It was good to see a record number of Barlickers taking part in this race and it was good to see Jimmy Craig back racing. He is not yet back to his old self, but he was up there, coming home in 6th place. We had quite a few women out and they all put in some great performances. Leanne Dinsdale was back out racing and although she was nursing an injury and ostensibly going steady, she still led the girls home, finishing 6th female. The conditions were not the best for this race, as in view of the recent inclement weather, there was quite a bit of mud about which made the climbs even more energy sapping.
6 Jimmy Craig 17:01
17 Andy Berry 18:54
53 Zac Kaye 21:07
67 John Boothman 22:07
72 Leanne Dinsdale 22:31 (6th female)
93 Victoria Peel 23:41
106 Hannah Newbold 24:29
112 Jenna Boothman 24:51 (GU15)
128 Eleanor Moore 26:42
135 Eve Boothman 27:22
163 Anne Marie Beech 30:34
Under 9
27 Oscar Clayton 9:19
Under 11
29 Lucille Pickles 12:03
30 Garth Duffy 12:06
57 Lily-Grace Clayton 14:27
Under 15
12 Jack Villiers 16:30
70 Ciara Duffy 25:48
This year we had one mens team and one ladies team out for the 12 and 6 stage event. Both teams put in strong performances to ensure that they both qualified for the nationals in a few weeks time. \
Mens 12 Stage
26 Barlick Fell Runners 3:32:57
33 Raymond Edgar 26:01
32 James Tingle 13:12
29 Lee Parrington 25:41
26 Gary Shaw 13:12
27 Marc Hartley 26:53
26 Scott Boardman 13:26
25 Craig Shearer 25:37
25 Lee Edwards 13:49
25 Christopher Smale 14:21
27 James Austin 14:27
27 Daniel Balshaw 14:09
26 Ian Livesey 12:09
Ladies 6 Stage
18 Barlick Fell Runners 2:07:08
20 Sarah Jarvis 30:22
19 Jacqueline Collins 15:15
17 Jennifer Hird 15:25
15 Rachel Villiers 31:23
17 Heather Driver 17:30
18 Victoria Peel 17:13
David Mirifield had a great run to comfortably take the win in this race, with a 3 minute lead over Paul Crabtree of Wharfedale, who just managed to hold off David Poole who came home in third place.Wharfedale. The Barlickers finished as follows:
1 David Mirfield 51:00
3 David Poole 54:10
15 Chris Snell 1:00:15
26 Zac Kaye 1:04:54 (1st MU23)
29 Andrew Smith 1:05:24
30 Anthony Brown 1:07:19
69 Richard Treitl 1:31:05
77 finishers.
Only one Barlicker out in this race and he was the one man you could have forgiven for not running this week after his 55 mile run last week in arctic conditions. Considering the state of his legs after last week he had a pretty reasonable run finishing in 47 position.
47 John Boothman 2:40:41
2 Andy Berry 19:37 New PB
7 Alex Mason 21:13 New PB
12 Scott McCredie 21:44
16 James Austin 22:31
17 Rachel Villiers 22:31
28 Lucille Pickles 24:39 New PB
32 Garth Duffy 25:09
33 Tony Duffy 25:27 New PB
39 Ciara Duffy 26:25 New PB
44 Nicola Muller 27:05
62 Anne Marie Beech 30:17
81 Susan Hird 28:10
132 Amanda Tarn 32:26
This was a race put on by Rossendale & Pendle Mountain Rescue Team and it attracted a few of our Wednesday pub runners. The race was won by Sam Watson of Wharfedale. The Barlickers finished as follows:
3 Andy Collins 50:22
15 Andy Berry 51:28
22 James Austin 54:24
38 Zac Kaye 57:30
61 Paul Elcock 60:43
68 Victoria Peel 61:32
84 Jacqueline Collins 67:14
174 starters
This event was held at Dalby forest and was the North Yorkshire Schools Cross Country finals. This was the culmination of several rounds covering all North Yorkshire Schools.
Jacob Reeday ran in year 6 boys and had a storming run. He was well clear coming out of the woods, finished way ahead of the rest of the field and winning in amazing style. What a way to win a final.
Lucille Pickles and Chloe Boothman ran in the year 6 girls. Lucille had a great run and was 4th coming out of the woods, but she got pipped by a couple of other runners and finished 6th. Chloe had a really strong run, finishing somewhere mid field.
This is an incredibly hard challenge, but even more so in the conditions which prevailed on the day. Read all about it from the account of the day by John Boothman, from the link below.
Our two intrepid runners John "three races a day" Boothman and Lucas "ironman" Payne decided together to take on this challenge which is a 55 mile race, including 6,561 ft of ascent. John was determined not to go off too fast but, as can easily happen in a race, he got swept along with the crowd and completed the first nine miles to CP1 at an average pace of 5.81 mph. This was much faster than his target pace of 5 mph. Lucas went off even faster, finishing the first leg at over 6 mph. By CP2, there was a 12 minute gap between our runners and this is very much how it was throughout the rest of the race. Sometimes, John would close the gap and then Lucas would extend it again. On the tops, all the runners were exposed to prolonged periods of extreme weather. The wind would bring you to a standstill and your supply of water completely froze up. The last big climb was Roseberry Topping, by which time, the gap was down to eight minutes, but John's water had frozen up again and he entered a real bad spell. He forced some food down and drove himself on finishing quite strongly. In the meantime Lucas pushed on finishing in 11h 14 m 54 seconds a full 22 minutes ahead of John. Given that they were up against specialist runners and the conditions on the tops were horrendous, this was a remarkable performance from both of them.
27 Lucas Payne 11:14:54 (31st overall)
34 John Boothman 11:37:39 (40th overall)
343 started. 164 finished. 179 retired.
106 Maddison Parrington 29:31
1 John Whiteside 18:52
3 Andy Berry 20:01
8 James Austin 19:54
40 Daniel Thornber 24:09
189 Sara Hardacre 32:35
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.