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Results:Photos:Reservoir Bogs (click here) / Tom Tittiman (click here) Results:Wicken Hill Whizz 2010 (click here) Reservoir Bogs 2010 (click here) Timothy Taylors Tom Tittiman 2010 (click here) Midsummer Madness race series 2010 (click here) Bunny RunMax Wharton with Steve Oldfield hot on his heels, both broke their age group records at the Bunny Run on Tuesday 13th April. Max is now both Under 14 and Under 16 record holder and Steve has broken the Over 50s record. We have a depth of talent at all ages in the club now. Well done lads.
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Pennine Bridleway Success
Once again Calder Valley have had great success on the Pennine Bridleway Relay organised by Rossendale. Our ladies had a strong team coming home comfortably in first place. The men's A team finished an impressive 3rd behind Horwich and Salford. The men's B team finished 18th overall, and 2nd B team only 3 minutes behind Clayton. We fielded two women's teams this year with the B team coming home in 73rd place. Well done to all for an impressive club performance.
Yorkshire Gold
Ben, Karl and Gav continued in great form and adrenalin after the British relays to gain themselves Yorkshire Gold medals at Great Whernside. With Karl in second place he got an individual silver with Ben just being pipped into 4th for Brooze. Gav ran his socks off to place 5th. Another great and first for the club. Well done lads.
They did it again
After a long wait to win the British and English team titles the girls went on to do defend their titles again this year. Helen Fines picked up silver in the British and Anne Johnson went away with a haul of 5 medals, Gold LV40 in the English, Silver LV40 in the British and 3 team medals. After a hard season it was now down to the celebrations and enjoying the success as you can see.
Issy wins first medal for Juniors
Whilst the CVFR ladies keep on winning national titles theres no need to worry that this winning streak is set to end any time soon as the latest generation of winners starts to come through. Issy Wharton has just clinched her first medal in the English Junior Champs which is also the first medal won by any of our juniors. It wont be Issys last and hopefully it will inspire all those others to success. Max finished joint 4th just short of a medal and Edan and Luka were 6th and 8th respectively. Well done to all of them as well as all the others who have also competed well.
Johnnie's BG Success - September 4th/5th
Johnnie Watson (in the orange cag) made it round his BG in 23 hours and 50
minutes. His success was down to shear guts and determination. The weather
was very unkind throwing strong winds and rain during most of his attempt.
This made the going very tricky and slow due to the wet rocks and very low mist and cloud.
WELL DONE JOHNNIE FROM ALL AT CALDER VALLEY.
Club slam on the SLMM
Club members travelled in force up to the Lake District for the 31st Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon. The weekend's most impressive result was from Anne and Bill Johnson racing in the top pairs class (Scafell). At the end of day one they were in second place only 1.5 minutes behind the leaders. Unfortunately they lost 2nd place on day two, but where first mixed pair and 3rd overall - a truly impressive result.
Jackie & Ben Scarf were 30th in the Bowfell, Barbara Lonsdale & Adrian Sherrif 37th in the Kirkfell and Jon & Mary Emberton were 30th in the Harter Fell.
Jason's 1st hot win
Jason Stevens reveled in the hot conditions to record his first ever race victory at the 16 miles Kinder Trog on Sunday, crossing the line in 1:55 to take the trophy by just two seconds after a sprint finish to the line, just pipping local runner Andy Pead.
Double Success at the Weekend
Alistair and Jo win Mixed Pairs in Elite
Whilst the rest of the country was hit by cold and snow there was a small pocket of good weather in the North West of Scotland where the 2009 Kintail Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon was held. A number of Calder Valley members headed north for the "Connoisseurs Mountain Marathon", a two day race in the wilds of Scotland. Jo and Alistair covered the 70km, 4300m Elite course in 13 hours and 56 mins to take 1st mixed pairs and 7th place overall. Jon Underwood and Steve Smithies had an excellent race on the A course to take 11th place. Barbara Lonsdale and Jackie Scarf improved on last years results and were 4th female and 55th in the B class. Rob Sharrat and Mark Nutter had a good second day to come in 13th in the C class.
Will Steigler completes Bob Graham Round
The MWIS forecast was spot on with the conditions: Heavy rain from 3am - 4pm with scattered snow showers. warming up in the evening. Despite this a small team supported Will around the Bob Graham Round in 23 hours and 31 mins despite horrendous conditions on the Dodds. Well done!