The weather was fine, but very windy and the runners were heading into the wind on the ascent. William Walker of Clayton led the runners on the way out and he was closely followed by Tom Corrigan, As they approached the summit, the gap began to close with Tom taking the lead on the return. The gap between the two runners gradually widened, with Tom evetually taking the honours with a one minute lead. Behind those two, there were two Barlickers battling it out for third place, with David Mirifield just edging it over Ben Whitehead.
In the ladies race, Molly Ralphson led everyone home to not only win the race, but to also finish first W50. She is certainly on form at the moment. Second place went to the unattached Hannah Goldswain and like the men's race, there was a battle between two Barlickers for third place, with Jacqueline Collins taking the honours over Lucy Brown. Married life must be suiting Paula Cullen as she had an excellent race to finish in sixth place and third Barlicker.
Barlick won both the men's and the ladies' team prizes.
The Barlickers finished as follows:
Men
1 Tom Corrigan 39:58 (1st M40)
3 David Mirfield 41:45 (2nd M40)
4 Ben Whitehead 42:03 (3rd M40)
10 Ian Cocks 45:32
14 David Pease 47:13 (2nd M45)
15 Andy Berry 47:43 (3rd M45)
18 Carl Nevison 48:44 (2nd M55)
22 John Mason 50:26 (2nd M50)
23 Andrew Smith 50:29 (1st M60)
34 Shane Muller 53:01
36 Stan Dreiling 53:04
48 David Cockell 56:25
54 Glenn Whittaker 57:25
55 Pete Jackson 57:34 (2nd M65)
89 Raymond Banks 1:07:32 (3rd M70)
Women
3 Jacqueline Collins 51:55
4 Lucy Brown 55:50
6 Paula Cullan 57:02
20 Nicola Muller 1:06:04
25 Lisa Gee 1:09:36