th place. It was a good result, although Jimmy was disappointed that he just failed to finish under 2hrs 30m.
5 James Craig 2:30:50
Main Event
159 John Mason 4:20:58
449 John Boothman 5:09:59
DNF Raymond Banks
Relay Race
10 Barlick Men 3:57:19
Andrew Collins, Andrew Berry, Derek Walkden, Andrew Smith, Shane Muller, Benjamin Hoyle
36 Barlick Women 4:47:38
Laura Craig, Jacqueline Collins, Lisa Gee, Nic McNamara, Lucy Brown, Paula Cullen
10 Lucas Payne 20:30
85 Kathryn Payne 27:51
283 Richard Shilton 29:45
9 Robert Cranham 23:05
47 Lucy Brown 23:19
100 Emma Pease 25:59
276 Richard Shilton 29:53
96 Lucy Brown 22:45
14 Barlick Bunnies - 36:21
Dave Poole 11:22
Theo Mirfield 14:19
Dave Mirfield 10:40
55 Andrew Smith 20:36 (1st M60)
4 Jimmy Craig 16:17 (3rd MSEN)
5 Craig Shearer 16:18
70 Andrew Smith 21:35 (1st M60)
64 Paula Cullen 1:10:39
18 Lucas Payne 20:56
65 Dave Halliday 24:58
6 Robert Cranham 22:43
211 Richard Shilton 29:22
John Boothman very much into ultra events, but this was a new one for him. It follows the old Wainwright route from St Bedes on the West Coast to Robin Hoods Bay on the East Coast and takes in the National Parks of the Lake District, The Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. It is 300 km in length or 186 miles in old money. John started this race in his usual way, which is steady away and he quickly settled down into about 40th position. However, John's style is to keep going at a pretty consistent rate and this he did so and he started gradually moving up through the field. The race started on Saturday morning and 24 hours later, John had left the Lake District behind him, having ascended peaks which are races in themselves, such as Fairfield and found himself in Kirkby Stephen in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. By Sunday evening, he had left another National Park behind him and had arrived at the CP in Richmond in 28th position overall and 24th male. He had planned to get some sleep there, but as it turned out, it was too cold to sleep, so he wasted quite a bit of time there to no benefit. However, by Monday morning he had reached his third National Park and he continued to keep picking up places to the so by the check point at the Lion Inn, he was 24th overall and 21st male. At the next check point at Glaisdale, John took some time out as he had some muscle fatigue and his feet were sore and needed a wash. When he resumed racing again, he was like a new man and he had a very strong last two legs to finish 20th male and 23rd overall. He was naturally the first V60, in fact, he finished with a 17 hour lead of the 2nd V60 and 21 hours over the 3rd. The reality was that John's age related performance was quite outstanding, having left his peers in the dust behind him and he was mixing it with much younger men, in fact the two finishers in front of John were not even in the Vet category.
This was the first time that John had taken part in this race and with the benefit of hindsight, he felt that he could have managed it better. But that merely shows the competitive nature of the man. In actual fact, his performance, particularly for his age was brilliant and overall, he was happy with how he had done.
23 John Boothman 63:05:08 (1st M60, 20th Male.
186 starters.
49 DNF
27 Robert Cranham 38:58
39 Nick Trutwein 40:47
16 Dan Taylor 1:3:31
Men's Race
31 Jack Villiers 38:48
33 Andy Berry 38:55
42 Mark Horrocks 39:32 (1st M60)
63 Andrew Smith 42:51 (3rd M60)
102 Nick Trutwein 47:27
176 Raymond Banks 57:37
Ladies Race
4 Victoria Peel 40:24 (1st FSEN)
9 Lucy Horrocks 43:29
8 Lucas Payne 21:54
87 Robert Cranham 45:26
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.