Jack Wood of Ilkley won the race in 36:21. Only Des out from Barlick and he finished 37th with a time of 46:27. There were 84 finishers.
This challenge was thrown down some time ago to see who could get to the top of the drag first. It was between Stuart Bryan on the bike and Stephen Chew running. The race did not start at the Anchor, but further up the lane where the incline gets a little steeper. This event morphed into a money raising event for Pendleside Hospice and a surprisingly large crowd turned out and lined the route. No sooner had the race started, from the top of the Drag, you could hear the cheering from the spectators lining the route. Chewy went into a lead which was gradually whittled down and for a period the two contestants were side by side. However, towards the end, Stuart managed to open up a gap and take the honours. The times were:
Stuart Bryan 2:10
Stephen Chew 2:22
With pledges made on line and money collected on the night, the event raised £430 for Pendleside Hospice.
Pete and Lucy Beresford returned to take part in this race again. Pete finished in a time of 1:02:47, an improvement of 2 minutes from last year, whist Lucy, with a time of 1:11:28, enjoyed an improvement of 8 minutes.
32 Pete Beresford 1:02:47
43 Lucy Beresford 1:11:28
The race winner was Alex Whittem of Calder Valley in a time of 34:54.
2 Chris Smale 35:49
The course record was 37:27 and this was beaten by the first three finishers. Third to finish was Ashley Holt of Rossendale in a time of 35:53.
A video of the race from Woodentops is now available on you tube at https://www.youtube.com/user/ChannelRun/videos …
14 Emma BAILEY 22:24
24 Lucy BERESFORD 23:44 New PB
64 Hazel O'HARA 30:29 New PB
80 Gary BAILEY 35:09
100 Susan HIRD 46:22
5 Lucas PAYNE 18:15
17 James MACDONALD 20:20
36 Daniel CHEW 22:08
A first win for Lee Parrington since joining the club. It was his first Park Run at Cuerden Valley too.
1 Lee PARRINGTON 18:48
19 Richard Lowther 14:38
Richard Starkie 4:18:33
Some good performances from the Barlickers with the men taking positions 2 & 3 and our two ladies taking the first two ladies places.
The Barlickers finished in this race as follows:
2 Julian Hood 41:18
3 Luke Maude 42:27
5 Andy Berry 43:20
9 Andy Driver 46:20
14 Lorraine Slater 49:05 1st lady
15 Chris Smedley 49:20
16 David Halliday 50:16
17 John Boothman 50:40
23 Rachel Lowther 53:56 2nd lady
24 Peter Jackson 53:59
31 Jack Ingham 56:49
42 Jean Rawlinson 1:04:35
Andrew Carson won this race in a time of 8:53. Harley Treitl was 5th overall and 1st U9 in a time of 10:59, an improvement of 2 minutes on his time last year.
All Our Yesterdays
What were you doing, just round the corner of your mind, sixteen years ago in this race? Surprisingly enough, a few of the present Barlickers were there. Sam Wadsworth won the event. Glenn Whittaker came 7th and a young Sam Watson.(not a Barlicker, but we all know Sam) came 9th. And look at the very young Sarah Tipler taking the first junior girl prize.
As you might expect in a race which takes place in the Wharfedale valley, Ted Mason ran out a comfortable winner in time of 37 minutes.
10 Charlie Murgatroyd 42:59
165 Michael Thistlethwaite 5:04
500 ran
Posted at 13:08 13/06/15
Photographs by Woodentops (Set One)
Photographs by Woodentops (Set two)
Once again, Jimmy Craig won this race, this year knocking off over a minute from his winning time of last year. His winning time of 38:08 was the second fastest time recorded over this course. He finished with a comfortable lead over the second place runner, the new lease of life veteran runner Chris Smale. Chris finished first V50 and by implication first V40 and V45. In third place was young up and coming runner Jordan McDonald, who has just turned 17. Watch out for this young man in the future.
The women's race was won by another young up and coming talent, Elizabeth Greenwood, who is only age 16. She was followed home by Lynne Clough of Chorley AC and Lorraine Slater of Barlick.
Both the Barlick men and the Barlick women were first teams.
Barlick finishing positions:
1 Jimmy Craig 38:08
2 Chris Smale 40:05
4 Marc Hartley 41:20
5 Shaun Chew 41:24
7 Andy Berry 41:58
8 Ian Beresford 42:09
11 Sam Gibbs 42:44
13 Andrew Chew 43:16
16 Lee Edwards 44:24
28 Andrew Carson 46:30
33 James Fent 47:23
43 Lorraine Slater 48:12
46 Jonathan Boothman 48:47
55 John Boothman 50:13
66 Glenn Whittaker 51:49
67 Jen Hird 51:53
72 Angela Donlan 52:57
73 Michael Alexander 53:36
80 Paula Clark 55:10
90 David Cockell 58:41
92 Jack Ingham 59:17
93 Karen Brindle 59:24
103 Elliot Halliday 1:01:19
104 Dave Halliday 1:01:19
109 Richard Treitl 1:02:24
130 Ran
Chris Smale is enjoying a new lease of life at the moment. Last week, in the Blencathra race, he was not far off the V50 record. In this race, he went one better. He won the race outright in a time of 16:07.
Chris describes this as a great little race which deserves more support than it gets.
Full results follow as soon as they are available.
Thousands of keen runners basked in summer sunshine as they took part in the iconic Blaydon Race last night.
The famous road race returned on “the ninth of June” for the 34th consecutive year, covering 5.7 miles of tarmac from Collingwood Street in Newcastle City Centre to Shibdon Road playing fields in Blaydon.
About 4,000 runners took part, many representing North East running clubs, but our Mark Nutter was also there sporting his Barlick vest. He completed the 5.7 mile course in a time of 45:38, finishing 182 in his age category
The results for this race are now in the results section and contain a couple of interesting facts. One is that Chris Smale was both first V45 and first V50. Also his time was only two minutes outside the V50 record.
The second is that Barlick were first team, beating local clubs Keswick and Borrowdale.
Pete and Ben decided to have a go at this challenge and were surprised at the amount of climb that was involved. (770 metres). There were some tarmac sections on the course where they struggled, but on the rough of the fells, they came into their own and pulled back lost places. They set themselves a target of finishing under four hours, thirty, so they were well pleased to finish in 4:26:52.
How does Jimmy Craig do it. Four races in a week, two of them this weekend.
In this race there was a battle at the front of the field between Ted Mason and Sam Tosh, with Sam just managing to get home first with a 2 second margin.
1 Sam Tosh, Rossendale 9:38
5 Jimmy Craig 10:32
Race Pictures from Woodentops (Set One)
Race Pictures from Woodentops (Set Two)
Race Pictures from Stuart Bryan
Those that turned out for this race saw several talented junior runners, and potential stars of the future, all finish in the top ten. Junior runner Josh Boyle showed his class by beating the whole field, with a time of 22:22. In 5th place, again running against older and more experienced runners was Jordan McDonald of Clayton and finally in 10th place was Marcus Preedy of Rossendale. What is remarkable about Josh is that he had already run in the 5K Park Run at Burnley in the morning where, you have guessed it, he finished in first place.
Behind Josh, three Barlickers were battling for 2nd place. The honours fell to Mat Lalor who showed that he is not just a tarmac man and he was chased home by Tom Corrigan and Marc Hartley.
The ladies race was won by Claire Vincent of Clayton who had to work hard to keep her nose in front of Kelly Whiteside of Trawden. Following on from her successful run at Edenfield, Jen Hird was again third lady. The first junior lady was Hannah Newbold of Wharfedale and the second was Jenna Boothman who quite remarkably finished 15th overall in the ladies race out of 25 runners.
Barlick men were first team as were the Barlick ladies.
2 Matt Lalor 22:30
3 Tom Corrigan 23:05
4 Marc Hartley 23:12
8 Andy Berry 24:19
11 Andrew Chew 24:36
18 Lee Edwards 25:59
19 Carl Pawson 26:05
22 Andrew Collins 26:36
27 Andrew Carson 27:03
32 James Fent 27:24
36 Chris Smedley 27:42
40 Rob Hodgkinson 28:04
42 Nathaniel Whitbread 28:07
45 Scott Boardman 28:10
57 Jen Hird 29:20 (3rd lady)
58 Glenn Whittaker 29:24
65 Leanne Dinsdale 30:15
69 Paula Clark 30:43
73 Daniel Chew 31:03
81 Karen Brindle 32:17
102 Jenna Boothman 34:28 (2nd WU18)
104 John Boothman 34:29
105 Jean Rawlinson 34:33
106 Adele Horsfield 34:34
107 James Stead 34:54
111 Heather Driver 36:12
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.