What a day for our juniors. Four first places and two new records set. Well done to all the youngsters who took part. That was some great racing.
F7
1 Betsy Pickles 4:45
M9
1 Harry Roberts 3:38
2 Harry Driver 3:59
6 Zachary Beresford 4:38
M11
16 George Fitzpatrick 8:50
17 Michael Rigga-Moya 8:51
24 Will Pease 9:39
F11
1 Lucille Pickles 8:14 (New Record)
7 Chloe Boothman 9:24
M13
10 Tabitha Berry 10:25
M15
1 Jack Villiers 13:43 (New Record)
8 Connor Fitzpatrick 17:36
M17
3 Alex Mason 14:12
This race was won by Elite Runner Alberto Vender from Italy in a time of 1:06:41. Italy had three finishers in the top ten and as a result took the team prize.
Given that there were so many Elite Athletes in this race, Tim Chadwick came home in a respectable 77thd place and even Richard Treitl left over sixty runners in his wake even though he was disappointed with his race. No good views on the day, as the summit was enveloped in cloud. The Barlicker's times and places were:
77 Tim Chadwick 1:25:23
513 Richard Treitl 2:13:15
The race winner was Rhys Findlay-Robinson of Dark Peak in a time of 3.59.55. The Barlickers finished as follows:
54 Ben Hoyle 5.34.45
80 John Boothman 6.04.24
83 Gary Bradley 6.07.53
87 Jack Ingham 6.09.42
There were 107 finishers out of what must have been 180 starters.
From time to time, most athletes require some form of physiotherapy and we are lucky to have a top physiotherapist as a club member. That member is Tim Pigott and he is a highly specialized physiotherapist within the field of sports medicine with over 10 years experience of dealing with elite athletes. The full range of services that Tim can offer are:
Further information can be found at www.hp-3.co.uk
You can have a consultation with Tim at either the Worsley Physio Clinic at Manchester or at Preston's College, Preston. It may be a little way to travel, but the journey will be more than worthwhile.
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12 Nick Treitl 24:35
Six Juniors made the trip up to Scotland for The 162nd Alva Games. With the hot weather lately, it made a very steep race even more trickier as the mountain was very dry and dusty. A few pre race nerves after the recce soon disappeared as a brilliant run from Harley Treitl brought him home in 2nd place. A few worried looks before the start didn't stop Lucille Pickles storming home in 7th place after a fantastic run, to take the 1st girl prize. Next in for Barlick was Jody Whitfield finishing 4th girl, just missing out on a spot on the podium. Evie Scott made the small trip from Dunblane to represent her hometown club once more, to finish 7th girl after going nearly 8 months without a hill race. Lily-Grace Clayton rounded off the girls with a great effort to finish 9th girl, followed by her brother Oscar Clayton, who put in a fantastic effort to finish 29th overall after been unable to get up the hill on the recce.
U12 Race
2 Harley Treitl 11:48. (2nd Boy)
7 Lucille Pickles 13:41 (1st Girl)
13 Jody Whitfield 18:38 (4th Girl)
20 Evie Scott 20:06 (7th Girl)
22 Lily-Grace Clayton 20:29 (9th Girl)
29 Oscar Clayton 25:04
Welcome back to Virgil Barton who was the only Barlicker in this championship race. He celebrated his return to the club with a very creditable performance, finishing 44th out of the 201 finishers in the men's race.
44 Virgil Barton 1:33:40
This is a tough challenge. It is 40K of mountain terrain with 3,000 meters of ascent and it was a quite incredible run from Luke Maude to complete the course in just over five and a half hours.
8 Luke Maude 5:33:50
99 Tim Pigott 8:34:12
3 Connor FitzPatrick 8.29 New PB
4 George FitzPatrick 8.31 New PB
6 Harry Roberts 8.36 New PB
20 Jack Davison 11.09
21 Summer FitzPatrick 11.16 New PB
22 Andrew Carson 39:00
40 James Austin 41:31
306 Gary Bradley 53:34
407 Amanda Haines 55:47
It was a cracking run by Craig Shearer who came home in second place, having just been pipped to the finishing post by Jack Cummings of Ilkley Harriers.
2 Craig Shearer 40:38
48 Tony Duffy 61:43
63 Richard Treitl 73:27
75 finishers
Great run by Danny Mills to finish second in this race and a top twenty finish too (just) for Scott McCredie
2 Danny Mills 19:17
20 Scott McCredie 23:18
67 finishers
This is quite a new race and is similar in elevation to Hendon Brook.
5 Andy Berry 1:36:51 (1st M40)
8 Daniel Plant 1:39:55
29 Nicola Muller 24:57 (New PB)
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.