The women are taking over the world. Katie Walshaw was not only the first lady, but she was also the overall race winner.
Sam Wadsworth had been partying the night before and went to this race merely to let his little girl run in the junior races. However, when she finished, she asked if he was running and he felt that he was not setting a good example by saying that he could not be bothered. Just to confirm that partying is not ideal race preparation, he had a shocker by his standards and finished in 30th place.
Full results are in the results section.
Great Win for Sarah Tipler
The first race of the Pendle & Burnley Grand Prix saw Jimmy Craig finish in third place with Sarah, beating Tara Krzywicki and Amy Green, who are both excellent runners, to win the ladies race. The overall race winner was Richard Burney of Liverpool Harriers. The Barlick runners finished as follows:
3 Jimmy Craig 39:37
18 Sarah Tipler 43:16 (1st Lady)
22 Andy Berry 43:48
66 Derek Walkden 48:52
82 John Boothman 50:11
182 Gary Parkinson 59:54
197 Jean Rawlinson 1:02:12
202 Lucy Beresford 1:03:01
203 Emma Bailey 1:03:10
221 James Stead 1:05:20
Under 8 Race:
17 Tabitha Berry 02:04 (4th F7 Girl)
9 John BOOTHMAN 21:07 New PB
38 Emma BAILEY 24:17 New PB
91 Jenna BOOTHMAN 32:04
94 Angela BOOTHMAN 32:40
Rachel Lowther Wins the Ladies Race
This year, the race was won by Charlie McIntosh of Pudsey & Bramley in a time of 2:20:37, whist Rachel took the ladies race, improving on her time last year by over 21 minutes.
In the first part of the race, there was nothing to choose between the first three runners, who drew away from the rest of the pack, but as the race developed, Stephen Chew did not adhere to his original navigational plan and as a result of this, the two lead runners pulled away from him and he found himself caught by the next two chasing runners. However, on the run in, he managed to out pace these two and secure third place.
In the ladies race, Rachel Lowther went off steadily and appeared to judge the pace of the race well managing to hold on to her lead and finish just in front of Kerrie Bretherton of Trawden.
The field was much reduced this year, suffering from the clash with the Championship Race at Coniston
Stephen Chew made a return to the fells in this race, coming home in third place. Ashley Holt from Rossendale was the race winner.
Barlick shirts are now starting to appear all over. There were three on the Island of Guernsey over the Easter weekend in this road race. They finished as follows:
20 Lucas Payne 36:30
120 Mark Newbould 48:24 PB
184 Kathryn Payne 56:45
1 Lucas PAYNE 17:54 New PB
4 Chris SMEDLEY 20:04
More Pictures from Sport Sunday
Once more Gary Bradley took part in this race and this year, he finished in 73rd place with a time of 16 hours 39 minutes, an improvement of an hour on his last year's time.
More Sport Sunday Race Pictures
The race this year was won by Ricky Lightfoot and great run by Nick Treitl saw him finish in 20th position. Luke Maude was another runner to have a great run to finish 1st Under 25
20 Nick Treitl 3:23:25
33 Luke Maude 3:34:04 (1st MU25)
37 Jimmy Craig 3:37:14
222 Andy Berry 4:11:13
607 John Boothman 5:12:13
The table below shows the breakdown of times and positions at the various check points and have been taken from the official results web site. However, the positions at the Hill Inn and Ingleborough look very suspect, as they are missing several of the top runners.
| Pen y Ghent | Ribblehead | Whernside | Hill Inn | Ingleborough | Finish | |
| Nick Treitl | 18 - 32:35 | 16 - 1:21:59 | 19 - 1:56:51 | 10 - 2:15:34 | 7 - 2:49:56 | 20 - 3:23:25 |
| Luke Maude |
48 - 34:35 |
47 - 1:28:15 | 28 - 2:00:53 | 19 - 2:20:13 | 12 - 2:53:38 | 33 - 3:34:04 |
| James Craig |
27 - 33:29 |
28 - 1:25:12 | 33 - 2:01:07 | 25 - 2:22:34 | 21 - 2:58:53 | 37 - 3:37:14 |
| Andy Berry | 101 - 36:50 | 168 - 1:36:54 | 165 - 2:16:37 | 165 - 2:41:41 | 176 - 3:24:19 | 222 - 4:11:13 |
| John Boothman | 427 - 42:56 | 370 - 1:46:43 | 461 - 2:37:51 | 442 - 3:05:33 | 557 - 4:09:47 | 607 - 5:12:13 |
| Rob Weir | 93 - 36:33 | 118 - 1:34:17 | 153 - 2:15:26 | 418 - 3:02:59 | - | - |
In the first three Bunny Runs, Barlick Fell Runners were conspicuous by their absence. However, they made up for it last night and entered several teams and it was good to see so many Barlick shirts around, some worn by members running their first ever race.
Sarah Tipler had a particularly good run to record a time of 11:14, which is the 16th fastest ever Bunny Relay Leg time. Woodentops are in the process of altering the results to record this.
The official results are now available and details of the Barlick teams are below.
It was nice to see Chewy out in a Barlick vest this weekend, even though he was feeling rough and did not perform as well as he can. Having said that, he still beat 97% of the field.
9 Stephen Chew 38:34
462 finishers.
Richard Treitl likes to take part in races and he was out again this weekend in Snowdonia, in this 10 miles, 2800 ft race. His account of the day is below.
21 Michael ALEXANDER 22:44
15 Chris SMEDLEY 20:15 New PB
4 Derek WALKDEN 19:43 New PB
7 James FENT 20:24
67 Jenna BOTHMAN 30:05 New PB
68 John BOOTHMAN 30:06
With the light nights, numbers are increasing for the pub runs. Stephen Chew has once more put pen to paper, or perhaps more accurately, fingers to keyboard to produce an account of the night.
1 Nick TREITL 17:34 New PB
6 James FENT 20:24 New PB
56 Mark NEWBOULD 24:18
150 Charlotte PERRY 32:32 New PB
8 Andy Berry 56:36
29 Andy Driver 63:12
36 Dave Halliday 66:47
57 Craig Child 74:50
71 Richard Treitl 80:14
76 Finishers
"I am glad that I looked at the map before the race", said Mike Fanning, the surprise winner. Apparently the top thirty runners went for a jolly run around the moors, leaving the field open for Mike. No such problems for our own Jean Rawlinson who knows her way round most race routes.
141 Jean Rawlinson
Time follows.
150 finishers.
Stuart Bryan did the relay with David Poole who should be joining the club imminently. Stuart did the running bit, which was supposed to be a circular route taking in Grizedale Pike, but this was cut short due to weather ie it was windy. David did the next mountain bike section. Stuart then did the second run, but admits that he "bonked" due to him recovering from man flu and also, running again after a one an a half hour rest didn't help. The second run took in Lords seat and Barf. The team finished second out of the relay pairs field of seven.
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.