Seniors Road – Page 17 – Clayton-le-Moors Harriers

ByJim Hickie

Award Winners 2013

The Club’s Annual Presentation of Awards will be held on Saturday 1st February in the 1882 Lounge at Burnley FC. These are the Award Winners for the following Club Competitions in 2013:

Cross Country Championship
Fell Championship
Road Championship
Cross Country Palladium
Fell Palladium
Road Palladium
Pendle Aggregate Trophy
John North Trophy

The winners for the following awards will be announced at the Awards Evening, but here are the Nominations:

Outstanding Ladies’ Performance
Outstanding Men’s Performance
Outstanding Men’s V50 Performance
Most Promising Newcomer
Most Improved Runner

Get your tickets now so you can congratulate our Award Winners on their successes in 2013. Please order your tickets no later than Friday 24th January. Let’s make this a really good night out for Team Clayton!

ByJim Hickie

Garstang 10k Report

On the 12th January a few members travelled to Garstang to do the annual 10k road race. There was also a fun run as well. The Garstang 10k is a popular event and attracted over 400 runners this year. The 1st Clayton runner home was Nick Gaskell in 35.29 in 8th place and 1st V40. He was followed by the Brewster family Tom in 36.15 and his dad Roger in 38.49. Then Richard Briscoe in 40.16 and Stephen Biscomb in 41.17. There were also good performances from Derrick Marsh, Brian Wildman, Yvonne Wickham, and the ever present Ron Chappell and Andrea Brewster.

Results are available here. Pictures of the event are here.

Congratulations for everyone who ran.

Many thanks to our new reporter Richard Briscoe for this race report.

ByPeter Booth

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.

ByDave Motley

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???!!!

ByJim Hickie

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.

ByJim Hickie

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!

ByPeter Booth

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

ByJim Hickie

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

ByJim Hickie

Race Report Preston 10 mile

Sunday morning around 400 runners lined up for the 32^nd Preston 10 mile 2 lap road race organised by Preston Harriers

Clayton team made up by Nick Gaskell, Steve Biscomb, Martin Brady, Ted Orell & Ron Chappell!

Nick being a new member to Clayton and running a few local 10k’s fancied a go at the 10 mile distance! Finishing in a time of 58.59 overall 10^th and picking up 1^st vets prize!

Since joining Clayton back in the summer I’ve stepped up to doing a mixture of hill and track training and feel this is helping me pace myself in the races! “ I was a bit nervous about running the 10 mile distance as I’ve only really focused on 10k’s / 5k’s coming mainly from an unattached ( non club runner) for years!!

Joining a running club was at first a difficult decision, but now a few months in, running in the Clayton colours as really helped me with my running, there’s lots of support on the social media sites from other members, other clubs and also the spectators at the races too!

Sum up!! going to finish a cracking 2013 off with a few x country’s a few 5k’s up at Cannonball, Longridge 7

2014!! Really looking forward to more races and running for Clayton also working on my times & focusing on the 10k distance!

I love running, it de-stresses me from a hard day’s work..!

The full results list can be found HERE

Nick 😉

ByJim Hickie

Deputy Ladies’ Road & Trail Captain

Candice Heys, our Ladies’ Road and Trail Captain, is recovering following a successful knee operation, and expects that it will be some months before she can return to running and racing. To support Candice in her role, the committee has appointed Rebecca Rawcliffe as Deputy Ladies’ Road and Trail Captain. Rebecca joined Clayton in February this year and is a familiar face at John Roche’s Tuesday and Thursday training sessions. Candice and Rebecca will work together to ensure that our Ladies put up a good performance at the upcoming Witton Park Trail Relays on 2nd February, and also at the Northern Six Stage in Manchester on 15th March.

Jim Hickie, Club Chair

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