The winning team this year was Dark Peak, followed by Edinburgh University and Keswick.  The winning ladies team was not unsurprisingly Ribble Valley..  The winning time was 4:10:21.  The Barlick teams finished as follows:

25 Barlick A 4:54:43   Nick Treitl / David Poole, John Whiteside / Ian Beresford , Andy Berry / Dan Mills
66 Barlick Vets 5:37:49   Virgil Barton / Chris Smale, Lucas Payne / Gary Bradey, John Boothman / Carl Pawson
111 Barlick Ladies 6:18:08   Sarah Bell / Leanne Dinsdale, Jacqueline Collins / Jennifer Hird, Victoria Peel / Lorraine Slater (14th Open Female Team)

What a finish in the U11 boys race.  It was neck and neck as Jacob Reeday and Sammy Pickerill of Southport raced towards the line, with Sammy just edging it by a fraction of a second.  But what tremendous spirit showed by Jacob.  That is what racing is all about.

U11 Girls
8 Lucille Pickles 7:13
21 Maddison Parrington 7:33
28 Chloe Boothman 7:44
32 Evie Scott 7:49
38 Annabelle Hoyle 7:55

6th Team

U11 Boys
2 Jacob Reeday 5:39
11 Harley Treitl 6:30
24 Logan McCredie 6:46
36 Garth Duffy 7:05
42 Taylor Edwards 7:15

3rd Team

U13 Girls
26 Emily Shuttleworth 15:14
30 Jenna Boothman 15:41
47 Cirara Duffy 17:03

10th Team

U13 Boys
18 Elliott Phillips 15:13

U15 Girls
26 Harriet Woodhead 19:02

U15 Boys
13 Jack Villiers 14:41

The new season got underway at Cuerdon, with the men looking to defend their championship status and the women, newly promoted to the first division, looking to make their mark at the top level.  The ladies were off first with somewhat of a depleted team in that several runners were missing because of the FRA relays the following day.  However, it shows what strength we have in depth, as the girls who turned out, put on a brilliant show to enable the team to finish second in the division.  For her first outing for Barlick in the cross country team, Sarah Jarvis made her mark, leading the Barlickers home and finishing 5th overall.  Because all of our leading runners were in the V35 category, we finished first team in that category.

5 Sarah Jarvis 22:47
11 Rachel Villiers 23:40
20 Paula Clark 25:42
26 Laura Craig 26:20
64 Cloey Mason 29:58
85 Lisa Fitzpatrick 32:09
88 Katie Towers 32:47
97 Marie Beech 34:07
134 Sharon Newbold 40:07

It was the same with the men.  The team was depleted because of the FRA relays.  Again what strength in depth do we have as those who turned out put on a tremendous show to bring the team home in second place against a very strong Preston team.  Marc Hartley led the team home, with Lee Parrington not far behind and these two were supported by Stephen Shorrocks, James Tingle, Dan Balshaw and Ian Cocks.

14 Marc Hartley 39:25
18 Lee Parrington 40:00
37 Stephen Shorrocks 41:56
39 James Tingle 42:18
46 Dan Balshaw 43:02
54 Ian Cocks 44:00
67 Lee Edwards 45:17
105 Ben Hoyle 47:47
111 James Austin 48:02
130 Paul Elcock 49:15
132 Andrew Smith 49:25
162 Pete Beresford 52:39
208 Richard Starkie 59:05

Scott Boardman was out in this race and he finished with a PB - just!

360 Scott Boardman 1:29:15

About 7,500 finishers