This race is always a challenge, particularly as it takes place at this time of the year. Last year, it was the Beast from the East. This year it was gale force winds coupled with driving rain. The race itself is enough of a challenge without those extra handicaps. We had two runners take part. John Boothman, the hero of the Spine Race and Lucas Payne, the legend of the Iron Man competitions. John completed the race, although it took him two hours longer than last year and Lucas pulled out. The following is an account from each runner about an extremely tough and challenging day.
John Boothman
Ian Cocks took part in this race which is a 5K run, a 27K bike ride and then another 5K run. He finished in 24th place, with the following times.
Pos | Name | Run 1 | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run2 | Total |
24 | Ian Cocks | 19:32 | 1.26 | 57:43 | 1.11 | 21:02 | 1:40:54 |
Just two Barlickers out in this race - Virgil for the men and Molly for the women.
126 Virgil Barton 56:03
243 Molly Ralphson 1:06:11
Two firsts for Barlick
This race was run in atrocious conditions in the morning and first home was Rory Harris, an unattached runner, in 4:22:59. Not far behind him was Ian Livesey & Nick Treitl who put in a cracking performance to finish second overall and 1st in the pairs section. Another terrific performance from Ben Hoyle and Lorraine Slater saw them finish first mixed pairs.
Emma Taylor finished 2nd lady and Pete Jackson was 1st V60.
2 Nick Treitl & Ian Livesey 4:24:01 (1st Pair)
15 Stephen Shorrock 4:56;52
29 Lorraine Slater & Ben Hoyle 5:06:30 (1st Mixed Pair)
31 Andy Berry 5:07:01
72 Pete Jackson 5:45:26 (1st V60)
80 Emma Taylor 5:51:26 (2nd lady)
94 Gary Bradley 5:57:47
96 Karl Robb 5:58:10
100 Shaun Chew & Stephen Whitaker (Trawden) 6:03:58
172 Katie Towers 6:52:05
4 Shane Muller 22:31
16 Connor FitzPatrick 26:56
4 Alex Mason 18:54
25 Molly Ralphson 21:49
21 Des Walkden 41:25
This was a battle between the first two finishers, with Gary Gregory just shading it over our own Jon Cleaver. However good racing from the pair of them who left the chasing packing some way behind.
2 John Cleaver 33:32
12 Alex Mason 17:54 (New PB)
13 Paul Elcock 20:49
128 Shane Muller 46:20
147 Kristian Clayton 1:25:23
U17
6 Jack Villiers 16:34
U15
15 Ciara Duffy 16:33
U13
5 Lucille Pickles 6:32 (1st Girl)
23 Jody Whitfield 7:58
25 Amber Muller 8:11
28 Lily-Grace Clayton 8:22
U11
27 Alfie Muller 8:52
Two good results from this race.
Men's Race
337 Jon Cleaver 2:37:16 (PB)
Women's Race
269 Emma Bailey 3:11:41 (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.