Sun 12th Feb 2012 at 10:00.

Details of this year’s Norman Matthews Winter Hill Fell Race can now be found on the FRA website and in the FRA Calendar.

Online entry is now available through the UK Results website.

The official entry form for postal entries is available to download here.

Please note there should be no recces of the route. This is at the request of United Utilities whose permission is required for future events.

If you can help out on the day with marshalling and other duties please contact Colin Jones – colin@vapor-tek.co.uk

Rivington Pike Fell Race, Officiate/Chief Marshal required.

For the past few years I have dealt with the administration side of the running & organization of the Pike Race (Easter Weekend) Whilst on the day of the race Pete Bland has officiated over the event. In the case of the 2012 race and subsequent pike races we are now left without anyone to officiate on the day. As such we need a volunteer from the club to officiate and oversee proceedings on race day. I have formally registered the 2012 race with the FRA and will continue with the raft of administration that goes with this race to help the event proceed.

Please contact me if you are interested in helping fulfill this role.

Colin Jones

Mobile: 07773160675
Home: 01204 690013
colin@vapor-tek.co.uk or c.jones-horwich@hotmail.co.uk

Help at Bolton, Leverhulme Park Cross Country 12th Nov

On Saturday Bolton Harriers host the third round of the Red Rose Cross Country races for the 2011-2012 season. I am looking for some help/support with marshalling the early races for the boys and girls.

Any seniors able to arrive for the early races – 12.30pm to 1.15pm would be most appreciated. Any parents of the little runners who can stay for 20mins after their race could also marshal for 15mins – that would be excellent.

This is our commitment to the league as we cannot host our own cross country. Thanks.

Peter Ramsdale
p.ramsdale@ntlworld.com

Belmont Winter Hill Fell Race 12th May

A superb turnout of 18 Harriers took part in this local fell race organised superbly by Dave Bateson in excellant conditions although it was very muddy after noon hill, Nick Leigh of Pudsey won the race. First home for us was Rob Howarth with a brilliant run in 9th and first O/50 closely followed by Mick Green 12th and Andy Lloyd 15th and these three made up the winning team. Not to be outdone the Ladies won also with Suzanne Budgett 1st o/40 and 3rd place, together with Susan Flatters 4th and Kate Porter 10th making a clean sweep for Horwch. Another category winner Tony Hesketh was 1st o/60 in 28th place. There where 113 finishers.

Belmont Junior Races

In the Under 12 junior race young 9 year old Tom Massey had a brilliant run finishing 4th, Daniel Rowe was 8th and Livia Carwright was 3rd girl after a great run.

Tony Hesketh

Results http://www.ukresults.net/2012/belmont.html

We desperately need 2 runners to run in the mixed team. It’s basically a free race as the club has paid the entry fee, so why not give it a go?

Contact Steve Pearson 07732 210013

Teams currently as follows.

A Team:

1. (9.8m) Phil Dewhurst + Chris Heys
2. (8.46) Billy Martin + Andy Porter
3. (4.8) Martin Jones + Pete Haworth
4. (9.36) Mick Green + Chris Ingham
5. (7.55) Sean McMyler + Karl Ward
6. (10.0) Gary Chaddeton + Doug Fleming

Mixed Team:

1 Rachael Thompson + Debbie Campbell
2 Paul Boardman + ?????
3 Kate Porter + Christina Wright
4 Michelle Devine + Suzanne Budgett
5 Pete Bland + Pete Ramsdale
6 ????? + ?????

As you can see we are short of 3 runners so please contact Steve Pearson if you can run on 07732 210013

Fielden Cup replaces Thursday Training Sessions

With the Fielden Cup taking place on Thursday this week, then the usual training sessions are not going to take place, and instead anyone who would normally train with Steve Pearson is asked to instead use the Fielden Cup as the training session.

The Fielden Cup is More information may be found on the webpage http://www.horwichrmiharriers.co.uk/fieldencup/

Many people put a great deal of time and effort into organising and running the club’s races, and we need your support to continue to do so – if you want the future of club races to continue then please support such races.

Steve Pearson – Gordon Stone – Carl Balshaw

Horwich RMI Harriers – Fielden Cup

26th April 2012

This years Fielden Cup is being held over a different course and will run along Georges Lane towards Pike Cottage, starting near the Jolly Crofters.

Registration is £2 and is open to Horwich RMI members and guests, but only full members of the Horwich RMI are eligible to win the Fielden Cup trophey.

See the Fielden Cup page for more information

Junior Pike Race 2012

A smaller than usual number of entrants ran the 2012 Junior pike race on Saturday 7th April. The competition was just as high as usual and Horwich made their contribution to the day’s racing.
In the under 12′s race Ben McLauglin from Leigh was first home in 11 minutes. Arron Kearney from Wirrall AC was second and Horwich’s Thomas MAssey was third. Lucas Millimen in his first race for Horwich was 5th and Daniel Rowe was 7th. Charlotte Rigby was first girl home in 23.30.
Ievan Keaney won the under 14′s boys race whilst his sister Aileen won the under 14′s girls race. Abbey Cox and Jenny Unsworth were third and fourth in the under 14′s race in 21.09 and 21.13 respectively.
Thanks to all who supported the race

The 2012 senior overall championships for both ladies and men will be your best 10 from the follow 12 races, with a minimum of 8 races to qualify for prizes.

The points system is as follows: 20 points for 1st, down to 1 point for 20th.

Calderdale Way Relay – Sunday 13th May 2012.

We are looking to enter teams for this years relay, but need to gauge interest before committing to an entry.

If you would like to run please contact Steve Pearson – personnotlob@hotmail.co.uk

Details of this years’ CW relay can be found here – http://www.halifaxharriers.co.uk/races/calderdale-way-relay.html

Just a warning for anyone at the track on Tuesday night this week- there is a Fun Fair set up on the overflow car park next to the Arena – so there may be limited car parking space available for us to use immediately around the Arena and you should probably allow a little extra time to park.

Northern ladies 6 and mens 12 stage road relays
Saturday 31st March 2012

Results
Ladies​6 x 2.41miles per leg

1 ​Rachel Thompson ​13.33 ​Team Position​ 5th
2​ Lindsay Brindle ​​13.56​​​ 7th
3 ​Michelle Devine​​ 16.11 ​​​10th
4​ Suzanne Budget ​14.54 ​​​10th
5​ April Stephenson​ 15.49 ​​​10th
6​ Maria Lowe​​ 14.24​​​ 10th

An all round strong performance from the ladies and a top result on the day. It was nice to see the team enjoy themselves so much on the day.

Men 6 x 2.41miles and 6 x 4.8miles per leg (odd number legs 4.8m and evens 2.41)

1​ Andy Townsend​​ 26.56 ​Team Position ​44th​
2 ​Tim Roe​​ 13.58 ​​​39th
3​ Martyn Bell​​ 25.42 ​​​38th
4​ Billy Martin​​ 14.39 ​​​38th
5​ Karl Ward ​​28.52 ​​​40th
6 ​Carl Balshaw ​​14.15 ​​​40th
7 ​Alastair Murray ​​26.01 ​​​38th
8​ Tony Hesketh ​​16.05 ​​​38th
9 ​Stuart Edmundson ​​26.58 ​​​38th
10​ Colin Wood​​ 15.50​​​ 38th
11​ Rob Whitaker ​​32.08 ​​​41st
12​ Pete Bland ​​16.44 ​​​40th

A massive thank you to everybody who ran, but a bigger thank you to all the lads who ran at such short notice, like Rob who rushed over from Wetherby at the last minute to run on Leg 11. Thanks also to Pete Ramsdale for bringing the tent and to my missus Jane for helping out on the day with numbers , and babysitting duties etc.
Once again it was a very stressful week for me and Ali as we tried to coax and cajole people to run for the club, we have 200 members but you wouldnt think so when you try and put a team together. The race was advertised on the website front page for at least 6 weeks and I personally e.mailed at least 40 people 6 times but still we were runners short on the Friday. It seems strange that me and Tony are in our 65th years of age and still are running for Horwich in the A Team ( Yes the A Team )
Anyway
On the plus side we had a great day out, we met runners we hadn’t seen for ages, we chatted to other team members, it was like a festival of running and very enjoyable.

Pete Pland.

Horiwch RMI Harriers Beginners Group Sunday Run

1st April  2012 – Lower Rivington 5k

Sunday runs are back to normal non-marathon and I am doing a 5k and a 10k one rolled into one run, and the starter is an easy and flat 5k run from Lower Barn around the trails leading to the Castle and then back again to Lower Barn – the 10k runners will do a couple of km before the 5k, and then after the 5k we’ll head up and weave through the Chinese Gardens, up to the Pike and then back to the Castle car park.

Map My Run route

Rivington 5k run #1 – meet at Lower Barn/Go Ape please for a 9:15 start.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/79367721/

http://maps.google.co.uk/?f=q&hl=en&sll=&sspn=&t=h&q=53.6195+-2.5641

Rivington 10k run #1 – meet at Castle Car Park for a 9:00 start.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/79372359/

http://maps.google.co.uk/?f=q&hl=en&sll=&sspn=&t=h&q=53.6106,-2.5535

OS Map Route

Two routes shown… The green is 5k starting at Lower Barn, and runs around the reservoir trails, past the castle, and back. The red is 10k and starts at the Caslte car park, picks up the 5k route and then carries on to head up to the Pike using what is probably the most scenic route through the Chinese Gardens.

Any questions then please feel free to ask, and please if you are going to come along then drop me either a txt (07530 758186) or email  (carl@balshaw.me) so that I know who is coming.

Cheers

Carl

Cartmel Trail 10k
We had two runners competing in this very muddy race which was won by Blackburns Chris Barnes in 39.35 first for us in 151st place was Christa Whatmough after a strong run Brenda Hesketh was 187th both excellant runs out of 408 finishers.

Cartmel 18k Trail Race
There where 250 runners in this race with England International Moutain runner Orlando Edwards of Shaftsbury winning easily , Gareth Booth was a superb third overall only four minutes behind after a great race, Tony Hesketh was first O/60 in 93rd and the only other runner from Horwich was another O/60 in Pete Henegan in 183rd place everyone who finished got a Sticky Toffee Pudding and a Tee Shirt.

Tony Hesketh

Details of this Saturdays Northern Road Relays can be found on the Northern Athletics site by following this link http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/Pages/Event.aspx?id=160&EventID=694

The ladies’ and men’s teams will be announced, as soon as they are finalised.

(we are still looking for men for the team – if you are available contact Pete Bland – peterbland@btinternet.com)

Watch this space.

Horiwch RMI Harriers Beginners Group Sunday Run

25th March 2012 – Dimple, Witton Weavers and Jumbles

Sunday’s run is a nice and easy relaxed saunter route around Wayoh, Jumbles, and Turton&Entwistle reservoirs – there are two meet up points, which will be the same ones for next Sunday as well – and the choice of doing 8miles, 10miles or 16miles – pace is going to be very steady and the shorter distances are around the reservoirs, which is both quite scenic and flat trail running. We’ve done a similar route last summer a couple of times, but am adding in a bit of new terrain, though with these reservoirs there is only one way to run around them.

Map My Run route

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/edit/76763388/

16 miler meet up is Dimpla at 8am, 8/10 milers meet up at Turton&Entwistle Reservoir for 9am, 10milers will run the whole route around all three reservoirs, 8 milers can shortcut back over the embankment and skip running the 2miles around Turton&Entwistle Reservoir.

OS Map Route

The route starts for the 16miler at Dimple, we park in a small sidestreet off the main road, and then head over towards Belmont Reservoir along Witton Weavers Way, turning off and cutting back on ourselves to Turton Reservoir, around the base of Turton Heights and then down to the car park to pick up any 10 miler runners; the rest of the run is around the three main reservoirs here, this is essentially a flat run, but the reservoirs are on different levels and so there are a couple of climbs, but is otherwise a nice easy and quite scenic route.

Meet up is 8am at Dimple for 16 miler

http://maps.google.co.uk/?f=q&hl=en&sll=&sspn=&t=h&q=53.6365,-2.4470

Alternative meet up point is 9am at the main car park for Turton&Entwistle Reservoir

http://maps.google.co.uk/?f=q&hl=en&sll=&sspn=&t=h&q=53.6506,-2.4232

16 miler need trail shoes please, 8/10 milers can use road or trail; everyone should have some kind of light weight waterproofing in case of poor weather, hi viz as a layer should be fine for this run as we are not going up on the fells, and water – 500ml for everyone – jelly babies are also good

Any questions then please feel free to ask, and please if you are going to come along then drop me either a txt (07530 758186) or email  (carl@balshaw.me) so that I know who is coming.

Cheers

Carl

I’m racing with a team from work doing the Grizedale Adventure Challenge in Cumbria, this Saturday, 24th, it’s a 2km trail run/25ish km MTB around the North Face trail (red) followed by 4km fell run, an incidental kayak, another 4km fell run followed by an assault course. Last year we came 3rd without trying to hard and one of the team members got cramp. One the team members, the who got cramp, has pulled put has damaged wrist and will struggle on bike section. Does anyone fancy doing it to make a team of 3? We can give a lift up to Grizedale if needed.

http://www.trailplus.com/adventure-challenge-series.php

All the best

Andy Porter
07971 400356

We are less than three weeks away from the mens 12 and ladies 6 stage road running relays. The mens race is 6 x 4.9 miles and 6 x 2.8 miles and the ladies race is 6 x 2.8 miles.

Please let me know by e.mail if you wish to be in the squad for these relays, I can then pick the teams from the squad. I need to send on line in the next few days our squad, that can be as many as 36 men and 18 ladies. Please also let me know if you would sooner run in the morning cos you are doing something in the afternoon or the other way round if you like a lie in.

Cheers

Pete Bland (peterbland@btinternet.com)

Horwich RMI 2011/12 Awards

9th March 2012

Men’s overall club champion
1 D.Jackson £20 D.Vickers Cup
2 D.Fleming £10
3 G.Chadderton £10

Ladies overall club champion
1 S.Budgett £20 J.Knight Cup

Mens vets overall club champion
1 D.Jackson £20 N.Matthews Trophy
2 D.Fleming £10
3 G.Chadderton £10

Men’s road champion
1 D.Jackson £20 T.Hesketh Shield
2 S.McMyler £10
3 J.Kevan £10

Men’s fell champion
1 G.Chadderton £20 D.Hurst Shield

Men’s overall cross country champion
1 G.Booth £20 M.Jackson Shield
2 Z.Howe £10
3 D.Jackson £10

Ladies overall cross country champion
1 S.Budgett £20 Horwich Shield

Mens vets overall cross country champion
1 G.Booth £20 Stanley Cup
2 D.Jackson £10
3 D.Fleming / G.Chadderton £10

Ladies vets overall cross country champion
1 S.Budgett £20 Horwich Cup

Men’s cross country club champion G.Priestley W.Mangham Cup

Ladies cross country club champion S.Budgett NV Troup Trophy

Men’s vets cross country club champion G.Booth L.Pollard Trophy

Ladies vets cross country club champion S.Budgett Rivington Camping Cup
Highest British fell placing D.Milliken M.Short Cup

Highest SEL finisher D.Milliken J.Prescot Cup

A very busy weekend with intercounties cross country and trafford 10k etc etc means we didnt have a massive response for the relay so we have 2 teams at the moment but need to make up two members for the second team

A team. Glyn Kay – Garry Chadderton – Tony Hesketh – Carl Balshaw
B team. Gillian Smith- David Crawford –  ? – ?

If you are able to run then please drop a line to either Pete or Carl so that we can field the two teams and everyone who wants to run can get a run in.

Pete Bland (peterbland@btinternet.com) 0755 404047
Carl Balshaw (carl@balshaw.me) 07530 758186

DO YOU WANT TO BE ON TV?

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FELL RUNNERS
Willing to commit to the shoot dates!
Audition: Monday 12th March in Manchester
We have limited spaces available so please email a contact telephone number & and any video footage of you fell running (if you have it) to -

We are looking for

Male and Female. Age 18 up to 55

Is Fell Running your passion? Would you like to be on an advert?

Must be able and keen Fell Runner!

Filming: in North West, Lake District w/c 19th March

STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

commercials@emmastafford.tv

Horwich RMI Harriers & AC

Senior & Junior Presentation Evening

Friday 9th March 2012

Horwich RMI Club

7 -11pm

Pasty & Peas Supper on arrival

This year the evening will incorporate the Track & Field, Fell, Road and Cross Country awards for all Junior age groups and Seniors

Tickets are priced £4 each and are available from Coaches and committee members

If you haven’t already confirmed with Pete Bland (peterbland@btinterne​t.com), can any runners who are planning on running the Mid Lancs at Worden Park this Saturday or the Trotters 5M on Sunday please let Pete know asap.

Thanks

You may have noticed that a twitter feed has been added to the front page of the website. The intention is to use twitter to briefly report on race results and pictures, and preview upcoming events.

The latest entries on the @horwichharriers twitter feed will always appear front page. If you already have a twitter account, you can follow @horwichharriers to get the latest posts in your timeline, and view older posts.

The most useful feature is the how easy it is to submit postings to appear in the @horwichharriers feed. Just include @horwichharriers in your tweet, and this will be picked up an re-tweeted to appear on the @horwichharriers feed. So if you’ve been out racing, let us know what you’ve been up to with a quick tweet.

The twitter feed will not replace the more detailed articles (so keep them coming) but will complement them with quicker and more immediate links and snippets on what been going on.

This is a bit of an experiment at the moment, and one that will work best with contribution from members, so sign up to twitter, follow @horwichharriers, and get tweeting.

Alastair Murray
alastair.murray@gmail.com

Well done to Dave Jackson and Suzanne Budgett for winning the 2011 Club Overall Championships with one remaining fixture.

With the four best XC scores from six to count, the ‘race’ for the second and third positions for the men is still wide open. The final fixture is at Worden Park on the 3rd March.

Mens table here.

Ladies table here.

Prediction Race

Thursday 23rd Feb 2012 @ 6.30pm +

Low key prediction race starting at Cooke Street, Horwich. (nr Mill Lane/Church Street junction).

The Route will be as follows;

Cooke Street-Wallsuches-Georges Lane-Wilderswood-Mast-Two Lads (via wall)-Burnt Edge-

Georges Lane-Jolly Crofters-Wallsuches-Foxholes-Cooke Street. (approx 11km)

Headtorches and familiarity with the fells and Winter Hill is essential.

The runner to finish in the nearest time to their predicted time will win the coveted bottle of wine.

No fee for entry, runners set off at minute intervals from 6.30pm onward.

Colin Jones

07773160675
colin@vapor-tek.co.uk

We have received an invitation to a new Darwen Dashers night time fell race to be held on Friday 24th February.

Details on the DD website – http://www.dashers.org.uk/

We have a luxury appartment in Tenerife Los Claveles in Los Christianos that we wish to rent out for two weeks in August the 3rd. Cost is £500. Sleeps four superb private complex, swimming pool, restaurant etc. Contact Tony or Brenda for more information – anthony-hesketh@sky.com / 01204 668183.

If anyone wants to marshal the Manchester 10k on 20th May please contact Tony Hesketh. You get a Nike jacket a packed lunch and our club get a donation and usually a couple of club places free.We have marshalled on it for the past six years its very rewarding and you are putting something back.

Tony Hesketh – anthony-hesketh@sky.com / 01204 668183

Senior Fell Championships 2012.

This years senior fell championships for both ladies and men will be your best 6 from the follow 11 races, with at least one from each category. (Short, Medium and Long)

The points system is as follows: 15 points for 1st, down to 1 point for 15th.

For an additional challenge this year there will also be a new Long Distance award for the highest place man and woman in the Lakeland Classics Trophy. Details of this years LCT will appear here http://www.lakelandclassicstrophy.org.uk/ and can be found in the FRA Calendar.

If that’s not enough, don’t forget about the English and British Championships. As usual, the Mike Short Trophy will be awarded to the harrier achieving the highest position in a British champs race.

Junior Fell Championship 2012

This year as in previous years we have chosen ten races there is actually eleven with two on the same date Pendle and our own Pike race runners can go to either with points being awarded in both.It is a runners best six races to count 12 points for first down to 1 point for twelth place,you must do at least three races to qualify for an award at the end of the season.

Races best six to count,

7th April Pendle Barley nr Burnley 11.45 a.m
7th April Rivington Pike Horwich 1.00p.m
21st April Anniversary Wa! Stair Cumbria 11.30 a.m
7th May Wray Caton (Scarecrow Festival and Gala) 11.30 a.m
12th May Belmont Winter Hill 12.30 p.m
26th May Cowpe Hill Rossendale 12.00 p.m
23rd June Cloughha Pike (Gala) 1.00p.m
1st July Hawkswick Yorkshire 12.00 p.m
14th July Sedbergh Cumbria ( Uphill only) 12.00 p.m
21st July Ingleborough Yorkshire (Gala) 3.15 p.m
18th August Darwen Gala Lancashire 12.45 p.m

Any queries contact Tony Hesketh tel 01204 668183 or 07973302432

Saturday 9th – Sunday 10th June 2010.

Running the length of Wales – 200+ miles over 2 days, 20 stages, starting at Caernarfon Castle on Saturday morning, with an overnight halt at Newtown and finishing on Sunday afternoon at Cardiff Castle.

This year will see the 30th running of the Welsh Castles Relay. To mark this milestone we would like to take a team back to this race which was a popular annual outing for the harriers back in the 80s, where the club finished 2nd overall twice.

We wouldn’t be trying to win the overall race but aim to win some stages and possibly King of the Mountains. Cost £5.00 per runner. As well as runners we would need a small team of people to help with the organisation.

We need to know before this weekend if there is enough interest so we can enter a team.

If you are interested in running, or to be part of the organising team please contact Steve Pearson as soon as possible.

Steve Pearson.
mob: 07732 210013
email: pearsonnotlob@hotmail.co.uk

Last Saturday The Fifth round of the Mid Lancs XC races was contested.
First up was Nathan Townsend in the U15’s boys. Having a great race after initially leading for some time. Nathan earned himself a great 6th place.

The Senior Men lead the way with Gareth Booth home in 8th, pleased with that. An excellent 36th and 38th from Zac Howe & David Jackson gave the team a good start. Andy Townsend and Tim Roe both much quicker times than Last Year home in 38th & 57th. We needed a good performance from Doug Fleming who did not disappoint home in 79th. This gave the team a well deserved 5th place and more importantly still retaining 3rd in the league. It will all be hinged on the last race at Leyland to claim the bronze. Guys lets have as good a turnout as we did at Hynburn.

It is with sadness that I must report the death of long time member Barry Horrobin.

His funeral will take place on Friday 17th February at 2:15 p.m., East Chapel, Overdale Crematorium.

Alan Sweatman.
01204 693781

Parbold Hill Race 11th Feb

A field of over 500 assembled at the start for the 46th running of this race, with runners being turned away when the entry limit was reached.The cconditions were very icy underfoot with a few muddy fields to negotiate. The race was won by Adam Peers of Liverpool making a mockery of the conditions, Stuart Edmundson was first home for us racing his first race since New Years day finishing in a superb 13th place Debbie Campbell was first lady in a remarkable 39th place. Tony Hesketh was first O/60 in 97th with newcomer Layne Mercer 109th after a fine run our final runner was Alan Blinkhorn 389th well pleased with his run.

Normal Matthews Winter Hill Fell Race

30th Winter Hill Fell Race (Sunday 12th Feb 2012)

I would like to thank everyone who helped to make today’s event run smoothly. Without the marshals, time keepers and the Mountain Rescue the race could not go ahead. Given that conditions out on Winter Hill were amongst the worst that the race has been run in it is a thank you that is more than deserved by all who helped.

Colin Jones
Results from UKResults are here.

Photographs have been uploaded to the website here

STOP PRESS : Message from RO.

“Much of the race route is currently covered in potentially dangerous hard ice. The race will not go ahead with the route in its present condition ie it will be cancelled if the ice does not go by Sunday.

We will be making an inspection of sections of the route early on Saturday morning and emailing out to team captains at 10.00 am to advise them of the outcome. We will also post our findings here on this site.

If the event is cancelled it will not be rearranged at a later date and teams will have their entry fee refunded.”

Details of the teams for this years Pennine Bridleway Relay are now in the Fell Section.

Team numbers have now been added. Please make a note of these for collecting your numbers on the day at the start of your leg.

Norman Matthews Winter Hill Fell Race

10am Sunday 12th Feb 2012

Marshals Needed

This years Norman Matthews Winter Hill Fell Race takes place
on the 12th February this year and the race depends upon
the support and good will of not just the local land owners
but of the club members in order to provide marshals and
support so that the race can be run safely and as a shared
responsibility within the club.

Please, if you have not marshalled before, then do so now.

Many people within the club put a great deal of effort into
organising and catering for not just the races, but relay teams,
coaching, events and presentation evenings – we need your
help and support to continue to do so.

Many thanks
Horwich RMI Harriers

Hyndburn Cross Country – Saturday 14th Jan 2012

On a beautiful sunny day, in fantastic conditions under foot, we had our best turnout of Horwich RMI runners for many a day. The Target was to beat Preston and remain in bronze medal place in the league and we did it with ease so thanks go to everybody who turned out and especially our first 6 placed runners who made the team.

Too many runners (17) to mention everyone by name but just a few names that need a mention – another quality run by Gareth in 11thOverall looking stronger this year, great 2nd place by young Dave looking good on the country, Zach is maintaining his fast starts for longer now and bring on the day he keeps it up all the way round, he was leading after 400mtrs. Graham is back in form after his short break from running and was flying towards the end passing Jonesy who was slip sliding around in his Nike road shoes, then making up the team in 6th place was the ever improving Andy Townsend just holding off Sean by 16 seconds. Good team effort lads.

Nice to see Andy Porter back racing and looking good, Billy looked out of place in 187th but rumour had it that he had not run for 6 weeks and this was his comeback run.

Thanks again to Pete Ramsdale for bringing the tent and looking after everybody on the day.

We had 3 lady runners in the ladies race, Lindsay Brindle finishing in a creditable 4th place overall, Suzanne Budgett in a brilliant 13th and Kate Porter on a comeback making up the team in 80th.

A good Day out

Pete Bland

Full Results http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2012/ml114.htm

League Tables http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2012/mldivisions114.pdf

To club representitives,
I am contacting you to let you know that the NOON STONE FELL RACE 2012 ( 25/02/2012) has been cancelled due to environmental reasons.
I hope it will be possible for you to let your members know of our decision as the event is in the FRA calendar as race details were submitted prior to cancellation.
I would appreciate it if you would pass on our apologies to any of your club members who were planning to run this year and thank them for their support over the years.

Regards,
Colin Duffield
Todmorden Harriers

Darwen Tower Fell Race

Sunday morning saw a good turn out for Horwich Harriers at the Darwen Tower Fell Race. New member Paul Jackson made a solid start to his Horwich career, finishing 38th in 41:49. Another Horwich first timer Maria Lowe was pleased with third place in 44;16 experiencing her first time on the fells. Another highlight of the day was a great run from team captain Suzzanne Budgett who was second in 44:01, Paul Murray went one better by winning his age category.

Other Horwich performances were:

Sean Mcmyler 40:20
Paul Boardmen 40:50
Brian Walton 41:19
Michael Kay 41:33
Paul Murray 1st vet70 50:54
Fran Walker 52:02
Colin Waterworth 53:19

Horwich RMI Road Championship 2012

30 points for 1st Counter down to 1 for 30th.

8 from 10 races to count

19th Feb​ruary​​ Bolton 5k
04th March ​​Trotters 5m
15th April ​​Radcliffe 10k
16th May​​ Jubilee 5m
13th June ​​Three Sisters 5k
01st August​​ Chorley 4.4m
12th August​​ Bispham 10k
09th September ​​Leigh 5m Trail Race
30th September​​ Swinton 10m
07th October​​ Gin Pit 5m

These are also all the races in the Central Lancs Grand Prix for 2012​​

Pete Bland

Horwich Ladies take Ribble 10k team prize

On a perfect day for running in the picturesque Ribble Valley , 3 good solid performances by the Horwich RMI ladies team took the team prize in this high quality race of almost 1000 runners. The team was led home by Rachel Thompson in a brilliant time of 36.48 closely followed by an ever improving Debbie Campbell in 38.04. Gemma Jones was our third counter not far behind in a gutsy 41.03. Well done ladies.

In what was one of the most high quality mens races I have seen for a while Gary Priestley ran a brilliant 31.37 and the ever improving Andy Townsend ran 36.34. Gary will now go into the Nos Galan 5k on New years eve with enough confidence to run a PB, good luck Gary

Pete Bland

London Marathon Numbers 2012

We have five entries for 2012 London Marathon which the club would like to distribute to members who would like to run.

These entries will be allocated firstly to any club members who entered and were rejected from the London Marathon public ballot, with a draw being made if there are more than five claims made. If there are any remaining entries then these will be allocated to any club member who wishes to run, again with a draw being used if there are more claims that entries left available.

If you wish to claim a club place for the 2012 London Marathon then please email Alison Gordon (club.secretary@horwichrmiharriers.co.uk)

with your contact details and whether you have applied and been rejected or not; the closing date is 31th December 2011.

Please note that these club places are allocations of numbers and there is the standard entry fee payable for the London Marathon.

People will be notified in early January on the outcome as entries need to be submitted by mid January.

Peter Ramsdale

HOSPITAL RUN THURSDAY 22^nd DECEMBER 2011

The Hospital Run this year will take place on Thursday 22^nd December 2011 and consist of the normal 10.5 mile route.

For anyone unfamiliar with this traditional club training run it takes a route from Horwich Leisure Centre down to the Crown Hotel and along Chorley New Road to the junction with Chorley Old Road in Bolton, where the former Royal Bolton Hospital used to stand (approx. 5.9 miles). Hence the title Hospital Run. The run to this point is at a very, very steady pace. From here the run starts in earnest and is done at near to race pace along Chorley Old Road to finish back at the Leisure Centre (approx. 4.6 miles).

This year there will be four groups starting from the Leisure Centre, at 7.00 p.m. for the slowest group and then at 5 minute intervals with the fastest group setting off at 7.15 p.m. This is to ensure that all runners arrive at the Hospital at about the same time. Only when all runners have assembled at the Hospital will the run for home begin.

Please assemble in the foyer of the Leisure Centre.

Note: Lockers are available in the Leisure Centre, as are showers for a small fee.

ALL CLUB MEMBERS WITH GUESTS ARE WELCOME

PLEASE TELL AS MANY MEMBERS AS POSSIBLE THE DATE OF THIS YEARS RUN

FOR SAFETY REASONS PLEASE WEAR A RUN-A-BRITE OR BRIGHT COLOURED TOP.

PLEASE NOTE THAT A DRINK AND ENJOYABLE SOCIAL CHAT IS TO BE HAD IN THE BRIDGE PUBLIC HOUSE OPPOSITE THE LEISURE CENTRE AFTERWARDS.

Questions please email ste-jackson@supanet.com or telephone 01942706506 or 07747838772

Steve Jackson

Red Rose XC 2011-12

The RR committee met on Wednesday 7th Dec to confirm positions and sort trophies for the current season.

Our winners are confirmed as Lyndsey Brindle 2nd lady overall, Suzanne Budgett first lady vet and Tony Hesketh first vet 60.

We had two nearly won’s with Isabel Dean finishing in 7th in the under 11’s having an excellent season in the mud and the ladies team finished third overall – medals for first two teams – after winning in the first two races they lost by just 2 points to Rossendale 96 to 98.

Whilst this league continues to be the club’s second XC priority, all the local clubs support this league and all the races are completed by Christmas!

Presentation Saturday 4th Feb 2012 from 7.30pm in the Horwich RMI club – Tickets £4 and £3 available from Pete Ramsdale Peter, Ramsdale XC Captain

Sunday Run - 11th December 2011

Rivington, Lead Mines and the Pike 14km Trail

Sundays run is going to start from the Lower Barn, the run follows the reservoir around and the back past the war memorial and the old lead mines, and then over Anglezark towards Holdens Stumps before climbing up towards the Pidgeon Tower, and a quick visit to the Pike and then dowqn and along behind the school towards the Barn and back to the cars

Two easy clims – trail shoes may be a good idea, but the route is ok for road shoes – future runs for a sunday are likely to be getting more offroad and so now would be a good time to get trail shoes for anyone who hasn’t got some already.

Meet up is Lower Rivington Barn for a 9am start.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?f=q&hl=en&sll=&sspn=&t=h&q=53.6199,-2.5632

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/60060966

Anyone running then pls drop me a txt so we know who is coming (07530 758186)

Week 13 Training Plan

- W/c Mon 5th December 2011

This is the start of a new mesocycle of 6 weeks and we move onto strength work, so more hill work and fewer but longer rep work; Tuesday is the track and will be longer continual running session of 6mins, and thursday will be a straight steady run of around 10k.

Tuesday 6th Dec - Bolton Arena 6:45 for 7pm
- 7pm start - Track Session – 6min efforts

Thursday 1st Dec -Horwich Lesiure Centre 7pm - Steady Run

- 7pm start - steady run over Chorley Old Rd
- or 6:30 at the foxholes for those doing Steve Pearson’s session instead

Saturday – Tempo 5k Park Run or 30mins

Sunday 4th Dec - 14km Trail Run

- Meet up Rivington Lower Barn for 9am start.

Week 12 Training Plan – W/c Mon 28th November

Week 12, final week of the speed mesocycle and for anyone following the cycles then this is a medium week - again, 5 sessions per week with a couple of days recovery or easy cross training, and for this week the sunday run the the 4th will be the Santa Saunter!    Both sessions this week are more fun sessions marking the end of the six week cycle, and then from next week we start again with the Strength Endurance sessions – or in plain english ‘Hills’.

Tuesday 29th Nov - Horwich Lesisure Centre 6:45 for 7pm - Arcon village for relay
- 7pm start – if we have left then head out towards Arcon village up Chruch St.   Wednesday - Steady 10k or 60mins

Thursday 1st Dec -Horwich Lesiure Centre 7pm - Hill session (tanners)
- 7pm start – if we have left then head towards Ridgeway Arms pub (Blackrod rail station)

Saturday – Tempo 5k Park Run or 30mins

Sunday 4th Dec - Santa Saunter for Fun!

Add in some core strength work (weights) and some flexibility (stretching) else you’ll end up on the injured list

David Staff Memorial Race – Darwen

Ten harriers turned out for this short, but not to be underestimated fell race. We were greeted with a dry but very windy, chilly day, especially on the top at Darwen Tower.
In the mens, Sean McMyler lead the way home for Horwich showing a further six Horwich men the way through the finish. New member Paul Jackson put in a commendable performance which bodes well for adding further strength to the mens section. In the ladies Maria Lowe maintained second overall position behind Becky Taylor of Blackburn for most of the way around. Probably due only to experience of the fells which enabled Suzanne Budgett to overtake her on the downhill from the Tower. What a great, brave effort on Maria’s part swapping tarmac for mud, heather and a rocky descent down the much eroded ‘Aggies Staircase’. I can see a great future for her on the Ian Hodgson!!! Third lady counter was Fran Walker putting in a sterling sprint finish.
Well done to all & thanks to all those who gave support.
full results – http://www.ukresults.net/2011/staff.html

SB