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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Pauline's Video