The Villiers family seem to be getting a taste for cross country running and were out this weekend at this event. Young Jack was 11th out of 41 in the U13 boys race whilst mum (Rachel) was a top twenty finisher in the senior ladies race.
U13 Boys
11 Jack Villiers 9:42
Senior Ladies
19 Rachel Villiers 23:17
1 Lee Edwards 19:39
14 Paul Elcock 21:04
111 Susan Hird 29:27
1 Charles Morgan 17:56
13 Scott McCredie 21:13
72 Logan McCredie 25:08
177 Graham Wadsworth 31:21
6 Annabel Ralph 19:24 (2nd lady)
The 4th annual presentation was held at Ghyll Golf club and once again, Rachel Lowther organised a great evening. Thanks to Ghyll Golf club for putting on a good meal and serving our motley crew till 2 in the morning. Once again, it has been a cracking year for the club and it is good to see the hard work put in by the runners being rewarded. The prizewinners for 2016 were as follows-
Overall runner- Tom Corrigan
Overall Female- Sarah Tipler
Fell Champ Male- Luke Maude
Fell Champ Female- Leanne Dinsdale
Road Champ Male- Lee Edwards
Road Champ Female- Emma Bailey
Most Improved Male- Scott Boardman
Most Improved Female- Angela Donlan
Parkrun Female- Jenna Boothman
Parkrun Male- John Boothman
Xcountry Male- Tom Corrigan
Xcountry Female- Jen Hird
Performance Male- Ian Livesey
Performance Female- Lorraine Slater
Vet 40 Fell- Dave Halliday
Vet 50 Fell- John Boothman
Dnf trophy- Andrew Carson
Club person of the year- Rachel Lowther
Next year it will be the first milestone for the club with the 5 year point being reached,. With already over with over 250 members, the club is looking very healthy going forward.
Great performances for both our teams in this relay with the men finishing second and the ladies finishing third. The overall winners were York Knavesmire with a time of 3:18:48.
2 Barlick Men 3:24:14
32 Barlick Ladies 4:04:48 (3rd ladies team)
95 teams took part.
The winner was Joe Crossfield in 28:33
90 Richard Treitl 46:28
101 Ran
Today, the runners in this league were mixing it with the stars and it is on days like this, you realise just how many top class athletes there are in this country. We were missing our top ladies today, but those that turned out did the club proud. Rachel Villiers had a great race to lead the Barlickers home, followed by Emma Bailey who was not running on her favourite surface today. Third home was Karen Naylor who is another female runner who is improving in leaps and bounds. It was great to see a full strength men's team out and they were led hope by the in form Tom Corrigan.
The Barlick finishing positions were as follows:
Men's Race
122 Tom Corrigan 32:35
158 Jimmy Craig 33:39
166 Ian Livesey 33:59
180 Marc Hartley 34:25
195 Lee Parrington 34:49
212 Nick Treitl 35:40
236 Mark Holgate 36:40
239 Virgil Barton 36:36
253 Andrew Chew 37:15
316 Carl Pawson 39:22
333 Andrew Carson 39:55
410 Scott Boardman 41:57
421 Gary Bradley 42:12
435 Pete Beresford 42:40
449 Paul Elcock 43:07
452 Dan Taylor 43:15
491 Scott McCredie 44:31
544 Dave Cockell
Ladies' Race
124 Rachel Villiers 34:31
138 Emma Bailey 35:55
183 Karen Naylor 39:26
225 Hannah Newbold 43:27
258 Nicola Muller 47:54
268 Donna Milligan 52:29
U11 Boys
25 Harley Treitl 7:58
41 Logan McCredie 8:15
50 Jack Latham 8:26
68 Chloe Boothman 9:37 (Honorary Boy for the day?)
U11 Girls
51 Lucille Pickles 8:57
78 Evie Scott 10:31
U13 Girls
91 Emily Shuttleworth 13:25
120 Teigan Judson 14:18
125 Jenna Boothman 14:28
134 Emma Wilkinson 14:59
U15 Boys
117 Daniel Chew 12:16
Sixteen runners turned out for an "in the dark" run on the Lothersdale race route. First back was John Whiteside of Trawden in a time of 27:03 with Nick Kendall coming home in 8th place with a time of 32:37..
The race winner was Chris Arthur of Bowland Fell Runners in a time of 36:13
22 Carl Pawson 44:31
127 Richard Treitl 65:34
146 Ran
7 Rachel Villiers 22:16
They were very testing conditions on a snow covered Pendle, but Lorraine Slater came through it in style and finished first lady and 63rd overall. Great performances too from Luke Maude and Tom Corrigan to finish 4th & 5th respectively. Jack Wood was the race winner in a time of 2:39:30. The Barlickers finished as follows;
4 Luke Maude 2:45:27
5 Tom Corrigan 2:46:50
63 Lorraine Slater 3:15:07 (1st Lady)
69 Tom Beebe 3:16:09
112 John Boothman 3:27:00
143 Pete Jackson 3:23:33
262 Michael Alexander 4:07:46
7 Nicolas Kendall 20:13
8 Paul Elcock 20:58 New PB
13 Scott McCredie 22:02
27 Logan McCredie 24:31
42 George Fitzpatrick 24:55
96 James Stead 29:16
101 Susan Hird 29:27
121 Summer Fitzpatrick 32:54
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.