The Harriers had two Men’s Teams and one Women’s Team at this years Northern Relays with the rain stopping just before the off and sunshine greeting the runners on the first Leg.
Men’s Full Results HERE
Women’s Full Results HERE
An unbelievable finish to the Race saw Liverpool, who had the Gold Medal in the bag, go the wrong way on the last leg to hand victory to Leeds and resulted in Morpeth moving up to Silver Medal position and Salford to Bronze.
Just 44 seconds separated the Team from a top ten place. Ben Fish ran the fastest long leg for the Harriers (23.37) and 12th fastest of all Long Legs on the day which was a cracking run and was part of a very good performance by the Harriers ‘A’ Team in securing 11th position overall .Zac Howe ran the fastest Short Leg clocking 12.51 and the last five legs were very consistent with just 31 seconds between fastest and slowest runs.
11 Blackburn Harriers & AC ‘A’ 3:26:59
Mat Nuttall (23) 24:59
Zachary Howe (21) 12:51
Robert Warner (21) 25:15
Shaun Livesey (18) 13:00
Tim Raynes (19) 26:25
Morgan Philips (21) 14:15
Ben Fish (18) 23:37
Chris Barnes (17) 13:19
C Davies (16) 13:00
Paul Bradshaw (16) 13:31
Paul Guinan (13) 13:26
Andrew Buttery (11) 13:21
The second of the Harriers Men’s Team placed 47th overall which was a pretty solid performance. In his first Race for the Club new member Conrad McKee ran the fastest Long Leg for the ‘B’ Team in 27.11 and John Sutton the fastest Short Leg with 13.54. Great spirit shown by the Team especially Brian Fogarty who ran with an infection and was on antibiotics but still completed his leg, as did Paul Bradshaw for the ‘A’ Team who hasn’t been able to train much lately due to illness. Two Harriers also ran in a ‘C’ Team – Mike Blacklidge running the first Long Leg in 33.50 and in his first ever competitive run for the Club, Sportshall Coach Ben Armstrong tackled the first Short Leg and finished with a solid time of 17.35.
47. Blackburn Harriers & AC ‘B’ 3:54:05
Brian Fogarty (51) 27:19
Joseph Howe (50) 13:54
Richard Fogarty (52) 29:21
Daniel Maynard (51) 15:18
Gary Pearse (56) 29:50
Allan Hartley (54) 15:04
Conrad McKee (52) 27:11
Jack Lonsdale (51) 14:03
Paul Wilkinson (55) 17:07
John Cookson (53) 15:15
John Sutton (52) 13:35
Marcus Sheridan (48) 16:08
The Women’s Team finished 44th out of the 55 Teams who completed the Relays which was a good performance considering that we had lost some athletes on the build up to the event. Fastest Long Leg for the Club was run by Beckie Taylor in 32.03 and Catherine Guinan had the fastest Short Leg (18.29) just one second in front of Shelley Tattersall (18.30).
44. Blackburn Harriers & AC ‘A’ 2:25:26
Kaylie Panaro (47) 35:03
Catherine Guinan (49) 18:29
Lindsay Davies (50) 22:17
Rebecca Taylor (45) 32:03
Shelley Tattersall (44) 18:30
Carol Cookson (44) 19:04
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