Barlick Fell Runners - November 2024

Membership fees

Despite the name, the club participates in all disciplines of running, fell, cross country and road and welcomes applications from runners of all abilities to join us. If you are not sure if the club is for you, why not come to one of our training sessions or one of our regular pub runs. You will be under no obligation to join, but you will get a feel for the club and a better idea if the club is for you. You can merely turn up to a training session unannounced, but it would be better if you contacted our club secretary first (details on the contacts page) and let him know that you will be coming and he will make sure that whoever is leading the group will look out for you. If you are an absolute beginner to running, you too are most welcome to join us in one of our sessions, but please contact our secretary first and he will make sure that you will have a programme with which you are comfortable. Membership fees for the club are as follows:

Seniors
For members over the age of 18
£10/year
For runners of all abilities over the age of 18
For runners participating in all disciplines of running, fell, cross country and road running
Regular training and coaching sessions provided
Apply

Juniors
For members under the age of 18
FREE
For runners of all abilities under the age of 18.
Regular (weekly) training sessions led by experienced runners/coaches
Advice about how to train properly so juniors can develop as athletes
Apply

Non-runners
For non-running members
£5/year
For supporters of the club and club members
Support the club and all the senior and junior runners
Apply

Pendle Park Run - 30 November 2024

Written by Graham

6 Robert Cranham 22:10
7 David Pease 22:37

Skipton Park Run - 30 November 2024

Written by Graham

8 Lucas Payne 20:26
15 Lucy Brown 22:15
66 Stuart Heaviside 27:24
67 Emma Pease 27:27

Burnley Park Run - 30 November 2024

Written by Graham

251 Richard Shilton 31:48

Tour of Pendle - 16 November 2024

Written by Graham

This is a tough old race which basically involves running round the top of Pendle and then repeatedly dropping over the sides and running back up again, which each climb tougher than the previous one. Barlick as a club did well in this race with two finishers in the top ten which went a long way towards making Barlick the team winners of this race.

5 David Mirfield 2:31:50 (2nd M40)
8 Julian Hood 2:35:27 (1st M45)
26 Stephen Shorrock 2:47:23 (2nd M45)
31 David Poole 2:49:38
46 Andy Berry 2:56:03
70 Sam Horrocks 3:06:42
73 Mark Horrocks 3:07:52 (1st M60
91 Carl Nevison 3:11:21
149 John Mason 3:26:25
155 Andrew Smith 3:27:03
210 Hayley Whitehead 3:39:03
260 John Boothman 3:51:57
223 Lucy Brown 3:56:58
304 Robert Cranham 4:07:32
370 Anthony Brown 4:54:56
380 Raymond Banks M70 5:32:00 (3rd M70)

Teams
1 Barlick Fell Runners
2 Rossendale

Full Results

Harriers v Cyclists - 16 November 2024

Written by Graham

Craig Shearer has gone through hell recently with complete lower back pain and loss of physical ability to train or race. But he was born to to run and he finally got back to training and had his first run back after injury in this race. With a show of grit and determination, he hammered out a third place against a good field. Not a bad result after weeks of injury.

3 Craig Shearer 37:43

Skipton Park Run - 16 November 2024

Written by Graham

112 Stephen Jackson 28:23
140 Richard Starkie 30:29

Pendle Park Run - 16 November 2024

Written by Graham

49 Joanne Sadowsky 37:44

Coldwell 10 Mile Trail Race - 9 November 2024

Written by Graham

After making his inaugural come back on 20 October, it didn't take Andy Collins long to clock up a race win, coming home ahead of team mate Ben Whitehead in this Barlick one-two. For most of the race, the two ran together and it was only in the later stages that Ben dropped away.

It was a good day for the Collins family with wife Jacqueline coming home 2nd in the ladies race.

1 Andrew Collins 1:09:54
2 Ben Whitehead 1:11:23
9 Andrew Smith 1:22:39
31 Anthony Brown 1:43:30

Ladies Race
2 Jacqueline Collins 1:25:25
4 Lucy Brown 1:32:16

Wadsworth Half Trog - 10 November 2024

Written by Graham

The conditions for this race are rarely good and this year was no exception. There were the usual boggy conditions underfoot and the clag was also down which made navigating difficult. Andy Berry had a good race to finish in 8th place, but the clag hindered him and he reckons that had he been a bit more familiar with the route, a top five finish could have been a possibility.

8 Andy Berry 1:27:25
32 Pete Jackson 1:44:21

101 starters

Skipton Park Run - 9 November 2024

Written by Graham

9 Lucas Payne 20:29

Pendle Park Run - 9 November 2024

Written by Graham

9 Robert Cranham 23:31

Burnley Park Run - 9 November 2024

Written by Graham

100 Sarah Bell 24:55
287 Sharon Newbold 32:41

New York City Marathon - 3 November 2024

Written by Graham

John trying to keep warm before the start

This year, the race became the world's largest marathon with 55,646 finishers. John Boothman went over with friends and family to take part and here is his account of race day.

A 5.00 am wake up to catch a coach to the start on Staten Island where we had a very long and cold wait of approx. 3 hours.

I met and buddied up with a great guy called Trent who was from Brisbane, Australia and was doing his first marathon. Great to share time and help each other get through the cold wait time. Pictured wrapped in disposable old clothes and bin bags/foil blanket, I didn't move much until the sun came up taking the chill away.

I was in wave 2 thankfully getting going a lot sooner than many others. Trent's wave didn't set off until after 11 making his a very long day.

Once the sun did rise, we were fortunate to have a brilliant day, with the steep and long climb out from Staten over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge providing amazing views and I was lucky to be on the top deck.

Half of the runners are on the lower deck.

Our gang provided brilliant support at a couple of points along the route which was packed with thousands of spectators (apart from the bridges ) which were empty and quiet apart from the sound of feet.

As with most big city marathons, the crowd were super enthusiastic and noisy.

All went very well apart from the last two miles where again I struggled but did hang on to finish very similar time to the last one (York) a couple of weeks ago.

Central Park providing the finish venue and what a fantastic oasis this space is in the middle of a very mad place.

A couple more days in NY sightseeing rounded off a really good trip.

Ripley Guy Fawkes 10 - 3 November 2024

Written by Graham

A change to tarmac this weekend for Sam who entered this race to join a few workmates who were doing this race. It is a ten mile race through lovely countryside with a few hills in it like the Birstwith Brute which is a never ending climb out of Birstwith. This may be the last time that this race takes place as it starts and finishes at Ripley Castle and although they have lived there since 1309, the Ingleby family have now sold it and it is not clear whether the new owners want to continue with the race. That would be a shame as it is a lovely race (for tarmac) on roads which see little traffic.

104 Sam Wadsworth 1:13:39