A run up Blencathra or Helvellyn & the Dodds. Both are pretty challenging races, but for Tim Pigott, that was just the start. After Helvellyn, he continued over Fairfield and then on into Ambleside. Having got to Ambleside, his race was still far from over. He continued along the Western side of Lake Windermere over Claife Heights and eventually crossed the finishing line not far short of the top of Morecambe Bay. It was a total of 50 miles with over 13,000 feet of ascent. He set off at 8:00 am on Saturday morning and finished at 11:09 pm on Saturday night.
What an amazing performance.
7 Carl Pawson 18:44 New PB
The juniors flooded the Haworth hill tops at the weekend with 22 taking part in the infamous Curly Wurly rat runs. The under 8s were up 1st and were straight into the action with a fast start making it easier on the narrow path out of the quarry. 1st home was Lucille Pickles followed by George Fitzpatrick and Chloe Boothman in quick succession. In all, there were 69 Runners in the under 8s race with 10 being from Barlick.
Next up was the fast and furious start for the under 10s through to under 16s. We had 5 juniors in this race with Logan McCredie working his way through the field to finish 26th. Edie Poole and Clover Edwards had a good tussle finishing 44th and 45th.
The under 12s also had 5 Barlickers running with Elliot Philips leading the way with 7th place and Teigan Judson finishing 6th girl with Jenna Boothman not far behind.
The under 14s had just two juniors in attendance with Emma Wilkinson leading the way in 23rd place. Macie Dykes had quite an afternoon still managing to finish despite fainting early in the race. She was happy with the 5 chocolate bars she received for her endeavours though.
After the race is was home, get changed and off to Matrix where we had around 30 bowlers taking part in a social gathering whilst we handed out the club championship trophies. Cracking day out and great to see all the kids getting along well together.
Results-
Under 8s
11 Lucille Pickles 3.15
14 George Fitzpatrick 3.20
15 Chloe Boothman 3.22
26 Hayden McKenzie 3.43
32 Isabelle Chew 3.57
38 Daniel Hood 4.04
41 Bella McCredie 4.12
47 Summer Fitzpatrick 4.25
53 Annabelle Hoyle 4.29
65 Max Villiers 4.56
Under 10s
26 Logan McCredie 8.21
44 Edie Poole 9.36
45 Clover Edwards 9.41
54 Charlotte Porter 10.50
55 Chloe Parker 10.53
Under 12s
7 Elliot Phillips 6.56
20 Jack Villiers 7.47
21 Teigan Judson 8.02
23 Jenna Boothman 8.16
24 Connor Fitzpatrick 8.24
Under 14s
23 Emma Wilkinson 9.29
25 Macie Dykes 10.00
Club Championship Awards
Under 8
Girls Lucille Pickles
Boys George Fitzpatrick
Under 10
Girls Elle Honeyman
Boys Harley Treitl
Under 12
Girls Jenna Boothman
Boys Elliot Phillips/Jack Villiers
Scott Boardman & Emma Bailey turned out for this race. Emma came home as first lady and in running this race, both recorded 5K personal best time of 19:20 for Scott & 20:40 for Emma.
16 Scott Boardman 25:82
32 Emma Bailey 26:45 (1st lady)
It is a long way to go, but it is a good day out and the last race of the BOFRA season is a challenging one..
44 Craig Child 1:02:07
Tom Adams was the easy winner of this race, finishing somewhere around his record time and four minutes ahead of second place.
Following on from her 2nd place finish in the championship race yesterday at Langdale, Nicola Jackson had another good run today to win the ladies race.
The two Barlickers finished:
42 Lee Edwards 50:46
90 Angela Donlan 55:07
Sutton in Coldfield was the setting for the premier road relay event of the year. Confidence was high after the good showing at the northern six stage. Luke Maude was at Langdale on his favoured surface and the revitalised Marc Hartley was back. The competition was again of a very high standard with Olympic 5000m man Andy Butchart running the fastest leg of the day for his club Central. The Barlick boys got off to a solid start with Gary Shaw getting things under way with a good run on leg 1. Jimmy Craig lost a place on leg 2 but was still feeling the after effects of the sickness bug which hampered him at Ian Hodgson. Tom Corrigan was on leg 3 and took 7 places back and moved the lads into the top 50. Matt Lalor also pulled back 5 places and. The boys were on a charge. In form Ian Livesey took back another 5 places and we were in the top 40. Marc Hartley then took 6 places back on the final leg and anchored the team to a very respectable 34th in our first ever 6 stage national. Targets have been set for next year after a debrief on the beer in Burnley. Top performance from the lads yet again.
Stage One 56 Gary Shaw 18:57
Stage Two 57 James Craig 19:10
Stage Three 50 Tom Corrigan 18:59
Stage Four 45 Matt Lalor 19:14
Stage Five 40 Ian Livesey 18:35
Stage Six 34 Marc Hartley 19:04
Sam Tosh won this championship race and was followed home by Simon Bailey. Luke Maude (25th) led home the Barlickers.
25 Luke Maude 2.16.58
56 David Poole 2.29.37
81 Virgil Barton 2.36.44
133 Andy Berry 2.47.38
168 John Boothman 2.57.14
224 Pete Beresford 3.08.42
267 Pete Jackson 3.19.26
287 Dave Halliday 3.27.33
311 Glen Whitaker 3.35.07
343 Rachel Lowther 3.54.36
344 Leanne Dinsdale 3.54.37
378 finished and 11 retired
4 Charles Morgan 17:40 New PB
5 Daniel Mills 17:43 New PB
8 Andrew Chew 18:02 New PB
71 Daniel Chew 23:00
221 Graham Wadsworth 29:33 New PB
103 Susan Hird 30:12
118 Gary Bailey 32:48
A few of our juniors are taking part in this competition. The qualifying was a couple of weeks ago and those who did qualify went forward to the semis today at Giggleswick. Jacob Reeday representing Cracoe school won the year 5 boys race. Lucille Pickles finished 3rd and Chloe Boothman 6th in the year 4 girls.(Thornton in Craven). All three now go forward to the whole of Yorkshire finals at Whitby in March. Jayden Whitelock finished 12th in the year 6 boy's race, a good run in a hard fought race.
32 Paul Elcock 20:57
This race was part of the Great Run series in Glasgow with Scotland's premier mass run. Conditions at the start were cold ( 6 deg C) and foggy. The fog lifted for the start at 11.35 and with the sun shining, conditions were perfect, reaching 14 deg. The special Scottish atmosphere can not be mirrored anywhere else, with Pipers at every mile marker. It was televised on BBC 2. Paul Elcock was there soaking up the unique atmosphere and he came home in 949th position.
949 Paul Elcock 1:34:39
Sometimes in relays you have to say that it was just not our year and that applied to this race. Nick Treitl & Ian Beresford ran the first leg and were up in contention behind the leading teams and on the ascent, Ian was leading. As the terrain levelled out, Nick took up the running. It was a bright sunny day and the sun was getting in your eyes and there was a tendency therefore to put your head down and press on. Nick was doing this and was following the team in front. Sadly, that team took a wrong turning and Nick followed them. Ian was a little way back and could see what was happening and he shouted out to Nick to turn back. Unfortunately, Nick could not hear him. By the time this first pair sorted themselves out, they were down to 27th position at the handover, whereas Wharfedale, who they had been chasing, handed over in 5th.
From that point, we knew that we had a battle on our hands, but our second pair of Luke Maude and Julian Hood did a sterling job and pulled back 14 places and handed over in 13th position at the Kirkstone Inn. Andy Berry and Chris Smale were the next leg runners and ascending Red Screes, they were gaining on the Dark Peak Vets. However, they could not keep that pace up and over the leg, they slipped back and lost 6 of those hard won places gained by Luke and Julian.
The last leg runners were Tom Corrigan and Jimmy Craig. Both had been suffering from stomach upsets and could easily have pulled out, but to their credit, they turned out on the day, so as not to let the side down. They would have normally been expected to pull back a few places, but they were too drained to do that, although they did keep hold of their hand over position and the team finished in 20th place, which is our worse performance in this race since the club was founded. As we said, it was just not our year.
At the front of the field, a great battle took place between Dark Peak Borrowdale, Keswick and Calder Valley. Borrowdale have won this race for the past nineteen years, but this year, they were knocked off their perch by Dark Peak who came home a comfortable five minutes in front of them and may have set a new course record in the process. The Dark Peak vets came home in 10th place overall, but were first vets team and the Dark Peak ladies finished in 32nd place and were the first ladies team. Quite a performance on the day from that formidable club.
Full leg times and splits are in the results section.
Ian Livesey managed to secure an elite entry to this race and he was rewarded by being the first Brit and finishing 5th overall in a time of 2:35:39.
A great performance from Ian.
As we have alluded to previously, our ladies are on fire at the moment. In this race, they were first ladies team, not just in their own division, but overall, and in addition, they were also first overall FV35 team. What a performance!.
The first ladies team was:
Sarah Tipler, Lorraine Slater and Angela Donlan.
The first FV35 team was:
Lorraine Slater, Angela Donlan and Rachel Villiers.
The men put in a good performance and a special mention has to be made of Marc Hartley. Following his recent medical problems, his doctor told him not to run, but ignoring that advice, he had a test run out last week at the Burnley Park Run (where he finished in first place) and this week, he had another cracking run to finish just behind Matt Lalor. His contribution, along with the rest of the team, led Barlick to finish in second place and put us in a strong position to challenge for the first division title.
In the Men's League the counters were:
Matt Lalor, Marc Hartley. Lee Parrington, Mark Holgate, David Mills & Andrew Chew
In the Junior League, our U11 boys did well to finish 2nd against Clayton le Moors. The team was:
Jacob Reeday, Harley Treitl & Ben Thompson.
The finishing positions for all our runners is as follows:
.Senior Men
12 Matthew Lalor 37:33
13 Marc Hartley 38:03
17 Lee Parrington 39:01
32 Marc Holgate 40:10
34 Daniel Mills 40:12
47 Andrew Chew 41:22
102 Tim Piggott 45:39
179 John Boothman 50:16
226 Andrew Driver 54:42
259 Darren Holdsworth 1:00:50
264 Richard Treitl 1:04:04
Senior Ladies
3 Sarah Tipler 24:57
11 Lorraine Slater 26:56 (3rd L45)
14 Angela Donlan 27:22 (2nd L35)
20 Rachel Villiers 28:17
25 Emma Bailey 29:03
36 Laura Craig 30:26
45 Heather Driver 31:04
78 Karen Naylor 33:51
133 Natalie Edwards 39:02
168 Donna Milligan 44:47
U13 Boys
17 Elliot Phillips 12:59
25 Jack Villiers 13:25
33 Aaron Slater 33:48
49 Oliver Hartley 14:36
64 Connor Fitzpatrick 16:21
U13 Girls
41 Teigan Judson 12:43
47 Jenna Boothman 12:49
58 Lily Pickles 13:40
61 Emma Wilkinson 14:13
U11 Boys
3 Jacob Reedey 6:15
14 Harley Treitl 6:40
15 Ben Thompson 6:40
20 Jayden Whitelock 6:41
30 Logan McCredie 7:00
34 Jack Latham 7:07
36 Arran Byrne 7:11
71 Alex Bryne 8:42
U11 Girls
46 Lucille Pickles 7:56
48 Maddison Parrington 7:58
57 Chloe Boothman 8:10
70 Annabelle Hoyle 8:40
72 Tabitha Berry 8:41
6 Ian Cocks 19:36
195 Graham Wadsworth 30:16 New PB
4 Scott Boardman 20:03
43 Danny Butterworth 23:51 New PB
108 Susan Hird 30:23
152 Charlotte Porter 35:31
153 Clover Edwards 35:31
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.