To say that this is a hilly half marathon is an understatement. It is a half marathon with ascent of 2704 feet.
34 Michael Alexander 2:31:43
Whilst many were anticipating the Calderdale Way Relay on Saturday, a couple of Barlickers made their way to the Lakes for this race.
48 Richard Lowther 1:44:18
119 Pete Jackson 2:03:35
209 Finishers
Pete was happy with his performance in what for him was a comeback race.
The results from this race, including a full breakdown of leg times are now available.
These reveal further facts which were not readily apparent yesterday. The first is that on legs two and three, Barlick were the fastest team.
The second thing the results reveal is that our vets team were 4th vets team.
Lastly, they reveal that there were 88 teams in the competition and that our B team finished in 38th position, comfortably in the top half of the table. This is remarkable when you consider that some members of this team were not even running at this time last year.
All in all, they reflect a great team spirit within the club and everyone who took part in this event can be justly proud of what we have achieved.
Another good performance this weekend was that of Luke Wallwork in the hilly Windermere Marathon. Luke has been quietly working his socks off over the last few months and has been rewarded with a cracking time of 3hr 12mins 51secs on his marathon debut.
It was an amazing day as 48 club members all came together to put out 4 teams in this prestigious event. Calder Valley fielded some class runners and once again came away with the honours. But this year, Barlick were chasing them all the way and at the end of leg 2, their lead was down to two and a half minutes. However, the strength in depth of Calder Valley showed and they came home nine minutes in front of Barlick. Both teams were way ahead of the rest of the field and there was then a 14 minute gap to third place Holmfirth. This is a brilliant result for the club and it is quite amazing when you think that the club has not been in existence for three years.
However, the action was not all at the front of the field, as our mixed team were putting in some terrific individual performances and they finished 23rd overall and first mixed team and taking away the mixed team trophy.
The full details will follow shortly but the teams finished as follows:
1 Calder Valley 5:53:06
2 Barlick A 6:02:47 (20 mins improvement on last year).
3 Holmfirth 6:17:05
23 Barlick Mixed 7:14:20
28 Barlick Vets 7:26:14
38 Barlick B 7:47:12
Gary Bradley was on holiday in Wales and, as you do, thought that he would enter the local fell race. He was nursing a niggle so he didn't do as well as he would have liked. With a little bit of breeze, the weather was great and the summit views were magnificent. Maybe too much sightseeing and not enough racing. He was joined by Richard Treitl who made the trip down for the day.
159 Gary Bradley 2:13:00
201 Richard Treitl 2:27:00
270 starters.
38 Daniel CHEW 22:14 New PB
230 Hazel O'HARA 30:05 New PB
6 Derek WALKDEN 20:03
100 Jenna BOOTHMAN 31:18
113 Graham WADSWORTH 33:19
122 Clover EDWARDS 34:20
123 Susan HIRD 34:21
This race saw a great battle between Tom Corrigan and Danny Collinge of Clayton, with Tom eventually running out as the race winner. There were top ten finishes for Andy Collins and Andrew Chew and a welcome return of Dan Taylor to racing who finished just outside the top ten.
In the ladies race, Jen Hird continues with her comeback, finishing 7th lady and it was good to see Paula Clark continuing with her foray on the fells.
1 Tom Corrigan 31:39
9 Andrew Collins 33:35
10 Andrew Chew 33:42
13 Dan Taylor 34:09
25 Lee Edwards 35:50
69 Jennifier Hird 40:41
87 Paula Clark 42:54
127 Jean Rawlinson 48:32
Barlick Fell Runners have been asked to take over the organisation of this race following the retirement of the current race organiser. There has been a race at this gala since the early 1970s and hopefully the future of this lovely traditional Dales fell race is now secure.
There was an interesting tussle at the front of this race. The field was led out by 14 year old Josh Boyle of Blackburn Harriers and he was closely followed by Sam Tosh. The position remained the same until half way up the steep climb up Pendle, when Sam took the lead. However, Josh remained in touch and although Sam ran out the winner, Josh finished not far behind. There was a good gap then between those two and the rest of the field. But make no mistake, those that were at this race saw a rising young star of the future.
Just a couple of Barlickers out racing ahead of the coming weekend.
34 Jonathan Boothman 38:45
101 Jack Ingham 48:55
Jackie Hodgson achieved her first ever win at this race, finishing first lady and 16th overall in a time of 42:46.
This was Cathryn Jackson's first race and a pretty good performance she put in too!
John Boothman 1:37:54
Gary Parkinson 2:06:55
Cathryn Jackson 2:09:35
53 Susan HIRD 28:02 New PB
The main aims of the club are to increase the participation of running in Barnoldswick and to keep organised running as accessible as possible.