The results were as follows:

The mens team finished 10th
Leg 1 Ted Mason and Chris Newman - 1.02.35 - 6th
Leg 2 Gareth Hird and Nick Charlesworth - 1.16.31 - 14th
Leg 3 Jonny Bradshaw and Colin Moses - 39.02 - 10th (5th fastest on leg) 12th
Leg 4 Christian Holmes and Paul Crabtree - 1.23.41 - Finished in 4.21.49

The ladies team finished 6th - with a faster overall time than last year
Leg 1 Kate Rogan and Kirsty Hall - 1.26.39 - 60th - 8th ladies
Leg 2 Judy Howells and Louisa Pickles - 1.27.09 - 55th - 6th ladies
Leg 3 Cathy Bradley and Cath White - 49.34 - 50th - 4th ladies
Leg 4 Tamara Hird and Gill Myers - 1.45.15 - 50th. Finished in 5.28.37 6th ladies team

Three Wharfedalers took part in this event on what was a very wet day. They finished as follows:

•   7 Pete Keron 2:01:58
• 19 Mark McGoldrick 2:05:16
• 73 Angela Gray 2:40:10

Juniors who have taken part in four out of the following races can apply for a free T Shirt. Anniversary Wa!, Coiners, Shutlingsloe, Clougha Pike, Arnison (uphill) and Darwen.

For those who have not already ordered their T Shirts will find details on http://broughtonrunners.org.uk

Our extensive squad of juniors have been out and about over the past month at events which have fallen under the radar. Roger Hall has kindly put together a brief  report  documenting their achievements.

The team for this relay is as follows

Leg 1 Pairs Christian Holmes and Nick Charlesworth
Leg 2 Solo Gareth Hird
Leg 3 Pairs (Navigation) Paul Crabtree and Colin Moses
Leg 4 Solo Jonny Bradshaw

Reserves are Mathew Athersmith and Adam Drury

You may recollect that Raj Madhas took part in the Lakeland 50 earlier this year and really enjoyed it. He has just received an  email  from the organisers about forthcoming recce days. He recommends these for anyone contemplating entering the event or just for anyone who wants to get some miles in. There is further information on the  website 

Charlie Lowrie had a great run to take first place in the U11 boys race. The Wharfedale U11 boys as a whole took the second team team place. The U15 boys were led home by James Hall in fourth place and they took the first team place. Full details of all our juniors and a few seniors at this event were as follows:

U11 Boys
1 Charlie Lowrie 7.23
5 Josh Newbold 7.37
9 Robbie Johnstone 7.50
24 Herbie Davies 8.46
32 Simon Rohatynski 9.36
Wharfedale - 2nd Team

U13 Boys
10 Lloyd Davies 15.13

U13 Girls
11 Ellie Lambert 10.24
22 Ellamae Gibson 10.48
46 Hannah Newbold 12.30
Wharfedale - 6th Team

U15 Boys
4 James Hall 15.19
11 Ben Johnstone 16.12
16 Declan Bulmer 16.32
21 Phil Done 17.00
35 Callum Lambert 18.13
42 John Lockwood 18.32
48 Alex Speight 19.54
Wharfedale - 1st Team

U17 Boys
17 Sam Haggar 18.57
22 Scott Baistow 23.16

U17 Girls
5 Emma Spencer 18.25
16 Holly Crabtree 21.22

Senior Ladies
27 Tamara Hird 27.15
78 Sarah Martin 33.03
84 Bridget Thompson 34.46
89 Lynda Hargreaves 39.58
Wharfedale 12th Team

Senior Men
24 Gareth Hird 35.18
149 Ian Newbold 45.53

David Ashby	Ian Page
Andy Hirst	Xavier Chaduc

The above pictures of the race were kindly supplied to us by  Sport Sunday 

Seven Wharfedalers were up for this challenge including Xavier Chaduc. We do not often see him out on the fells and he certainly picked a tough race to put in an appearance. Kirsty Hall also ran, but doesn't appear in the results, as she turned up on the day for what was a pre-entry race. The organisers did however let her run and gave her a time which would have put her in 209th position. The Wharfedalers finished as follows.

•   77 Rob Shaw 2:45:29
• 107 David Ashby 2:57:20
• 151 Ian Page 3:09:35
• 169 Andrew Hirst 3:13:39
• ??? Kirsty Hall 3:22:14
• 239 Simon Franklin 3:28:27
• 291 Xavier Chaduc 3:44:32

Another Bofra season has drawn to a close and the final championship tables have been compiled. They reflect commitment throughout the year and it is nice to see many Wharfedale youngsters in championship positions. The full list of Wharfedale 2010 Bofra champions is as follows:

• U12 Boys - Charlie Lowrie
• U12 Girls - Ellie Lambert
• U14 Boys - Will Smith
• U17 Boys - James Hall
• U23 Men - Jonathan Bradshaw
• MV40 Paul Crabtree
• LV40 Jean Powell

Tim Stedman
With over 2,000 starters from all over Europe, it is nice to get on the first page of the results sheet. Tim, sporting his Wharfedale vest, had a very good run to finish in 36th position overall. His target was to finish under 3 hours, which he did comfortably with a time of 2:50:44.

The Wharfedale team came home in 16th place. Full  results 

Tim Stedman plans to have a gentle jog in the Lakes this coming Saturday. He is going to park at Ambleside and catch the 8:55 bus over to Brothers Water. He will leave there at 9:55 and jog back to Ambleside. He would welcome the company of any Wharfedalers who want to join him. This is the planned  route 

You can contact Tim by email

At the summit, Alex Whittem of Calder Valley was leading with Mike Fanning of Borrowdale in pursuit. That is how it remained until the finish with Andy Wrench third.

The only news we have of any Wharfedalers is that Judy Howells was 3rd lady and first LV40. The word on the fells is that Colin Moses had a top ten finish with another young Wharfedaler in about 6th position. Further details follow.

The results for the Wharfedale teams were as follows:

Male Vet 35's
Lucas Payne (17.00), James Harrison (19.51), Paul M Crabtree (17.53), Iain Gibbons (18.23)
5th in 73.07

Male Vet 40's
Jonathon Gibson (19.45), Xavier Chaduc (21.24), Paul Crabtree (20.20), Ian Newbold (21.00)
9th 82.29

Female Vet 35's
Tamara Hird (19.33), Kirsty Hall (22.55), Lynn Whittaker (22.24)
A Team 3rd in 64.52 - Bronze medal

Sally Bisset (22.48), Bridget Thompson (25.27), Sue Narey (24.11)
B Team 8th in 72.26

Twenty two seniors took part in this race along with eleven juniors, with Josh Newbold setting a new record in the U10s race. Gareth Hird finished 5th in the seniors with Nick Charlesworth 7th and first V40.  Full Senior Finishing Positions 

The junior finishing places and times were as follows:

U8 Boys
• 2 Jack Muir 3:08
• 3 Ciaren Crabtree 3:10

U10 Boys
• 1 Josh Newbold 6:48 (New Record)
• 7 Robert Lambert 8:04
• 8 Logan Hagreaves-Madhas 8:05

U14 Boys
• 2 James Hall 5:58
• 4 Harry Muir 6:55
• 5 Callum Lambert 7:17

U14 Girls
•   8 Hannah Newbold 9:15
• 11 Zoe Baistow 9:35

U16 Boys
• 2 Declan Bulmer 12:26

At the summit, Alex Whittem of Calder Valley was leading with Mike Fanning of Borrowdale in pursuit. That is how it remained until the finish with Andy Wrench third.

An excellent run by James Hall saw him lead the Wharfedalers home to finish in 6th position overall and 1st U15. Judy Howells was 3rd lady and first LV40. The positions of all the Wharfedalers were as follows:

•   6 James Hall 30:36 U15
• 11 Colin Moses 32:34 V40
• 34 Judy Howells 37:40 1st LV40
• 56 Roger Hall 42:42 V60

Dave Kirkham
(floating through the air on his return)
The early news from this event is that Ian Holmes of Bingley won the race comfortably. He made the steep ascent out of Kettlewell look so easy as he exchanged pleasantries with spectators, whilst at the same time building an early lead. On the return, his lead looked to be huge, although Ted Mason of Wharfedale managed to reduce it to just over a minute at the finish. This may well have been not just due to Ted's prowess on the descent, but also to Ian settling for a steady run in. This was a good run by Ted Mason, who was in about 10th position as he approached the summit. However, using his considerable local knowledge, he took a different line to the main band of runners who had adopted the usual 'follow my leader' approach. This in itself gained him a few places and of course, his renown ability on the descent did the rest. Other Wharfedalers having a good run out and a top ten place, were Nick Charlesworth, who finished in 5th place and Mark McGoldrick who finished 8th.

Cathy Bradley was our first lady home in 84th place. Cathy was nursing an injury which was giving her some discomfort on the descent, so she eased off and as a result, she lost a lot of places. However, she still managed to finish 6th lady overall.

The finishing times and places for all the Wharfedalers are below.

•     2 Ted Mason 33:45
•     5 Nick Charlesworth 34:35 V40
•     8 Mark McGoldrick 35:12
•   16 Colin Moses 36:15 V 40
•   23 David Kirkham 37:34
•   24 David Ashby 38:06 V40
•   26 Paul Crabtree 38:43 V40
•   27 Rob Shaw 38:14 V40
•   30 Graham Bird 39:33 V40
•   43 Jonathan Gibson 41:19 V40
•   49 Adam Drury 42:14
•   52 Ian Page 42:55 V40
•   57 Barry Scholes 43:54 V50
•   69 Simon Franklin 44:50 V40
•   81 John Thompson 46:10 V50
•   84 Cathy Bradley 46:34 L
•   94 Xavier Chaduc 47:38 V40
• 112 Jean Powell 50:09 LV40
• 113 Lynn Whittaker 50:13 LV40
• 129 Trevor Metcalfe 53:53 V50

Fresh from his win yesterday, Ian Holmes put in another scintillating performance to easily with this race too, with Lee Athersmith in second place. The next three places were taken by Wharfedale, with Gareth Hird 3rd, Nick Charlesworth 4th and Matthew Athersmith 5th.

The finishing times and places for all the Wharfedalers were as follows.

•     3 Gareth Hird 55:13
•     4 Nicholas Charlesworth 57:15
•     5 Matthew Athersmith 57:49
•   12 Jason Hemsley 1:00:21 MV40
•   13 Dave Kirkham 1:00:32
•   19 Colin Moses 1:01:58 MV40
•   49 Paul Crabtree 1:07:44 MV40
•   53 Tamara Hird 1:08:03 FV35
•   54 Scott Davies 1:08:08 MV35
•   57 Ian Page 1:09:18 MV45
•   77 Catherine White 1:13:00
• 105 Katherine Kirkham 1:18:25
• 125 Simon Hassell 1:21:10 MV45
• 129 Scott Baistow 1:21:53 M16
• 131 Sarah Martin 1:22:22
• 132 Sally Bisset 1:22:28 FV40

Ian Holmes
(On his way to the first of two victories this weekend.)
At Great Whernside, Ian Holmes had built up such a lead that on his return, he found time to stop and chat to the spectators. Then on Sunday, he got up and won the Bronte Way with consummate ease, completing a great weekend double. His undoubted athletic ability is coupled with a smiling friendly disposition and at the moment, he is very much the King of Fell Racing.

The above picture was taken by Andy Holden and a lot more of his superb pictures of the day, showing runners from all clubs, can be found on both links below:

 Andy Holden Pictures Part One 
 Andy Holden Pictures Part Two 

Many of our youngsters turned out for these races with some quite notable successes. Charlie Lowrie won the U11 boys race outright, with Wharfedale finishing 2nd team. The other outright winner was Emma Spencer, who won the U17 girls race. Wharfedale have a strong team of runners in the U15 age bracket, which was confirmed by them taking the team prize in this category. Thanks to Tamara Hird for the full  results  for all Wharfedalers at this event.

Wharfedale Harriers were conspicuous by their absence in these races and only two Wharfedalers managed to complete at least the 3 races to qualify in the final results. One was Cathy Bradley who did Duddon, Ennerdale and Borrowdale and who came 10th overall Lady and the other was Andy Hirst, who managed 8th MV50, completing all six races for the 5th year in succession.

Wharfedale finished 25th team due to scoring at only one super long race Ennerdale, which was a championship race. Just one more result would have meant that the club would have fared a lot better.

This event is run in pairs over the six following legs.

Leg 1 - North Dean Woods, West Vale to Carg Vale (9.80 miles)
Leg 2 - Crag Vale to Todmorden (Centre Vale Park) (8.46 miles
Leg 3 - Todmorden (Centre Vale) to Blackshaw Head (4.80 miles)
Leg 4 - Blackshaw Head to Wainstalls Road (9.36 miles)
Leg 5 - Wainstalls Road to Shelf (Bridle Stile Road) (7.55 miles)
Leg 6 - Shelf to North Dean Woods, West Vale (10 miles)

This year we have entered 4 teams. All Wharfedale members will be considered for selection, unless you let us know that you are not available to run. The cost this year will be £2.50 for everyone who takes part in the relay. David Hird davidjhird@madasafish.com / 07765 792807 is organising the men's teams and Tamara Hird tamarahird@hotmail.co.uk / 07951 129786) is organising the ladies. They will contact you in the near future. As soon as you know you are running please pay the money to David or Tamara.

Phil Done & Logan Hargreaves-Madhas
Tim Done, Raj Madhas and families travelled down to Eastbourne to take on this scenic off-road Marathon. Apart from a threatening downpour just before the start, the weather held up to make perfect conditions for the run. The course is mostly on grassy paths with steady gradients making for some good running. The sting in the tail is the last 8 miles, which although offering beautiful views across to Beachy Head, traverses the Seven Sisters Park and several thousand feet of climb over the rolling cliffs.

Whilst the seniors made their way round the course, taking in the views, Phil Done and Logan Hargreaves-Madhas made their mark for Wharfedale Harriers in the junior races, with Phil winning the 3K (12-16 years) race in 13:19 and 8 year old Logan winning the 2K (8 to 11 years) race in 09:30.

In the end, Tim was thrilled to bits with his time of 4:31:30 and an excellent post race massage. Raj was only 15 minutes behind through most of the checkpoints, but after stopping off for a Saturday buffet lunch at checkpoint 4, he lost a little time to finish comfortably in about 5:30:00. Unfortunately after a long wait for the results, a 'glitch' in their recording meant they will never know their over all positions, which is disappointing after all of the effort. However, it is a race that they would both strongly recommend.