This year the BBC will be filming the race again. The last time they did this, Sam Watson was definitely the star of the show. Surely the presence of the cameras is not why so many Wharfedalers are making the trip this year. This year's runners are:

577 ASHWORTH KIERON
578 BRADLEY CATHERINE
579 BRADLEY GARY
580 CARMAN PAUL J
581 ELSWORTH BRUCE
582 GIBSON JONATHAN
583 MCGOLDRICK MARK
584 MOSES COLIN
585 NEWMAN CHRIS
586 PAGE IAN
587 PLUMMER STEVEN
588 ROGAN KATE
589 ROGAN KEVIN
590 TAYLOR NEIL R
591 THOMPSON JOHN
592 TREITL NICHOLAS
593 WATSON SAM

This will be race no 17 for Kevin Rogan and no 11 for Neil Taylor. The results for the Wharfedalers will appear on the web site shortly after the finish of the race.

First U14 - Phil Done
Brilliant performances from our juniors once more with James Hall winning the Under 17 race, Phil Done winning the Under 14 Race and Charlie Lowrie winning the U12 Race, with Josh Newbold coming second. Also in the U12s, Ellie Lambert was first girl.

In the senior race, Ted Mason was 2nd and was closely followed by Jonny Bradshaw in 4th place, Mark McGoldrick in 5th and Bruce Elsworth in 7th.

Gill Myers has been on fire this year and she continued this form by finishing first lady, followed by Tamara Hird as 2nd lady and Cathy Bradley 3rd.

Results of sorts are in the results section.

The senior race saw Cathy Bradley win the ladies race, with Jean Powell third and first LV40. In the men's race, Ted Mason was second behind Alastair Dunn of Helm Hill. As usual, the Wharfedale juniors put on a good show and finished as follows:

U17
• 1 James Hall 11:38
• 2 Declan Bulmer 13:04
• 4 Nicole Narey 16:18 1st Girl

U14
•   2 Phil Done 8:12
•   3 Callum Lambert 8:18
•   4 Alex Speight 8:37
•   5 Lloyd Davies 8:39
• 12 Odin Hargreaves-Madhas 12:22
• 15 Hannah Newbold 12:42

U12
•   2 Josh Newbold 5:13
•   4 Logan Hargreaves-Madhas 5:52
•   6 Ellie Lambert 6:12 1st Girl
•   7 Oliver Spencer 6:24
• 13 Richard Done 7:19

Pauline Scholes took a video of the day and is available for viewing from the link below

Pauline's Video

First 3 Under Nine Boys Richard Done, Logan Hargreaves-Madhas & Dominic Sturmey
The official results are not yet available, but results of some sort are now on the Wharfedale website. They are made up from the results available on the day and they do contain some obvious errors and will obviously be subject to some revision. However, what they do show is the strength of the Wharfedale juniors who won three of the four junior classes. Their positions were as follows:

U17
•   9 Scott Baistow 13:05
• 12 Nicole Narey 14:35 2nd Girl

U14
• 1 Phil Done 6:56

U12
• 1 Charlie Lowrie 5:05
• 4 Joshua Newbold 5:40 (Youngest Runner)

U9
•   1 Logan Hargreaves-Madhas 4:30
•   2 Richard Done 4:46
• 19 Tommy Lowrie 7:14

James Hall
The results will follow in the next few days, but news of the juniors is that in the U17s, James Hall ended Ben Johnstone's recent run of victories to take first place.

Lynn Whittaker showing the way to Ian Newbold & Kevin Rogan

It was a lovely sunny day for these races and once more Ben Johnstone was on form, being the overall race winner and first U17. James Hall, another U17, was second overall with Declan Bulmer, the third Wharfedale U17, finishing fourth overall. Cathy Bradley was first lady. We have no note of the results for the junior races, but the U17s and seniors finished as follows:

•   1 Ben Johnstone 15:30 1st U17
•   2 James Hall 15:36 2nd U17
•   4 Declan Bulmer 16:47
•   7 Andy Holden 18:14
• 12 Cathy Bradley 19:15 1st Lady
• 13 Barry Scholes 19:42
• 14 Kirsty Hall 20:50 2nd Lady
• 20 Kevin Rogan 21:25
• 21 Jean Powell 21:30
• 24 Roger Hall 23:22

Ben Johnstone
Only anecdotal information about this event - nothing official. The word is that young Ben Johnstone just beat James Hall in the U17s with a dive over the line! The word is also that Wharfedalers won every category apart from the senior ladies. It seems that Ted Mason won the senior race after taking part in the drystone walling competition. Unofficial news of the juniors is as follows:

U9
• 1 Logan Hargreaves_Madhas
• 2 Jack Muir
• 3 Sam Johnstone
• 4 Ciaren Crabtree
• 6? Richard Done

U12
• 1 Josh Newbold
• 2 Robbie Johnstone
• 1st Girl Ella-Mae Gibson

U14
• 1 Phil Done
• 2 Lloyd Davis
• 3rd Girl Hannah Newbold
• 4th Girl Zoe Baistow

U17
• 1 Ben Jonstone
• 2 James Hall

The main points from the senior race are that Ted Mason was 4th and Colin Moses was 9th. Judy Howells was 3rd lady, although this was not recognised on the day due to a glitch in producing the results.

As usual, the Wharfedale juniors put on a good show, taking four first positions. The positions for all the Wharfedale juniors were as follows:

U8
• 1 Jack Muir 4:54
• 2 Sam Johnstone 5:38

U10
•   2 Robbie Johnstone 4:24
•   8 Logan Hargreaves-Madhas 4:49
• 12 Adam Gibson 5:20

U12 Boys
• 3 George Muir 8:57

U12 Girls
• 1 Ellamae Gibson 7:42

U14
• 1 Ben Johnstone 6:05
• 2 Phil Done 6:10
• 5 Harry Muir 7:08
• 6 John Lockwood 7:24

U16
• 1 Will Smith 7:46
• 4 Declan Bulmer 8:46

U18
• 2 David Wilson 9:29

Thanks to Tim Done, the results are now in the results section. Once again, the Wharfedale juniors did extremely well and hopefully a full report follows shortly.

The Hird family went off to Switzerland and along with a few juniors, took part in this race. Tamara has written a report of the day.

Read Tamara's Report

Ben Johnstone - 1st U14
As often seems to happen in these Dales village races, there was a battle for first place between Ted Mason & Mike Fanning, with the younger man making it to to the winning post first. Mark McGoldrick was third man. First lady was the talented Melanie Hyder with Judy Howells the second lady.

There are no details of the junior races, but the word is that Ben Johnstone won the U14 race and that Zoe Baistow was third in her race, which was presumably the U14 girls.

Full details are in the results section.

A couple of seniors went over for this mid week run. Gill Myers in 35th position overall was 2nd lady and 1st LV50. The other Wharfedaler, John Thompson finished in 58th position. Three juniors also went to this race and young Logan has written a report as follow:

I love racing at Whittle Pike because the course is really steep. For the last 2 years I have come first in the U8's, but now I am in the U10's and hoped that I would do as well as I had in the past. I was pleased with my run and finished in 2nd place. The course was well marked for most ages but some of the U14's (including Odin) got lost and ended up doing the U16's course. The only other Wharfedale junior there was Lloyd Davis who won the U12's.

Logan Hargreaves-Madhas

www.justgiving.com/peter-keron Start of the U18 and Senior Race
The Wharfedale juniors were up against the best in the county but came away with medals as follows:

U12s
Gold Ellie Lambert
Silver Charlie Lowrie

U14s
Silver James Hall
Bronze Will Smith

U16
Bronze Declan Bulmer

U23
Gold Matthew Athersmith

In the U10s, Robbie Johnstone was second and Logan Hargreaves-Madhas was third.

Ten Wharfedalers went up to the Lakes for this race which was run in a mixed bag of weather. The majority of it was in rain and clag, with no views from the top of Scafell Pike and Great Gable. However, the last few miles were in glorious sunshine. Colin Moses was first Wharfedaler and it was nip and tuck between Gill Myers and Cathy Bradley for first female Wharfedaler to finish. The full positions and finishing times for all Wharfedalers were as follows:

•   34 Colin Moses 3:37:59
•   53 Nicholas Charlesworth 3:46:10
•   82 Christian Holmes 3:59:37
• 111 Mark McGoldrick 4:13:25
• 120 Robert Shaw 4:17:56
• 121 David Ashby 4:17:56
• 191 Andrew Hirst 4:38:33
• 252 Gill Myers 4:56:15
• 253 Catherine Bradley 4:56:15
• 260 Judy Howells 4:59:04

Pete Keron
For his summer holiday this year, Pete Keron planned to cycle from Seattle to Atlanta in the USA between the 24th July and the 30th August. Excluding flying time that's 36 days to cycle around 3500 miles. Which is almost 100 miles a day. He would have no doubt undertaken this challenge anyway, but he has taken the opportunity to use it to also raise money for charity. Below is his report of progress so far.

So far I've ridden 1700 miles and done nearly 15 vertical miles of climbing, crossed 6 states, a time zone and the continental divide 8 times. Despite all this, my legs still don't feel as bad as when I did the Ben! Thanks to all of you who have sponsored me already and if you would like to do so please go to www.justgiving.com/peter-keron

See you in 4 weeks!

Ted Mason	Jean Powell

This a lovely low key race and is one that retains some of the atmosphere of early fell races that were held in the Dales villages. In the senior race, Ted Mason won it again. He has won this race in each of the last four years.

In the ladies race, Jean Powell took the honours, being the first lady and first LV40.

Ben Johnstone
In the junior races, the ever improving Declan Bulmer had a good run to finish second in the U17s. In the U14s, where Wharfedale are very strong, the first three places went to Ben Johnstone, Callum Lambert and Alex Speight respectively. The under 12s saw Ellie Lambert finish first girl with Ellamae Gibson third girl. Finally, in the U9s, Jack Muir won the race with Sam Johnstone, another fell runner from the Johnstone production line, finishing in third place.

Thanks to Lynn Whittaker, the full results are now in the results section.

The winner of this race was Ian Fisher in 54:12. The Wharfedalers finished as follows:

•   2 - Gareth Hird - 56.00
•   4 - Nick Charlesworth - 58.40
•   5 - Jason Hemsley - 58.40
•   6 - Christain Holmes - 59.12
• 39 - Ian Page - 1.07.37
• 99 - Sarah Martin - 1.25.38

Raj Madhas has now recovered from this event sufficient enough to put together a report of his experience. It is quite an interesting read and is available from the link below.

Report from Raj Report from Raj

Three of the ladies went up for this race which was over 9.4 miles with 3150 ft of ascent. Wharfedale were 4th team with Gill Myers continuing with her new lease of life and leading the team home. She was also first LV50. The team positions were:

• 12 Gill Myers - 1.37.36 - 1st LV50
• 15 Tamara Hird - 1.40.04
• 28 Judy Howells - 1.47.12 - 8th LV40

Only anecdotal details of this race, at the moment. The word is that Nick Charlesworth secured 2nd place behind Billy Pinder and Kirsty Hall also secured 2nd place in the ladies race, with Lynn finishing a brilliant 3rd! Neil Taylor was 2nd V50, or 3rd V40. Our juniors once again dominated with Phil Done winning the U14s and James Hall and Ben Johnstone coming very highly placed in the seniors race. Possibly there was another junior who gave Wharfedale a 1-2-3 in the U17s.

Further details follow shortly.

This race was held in memory of PC Bill Barker, who is the Policeman who was killed in the Cumbrian floods. It was a nine and a half mile quite hilly road race from Cockermouth to Workington. Our only member who entered was Tim Stedman, who finished 2nd out of 600 starters and only 20 seconds behind the winner.

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Alex Ashby	Yulan Brosse

Thanks to Rob Shaw for pointing out that there were two new Wharfedale juniors in the U10 race, with Alex Ashby finishing 3rd in a close race and Yulan Brosse, an equally impressive 7th in his first outing in his new vest!. The junior results are now in the results section.

This weekend, many Wharfedalers opted for a twenty minute dash at Cracoe. At the other end of the scale, Raj Madhas opted for a race of 50 miles over rugged Lakeland terrain with an ascent of 3,100 metres (10,170 ft in old money). The start time was 12 noon on Saturday with a cut off time of 12 noon Sunday. Raj completed it in 17 hrs 20 mins, finishing on the Sunday at 5:20 am.

When he has recovered, he will type up a report of his day (and night).

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Charlie Lowrie & Josh Newbold	Ellie Lambert

Many years ago, 1993 to be precise, Andy Holden aka Wharfeego won this race. To commemorate this victory, he has kindly donated a trophy which will, from now on, go to the race winner. This year it goes to Ted Mason, but he had to battle for it with Sam Watson, who actually tried to pass him on the descent. Amongst our ladies, Jean Powell showed how she is taking to the sport by once more finishing first LV40. The under 12's saw one of the closest races this season, with Josh Newbold shadowing Charlie Lowrie for the whole of the race, but Charlie showed his current form by taking first place by just 2 seconds to win his 8th race and seal the 2010 U12 championship. Tim Done has written an excellent report of the day available from the link below.

Tim's Report

A great strong point of the Bofra Races is that they do provide an opportunity for youngsters to have a go at fell running. Wharfedale have a strong junior section which is reflected in the following junior results

U17
•   1 James Hall 23:46
•   4 Declan Bulmer 26:12
•   8 Emma Spencer 27:35 2nd Girl
• 10 Scott Baistow 29:11
• 13 David Wilson 32:08

U14
•   1 Ben Johnstone 9:34
•   2 Will Smith 9:50
•   3 Lloyd Davies 10:09
•   6 Callum Lambert 10:59
•   8 Alex Speight 11:26
• 15 Hannah Newbold 13:47 - 5th Girl
• 17 Odin Hargreaves-Madhas 14:40
• 18 Zoe Baistow 15:23 7th Girl

U12
•   1 Charlie Lowrie 8:19
•   2 Joshua Newbold 8:21
• 10 Herbie Davies 9:24
• 11 Ellie Lambert 9:28 - 1st Girl
• 16 Ellamae Gibson 10:25 - 3rd Girl
• 17 Oliver Spencer 10:30
• 20 Brandon Charlesworth 12:19

U9
•   1 Logan Hargreaves-Madhas 3:22
•   4 Jonny Gill 3:29
•   5 Adam Gibson 3:32
•   6 Jack Muir 3:33
•   7 Dylan Charlesworth 3:34
•   9 Richard Done 3:46
• 12 Ciaren Crabtree 3:51

David Ashby & Rob Shaw
Wharfedale finishing positions:

•   49 Mark McGoldrick 1:23:59
•   76 Nick Treitl 1:28:31
•   77 David Ashby 1:28:37
•   78 Robert Shaw 1:29:00
• 127 Steven Plummer 1:34:51
• 239 Cathy Bradley 1:45:26
• 336 Gary Bradley 1:55:26
• DNF Bruce Elsworth

Well, who would have thought it? Will Marshall has taken part in a road race. He has sent in a report of the day and seems a little disappointed with his performance. To come 16th out of 611 finishers, given his age and his lack of experience in road races, would sound pretty good to most people.

Full results are in the results section.

Will's Report

Catherine & Kevin
Two Wharfedalers, Kevin White and Catherine Wolfenden were married today at Embsay Church. Best wishes go to the happy couple from everyone at Wharfedale for a long and happy life together.

Will Smith	Emma Spencer

The senior and under 17 results are now in and were dominated by the Wharfedale youngsters. Gareth Hird won the race, ahead of Stuart Brown of Keighley & Craven, knocking almost one and a half minutes off his winning time of last year. Third place was Jonathan Bradshaw, who also beat last year's winning time.

In 8th position was Will Smith and first Under 17. He had already won his own age group race which is the U14s. What would he have done if he had just saved himself for the senior race? Another remarkable performance from a talented young man.

And then the first lady came home. Not a senior, but junior international Emma Spencer who finished ahead of senior lady Tamara Hird, herself no slouch in this type of race. Again, a remarkable performance.

Wharfeego was out and about on the course with his SLR and a few of his top quality pictures will shortly be available in the gallery.

Gargrave Cross Country - 21 July 2010

Holme Moss - 18 July 2010

Oxenhope Fell Race - 17 July 2010