News – Page 32 – Clayton-le-Moors Harriers

ByPeter Booth

Ron Hill Accrington 10K Run

10.30am Sunday 30th March from Accrington Town Hall.

World famous Accrington runner and Clayton legend, Ron Hill will lead hundreds onto Hyndburn’s roads as he puts his name to a brand new 10K event in the borough. This event also celebrates the 40th anniversary of Hyndburn Borough Council.

Starting from Accrington Town Hall the event takes runners up Manchester Road to Baxenden before looping back down the tree-lined, former railway track ‘greenway’, finishing back in the town centre.

The Ron Hill Accrington 10K is open to anyone over the age of 18 with prizes available for the first three runners home in the categories of male, female and veterans. It costs £8 for affiliated running club members or £12 on the day.

Charities and good causes locally set to benefit from the event include Finley’s Disney Dream, East Lancashire Hospice and Derian House Children’s Hospice.

Enter now at: http://bookitzone.com/robert_grigorjevs/3m2FFX

ByTom Brewster

Clayton Score Top 10 finishes at Witton Park Trail Relays!!

A muddy Captain Brewster on the ascent!

The Third running of the Witton Park Trail relay was held Sunday 2nd Feb, 63 teams from the local area turned out to contest the short but fast mixed-terrain event; Clayton Harriers had an impressive 40 runners present in the form of 10 teams: 5 men’s, 2 ladies/mixed and 3 Junior teams.

With most of the field having carried out a recce of the course to judge how muddy it was (Very muddy!) the leg 1 runners lined up ready for the 11am start with Seniors, vets and juniors all kicking off at the same time.

Fell climbing ace Spencer Riley gave the men’s A team a healthy start gaining 3rd place off the first leg, the position was maintained for the remaining three legs with strong runs from team-mates Matt Perry, Jonny McKenna and Chris Holdsworth to take 3rd place overall.

Captain Tom Brewster also got the men’s B team off to a good start coming home in 6th off the first leg, again the position was maintained by very consistent runs by Paul Shackleton, Nick Gaskell and Dave Motley allowing the team to snatch 6th place in the final standings.

The Senior men’s C team were lead off the line by Leon Passco, he handed over to the ever reliable Richard Briscoe who’s stirling effort was followed up by strong runs from Ryan Wilkinson and Dave Bagot to achieve 13st spot.

Not to be outdone by their senior counterparts the Clayton Juniors had a fantastic run out with the boys A team claiming 15th overall, Jordan McDonald coming in a mere 5 seconds and one place behind senior man Tom Brewster on leg 1 to give his team a boost in the standings, his performance was echoed with excellent runs from George Pier, Tom Bradley and Kenan Eti.

The Clayton men’s vets’ team were next in the standings, represented by Sean Clare, John Wilcock, “Coach” John Roche and Dom Car achieving an excellent 21st place.

Not far behind the Vets came the 4th senior team, securing 23rd place and consisting of Adam Shaw, Lee Passco, Matt Law and new-boy Tim Pigott.

Clayton Junior boys “B” team were once again hot on the heels of the senior men, scoring 28th place were young guns Curtis Holt, Alexander Townrow, Tom passco and Ryan Clarke.

The Clayton mixed team were next to complete the relay, Dave Hogan, Katy Thompson, Irene Roche and Paul Wale all enjoying excellent performances to net 44th place.

Next in the standings were the Clayton all-Ladies team of Vice-captain Rebecca Rawcliffe, Jean Knightly, Tanya Ashworth and Georgina Slater, recording an impressive 56th place and finishing 4th out of 6 all-women teams.

Last but by no means least to get a mention are the Clayton Junior Girls, missing a runner on their final leg did nothing to deter Clayton’s rising stars as Eleanor Root, Beth Quinn and Alice Pier all posted times to challenge their senior peers and finish 61st overall.

A massive thanks from the team captains to all runners who represented, as a club we had a fantastic day and it was very encouraging to see so many keen runners turning out so enthusiastically to run for their club – your captains are very proud and we hope to improve on yesterdays performances in the Summer relay!

Full results: http://www.ukresults.net/2014/wittrelayfeb.html
Event Pics: http://www.runningpix.co.uk/XCTrailpics/WittonParkRelay1408D/index.html

ByPeter Booth

Pendle Fell Race English Senior Championship

Pendle FR 5th April 2014

Due to the large numbers of entries already taken, restricted parking and race congestion, entries for the Senior Race will close on Sunday the 9th February 2014.

David Bailey

Co organiser Pendle Fell Race.

ByPeter Booth

February Newsletter

You can now access the Feb ‘Harrier’ here. This month we feature Richard ‘Bomber’ Bellaries’ exploits on Pendle, a report on the Barrow XC fixture and details of this year’s club championship races, as well as all the usual Run of the Month competitions, fixtures, training and results.

ByJim Hickie

Northern XC Report

Saturday 25th of January saw the running of the 2014 North of England Cross Country Championships, held for the second year in succession over Lord Derby`s estate at Knowsley Safari Park. Once again the conditions were extremely testing, and even though we didn’t have several inches of snow on the ground this year, the mud was just as thick and sapping as last time. No Clayton juniors were seen by your correspondent, but five senior ladies and five senior men represented the club. I arrived at about 1pm, right in the middle of a squall and hailstorm of biblical proportions, and felt really sorry for those youngsters who were struggling round at the time. The poor kids were absolutely frozen at the finish!

The five senior girls thought seriously about diving in the sea lion pool, on the basis that they would stay drier in there than doing the race, but fortunately by the time they came to start their 8km event, the rain had stopped. Katie Walshaw of Holmfirth led the 262 strong field home in a time of 30-22 and also led her club to the gold medal. The first Clayton girl to finish in 151st was cross country captain Irene Roche in 42-17, followed by Rebecca Rawcliffe with a time of 44-42 for 183rd position. Georgina Slater with 48-11 took 220th, and the ever reliable Christine Leathley and Sue Allen completed the Clayton finishers in 249th and 255th respectively. Overall, 31st team on the day.

In the men’s race, contested by 614 athletes and run over 12km, Dan Garbutt of Durham City AC, improved on his third place last year to take the title in a time of 41-17. Our first man home was Spencer Riley in a superb 72nd place and a time of 46-43. Richard Briscoe used his impressive road speed to take 338th place in 56-15, and Ryan Wilkinson and Mark Wightman battled hard all the way round with just one second between them at the finish. Mark achieved 380th in a time of 58-28, Ryan just one place in front. As for me, I was pleased to record 65-05, six seconds faster than last year even though my 500th position was eight places worse. Still, I did beat 114 others this year compared to 91 last time. 11 runners lapped me, though one who did not was Olympian Jonny Brownlee who finished 21st overall. With six runners required to finish a team we were one man short, but never mind.

When you take away the roads, fells, trails and running around in the dark with a torch on your head, the XC chromosomes are still at the heart of Clayton`s DNA.

Peter Browning. Full results are here.

ByDave Motley

Welcome Tavern 10k 2014

A wet & windy Sunday morning so Clayton out in force at the Welcome Tavern 10k this weekend. There were some fantastic performances most notabily from our junior section with Kenan Eti, George Pier & Jordan Mcdonald posting good times in there 1st ever 10ks. I’m sure there is more to come from this trio in the future and they’ll be sub 40 soon.

Clayton Results –

27 – 00:40:10 – Eti Kenan
38 – 00:41:26 – Biscomb Stephen
64 – 00:43:44 – Pier George
82 – 00:45:11 – McDonald Jordan
83 – 00:45:12 – Pier Jason
87 – 00:45:27 – Marsh Derrick
98 – 00:46:19 – Clarkson Alan
201 – 00:53:55 – Kershaw Jackie

Full results are here

ByTom Brewster

Witton park Trail Relay – Senior/Vets/Mixed Teams

The Following senior/vets/mixed teams have been entered for the trail relays at Witton Park in Blackburn this coming Sunday; Word on the street from those who have recce’d the course is that its very muddy and full-fell shoes will probably be the order of the day!

Team 1
Spencer Riley
Matt Perry
Jonny McKenna
Chris Holdsworth

Team 2
Tom Brewster
Paul Shackleton
Nick Gaskell
Dave Motley

Team 3
Leon Passco
Richard Briscoe
Ryan Wilkinson
Dave Bagot

Team 4
Adam Shaw
Lee Passco
Matt Law
Tim Pigott

Team 5 (Vets team)
Sean Clare
John Wilcock
John Roche
Garry Wilkinson

Mixed team 1
David Hogan
Paul Wale
Anna Kelly
Irene Roche

Ladies Team 1
Rebecca Rawcliffe
Jean Knightly
Georgina Slater
Tanya Ashworth

Best of luck to our lads and lasses taking part!!

ByDave Motley

Hebden 22 – LDWA

The Hebden 22 is an event run by the LDWA (Long Distance Walking Association) and the annual event took place on Saturday 18th January. The event originally started as a walking only event but in recent years it has been opened up to runners and this year over 200 runners started.

The route a very interesting and testing course which comprises of a little bit of everything. Competitors are made to run on all terrains (mainly fell/trail) running up, down and through the Calderdale valley.

The event is great value for money, not just because of the brilliant route but mainly because of the checkpoints which offer a full buffet of food comprising of sandwiches, cake and drinks. Toast & brews are served before the event and pie & peas with apple crumble dessert served at the finish.

If you’ve never done a LDWA event before I would recommend them as they are cheap, well organised and run on fantastic routes.

Back to the race – Martin Terry was first back for Clayton, with strong runs from Dave Motley, Neil Hardiman, Jeff Pickup, Ivan Whigham, Mick Dobson, Martin Brady, Barbabra Savage, Bev & Pete Thompson and Ste Whittaker.

Full results can be found here

ByJason Pier

Stanbury Splash – Junior Results

A handful of juniors took to the fells on Sunday 19th January to take part in the Stanbury Splash Junior Quarry Runs, held at Penistone Hill Country Park, Haworth. Christopher Brown was once again in fine form finishing 1st U10 boy and beating many, much older runners. Briony Holt continues to impress in the U12 girls taking 1st place. Molly Hesketh with a solid run finished 14th U12 girl. Curtis Holt and Beth Quinn both performed well in the U16 race, with Curtis 8th boy and Beth 10th girl.

Well done to ALL of you.

RESULTS

ByJason Pier

Witton Park Trail Relays – 2nd Feb.

The Witton Park Trail Relay is being held on Sunday 2nd February at Witton Park, Blackburn. PLEASE NOTE there’s a minimum age on the day of the race of 12 years old. If any JUNIORS wish to compete in a team of four then let me know NO LATER than 25th January. I will choose teams on a first come first served basis so let me know as soon as possible. JUNIORS it’s free to race as once again YOUR club will pay for you to race. Click on the link below for all the details.

DETAILS