11 Matthew Lalor 1:12:50
13 Julian Hood 1:13:00
6 Daniel Balshaw 37:37
149 Terry Longergan 52:29
It does not seem four years ago that we first joined this league and put a team out in Division Four. We gained promotion that year and in each of the subsequent years and after only four races in this season, we are already Mid Lancs Cross Country Champions. Quite an achievement which says a lot about the team spirit within the club.
But our success is not just confined to the men. After another brilliant performance today from our women left them leading division two, having taken maximum points in every race this season, and they also cannot now be beaten and they are Division Two Champions and assured of promotion to Division One next year. The strength and spirit of the ladies squad is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the ladies 'B' team is heading Division Three and the ladies V35 team are 2nd, but on equal points with the top club Wigan.
Finally, it was only last year that we started a junior section and yet our U11 boys are leading their league. However, there is more work for them to do finish top at the end of the season.
Great all round individual performances and great team spirit today. The individual finishing positions were:
Men
2 Tom Corrigan 33:16
12 Marc Hartley 34:49
14 Jimmy Craig 35:05
19 Stephen Chew 35:38
22 Nick Treitl 35:57
35 Mark Holgate 37:26
40 James Tingle 38:12
47 Lucas Payne 38:45
49 Virgil Barton 38:51
68 Lee Parrington 39:45
79 Lee Edwards 40:36
84 Dan Taylor 40:48
93 Andrew Carson 41:10
121 Scott Boardman 42:23
137 Gary Bradley 43:17
142 Derek Walkden 43:36
145 Scott McCredie 43:47
157 Paul Elcock 44:25
158 John Boothman 44:27
219 David Cockell 50:57
244 Daren Holdsworth 56:39
Women
7 Sarah Tipler 22:28
15 Lorraine Slater 23:19
21 Rachel Villiers 24:05
26 Emma Bailey 24:31
29 Leanne Dinsdale 24:59
36 Laura Craig 25:31
45 Karen Brindle 26:23
63 Paula Clark 27:37
74 Hannah Newbold 28:49
98 Nicola Muller 30:55
111 Sally Scothem 32:09
U20 Women
3 Hannah Newbold 28:49
U13 Boys
12 Jack Villiers 11:12
43 Aaron Slater 13:00
52 Connor Fitzpatrick 13:40
56 Oliver Whipp 14:23
U13 Girls
25 Emily Shuttleworth 11:12
39 Jenna Boothman 11:58
U11 Boys
27 Harley Treitl 8:13
34 Jack Latham 8:21
45 Arran Byrne 8:43
47 Logan McCredie 8:43
57 George Fitzpatrick 9:12
72 Alex Byrne 10:59
U11 Girls
30 Lucille Pickles 8:59
61 Chloe Boothman 9:53
63 Maddison Parrington 9:58
64 Annabelle Hoyle 10:01
71 Evie Scott 10:30
28 Heather Driver 26:31
1 Charles Morgan 18:28
216 Graham Wadsworth 32:13
7 Paul Elcock 22:27
103 Susan Hird 29:41
110 Anne Beech 30:57 New PB
129 Lisa Pickles 34:21
130 Wendy Duffy 34:28
Great to see one of our juniors already out racing this year. Maddison Parrington went up to Kendal for this opening race of the new Winter League season. In the U13 girls race, she came home in 31st position with a time of 10:18.
It was pretty mild up at Kielder and made for perfect race conditions. David Poole went up on Saturday and camped over with race winner David Murphy and new member Michael Harluow.
5 David Poole2:18:30
22 Michael Harulow 2:42:23
111 took part.
17 Andrew Carson 18:31
18 Scott Boardman 18:39
20 Annabel Ralph 18:43 (1st Woman)
25 Scott McCredie 19:41
28 Emma Bailey 20:13 (3rd Woman, 1st FV40)
42 Terry Lonnergan 23:48 (1st MV65)
9 James Tingle 36:39
22 Lucas Payne 38:21
269 Victoria Holgate 53:33
It was a boggy affair as always at witton park for this years county championships. Elliot Phillips and Jack Villiers were representing the club in the under 13s and both had good runs. The senior ladies then took centre stage, Sarah Tipler, Lorraine Slater and Rachel Villiers ran. Unfortunately, Sarah pulled up after the first lap meaning the ladies had an incomplete team. Looking at the results though, it made no difference to the destination of the team prizes. Lorraine had a solid outing finishing 26th with Rachel Villiers finishing 29th. The men had 7 running with Tom Corrigan having a great run and finishing 11th. Next home was Marc Hartley in 29th and Stephen Chew 30th. Lee Parrington had a solid outing and finished 40th. Another man on the comeback trail is Chris Smale who had a stormer, finishing 2nd vet 50 and 46th overall. Danny Mills had a solid run finishing 2 places back in 48th. Dan Balshaw was making a comeback as well and finished 62nd. The team finished 5th overall which wasn't a disaster considering we were missing Livesey, Lalor, Craig and Singleton amongst others. Onwards to Towneley where hopefully we'll get everyone out.
Under 13 Boys
21 Elliott Phillips 13:03
30 Jack Villiers 13:50
Senior Ladies
26 Lorraine Slater 28:53
29 Rachel Villiers 29:45
Senior Men
11 Thomas Corrigan 33:34
29 Marc Hartley 36:28
30 Stephen Chew 36:32
40 Lee Parrington 37:11
46 Christopher Smale 37:55 (2nd V50)
48 Daniel Mills 38:09
62 Daniel Balshaw 39:31
15 Paul Elcock 21:10
61 David Cockell 24:50
149 Susan Hird 29:38
170 Anne Marie Beech 31:37
A New Year and a new start for Chewy who decided three months ago that this would be his first race back. He knew that it would be a fast and furious race, having done it five years ago. It was quite boggy up to the giants tooth summit. On the approach to the summit, there was a leading group of six, led by Joe Crossfield, who had pulled away from the rest of the pack. Ali Burns from Valley Striders made a decisive break on the descent, taking the lead which he held until the finish. There was only about 40 seconds separating the top 5 which made it a good competitive outing.
This was Shaun & Stephen Chew's first outing since the Calderdale Way relay last May and Stephen is happy being up there again. Shaun had a good run to finish 8th and Nick Kendall also had a good run to finish 27th.
Thanks must go to Ian Lewis and Caren Crabtree for putting on a well organised race.
1 Ali Burns 18:02
4 Stephen Chew 18:31
8 Shaun Chew 19:27
27 Nick Kendall 21:10
The last race of the year attracted some top runners and it was won by Chris Farrell of Horwich RMI in a time of 41:37.
15 Luke Maude 46:28
16 Julian Hood 46:38
153 John Boothman 59:25
167 Paul Elcock 60:30
318 Karen Naylor 69:52
395 Richard Treitl 81:54
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.