Juniors – Page 20 – Clayton-le-Moors Harriers

ByJason Pier

Mid Lancs Cross Country – Towneley Park.

The first race of the Mid Lancs XC League is at Towneley Park, Burnley on Saturday 26th October.

Senior members:- Paul and Irene will have your race numbers.

Juniors you’ve no need to register for this race as I’ve already pre-registered most of you. I’ll issue you with a race number when you arrive at the park. The meeting point will be next to the playground near to where we meet for training on a Saturday morning.

Juniors please make sure you bring along to EVERY race the following items:

Club Vest, waterproof / windproof jacket, tracksuit bottoms, hat/buff, gloves, trail / fell shoes or cross country running spikes.

Also remember to bring a drink (not fizzy), a banana or cereal bar with you to have around 30 mins before you race. It’s important that you are fully prepared before you race.

Please make sure you arrive 45 mins before your race starts.

12:30pm, U11 Girls.

12:45pm, U11 Boys.

1:00pm, U13 Girls.

1:20pm, U13 Boys and U15 Girls.

1:40pm, U15 Boys and U17 Girls.

2:00pm, U17 Boys.

See you ALL Saturday.

ByJason Pier

Red Rose Cross Country Results – Chorley

Saturday 19th October saw 18 of our juniors make the short journey to Astley Park, Chorley for race 2 in the Red Rose XC League. Once again we saw grit and determination from our juniors to claim some impressive individual and team results.

First off in the U11 boys was Jackson McKay coming home in 16th place.

The U11 girls claimed 6th place in the team results with Millie Stubbs 15th, Ella Dorrington 18th, Keira Stevenson 54th and Anna Ashworth 56th.

U13 boys Thomas Bradley 19th, Harry Mason 39th and Daniel Bradley 41st took 7th place in the team results.

The U13 girls were most impressive in securing 2nd in the team results. Leading the girls home was Briony Holt 4th, new girl Karina Ryckynska 10th, Eleanor Root 13th and Lucy Stevenson 61st.

U15 boys Curtis Holt finished 16th with Simon Wilshaw 30th.

U15 girls saw Alice Pier claim 14th place.

The U17 boys race saw Jordan McDonald come home in 17th place followed by George Pier in 23rd.

Finally in the U17 girls Beth Quinn continued her recent fine form by claiming 11th place.

RESULTS

Well done to ALL of you.

ByJason Pier

Clayton Juniors in Recent Action

The juniors have again been in race action competing in cross country, fell and road.

Year 7 girl Eleanor Root has again been representing Skipton Girls High School in a number of cross country events where she’s been competing against year 7 & 8 girls and putting in some fine performances.

Keighley Schools XC 6th place. English Schools XC Cup 8th. School XC Malsis 7th.

At the recent Withins Skyline Junior Rat Runs Christopher Brown produced a brilliant run to claim 1st place in the U8 boys and in doing so set a new course record of 2:44.

Thomas Bradley put in a great performance to take 2nd place in the U14 boys race with brother Daniel coming home 17th U12 boy.

Brothers Leon and Thomas Passco continue to star on the road with both competing at the Vernon 4 mile road race in Preston. Leon finished in 8th place overall with Thomas 27th.

It’s great to see the juniors performing so well in all disciplines.

Well done to ALL of you.

ByAndy Armstrong

junior cross country, junior xc series

Red Rose XC No 2; Chorley, Sat 19th October

EDIT; Huge apologies to anyone who followed the typo in my postcode advice and found themselves deep in the centre of Preston, especially a couple of juniors who missed their race as a result. Please accept my apologies and I’ll be more careful for the next XC fixture.

Provisional results are HERE and I’ll update the Junior XC series table as soon as possible

Andy.

The next race in both the Red Rose league and our Junior XC series is this coming Sat 19th October.
The venue is Astley Park in Chorley, many of you will be familiar with it from the race series earlier in the year. Use postcode PR1 1XA to get to The Baron’s Rest pub which is next to the carpark.
Racing starts at 12.30 but please make sure you arrive at least 45 minutes before, to give plenty of time for parking, changing, pinning numbers on, etc. Allow time to warm up properly, ideally by jogging round some of the course so that you can see what the conditions are like. If you’re not sure what shoes to wear, just bring what you’ve got and decide on the day.

Also bring;

Club vest, running top, waterproof / windproof jacket, tracksuit bottoms, hat/buff, gloves.
Drink (not fizzy), a banana or cereal bar with you. It’s really important that you are fully prepared before you race which means warming up properly and having a small snack at least 30 minutes before you start.

I’ll try and get hold of the tent so that we’ll have somewhere undercover to dump bags.

See you there!

n.b; I’ll update and publish the results for the Junior XC series after this Saturday.

ByJim Hickie

Withins Skyline & Junior Rat Runs

On Sunday a number of team Clayton were out in force at 22nd running of the superb Woodentops Withins Skyline Race. The overall race was won by Ilkley’s Tom Adams in a new course record time of 39.26, beating the previous record of Alistair Brownlee set way back in 2006!

The first Clayton runner home was Colin Shuttleworth in 44th place whilst Jean Rawlinson was once again in the prizes winning the FV60 category with a cracking run!

In the ever popular quarry runs Our Juniors were once again in fine form, none more so than young Christopher Brown winning the U8 race in a new course record time, leaving the other 68 runners in his wake! We once again can say the future looks very bright indeed!!

U10/12/14 race Thomas Bradley came in 2nd U14 Boy (16th Overall) whilst Daniel was 63rd in the field of 125 runners – good stuff chaps!

Full results can be viewed HERE

Photo’s from the day are available HERE

ByAndy Armstrong

No Indoor Junior Training; Thursday 17th October

Spirit of Sport is closed to the public on Thursday 17th October so there’ll be no training on this day if you’re in Marion’s group.
We’re intending to run the outdoor session as normal for those that run out with Jason, Laura or Andy. I’ll send out an email to everyone with a list of names on. If you’re not on the list and you think you should be then please let me know.
Parking may be a problem too so we’ll decide on an alternative meet; as close to SoS as possible.

ByPeter Booth

October Newsletter

The October Newsletter is now available. It features a welcome message from the club’s new chair: Jim Hickie, along with details of the changes to the committee at the AGM. There are also details of the winter training session and the usual fixtures list, which includes the dates of both the Red Rose and Mid Lancs Cross Country Leagues, so you have no excuse for not turning up. We need to up our game now that Trawden AC have entered the Mid Lancs! There are also lots of results, great achievements by the juniors and TWO Runs of the Month. October Newsletter 2013

ByJason Pier

Junior Results Round Up.

The juniors have again continued to perform well at various races over the past week competing in Schools races and at Leigh in the first Red Rose XC fixture of the season.

Year 7 girl Eleanor Root took part in the Yorkshire Schools XC Races organised by Bingley Harriers. Representing Skipton Girls High School Eleanor competed against both Year 7 & 8 girls and finished in 6th place.

SCHOOLS XC RESULTS

Brothers Daniel and Thomas Bradley both representing Unity College took part in this year’s English Schools Fell Running Championships at Kendal the day after running at Leigh. Daniel competing in the year 7 race finished 41st boy with Thomas finishing 36th boy in the year 8/9 race.

ENGLISH SCHOOLS FELL RESULTS

On a glorious sunny day 17 juniors travelled to Leigh Sports Village to take part in the first Red Rose Cross Country fixture of the season. The juniors were competing in all the junior age categories, claiming team results in the U11 boys, U13 girls and U15 boys. We saw a strong and determined attitude from all the juniors to do well on what was a very fast course. Thank you to the Parents for getting your young athletes to the race venue.

Under 11 boys: Jackson McKay 16th, James Ashworth 20th, Adam Stevenson 37th. Team result 6th.

Under 11 girls: Anna Ashworth 39th, Keira Stevenson 40th.

Under 13 boys: Thomas Bradley 19th, Daniel Bradley 48th.

Under 13 girls: Briony Holt 7th, Eleanor Root 25th, Lucy Stevenson 66th. Team result 8th.

Under 15 boys: Kenan Eti 14th, Curtis Holt 18th, Ryan Clarke 26th. Team result 6th.

Under 15 girls: Alice Pier 16th.

Under 17 boys: Jordan McDonald 10th, George Pier 13th.

Under 17 girls: Beth Quinn 10th.

RED ROSE XC RESULTS

Well done to ALL of you.

ByPeter Booth

Thieveley Pike Fell Race 2013 – Report

A raiding party from Horwich RMI swept all before them at the latest edition of Thieveley Pike fell race. With the winner and three other runners in the first five, it didn’t take long to work out that the team prize was going to Horwich. It turned out that winner, Joe Mercer and his cohorts were using the race as a trial for the upcoming October relays. I’m not sure whether he was in contention for the relays, but club mate, Peter Henegan won the MV70 award in a good time, with many younger runners in his wake.

Another super vet performance came from Bowland’s Rowena Browne who defeated all the young ‘uns to take the ladies’ prize, while Calder Valley took the ladies’ team prize. Twice former winner, Andy Wrench took the men’s vet prize and, keeping it in the family, Jamie Wrench was first MU18 finisher. Back to the vets, Mervyn Keys (Rossendale) was first MV50 in 14^th place. MV60 winner, Jack Holt was the first Clayton man home, a feat replicated by Linda Lord, first FV60.

On a perfect day for running – bright and sunny, with a cooling breeze – over 140 runners enjoyed unusually dry conditions in the start field (thanks to new land owner, James Bracewell) and on the fell. It was pleasing to see so many runners, with competition from the first local cross country fixture and the English Championship Race at Edale Skyline on the same weekend.

It was great to see James had revived the traditional sheep dog trial and introduced a dog agility course. For me the only drawback was the smell of fried bacon emanating from the food stall sited about 10 metres from the finish line. Despite the distraction of a rumbling stomach, I managed to operate the timer without error, for a change!

My sincere thanks go to James and the other two landowners for allowing us to run across their land; also to my faithful band of helpers from Clayton Harriers who, once again, made sure that proceedings ran smoothly and safely.

Pete Booth

Results:TPFR 2013 Results

ByJason Pier

BOFRA – Latest Junior Results

Briony and Curtis Holt have again been in action in the BOFRA 2013 Championship races flying the Clayton flag at the Burnsall Fell Race and the Embsay Fell Race.

At the Burnsall Junior Fell Race Briony ran a great race to finish 2nd U12 girl, with Curtis also performing well to finish 7th U14 boy.

Embsay Junior Fell Race saw Briony as the sole Clayton representative and once again she didn’t disappoint finishing 2nd U12 girl to consolidate 3rd place overall in the series with one race left.

Well done to both of you.

BURNSALL RESULTS

EMBSAY RESULTS

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