The ladies made the trip to Sutton in Coldfield today and did the club proud yet again. Both men and ladies qualified with their excellent showing at Blackpool two weeks ago. The men had 6 of the original team missing so it was left to the ladies to fly the flag.
Annabel Ralph got the team off to a great start finishing 29th on the first leg and the returning Sarah Tipler ran the fastest Barlick short leg taking back 3 places. Rachel Villiers was only 8 seconds off Sarah's time and pulled another place back and the team were 25th. Jen Hird then took over on the long leg and managed to only lose two places. Leanne Dinsdale pulled one back on leg 5 and Emma Bailey anchored the team home in 26th place. A quality result yet again from the ladies.
26 Barlick 2:34:34
1 Annabel Ralph (29) 34:15
2 Sarah Tipler (26) 20:33
3 Rachel Villiers (25) 2039
4 Jennifer Hird (27) 36:16
5 Leanne Dinsdale (26) 21:30
6 Emma Bailey (26) 21:21
6 Scott McCredie 20:41
20 Karen Brindle 23:22
24 Karen Naylor 23:59 New PB
29 Victoria Peel 24:27
51 Samantha Day 26:47 New PB
57 Nicola Muller 27:37 New PB
61 Heather Mitchell 29:11 New PB
65 Anne Marie Beech 29:26
69 Donna Milligan 29:45 New PB
87 Graham Wadsworth 33:03
24 James Tingle 20:21
202 Lucille Pickles 27:54
212 Garth Duffy 28:12
258 Clara Duffy 29:44
271 Wendy Duffy 30:33
302 Lisa Pickles 32:57 New PB
28 David Cockell 22:18 New PB
40 Hannah Watson 23:02
45 Leanne Garbutt 23:46
102 Susan Hird 28:15
88 Paul Elcock 21:11
133 Aaron Slater 23:02
165 Jenna Boothman 24:52
200 Eve Boothman 26:41
248 Heather Mitchell 30:16
24 Stephen Shorrock 1:26:45
173 Katie Towers 1:57:43
Craig Shearer has finished 3rd two weekends on the bounce but this time he went two better and won this race beating Tom Collinge of Queensbury into 2nd place and Gav Mullholland into 3rd. Times not yet available.
A great run today from Ian Livesey saw himself finish in 11th position overall and set a new club record for a marathon of 2 hrs 30 mins. Matt Lalor too got himself into a good rhythm and finished in the top twenty not far behind Ian. Further down the field Mark Holgate pulled a hamstring early on in the race, but to his credit he kept going to finish his first marathon. At his third attempt, Tim Pigott managed a sub 3 hour finish as did Dan Taylor who finished not far behind him.
11 Ian Livesey 2:30:39
18 Matt Lalor 2:33:54
21 Julian Hood 2:34:52
53 Gary Shaw 2:42:41
244 Mark Holgate 2:56:08
335 Tim Piggott 2:58:39
347 Dan Taylor 2:58:52
1654 John Boothman 3:27:48
This is a 27 mile run over Warton Crag, through the picturesque villages of Silverdale, Yealand, Sandside and the seaside village of Arnside. It is a varied route made up of a mixture of hills, roads and off road running,covering a distance of just over a marathon with 2,000 ft of climb. Incredibly, Barlick took the first two places.
1 Pete Beresford 3:47:08
2 Lee Parrington
A great run by Chris Arhur of Bowland saw him come home in first place and a great run by Ray Edgar saw him finish in the top 10.
10 Ray Edgar 37:06
17 Andrew Collins 38:50
38 Andy Berry 41:19
53 James Tingle 43:16
54 Lorraine Slater 43:19 (2nd FV40)
83 Scott McCredie 46:39
146 Hannah Newbold 55:39
170 Richard Treitl 1:01:33
24 Nicola Muller 27:42 New PB
41 Donna Milligan 31:18
24 Ian Cocks 21:32
26 James Tingle 21:38
21 Paul Elcock 20:58
22 Emma Bailey 21:13
28 Karen Brindle 22:08 New PB
34 Hannah Watson 22:47 New PB
136 Graham Wadsworth 32:02
151 Susan Hird 33:44
173 Patricia Wadsworth 40:32
Richard Treitl went across to Wales and found this a tough AS race, being 6 miles with 2,100ft of ascent.
54 Richard Treitl 1:38:16
59 finishers
Report from Chewy
There were 5 Barlickers present for this midweek freebie at Marl Pitts. I missed the start with the pack already out of the field as I made my way through the funnel. It was a bit of a novelty bobbing and weaving past folk on the narrow path which goes on for about the first mile. I passed Rachel Lowther about a mile in who has taken to copying my shorts. Then John 'race machine' Boothman, who seemed shocked to see me. I caught up to Andy Berry next who was stalking Shaun in the battle of the chairman. Once past Shaun I'd passed about 120 runners and started trying to reel the front runners in.
It was the first round of the English champs fell season on Saturday and due to the road relays we only had Virgil Barton in attendance. That being said, Virgil put in a cracking performance in a stacked field, finishing 41st in 1.45.56. The race was run by Tom Addison of Helm Hill in a fierce descent to the finish, when after 14 miles of running, there was only a minute between the top 6.
1 Tom Addison(Helm Hill) 1.33.28
41 Virgil Barton 1.45.56
Stephen Shorrocks is a man in form and is getting closer to the front every week. He was our sole runner in this race and finished 5th.
5 Stephen Shorrock 58:25
3 Craig Shearer 33:39
81 Paul Elcock 44:01
The men for the first time entered two teams into the northern 12 stage. The A team was the strongest we've fielded but were still missing a couple due to injuries.
With this we were looking to break into the top 10 for the first time in the clubs short history. Tom Corrigan and John Whiteside got the mens team under way on the super fast 1st leg and both ran well. Tom ran the fastest Barlick long leg on the day against the big boys. The A team were 20th after leg 1 and the B team were 42nd. Marc Hartley started cutting through the field with the fastest short leg of the day and pulled the A team up to 12th, Dan Balshaw just recovering from injury lost a few places for the B team.
137 Richard Starkie 24:09
3 Scott McCredie 21:02
9 John Boothman 22:20
11 Paul Elcock 22:45 New PB
21 Jenna Boothman 24:31 New PB
28 Logan McCredie 26:21
33 Cloey Mason 27:33 New PB
35 Nicola Muller 27:46 New PB
37 Samantha Day 27:59
44 Anne Marie Beech 29:05 New PB
46 Heather Mitchell 29:52 New PB
47 Chloe Boohman 30:25 New PB
65 Jodie Stacey 33:47
67 Graham Wadsworth 33:55
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.