An outstanding 24 bowlers made a Wharfedale Harriers attendance record amongst a night of record breaking results... Full report and scores

Ted Mason
Tamara Hird, closely pursued by Andrew Hirst

Good results for Ted Mason, who was third senior man and for Tamara Hird who was third senior woman. Full race report.

Ahead of next week's Tour of Pendle a few runners decided to make use of the free weekend to take a Sunday morning run out on Pendle. Some did the half tour, but Kevin and Tamara did the full tour.

Back Row : Paul Rogan, Sam Watson, Glen Whittaker, David Hird, Mark Bennett.
Front Row : Paul Harlow, Tamara Hird, Mark Brown and Kevin Rogan.

It was cold and windy with intermittent showers of rain and hail for this year's race. In these conditions, Mark Horrocks continued his fine form and was first vet, coming in 4th overal. Mark Sandamas also had a fine run, coming in 19th position. The race was won by Karl Gray of Calder Valley with a time of 2:19:27. Full results will be posted when available.

Mark Horrocks leading the way, just past checkpoint 4.

The results for the Wharfedale runners were as follows:

Pos	Name	Time	Other
4	Mark Horrocks	2:22:39	1st Vet
19	Mark Sandamas	2:40:15
98	Andy Hirst	3:10:13
109	Peter Jackson	3:14:11
120	Kevin Rogan	3:18:06

Report by David Hird.
On a cold and very wet Morning approx 170 runners took to the start line of this (poor weather condition) shortened race. With snow on the top wind and rain gusting the organisers cut the distance in half with a turn round at the cairn above Hag Dyke. Ted fighting hard to take 4th place was followed by Paul Harlow 38th and 1st Vet 55. Then came another from the production line at HOPE TEC, Leon Guillaume 66th, David Hird 105th ( to short for me ) followed soon after by Mark Bennett 117th. Times 18:39, 22:41, 24:28, 26:58 and Mark back in 28:16.

The results for the Wharfedale runners were as follows:

Pos	Name	Time	Other
4	Ted Mason	18:39
38	Paul Harlow	21:41	1st Vet 55
66	Leon Guillaume	24:28
105	David Hird	26:58
117	Mark Bennett	28:16

Ted Mason	Paul Harlow

In the Under 11 Boys, Ben Johnstone came 9th and Cameron Latter, 11th. In the Under 15 Boys, Thomas Cunningham came 30th, whilst in the Senior Ladies, Tamara Hird came 7th. This puts Tamara top of the league after three races. See Results Page for full details. See also Pictures for more photos.

Ben Johnstone & Cameron Latter	Thomas Cunningham

This year, the event was dominated by the runners with the first 10 scoring 83 points compared with the cyclists 224. Wharfedale were represented by Paul Harlowe and Tamara Hird. Paul had a good run finishng 19th overall and third Vet50. Tamara also had a another fine run finishing 32nd and 2nd female runner with a time of 46:18, comfortably ahead of the first female cyclist who managed a time of 47:57.

Paul Harlowe	Tamara Hird

The results for the Wharfedale runners were as follows:

Pos	Name	Time	Other
19	Paul Harlowe	42:33	3rd Vet50
32	Tamara Hird	46:18	2nd lady

Full Results

The race was won by Karl Gray, who won last week's Tour of Pendle. On the ascent, he was being chased by Mark Horrocks and Ted, who looked to be struggling a bit, was in sixth place. On the descent, the places remained unchanged, but Ted suddenly got into his stride and started moving up the field to end in second place. Ted did well, as Mark had a good lead on him as they left Rough Holden. Owen Bielby also had a sterling run, coming home in seventh place. Tamara Hird had another fine run and took the prize for being first lady, coming 37th overall. All the Wharfedale runners put in good performances right down the field. There was no actual team prize but Wharfedale were first team with 12 points, followed by Keighley & Craven with 15. Calder were third team with 63 points.

Race Pictures
Full Race Results

The results for the Wharfedale runners were as follows:

Pos	Name	Time	Other
2	Ted Mason	0:49:54
3	Mark Horrocks	0:50:03	1st V40
7	Owen Bielby	0:52:43
37	Tamara Hird	1:00:31
40	Peter Jackson	1:01:02	V45
50	Simon Sharp	1:04:22	V40
60	David Hird	1:07:56	V50

Whilst the bulk of the runners were at Rivock Edge today, Sam Watson, Kevin Rogan and Neil Taylor went over to Darwen for this race.

Their results were as follows:

Pos	Name	Time	Other
13	Sam Watson	39:52	3rd U20
40	Kevin Rogan	44:17
57	Neil Taylor	46:25

Full Race Report by Neil Taylor
Full Race Results

Before the race	After the race

James Wadsworth is flying in from Italy especially for this event. His brother Sam will also be running. If anyone else fancies running off the overindulgences of Christmas Day, entries must be in for 9 December (sooner if the limit is reached).