There was a battle royal at the front of the field in this race between Max Wharton of Calder Valley & Gary Priestley of Salford.  The pair finished way ahead of the following pack with Max Wharton just shading it over the second place man by just three seconds and setting a new course record in the process.  It was great racing between these two athletes.

The rest of the field came home nearly four minutes after the battling duo with Andy Collins leading the Barlickers home with another top class run.  Barlick were joint second place team along with Todmorden, although strictly speaking, they should have been third, based on the third counter rule.

4 Andy Collins 52:46
13 Andy Berry 57:08
20 Zac Kaye 1:00:25
27 Andrew Smith 1:03:13
30 Andrew Driver 1:03:23
37 David Pease 1:05:14
41 Anthony Brown 1:05:54

171 Andy Smith 5:40:49
499 Helen Harrison 7:26:16
500 Emma Pease 7:26:16
501 Marie Eden 7:26:18

643 Finishers 

Nine juniors made the trip up to Scotland to the small town of Alva for The 163rd Famous Alva Games for round seven of the BOFRA Championships. In blistering heat they had to tackle a very steep and demanding course, crawling through a narrow gap with Gorse bushes at either side, one slip and there would be thorns a plenty to deal with. Once at the top a quick turnaround before heading back through the Gorse as quickly as they could. The u12 race saw some incredible results, Jacob Reeday was in his usual emphatic form and, despite a nasty fall, blitzed the field to take his sixth straight win in the u12 boys category. Lucille Pickles came home 1st u12 girl after another brilliant run, Jody Whitfield who is in good form of late came home 3rd u12 girl just missing out on 2nd by 1 second. Isaac Reeday was 10th boy in his first race at Alva with a great display of determination. 14th and 15th u12 boys were Oscar Clayton and Garth Duffy, the two lads decided before the race they were going to run together, as Garth Duffy entered the arena with Oscar trailing him, he caught and passed two other runners, suddenly stopped and waited for Oscar to catch him up, showing that they really meant they would run it together, only a Barlick Fell Runner would have that in them, as a tearful Mrs Duffy might tell you ! Oscar Clayton knocking 9 minutes off his previous years time just shows you how far these kids have come along. Lily-Grace Clayton just missing out on her first trophy yet again, finishing 7th u12 girl, although she did pick up a medal and some money in the girls 11-14yrs 100mtr sprint, finishing third. In the u14 race Ciara Duffy gave it her all to finish 5th girl , also running at Alva for the first time. Jack Villiers was pushed all the way as he secured a 3rd place in the u17 race. All in all, another great show by this special group of runners.

U17
3 Jack Villiers 12:39

U14
9 Ciara Duffy 18:24

U12
1 Jacob Reeday 10:13
8 Lucille Pickles 12:06 (1st Girl)
11 Isaac Reeday 12:34
16 Jody Whitfield 14:46 (3rd Girl)
20 Oscar Clayton 16:14
21 Garth Duffy 16:15
22 Lily-Grace Clayton 16:34 (7th Girl)

70 Tony Duffy 44:49
82 Kristian Clayton 1:12:40