Sometimes in relays  you have to say that it was just not our year and that applied to this race.  Nick Treitl & Ian Beresford ran the first leg and were up in contention behind the leading teams and on the ascent, Ian was leading. As the terrain levelled out, Nick took up the running.  It was a bright sunny day and the sun was getting in your eyes and there was a tendency therefore to put your head down and press on.  Nick was doing this and was following the team in front.  Sadly, that team took a wrong turning and Nick followed them.  Ian was a little way back and could see what was happening and he shouted out to Nick to turn back.  Unfortunately, Nick could not hear him. By the time this first pair sorted themselves out, they were down to 27th position at the handover, whereas Wharfedale, who they had been chasing, handed over in 5th.  

From that point, we knew that we had a battle on our hands, but our second pair of Luke Maude and Julian Hood did a sterling job and pulled back 14 places and handed over in 13th position at the Kirkstone Inn.  Andy Berry and Chris Smale were the next leg runners and ascending Red Screes, they were gaining on the Dark Peak Vets.  However, they could not keep that pace up and over the leg, they slipped back and lost 6 of those hard won places gained by Luke and Julian.

The last leg runners were Tom Corrigan and Jimmy Craig.  Both had been suffering from stomach upsets and could easily have pulled out, but to their credit, they turned out on the day, so as not to let the side down.  They would have normally been expected  to pull back a few places, but they were too drained to do that, although they did keep hold of their hand over position and the team finished in 20th place, which is our worse performance in this race since the club was founded.  As we said, it was just not our year.

At the front of the field, a great battle took place between Dark Peak Borrowdale, Keswick and Calder Valley.  Borrowdale have won this race for the past nineteen years, but this year, they were knocked off their perch by Dark Peak who came home a comfortable five minutes in front of them and may have set a new course record in the process.  The Dark Peak vets came home in 10th place overall, but were first vets team and the Dark Peak ladies finished in 32nd place and were the first ladies team.  Quite a performance on the day from that formidable club.

Full leg times and splits are in the results section.

Ian Livesey managed to secure an elite entry to this race and he was rewarded by being the first Brit and finishing 5th overall in a time of 2:35:39.

A great performance from Ian.

As we have alluded to previously, our ladies are on fire at the moment.  In this race, they were first ladies team, not just in their own division, but overall, and in addition, they were also first overall FV35 team.  What a performance!.

The first ladies team was:

Sarah Tipler, Lorraine Slater and Angela Donlan.

The first FV35 team was:

Lorraine Slater, Angela Donlan and Rachel Villiers.

The men put in a good performance and a special mention has to be made of Marc Hartley.  Following his recent medical problems, his doctor told him not to run, but ignoring that advice, he had a test run out last week at the Burnley Park Run (where he finished in first place) and this week, he had another cracking run to finish just behind Matt Lalor.  His contribution, along with the rest of the team, led Barlick to finish in second place and put us in a strong position to challenge for the first division title.

In the Men's League the counters were:

Matt Lalor, Marc Hartley. Lee Parrington, Mark Holgate, David Mills  & Andrew Chew

In the Junior League, our U11 boys did well to finish 2nd against Clayton le Moors.  The team was:

Jacob Reeday, Harley Treitl & Ben Thompson.

The finishing positions for all our runners is as follows:

.Senior Men 

12 Matthew Lalor 37:33
13 Marc Hartley 38:03
17 Lee Parrington 39:01
32 Marc Holgate 40:10
34 Daniel Mills 40:12
47 Andrew Chew 41:22
102 Tim Piggott 45:39
179 John Boothman 50:16
226 Andrew Driver 54:42
259 Darren Holdsworth 1:00:50
264 Richard Treitl 1:04:04

Senior Ladies 

3 Sarah Tipler 24:57
11 Lorraine Slater 26:56 (3rd L45)
14 Angela Donlan 27:22 (2nd L35)
20 Rachel Villiers 28:17
25 Emma Bailey 29:03
36 Laura Craig 30:26
45 Heather Driver 31:04
78 Karen Naylor 33:51
133 Natalie Edwards 39:02
168 Donna Milligan 44:47

U13 Boys 

17 Elliot Phillips 12:59
25 Jack Villiers 13:25
33 Aaron Slater 33:48
49 Oliver Hartley 14:36
64 Connor Fitzpatrick 16:21

U13 Girls 

41 Teigan Judson 12:43
47 Jenna Boothman 12:49
58 Lily Pickles 13:40
61 Emma Wilkinson 14:13

U11 Boys

3 Jacob Reedey 6:15
14 Harley Treitl 6:40
15 Ben Thompson 6:40
20 Jayden Whitelock 6:41
30 Logan McCredie 7:00
34 Jack Latham 7:07
36 Arran Byrne 7:11
71 Alex Bryne 8:42

U11 Girls 

46 Lucille Pickles 7:56
48 Maddison Parrington 7:58
57 Chloe Boothman 8:10
70 Annabelle Hoyle 8:40
72 Tabitha Berry 8:41

6 Ian Cocks 19:36
195 Graham Wadsworth 30:16 New PB