It was a pleasant sunny evening for this race, maybe a bit too warm for ideal running conditions, but it nevertheless attracted 218 entrants.
The race was easily won by Chris Holdsworth who built up a good lead on the ascent and he ran out an easy winner. He was followed home by Tom Corrigan, running his second race in two days and he too had a comfortable lead over third placed Adam Wale. With four runners in the top ten, Barlick easily won the team prize.
In the ladies race, Laura Hesketh had a long lead over the chasing pack and took the honours without any difficulty. It was good to see Jacqueline Collins get rewarded for all her recent hard work by taking third place and she was closely followed home by Lucy Brown. Rossendale won the team prize.
The Barlickers finished as follows:
Men's Race
2 Thomas Corrigan 30:50 (1st M40)
5 Julian Hood 32:56 (2nd M45)
6 Ben Whitehead 33:18 (3rd M40)
7 Nathan Smedley 33:38 (2nd MSEN)
12 Nick Treitl 34:25
17 Ian Cocks 35:11
19 Luke Butler 35:20
26 Andy Berry 36:19
29 Carl Nevison 37:03 (1st M55)
31 David Pease 37:21
32 Robert Cranham 37:23
34 Sam Wadsworth 38:02
45 Shane Muller 39:23
51 Andrew Smith 40:00 (3rd M60)
56 Stanislov Dreiling 40:34
66 Carl Pawson 41:30
78 Nick Trutwein 42:29
Women's Race
3 Jacqueline Collins 42:25 (2nd W40)
4 Lucy Brown 42:40 (3rd W40)
25 Laura Butler 49:37
28 Lisa Gee 51:39
55 Gemma Carson 1:00:00