Once more Andy Holden was out and about with his video camera and his footage of the day is now available on U Tube. Another good video from the master.

View Wharfee's Video

Thanks to Tim Done for the pictures of this race. Results and further details follow in due course. More pictures from Tim are in the gallery.

The results are now out for this race, which was won by Lee Athersmith of Bingley Harriers. The only Wharfedaler who took part was Keiron Ashworth, who finished 43rd out of 46 finishers. There were 9 DNFs, apparently due to navigational errors.

This is a quality race and has been recognised as such by being included this year in the Run the Moors Grand Prix, a competition between 6 participating area clubs. The popularity of this race is growing and it would be nice this year to see a few more Wharfedalers taking it on.

We touched recently on how many of our runners represent their schools in cross country events. This week saw Will Marshall once more in action in this prestigious race, which attracts schools from all over the country. Ermysted's came home in 6th place, which is a good performance considering that some of their team members, including Billy Pinder and Will Marshall, were competing against older boys. Next year, they will be older and stronger and perhaps we can look forward to our local Grammar School securing a top three finish. This would be quite an achievement against nationwide competition.

Will Marshall ran the 5th leg in a time of 12:58.The school also entered a B team which included young Phil Done.This will give him valuable experience of this event and should bode well for his future appearances in this race.

Full results

Andy Holden has once more been busy with his video camera and his masterpiece of this race is available from the link below

View Wharfee's Video

As many will be aware, a series of night events takes place in the winter months for those who enjoy off road running. The popularity of these events has been such that this year, a "league table" has been produced on a similar basis to the Kendal Winter League. This can be viewed from the link below:

Night Events Table

Will Smith	Will Marshall

We are used to seeing our juniors out competing on the fells and many of them are also a vital part of their school's cross country teams. Some are so good that they have been selected to represent the district and from these, runners will be selected to represent North Yorkshire in the "Nationals". In the senior boys, Will Marshall, running a year under age, beat some serious competition to finish 7th. In the junior boys race, Will Smith won it outright, with Ben Johnstone finishing 8th. Sadly, Alex Speight did not finish the race having sustained an achilles injury. In the year 7 boys, Ollie Whyte finished 15th.

The top 6 get selected to run for North Yorkshire Schools at the Nationals on 20 March. The top 12 are selected to run for North Yorkshire Schools at the Northern intercounties next week at Durham, where the two remaining team places for the Nationals will be decided.

A few more of the pictures taken by Tim Done are in the gallery.

There was a good turnout of Wharfedalers at this race, especially our juniors. Further details follow, but in the meantime a few finishing places are below:

U12
• 1 Josh Newbold
• 2 Lloyd Davies
• 4? Charlie Lowrie

U14
• 1 James Hall
• 2 Ben Johnstone
• 3 Phil Done

A few more pictures of the day, courtesy of Tim Done are in the gallery.

There is also a short video of the day on the North West Evening Mail web site at:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/afc/news/ulverston_fell_race_a_big_success_1_667097?referrerPath=home

Sue Narey	Sam Watson

Last year, Wharfedale Harriers entered this event for the first time, fielding two teams, one of which was a ladies team. This year, Wharfedale entered three teams. The A team finished in 7th place, an improvement of 3 places on last year and the ladies team finished in 61st place, an improvement of 8 places on last year. The 3rd team was a mixed team and finished just ahead of the ladies team in 59th place.

A few more pictures of the day are in the gallery.

Tamara Hird has written a report of the day Read Tamara's Report

At last, the results are out for this race and reveal cracking performances from Chris Newman and Kate Rogan. Chris was second overall, behind Mike Robinson of Dark Peak, whilst Kate was second lady behind Carol Evans of Settle.

The U12 race saw a very close finish with Wharfedale's Josh Newbold just beating everyone to the line to take the honours.

In the U14s race, James Hall ran out the winner, just ahead of Ben Johnstone. The battle between these two team mates was such that they opened up a good lead on the chasing pack.

Tommy Lowrie	Charlie Lowrie

A couple of our youngsters in the Quarry Races

Ten Wharfedalers turned out for the senior race and were led home by Ian Wellock, who finished in 10th place. There was a close tussle between team mates Chris Holmes and Paul Crabtree, with Chris just beating Paul to the line. The full finishing places and times for all Wharfedalers were as follows:

•   10 Ian Wellock 48:34
•   15 Chris Holmes 49:10
•   16 Paul Crabtree 49:11
•   27 Nick Charlesworth 51:15
•   40 Jack Smith 52:22
•   52 Colin Moses 53:56
•   92 Ian Page 57:46
• 157 Time Done 63:24
• 229 Raj Madhas 70:17
• 291 Lisa McEvitt 84:25

Charlie Lowrie was second U12 boy.

Page last updated 8 February 2010