2 of our U15 boys have been in track action both representing their school. Curtis Holt running in the Pendle schools 800m put in a great performance to finish 1st.
Alexander Townrow was competing in the Blackburn inter schools 1500m and also put in a great performance to secure 2nd place. Well done to BOTH of you.
The July Newsletter includes all the usual features: junior news, results, fixtures and Covering Old Ground, as well as the latest update on Pete and Sandi’s adventures in the USA, a more detailed report on our Calderdale Way Relay successes, plus advance notice of the club AGM on 29th August, and is available here.
Well done to our the three junior relay teams who performed so well at Thursday’s trail relay at Witton Park. The junior teams were competing against adult teams from various local clubs with many teams containing very experienced runners. Our junior A team of George Pier, Kenan Eti and Jordan McDonald produced a great performance to finish in 14th place in a time of 53.39mins.The B team containing Curtis Holt, Alexander Townrow and Tom Bradley finished 23rd with a time of 56.30 with the C team of Ryan Clarke, Beth Quinn and Alice Pier coming home in 37th place with a time of 01.01.43. Well done to ALL of you.
Tuesday training moves to Worston for July (with the exception of Tuesday 16th July when there’ll be no training because of the summer series race the next day)
Meet at the Calf’s Head in Worston at 6:50 for 7:00pm.
We’ll aim to run two ability groups and we may move runners between different groups on a weekly basis according to illness/injury/recent activity etc. Don’t forget that this is an invitation only session; if you think you should be there, come and discuss it with us first.
The terrain around Worston is substantially different to Worsthorne. It’s almost all on the fell so bring fell shoes if you have them. Trail shoes are fine, DON’T turn up in ordinary trainers.
It’s fairly steep so we won’t cover as much distance and it’s very exposed up on Pendle where the weather can be completely different to that around Burnley; please bring your windproof tops.
See you there (hope I haven’t put you off!)
Andy.
Sixteen juniors made the trip over to Chiserley above Hebden Bridge for a well organised and hotly contested event.
All worked really hard for their results and we came away with some new course records and category wins. Grace Root was first u8 girl, Jackson McKay first u10 overall and Briony Holt first u12.
As the race was unexpectedly run as ‘age on the day’ Kenan Eti found himself promoted to u16 but coped extremely well and nearly beat George Pier to the finish.
Well done to everyone, a superb team effort and thanks to Gillian Wisbey and marshalls of Calder Valley for organising the event
Results are HERE. Lots of great pictures from Dave Woodhead
Alice Pier took part in the annual Race for Life charity race over a 5k course around Towneley Park along with over 1,000 ladies and ran very well against a very determined lady runner to finish in 1st place with a time of 19:31 mins.
Congratulations to Briony Holt and Eleanor Root for their excellent performance in the Pendle Schools Athletics meeting; finishing first and second in the 800m track event
Who said we’re just a fell club?!
Brother and sister Curtis and Briony Holt took part in the tough Sedbergh uphill challenge which is part of the English Junior Fell Championship.
Briony finished 4th U12 girl with Curtis taking 16th place in the U14 boys. Well done to both of you.
4 of our juniors were chosen to represent their town in the Lancashire Schools Athletics Championships. Alice Pier (Burnley) and Lucy Horrocks (Pendle) were competing in the junior girls 1500m with Alice finishing 5th and Lucy 6th.
In the senior boys 3000m race we had George Pier (Burnley) and Jordan McDonald (Burnley) running, with Jordan in 7th and George 9th.
Well done to ALL of you and congratulations on being chosen to represent your town.
We had a great turnout for Race 8; seventeen juniors made the trip to Chorley on Friday 5th June for a fast 1 mile course within Astley Park. George Pier was the outright winner by 15 seconds and Briony Holt came home first girl in 8th overall. Well done to all of you.