What a brilliant day on Pendle, with the skylarks singing, long distance views of the Lake District Hills and ideal weather for running. There were some good times from the many Barlickers who turned out, including a cracking first fell race from Paula Clark.
The club got four runners in the top twenty five and were rewarded with the first team prize and Nick Treitl had a great run to lead the team home and scoop a Lancashire bronze medal. In the Junior Races, Harley Treitl came 4th in the U8s race which was part of the English & Lancashire Championships.
7 Nick Treitl 35:34
13 Luke Maude 37:22
17 Sam Gibbs 37:35
25 Tomas Corrigan 38:59
45 Andy Berry 41:13
51 Andy Driver 41:37
53 Andy Collins 41:33
60 Lee Edwards 42:19
67 "Fast Jock" Boothman 42:51
90 Richard Lowther 44:39
122 Dave Halliday 46:57
137 Glenn Whittaker 47:48
145 Andrew Carson 48:20
153 Rachel Lowther 48:54
223 Paula Clark 53:59
243 Richard Treitl 56:18
A few pictures follow shortly
1 Julian HOOD 16:48 New PB
24 John BOOTHMAN 21:44
88 Heather DRIVER 28:05
115 Graham WADSWORTH 33:58 New PB
127 Clover EDWARDS 36:47
128 Susan HIRD 36:47
3 Carl PAWSON 20:51
13 Chris SMEDLEY 22:47
At last the results have appeared for last week's race. The Lowther family were out representing Barlick and finished as follows:
46 Richard Lowther 35:24
55 Rachel Lowther 36:41
It would have been a bit of a sad evening if Royton Road Runners had not got the majority of their club to turn out for this event, as they made up more than half of the field. To be fair the conditions were poor due to the bad weather but the event was well marshaled and friendly. The Barlickers finished:
37 John Boothman 21:45
40 Emma Bailey 22:14
51 Richard Starkie 22:50
54 Jen Hird 1:09:56
55 Lee Edwards 1:09:57
74 Jean Rawlinson 1:18:20
The Barlick lads had a cracking run finishing 15th overall on their 12 stage debut.
On the 1st leg Gaz Shaw got the boys off to a solid start. Leg 2 saw Jimmy Craig drag the team up to 26th overall with a great run. Chris Singleton on leg 3 had the run of the day pulling back 6 places. Leg 4 saw Andrew Carson pull another place back. Leg 5 and Julian Hood lost a place with a solid run putting Barlick in 20th overall. Lucas Payne had a great run and consolidated 20th place. Ian Livesey then took centre stage against Ben Fish but lost 2 places in very stiff competition. Nick Treitl soon grabbed a place back bringing the team back into 21st on the next leg. Chris Smale also pulled a place back to bring Barlick back into the top 20 on leg 9. Shaun Chew then pulled back another place to 19th. Tom Corrigan had a storming leg pulling back another 3 places and Steve Chew pulled another back on the last leg leaving the lads in 15th overall and qualifying the team for the national road relays in the process.
Not bad for to say the club has only entered 2 road relays. Brilliant effort from the whole team.
25 Dave Halliday 1:06:15 PB
54 Jen Hird 1:17:11
55 Lee Edwards 1:17:12
58 Craig Child 1:18:07
7 Carl PAWSON 22:15
28 Emma BAILEY 23:18
58 Robert WHIPP 27:12
75 Susan HIRD 28:58
97 Gary BAILEY 33:17
105 Graham WADSWORTH 35:48
Richard Treitl turned out for this 10 mile 3100ft race in Southern Snowdonia, finishing 105th in a time of 2:45:02. There were 112 finshers.
Des Walkden took part in this race. It started and finished at Cartmel Race Course and the course was in a beautiful setting and on what was a glorious day, there were lovely views over Morecambe Bay. The winner was Christopher Holdsworth from Clayton-le-Moors in a time of 1.10:15 and Des finished 35th in 1.28:17. A total of 185 runners took part.
Gary Shaw had a cracking run today to finish 4th in this race in a time of around 1hr 57mins.
The precise timing will follow as soon as the reults are published.
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.