Despite an outbreak of man flu and some still not recovered from the New Year celebrations, there was a good turnout of 13 runners, including 2 ladies, for this first social run of the year. Expect a few more next week, when everyone is back to normal.
The New Year sees the club start to get under way and already, it will be organising three classic fell races in the current year. These are the Pendle Cloughs race, the Weets race and the FRA championship race, Buckden Pike. Details of all these race can be found under the "Races We Organise".
Results
| December | top | |
| 16-12-12 | The Stoop | |
| 26-12-12 | Whinberry Naze | |
| 30-12-12 | Ribble Valley 10K Road Race |
Two Barlickers turned out on Boxing Day for this race:
40 Andy Berry 31:13
71 Michael Thistlethwaite 34:44
A few Barlickers turned out for this race:
Nick Treitl 37:23
Mark Sandamas 37:27
Andrew Carson 41:06 (PB)
John Boothman 43:04 (PB)
Michael Thistlethwaite 43:33 (PB)
Des Walkden 44:30
Charlotte Treitl 1:06:13 (PB)
Seeing that Andy Holden is at present unattached and therefore has no club web site to champion his running feats, we thought that we would step in. He entered this race as 'Sumo' with the sole object of not coming last.
As things turned out, he finished 113rd out of 144. Not bad for an old 'un.
Mick Plummer and Nick Treitl fancied a go in this one. It is the usual mountain marathon format, that is, you have to collect points by visiting various check points which have varying values depending on difficulty in reaching or locating.
They came 122nd out of 169 and by their own admission, they are very much on a learning curve with this type of event. But they enjoyed it and they look forward to taking part in similar events next year.
The race was won by Tom Adams of Ilkley and was closely followed home by Rob Hope of Pudsey & Bramley and Sam Tosh of Rossendale.
Shaun Chew had the honour of being the first person to run for the club and he came home in 15th place in a time of 36:03.
Jimmy Craig finished 2nd in this race to Allan Bush (Norman's son). There are no times for this race. This is a traditional Dales fell race and it used to be common for such races to be held without timing them. This is probably one of the few left that still do this. The positions for the Barlickers were:
2 Jimmy Craig
5 Shaun Chew
14 Michael Thistlethwaite
An awesome performance from Matt Lalor saw him set a new course record and win this race in 1:11:19, beating second place by 6 minutes.
5 Sam Gibbs 21:14
3 Julian Hood 57:50
17 Andy Berry 1:03:50
50 Des Walkden 1:11:15
In this race, Ted Mason is running in his own backyard and every year, he likes to show any offcumdens who dominates the area. And so it was again this year that Ted ran out a very clear winner.
The Barlickers finished as follows:
6 Nick Treitl 17:03
55 Andy Berry 21:52
97 Derek Walkden 24:47
107 Emma Bailey 27:28
116 Richard Treitl 31:13
123 Gary Bailey 45:24
Barlick were 6th team.
Junior Races
U10
11 Harley Treitl (1st U8)
Pete Beresford finished this race in 1:19:57. Not sure of position.
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.