Sue Narey - London Marathon 2012

Sue writes;

I have managed to gain a ballot place in the 2012 London Marathon. I have decided to run for Help for Heroes and have set up a fundraising page on bmycharity. As it is my second time running the London Marathon I will be aiming to finish within 4 hours, last time I completed it in 4 hours 41 minutes, no pressure! Below is the link to my fundraising page, all donations welcome and going to a good cause.

Help for Heroes

Shepherds Skyline - 5 November 2011

Paul Carman & Sam Wadsworth on the ascent
Ian Holmes was lying 2nd at the summit, but he pulled through to once more win this race. Second was James Logue of Calder Valley.

Sam Watson was first Wharfedaler in 9th place, with Matthew Athersmith 10th and Dave Kirkham 11th.

In the ladies race, Anne Johnson of Calder Valley took the honours and the first lady for for Wharfedale was Louisa Pickles who was 4th lady overall.

In the junior races, Logan Hargreaves-Madhas won the U10 race. Josh Newbold was 1st in the U12 race and Harry Muir was 2nd in the U14 race.

Provisional Results Junior Results

An exciting finish put James Logue & Lloyd Taggart in joint first place for this race. As might be expected, Calder Valley put in a great team performance, taking three places out of the top five positions.

First Wharfedaler was U23 Matthew Athersmith in 8th place, followed by Paul Crabtree in 15th place. An outstanding run by Gill Myers made her third Wharfedaler and 35th overall in the race. She was first LV50. Wharfedale were third men's team.

Jason Hemsley cycled to the race and was late getting there. As a result, he set off fifteen minutes after everyone else.

8 Matthew Athersmith U23 1:18:45
15 Paul Crabtree V40 1:21:31
35 Gill Myers LV50 1:30:31
40 Martin Roberts V50 1:31:14
51 Jason Hemsley V40 1:32:36
79 Judy Howells LV40 1:40:45

8 Chris Newman 43:15
53 Luke Appleyard 50:20
154 Kate Rogan 1:00:58
180 Trevor Metcalfe 1:01:19

The Wharfedale Harriers ladies had a lot of reasons to celebrate at the annual Fell Runners Association Presentation Evening – which took place on Saturday night – at the Pennine Manor Hotel, Huddersfield.

Gill Myers performed fantastically in 2011 to retain her English LV50 Championship title. Gill scored maximum points after wins at Whittle Pike (short race), Loughrigg - Silver Howe (Medium race), Sedbergh Hills and Duddon Valley (long races). Gill also finished 3rd in the LV45 Championships and 15th overall. This is only Gill’s second season of taking part in these championships.

Judy Howells has had a brilliant year and won her first individual medal – which was bronze in the British LV40 championships. The British championships incorporates races in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Judy was also 7th in the British Ladies Championships overall.

Tamara Hemsley also received a prize for 3rd lady in the Lakeland Classics Championships after competing well at Duddon Valley, Borrowdale and the Three Shires fell races.

The Wharfedale Ladies team won bronze medals in the English Ladies team championships with Gill Myers, Tamara Hemsley, Judy Howells, Cathy Bradley and Rachel Hill all running strongly to count for the team which consists of the first 3 ladies finishing for the club across short, medium and long distance races which have taken place throughout the year. This is the first time the Wharfedale ladies have won a team medal the English Championships.

To top it all off the Wharfedale Harriers Ladies also won bronze medals in the English LV40 team championships with Gill Myers, Judy Howells, Rachel Hill, Madeleine Watson, Caroline Pollard and Val Done all performing well to count for the team and receive their medals.

Lucas Payne took part in this race and was cheesed off that he came 8th out of 405 finishers. His excuse was that it was flat and windy. He was looking for a sub 36 minute time. His actual time was 36:38!

This race was won by Martin Archer of Ilkley Harriers. The Wharfedalers finished as follows:

4 Rohan Akers 49:43
18 Simon Franklin 55:55
74 Neil Eccles 1:03:26

Nab End Owl Event - 17 November 2011

This is a new route for an Owl Event and it proved to be very popular, attracting 38 runners. Sam Watson was lying third at the summit, but managed to gain first place at the finish when Steve Brock and Chris Newman took a wrong turn on the way back.

Louisa Pickles was first lady finisher in 15th place, just in front of Gill Myers.

Full finishing times and positions

Jean Powell	Katherine Kirkham

Pictures by  Andy Holden 
Early news of this race:

1 Carl Bell 2:21:48
2 James Logue 2:24:06
3 Andy Brown 2:26:31

There was a first team place for the U13 boys, a fourth team place for the U11 girls and good individual performances from Josh Newbold, James Hall and Gill Myers.

 Full Wharfedale Results 

At last, the results have been published for this race and show that a remarkable run by Nick Treitl saw him finish in 11th place. Dave Kirkham, in 18th place, was the other Wharfedaler to finish in the top 20.

Of the Wharfedale ladies, Rachel Hill had a fine run to finish 3rd LV40.

 All 29 Wharfedale Finishers 

No Wharfedalers went to Cumbria for this race which was won by Tom Addison, ahead of "The Noor" and Mark Addison. Sharon Taylor of Bingley Harriers was first lady

Nick Charlesworth
3 Sam Watson 35:41
6 Christian Holmes 36:03
8 Nick Charlesworth 36:31
9 Stephen Chew 36:37
56 Daniel Coe 43:27
59 Ian Newbold 43:41
93 Barry Scholes 48:03
113 Lynn Whittaker 50:05
146 Sharon Newbold 54:50
165 Lisa Holmes 59:49

Tracey Strong, Lynn Whittaker, Sharon Newbold
Stephen Chew, James Hall Picture by  Clare Macina 
1 James Hall 27:22 U20
2 Stephen Chew 27:30
38 Lynn Whittaker 36:54 FV45
47 Sharon Newbold 38:55 FV45
75 Tracey Strong 48:34

Wharfedale have Owl Events whilst Bowland have Bat Events, but what's in a name? They are all good off road running events in the winter months. This one was slightly different in that it was run in teams of two with one member running the up leg and the other running down.

 Report by Andy Walmsley 
 Results 

Juniors (8-10 yrs)

1st girl Shona Hastings

2nd Logan Hargreaves-Madhas
6th Adam Gibson

Ladies
14 Katherine Kirkham
35 Emma Dodd
93 Lynda Hargreaves

Raj Madhas also ran and think that he finished in 186th place.

Sam Watson crossing Earnsdale Reservoir Dam Picture by Andy Holden

Proud dad with new daughter
For those that have not already heard, Wharfedalers Mark & Nicole McGoldrick became parents on Sunday when Nicole gave birth to a little girl, Mia Louise, who weighed in at 7lb 3oz. Both daughter and mum are doing well.