Posted at 11:57
A record number of runners took part in this race this year. Conditions were good for the race and thought went to whether the course records would be broker, However, as the day showed, those course records are fast and they stand for another year.
First home in the race was Jonathan Cleaver of Barlick Fell Runners, with Stephen Hall of Ribble Valley and John Horrocks of Blackburn hot on his tail.
The ladies race was won by the talented Annabel Mason closely followed by Jacqueline Collins, who was also first W35 and then Claire Vincent of Clayton
A good run out for a couple of our girls in this race. Lorraine Slater put in a top performance to hold off Heather Dalgleish of Rossendale to win the ladies race and Lucy Brown came home in 6th place.
22 Lorraine Slater 41:06 ( 1st lady, 1st W40)
45 Lucy Brown 45:22 (6th lady)
22 Lorraine Slater 41:06 (1st lady)
45 Lucy Brown 45:22
The results for all juniors over the age of eight are all clumped together and it is difficult to sort out the age category for each individual runner. All we can say is that Garth Duffy finished the 2nd 10 year old boy in a time of 10:28 and Ciara Duffy finished 2nd 13 year old girl in a time of 10:39.
Those of you with a good memory may recall that Emma Bailey picked this, her first marathon, as a charity raising event. She made her cause a contribution towards a new, state of the art, scanner at the Yorkshire Cancer Centre. The good news is that thanks to Emma and others like her, the target of £2.4 million has now been reached. This will push the treatment at the cancer centre to an even higher level for the benefit of future cancer patients.
Thanks to everyone from the club who contributed.
These races were Round 4 of the FRA Junior Championships. Each runner received a medal at the end of the race and rightly so, after Helm Hill chose an extremely challenging route for each category. All five of our young runners did the club extremely proud considering the weather and the terrain. It must be one of the few junior races where the participants were climbing up on their hands and feet!
U11
42 Oscar Clayton 18:10
45 Isabelle Teal 18:23
U13
20 Lucille Pickles 16:29 (3rd Girl)
61 Lily-Grace Clayton 22:22
U17
11 Jack Villiers 23:43
On this Bank Holiday Monday, there is a great atmosphere in the lovely dales village of Austwick with its street market and entertainers and makes a great back drop for the series of junior fell races.
There were a couple of podium finishes for the few juniors who turned out and they were both in the U11 race. Bella McCredie finished second girl and Will Pease was third boy.
U11
3 Will Pease 8:24
5 Isaac Reeday 8:45
6 Harry Driver 8:51
10 Bella McCredie 9:22 (2nd girl)
U13
4 Jacob Reeday 10:24
5 Logan McCredie 10:36
A good turnout for this Bank Holiday race set in the lovely dales village of Austwick with its traditional street market. Jonathan Cleaver found himself up against two in form runners, John Stretton & Lee Athersmith, but nevertheless, put in a top performance to take third place. Stephen Shorrocks had a great run to finish 6th and take the 1st V40 prize.
In the ladies race, Jacqueline Collins led the Barlick ladies home. but this was not her type of race and she struggled to emulate the form which she showed in the Burnley Lions race. (Or was it because she put so much into that race, only two days earlier?).
There were a a few podium prizes for our junior runners and these are detailed on our Junior website.
3 Jon Cleaver 52:17
6 Stephen Shorrock 53:49 (1st M40)
16 Andy Berry 57:17
20 Ian Cocks 58:09
47 Shane Muller 1:02:50
50 Andrew Smith 1:03:36
53 Jacqueline Collins 1:03:50
54 David Pease 1:03:57
60 Paul Elcock 1:05:06
61 John Boothman 1:05:12
69 Glenn Whittaker 1:06:54
76 Pete Jackson 1:08:03
95 Jamie Fox 1:10:46
111 Heather Driver 1:13:58
113 Hayley Whitehead 1:14:39
142 Katie Towers 1:21:47
143 Nicola Muller 1:22:06
It is not often that a club from round here goes up to the Lakes and takes the team prize, but as a result of three cracking performances, that is what Barlick did today. This is a typical out and back race over 15.5 miles with 5,300 ft of climbing in it. Sadly the clag was down for most of the day with only brief glimpses of the usual great Lakeland views.
Julian finished 8th, Andy Collins was 10th and with Tim bringing up the rear in 15th place, it was enough to secure the team prize. Good fell running in what is serious fell running country.
8 Julian Hood 2:31:19 (2nd M40)
10 Andy Collins 2:34:58
15 Tim Chadwick 2:37:01
109 Karl Robb 3:57:07
47 David Mirfield 2:51:33
77 David Poole 2:54:49
1482 Cloey Mason 3:46:47
Despite the wind and the rain, the FitzPatrick family were out of bed and running this morning. Not the conditions for PBs though.
2 Connor FitzPatrick 8:47
4 George FitzPatrick 9:29
12 Summer FitzPatrick 11:08
A good run out by Molly Ralphson who finished 5th lady and 3rd W40
71 Molly Ralphson 1:10:24
A great performance by Jacqueline Collins saw her comfortably take the honours in the women's race, with Heather Driver finishing 8th. In the men's race, Jonathan Cleaver led the Barlickers home, finishing in 5th place. Junior runner, Alex Mason is getting used to mixing it in the senior races and he enjoyed a top ten finish (finishing 8th overall) and 1st under 18 by a comfortable margin. A good turnout of Barlickers with many finishing amongst the top category positions.
5 Jonathan Cleaver 34:43
8 Alex Mason 36:28 (1st MU18)
21 Steven Roberts 39:07 (2nd M50)
25 Carl Pawson 39:45 (2nd M45)
27 Scott McCredie 40:06 (3rd M40)
41 James Austin 41:49
42 Carl Nevison 42:02
44 Jacqueline Collins 42:11 (1st Woman, 1st W35)
53 Shane Muller 43:21
63 Anthony Brown 44:16
65 Andrew Smith 44:24
69 David Pease 44:36
74 Paul Elcock 45:05
77 John Boothman 45:44
103 Jamie Fox 48:04
112 Heather Driver 48:42 (8th Woman, 2nd W35)
117 Tony Duffy 49:04
129 Emma Pease 50:34 (13th woman)
138 Richard Starkie 51:04
143 Helen Harrison 51:35 (19th woman)
164 Nicola Muller 53:36 (27th woman)
202 Jean Rawlinson 58:18 (45th woman, 1st W65)
2 Ian Beresford 18:23
3 Alex Mason 19:34 New PB
61 Anne-Marie Beech 29:37
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.