1 Lucas PAYNE 19:53
8 John BOOTHMAN 24:22
17 Richard STARKIE 27:42 New PB
24 Mark Browne 28:48
Three Barlickers turned out for this race and entered into the spirit of the occasion by dressing up in matching Crime Investigation Suites.
On the serious side, Tom Addison of Helm Hill won the race in 42:09 and Holly Page of Calder Valley was first lady in 50:41.
The Barlickers finished:
161 John Boothman 59:09
232 Dave Halliday 64:08
328 Rachel Lowther 72:21
A few pictures follow.
All pictures courtesy of Sport Sunday
317 Des Walkden 41:26 PB
371 John Boothman 42:14 PB
430 Michael Thistlethwaite 43:48
619 Richard Starkie 47:32 PB
964 James Stead 58:22 PB
1023 Helen Stead 1:01:51 PB
1060 Abi Park 1:07:49 PB
10 John Boothman 23:33
A few Barlickers turned out to run off the excesses of Christmas on this Boxing Day run. The race winner was James Logue of Calder Valley and the first lady home was Olivia Walwyn of Altrincham, who was 10th overall. The Barlickers finished as follows:
8 Sam Wadsworth 26:10
55 James Wadsworth 30:38
59 John Boothman 30:58
79 Lloyd Davies (U16) 33:39
Lloyd Davies was the first home of the seven junior boys in this race.
Results
The first news of this race is that it was won by Tom Adams of Ilkley in a time of 30:51. The first lady home was in 35th position overall and was Olivia Walwyn of Altrincham in a time of 37:46. The Barlickers finished:
118 John Boothman 42:31
198 Dave Halliday 47:05
400 finishers.
U8
54 Tabitha Berry 5:23
U16
4 Lloyd Davies 13:40
Barlick Junior, Jenna Boothman, seems to be getting the running bug after turning out for the Barlick Santa Fun Run and was at the Park Run today. The positions and times for all the Barlickers were:
3 Lucas PAYNE 20:16
35 Richard STARKIE 28:38
55 James STEAD 33:42
62 Helen STEAD 38:08
63 John BOOTHMAN 38:41
64 Jenna BOOTHMAN 38:42
These results are a little late in being posted, as Abigail forgot to mention her club when she registered. It was her first time in the park runs and she finished as follows:
51 Abigail PARK 36:26
This league is divided into four divisions and any new clubs joining the league must start in division four. Unfortunately, when the club results are published, they do not separate them out into the different divisions and they are all clumped together. To make matters worse, they do not publish the divisional tables as the season progresses and it is only now that these tables have been compiled. These show that the top of Division Four is as follows:
| Club | Races | Points |
| Barlick Fell Runners | 3 | 21 |
| Liverpool Harriers & AC | 2 | 20 |
| Lancaster University | 2 | 17 |
One thing we have learnt so far is that results can be very unpredictable. Everyone felt that the race at Hyndburn was very tough, which it was, but we came away with 9 points. On the other hand, the team performed well at Liverpool, yet only amassed 4 points. That was down to the fact that it attracted a lot of local clubs, many of whom ran in Division Four. If a lesson is to be learnt from this, it is that we need to turn up at every race, because at the end of the season, they only include your best four races and low scoring races, such as Liverpool, will be ignored and you cannot predict in advance those races where you will score well.
We have made a good start to this league, but the pressure is on us to maintain the momentum.
The next race in the series is on 11 January at Barrow in Furness.
Membership of the club has increased steadily over the past twelve months to the point where we have now signed up member number 100, who is Charlotte Perry.
It does not feel like 12 months since a small group of runners came together to form Barlick Fell Runners and few of those at that initial meeting ever expected that the club would grow so quickly.
There was a good turn out of 17 runners for this head torch 5K run. Six were first timers and there were PBs for:
Rachel Lowther 23:22
Linda Bostock 23:33
Emma Bailey 24:02
Lucy Beresford 25:55
James Stead 27:00
Helen Stead 30:00
Full Results
Tom Mason was our sole representative in this race and he finished in 189th position with a time of 41:56.
The junior races saw the debut run of Cerri Starkie on a muddy course with one large hill. She was happy to complete the run and even happier that she did not finish last.
Whilst one group of Barlickers were taking part in the Gathering Winter Fools Relay, another were at Hyndburn for the next race in this series and it was nice to see Fiona Raby sporting a Barlick vest as our first lady representative in this series. It was probably the hardest race of the series so far and she finished in 50th position out of a field of 121, with a time of 32:13. The positions and times of our men were as follows:
37 Nick Treitl 41:21
69 Rob Weir 43:45
110 Andy Carson 46:31
119 Stuart Bryan 47:18
125 Dan Taylor 47:30
147 Des Walkden 49:15
162 Scott Basistow 51:04
174 Michael Thistlethwaite 52:05
181 James Fent 52:37
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.