––Rossendale’s Lee Mills Fell Relays.
Our Men’s team won this last year and our Ladies were the victors in 2015, so we have a good history with this race .
By history I mean an inability for those who ran in 2015 to forget their bodies being frozen to the bone by Storm Clodagh.
The weather forecast for this year was a slight cause for concern as it featured images of heavy snowy then heavy rain, on arrival we were somewhat put at ease with scenes of a winter wonderland , snow coated Pennine Hills above Bacup and what seemed like fairly pleasant weather at the race hq area.
The race consists of 4 legs run on a just over 6 mile course , working up through the old quarries , eventually climbing to the aptly named Hail Stone Hill, after admiring the spectacular wind farm and crisp blue skies above the snowy moors you turned downhill from there , descending across treacherously boggy ground , and renegotiating the quarries and some more bogs before completing a leg.
The temperature at higher altitudes was again bitingly cold but the wind did not assault you as it did two years ago. The snow was not too much of a hindrance but the slippy mud , sodden ground and deep bogs that looked innocuous until your attempted a heroic leap across them turned into a disheartening and rather sinking experience were.
- Petra Chapman Gibbs
- Tom Sinclair’s first Knavesmire and Fell Race , a baptism of Fire and actual Ice
This year we had three teams competing, Mens and Ladies ‘A’ teams and a Mens ‘B’ team .
The Men’s ‘A’ team were fourth and consisted of:
Leg 1 Christian Garvey 58:29
Leg2 Neil Stabbs 1:00:31
Leg 3 Simon Collins 1:02:30
Leg 4 Tom Ratcliffe 59:13
The Ladies Team were 57th and 7th Female team, they were :
Leg1 Louise Venables 1:10:48
Leg 2 Petra Chapman Gibbs 1:36:23
Leg 3 Kate Turner 1:19:55
Leg 4 Nik Tarrega 1:07:06
The B team finished 43rd:
Leg 1 Rich Tarrega 1:09:10
Leg 2 Tom Sinclair 1:06:12
Leg 3 Andy Chapman Gibbs 1:29:54
Leg 4 Giles Hawking 1:01:28
—Clowne Half Marathon. Results
Pos | M | F | Forename | Surname | Cat | Cat/Pos | ChipTime | ChipPos | GunTime | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
44 | 0002 | Sarah | Attwood | F35 | (001/146) | 01:29:15 | 44 | 01:29:19 | ||||
181 | 0152 | Stefan | Durkin | M40 | (063/158) | 01:43:06 | 176 | 01:43:44 | ||||
411 | 0298 | Chris | Attwood | M S | (088/109) | 02:00:01 | 413 | 02:00:40 | ||||
451 | 0138 | Vivianne | Fraser | F45 | (034/087) | 02:03:00 | 456 | 02:03:25 | ||||
538 | 0350 | Richard | Yeomans | M40 | (136/158) | 02:09:30 | 538 | 02:10:01 |
—Barnsley 10k.
181st Jonathon Boyle 46:29
348th Peter Lyth 51:44
540th Pam Anderson 01:01:03
579th Sam Lyth 01:03:45
606th Richard Anderson 01:06:58
—York Parkrun cancelled due to ice.