The fell running section
of Preston Harriers. Some of our fell runners also do cross country and road
running, but fell running is our main activity. Our junior fell runners are in a
keen fell running section, you can read about them in juniorfellblog
below. Preston Harriers running club was
established in 1881. Mick McLoughlin our chairman of fellblog recently did
the Bob Graham Round. Fell Runners are not as much bothered about PB's as they
are about 3B's ( a local brewery).
Preston
Harriers Fell Section
:- fellblog
Waugh's
Well
13th
June 2006 7.15pm
4
miles/ 1000ft climbing
A
perfect night for fell running. The clouds and some rain had cleared the air for
the Hay Fever sufferers amongst us (me). An excellent turn out of Harriers,
including dark horse Willy Garner and one lady only, Karen Nash.
The
mini bus was driven by our current star of the Caption Competition, the
recovering nicely, but still parabeautically star struck, in spite of all,
looking good, John Griffiths. (A nice picture for Sarah.)
Pre
race tactics
& stretches were done in differing age groups.
Our Top Men. They walked the walk, could
they talk the talk?
The
race got off to a fine start. I notice that Willie Garner has taken up a
position on the front of the grid. Maybe I should try this in future. It
obviously helped his race plan, coming in in the first twenty.
Willie flies down a steep section less
than a mile from home.
Alan Metcalf second Harrier home
Ash leads a long line of followers as
3rd Harrier home.
Roger running well
Mick Mack has time for a smile.
Karen causes blur, running too fast
John Carberry chasing Karen
Pete Carter negotiates a very steep
gulley, chasing Clayton lad.
Dave Simpson fights off the blogger
convincingly
Bob Shepherd struggles down the gulley
that Pete Carter negotiated without difficulty.
George Arnold flying to the finish to
beat 449 with only yards to spare.
Brian cruises in.
I'm sure more precise results will
follow, but the Harrier finishers were in the order of photography above. The
fabulous photos were taken by our mini bus driver & star of caption
competition, John Griffiths.
Personally I was disappointed with my
performance. As I walked up the very steep sections, I was forever seeing Dave
Simpson running! He ran away from me to such an extent that I was unable to get
anywhere near him at the finish. On my descent I overtook 4 or 5 runners
& included a long sprint finish along the road section, finally pipping a
young girl more or less on the line.
My biased report should also say that
there were 5 Harrier V60's in the race. Is this fact alone a record?
Finally Gordon Thompson had a re-occurrence
of his calf niggle & pulled out just as I was starting at the back! I was
just getting into some sort of stride along side the V60's & there was
Gordon walking back, with an "I'm only here for the beer look on his
face" Joe Howard gave the Mountain Rescue an early testing. Within half a
mile of the start, his V60 right knee produced enough pain for him to have to
resort to blogger's advice at the Pack Horse on our return journey, "better
have 3 or 4 pints, that'll help matters".
3 B's Brewery Bobbin Bitter was in fine
fettle, & the kindly landlord provided us with free food! Probably the fact
that we spent about £100 in twenty minutes helped.
Results
Will Garner 16th (3rd V40) 35.24
Alan Metcalf 23rd ( 4th V45) 37.52
Ash Nixon 34th ( 6thV45) 39.01
Mick McLoughlin 52nd ( 6thV50) 40.31
Karen Nash 55th ( 1stLV) 40.57
Jon Carberry 65th (12thV45) 42.37
Pete Carter 77th (13thV40) 44.48
Dave Simpson 85th ( 2ndV60) 45.46
Bob Shepherd 95th (4thV60) 47.23
George Arnold 109th (1stV65) 51.29
Brian Dearnaley115th 55.33
119 finished the race
Well done Karen, Willie, Simmy & George (first V65).
2005
Fell
Championship
Results (back in time)
fellblog
