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Fell Competitions 2013

The results of our three annual competitions for fell racers have been compiled for 2013. They are as follows:

Fell Palladium

This competition rewards performances over the whole season. Overall winners are Dave Motley and Jean Brown; the full results can be found here.

John North Trophy

This trophy is awarded using the same points system as the palladium trophy, but is for “AL” category fell races only. The final top 5 for this award for 2013 are:

Name	Category	No. of races	Total Points
Jean Brown	LV40	9	396
Martin Terry	V50	5	222
David Naughton	V50	4	216
David Nuttall	V50	4	208
David Motley		3	194

Pendle Aggregate Trophy

This is awarded to the person with the highest number of points on 5 Pendle races: Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round, Pendle, Mearley Clough, Pendleton and The Tour of Pendle. To be eligible, you must have completed all 5 races (this may be reviewed for 2014). The winner for 2013 is Peter Dugdale.

January Newsletter

A little belatedly, the January Newsletter can be found here. It has details of the Club Celebration and Awards’ Evening on 1st February, 2014 Club Championship races, English and British Fell Championship counters, and a New Year’s message from the President, plus all the usual features, recent results and fixtures for January and February.

Lancs XC Champs Report

Well what a good turnout it was last weekend at Witton Park for Team Clayton. It was nice to see so many orange and white vests at as always a very well organized event by Blackburn Harriers.

Let’s start by mentioning some of the performances at the weekend from the Juniors up …..

Isaac Wilkinson took 14^th place in the Under 11 boys. Millie Stubbs 11^th place, Roanna Holdsworth 26^th place, and Grace Root 41^st place in the Under 11 Girls.

The Under 13 boys: Thomas Bradley, Adam Quinn, Daniel Bradley, Zac Jordan. Claiming 4^th team overall.

Briony Holt, Eleanor Root, Karina Rycktnsca, and Alice Gane for 6^th team in the under 13 girls. Kenan Eti, Alexander Townrow, Ryan Clarke, Curtis Holt… for 4th overall under 15 boys.

In the under 15 girls, Alice Pier was 21^st. In the under 17 men George Pier was 23^rd, and Jordan McDonald was 24^th. In the Under 17 Women, Bethany Quinn was 13^th.

Jean Brown, Angela Shian and Vicky Heys for bronze in the Ladies vets .

Spencer Riley, Stuart Fogg, Nick Gaskell, Garry Wilkinson, Colin Shuttleworth and Brian Horrocks for 4^th overall men’s team.

Garry Wilkinson, Nick Gaskell, Colin Shuttleworth…for bronze overall in the men’s vets team. Colin Shuttleworth and our President Dave Scott took top podium position for 1^st V55 and 1^st V70 respectively. Team Clayton also won the Senior Men’s Plate.

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Danger UXB

While running in Stainscomb recently (near Stan’s hut), Richard Bellaries came across a shell (i.e. bomb)! When he later led the police back to the spot, they confirmed that it was still live!!

So…. BEWARE. All the western end of Pendle was used as a live firing range in the past. Occasionally unexploded shells emerge from the peat – especially after periods of prolonged rain. If you see anything that looks like a bomb – it probably is. Follow Rich’s example: do not disturb and report it to the constabulary.

Christmas Social Runs

Those fortunate not to be working on Christmas Eve can start the celebrations with the traditional Clayton Christmas Eve Run on Pendle from Barley at 11am. Meet at Barley Car Park for a steady and sociable run of around one and a half hours led by Steve Whittaker. Andy Armstrong will be there with our Juniors, so don’t forget your Santa hats! Post run refreshments in the Pendle Inn (a pint or two!) or the Barley Cabin.

And just after Christmas, there’s Mick Green’s Christmas Run at 1pm on Saturday 28th December from Memorial Park, Great Harwood. Meet at the bottom corner of the park for an off-road run of around two hours at a very steady pace. Post run refreshments (food and drink) at the Pub Royal. Please contact Mick Green on 01254 231650 or 07455 990989 if you plan to attend so he can let the pub know how many to cater for.

All our members are very welcome at both these steady and sociable runs.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Clayton Harriers Road Champion 2013

2013 has been another busy year for Clayton Harriers with success coming on a number of fronts with individual success and pb’s tumbling throughout the year (especially the junior section)!

To become Clayton champion is a prestigious accolade and runners have to compete in a minimum of 3 out of 5 nominated races. The champion is the individual with the best results combined over the 5 races (Burnley Boys 10k, Towneley 10k, Fleetwood 1/2, Ron Hill 5k and Guys 10mile).

The Clayton Road Champion 2013 is Jonny McKenna who was first past the post in 3 races; fantastic achievement in his 1st competitive year as a harrier. In 2nd place with a number of fantastic performances over the races was Breton Holdsworth and road Capt.Brewster capped off a good 2013 with a 3rd place finish in the championship.

The Clayton Harries Ladies champion 2013 is Irene Roche who dominated with some fantastic performances. Irene was closely followed by Vicky Heyes in 2nd & Georgina Slater in 3rd.

The V40 club champion is Paul Hesketh who dominated the category. Steve Biscomb finishing 2nd and John Wilcock 3rd.

The V50 champion (also winning the V60 category) is Steve Biscomb narrowly beating John Wilcock(2nd) & Coach John Roche finishing 3rd.

The runner up in the V60 was Jeff Pickup with the ever present Ron Chappell finishing 3rd.

In all 75 different members took part in the Road championship 2013 and special mention needs to go to Paul Hesketh who was the only member to compete in all 5 races. The 2014 road fixtures will be announced soon. Will you be the next champion???!!!

London Marathon 2014 – Club Place Available!

The Club has one remaining place available for next years London Marathon. If you are interested in running & wish to be considered for this place then please get in contact with Road Captain Tom Brewster before the end of December.

Cannonball 5k Midweek Winter Series (2/4)

Wednesday 4^th December saw the second race in the Cannonball 5k race series, another chilly night greeted the runners with 9 brave Clayton harriers bracing themselves against the elements.

Wheelchair Athlete Anthony Gotts once again leading the field away from the start, Tom Brewster lead the Clayton men’s team home, claiming 3^rd place in front of a strong finishing Nick Gaskell (4^th and 1^st MV40) and consistent Chris Holdsworth (5^th) to take the men’s team prize for the second week in a row.

The Ladies also had a fantastic run out, Junior runner Alice Pier leading the seniors home in 28^th (also 1^st FU18) followed by returning superstar Gayle Whittaker (33^rd) and Deputy Ladies Road Captain Rebecca Rawcliffe (35^th) securing the Ladies team prize and Clayton’s domination over the team event.

Also out in force for Clayton Harriers were George Pier (14^th and 1^st MU18) and Media Manager Wayne McIntosh (50^th) completing another excellent run out for the club.

Full Results are available HERE

Photos are HERE

Race 3 of the series is on Weds 11^th December; everyone will be keeping their fingers crossed for a hat-trick for the Men’s team prize, a second ladies team prize and some more strong runs from our ever-improving juniors!

December Newsletter

Welcome to the latest edition of the Harrier – a few days later than planned – my apologies. Download it now to get reports on the UK Fell & Hill running Relays in N Wales, the Tour of Pendle and the FRA Presentation, hosted by the club at Mytton Fold Hotel, plus all the usual features, results and fixtures. Please take special note of the article on p3 by Mike Eddleston regarding annual subscriptions, which are due at the end of the month. December Newsletter 2013

Cannonball 5k Midweek Winter Series (1/4)

The Cannonball Events Todmorden 5k race series started with a bang on Wednesday with 48 headtorch-wearing runners lining up to do battle. 11 athletes were there representing Clayton Harriers from both the senior and junior sections.

The race was started at 7pm sharp by series organiser John Lloyd. Claytons wheelchair athlete Anthony Gotts swiftly disappeared into the darkness with Captain Tom Brewster and Chris Holdsworth heading the runners into lap 1.

Todmorden Harriers Jon Wright gained a healthy lead on lap 3 and a battle between the two leading Clayton Harriers began with positions changing regularly until the fight was decided in the last 200 meters and a sprint to the line for 2nd and 3rd being taken by Tom and Chris respectively – Nick Gaskell hunting the leaders down with a strong final lap to take 4th and securing the mens team prize.

An excellent race was had by Clayton Junior Kenan Eti completing the race in 7th place just ahead of Kevin Davies (alias Nick Faldo, Mahogany Man, Morroccan Sunset……) in 8th resulting in Clayton securing 6 of the top 10 places, Kieron Mitchell coming home in 18th rounding up the senior team.

Clayton Juniors George Pier, Thomas Bradley, Alice Pier and Daniel Bradley all had an excellent outing showing that their efforts in training are paying off.

An excellent start to the series by Team Clayton!

Race 2 of the series kicks off on Wednesday 4th December with hopes high for another top performance for all athletes!

Full Details for the remaining races can be found HERE

Race 1 Results HERE

Race 1 Photos HERE

Category Archive Seniors

Fell Palladium

John North Trophy

Pendle Aggregate Trophy