George and Alice Pier ran the St Anne’s Carnival 5k Road Race where 157 runners took part in very hot race conditions.
George finished 34th overall and 3rd U17 male in 20.05.
Alice finished 8th female overall and 1st U15 girl at 22.40. (first junior female).
Well done to both runners, some extremely impressive times on a very tough day.
Well done again to Briony and Curtis Holt for another great performance at the Kirkby Gala. Briony was 1st Girl in the U12 race while Curtis finished 6th in the U14 race. Well done to BOTH of you.
3 juniors have taken part in race 3 of the Astley Park junior trail series in Chorley. George Pier finished in 3rd place (3rd U17 Boy), Tom Bradley 9th (3rd U13 Boy) and Alice Pier 2nd Girl (1st U15 Girl). Well done to ALL of you.
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.
Ogden Valley Round 21st May
Our friends from Trawden AC made for great racing and more enjoyment. Well done to Mike—the cream always rises. Also to Richard Bellaries who managed to be only 7 seconds out with his estimated time, with Trawden’s Molly Ralphson and Ken Livesey close behind. Results. Thanks to Paul Healey and all members who helped with marshalling, timekeeping etc. Race 2 is the Worsthorne Trail on 25th June. July event is the Up/Down Relay from Worston on 23rd.
The second race in the club summer series is Worsthorne Trail Race, tomorrow, 25th June from Worsthorne Village Square. The race is 5 miles with about 1000′ ascent and is the usual summer series format: first past the post and guess your time (no watches allowed). Start is at 7.00pm with post race re-hydration in the Crooked Billet.
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