In the men's A team, there were some great performances, especially from runners who were not fully fit, but turned out on the day to represent their club. However, despite what was a great team effort, events on the day conspired against us and once more we were runners up to Calder Valley.
The B team also put in a cracking team effort and by Blackshaw Head were in 9th position, but they slipped later in the race and finished 13th. The early details and finishing times are as follows:
1 Calder Valley 5:56:55
2 Barlick Fell Runners 6:04:34
3 Wharfedale Harriers 6:10:30
13 Barlick "B" Team 6:58:44
27 Barlick "C" Team 7:32:23
54 Barlick Ladies 8:20:39 (5th Ladies Team)
Further details follow.
This is a 10.5 mile race with 3002 ft of ascent
237 Richard Treitl 2:37:07
267 finishers
58 Vicky Holgate 25:28 New PB
329 Graham Wadsworth 32:46
30 Lucille Pickles 26:24 NEW PB
47 Anne Marie Beech 28:32 NEW PB
48 Heather Mitchell 28:50
71 Lisa Pickles 33:21
72 Wendy Duffy 33:28
U9
6 George Fitzpatrick 3:19
8 Garth Duffy 3:21
9 Chloe Boothman 3:22 (5th girl)
15 Daniel Wood 3:28 (
17 Isaac Reeday 3:30
21 Evie Scott 3:34 (8th girl)
24 Summer Fitzpatrick 3:37 (9th girl)
28 Holly Milligan 3:42 (10th girl)
U11
12 Lucille Pickles 4:14 (2nd girl)
33 Max Villiers 4:34
U15
2 Jack Villiers 16:06
4 Aaron Slater 20:07
21 Nicolas Kendall 30:21
40 Andrew Smith 32:48
66 Hannah Watson 36:14 (5th lady)
101 finishers
13 Paul Elcock 20:50 New PB
94 Susan Hird 27:56
30 Lucille Pickles 26:24 New PB
47 Ann Marie Beech 28:32
48 Heather Mitchell 28:50
71 Lisa Pickles 33:21
72 Wendy Duffy 33:28
329 Graham Wadsworth 32:46
There was a good turnout of Barlickers for this race which saw Danny Collinge return to form, take the lead and hold it to the end. However, he was chased all the way by a train of Barlickers, Julian Hood, John Whiteside and David Mirfield, who were all competing fiercely with each other. Such strong competition amongst those team mates closed out the opposition and Barlick came away with the men's team prize. Andrew Chew also had a particularly good run to finish in 7th position, as did Andrew Carson who came home 12th.
Just as Danny Collinge dominated the men's race, Rachel Villiers dominated the ladies' race. She took an early lead, kept her concentration and came home as 1st woman and 1st WV35. It was good to see Jen Hird back racing and she has lost nothing in her time away as she demonstrated by coming home in 2nd place and 2nd WV35. This set the scene for a possible ladies team prize, but where would our third counter be? Fresh from her successes in the Three Peaks race and a couple of triathlons, Heather Driver, looking very determined, came through to make the third counter for Barlick and the ladies too, took the team prize.
Junior Club Fell Championships
These championships came to a halt during the covid epidemic, but now we have a new junior coach, we are hoping to revive them once numbers allow.
2020
2019 Tables
Junior Fell Championship Table
2018 Tables
Junior Fell Championship Table
2017 Tables
Junior Fell Championship Table
2017 Races
This was a bit of a different slant on fell running, with only uphill running.
10 Dan Mills 21:22
These races were unusual in that they were uphill only. Jack Reeday demonstrated how good he is at ascending by coming home in second place behind Rowan Ashworth of Ambleside in the U11 race, where there were 66 finishers.
U9
15 Daniel Hood 5:27
19 Isaac Reeday 5:31
U11
2 Jacob Reeday 6:15
U15
26 Jack Villiers 13:55
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.