Otley Athletic Club

Report from Tom Lynch: Langdale Horseshoe is an AL fell race, with roughly 20km 1500 meters of climbing, taking in the summits of Bowfell, Crinkle Crags and Pike O’Blisco  jagged and very slippery underfoot, it takes a lot longer than you’d think to get round! Both previous years I’ve done, it’s been boiling hot all the way round, thankfully this year, it was a bit cooler and breezier, and the rain mostly held off. I was the only representative from…

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There was lots of water around at the 10th race of the Eric Smith Handicap Trophy,  the dam is a spectacular sight when the water is flowing over the top, as it was today and the underfoot conditions weren’t much better on much of the race route.  On his 50th club handicap Matt Podd won his first in nearly 5 years, just 8 seconds ahead of Ian whose time of 32:33 was the fastest of the day and a new…

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Report from Howard On Saturday I had the opportunity to repeat one of the Parkruns in the Leeds race series at Armley. This in order to try and better my time of 22.00 from February, when the ground was frozen by 23 seconds to better my rival’s time of 21.38 set in July. Half the course is grass which was wet and muddy and it consists of three laps. I calculated that if I beat the first lady and was…

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Woodhouse Moor parkrun A total of 653 runners took part. View full results for Woodhouse Moor parkrun event #635 Position   Gender Position   parkrunner   Club   Run Time   1 1 James SAXTON Wakefield District Harriers & AC  00:16:09 11 1 Hannah BROWN Skyrac AC  00:18:12 286 223 Robin OUTTERSIDES Otley AC  00:26:33 Bradford parkrun A total of 509 runners took part. View full results for Bradford parkrun event #478 Position   Gender Position   parkrunner   Club   Run Time   1 1 Martin FILLINGHAM Saltaire Striders  00:17:47 29 1…

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It was good to have representation across a lot of the races at the first cross country race of the season at a hilly course near Cliffe Castle, Keighley,  well done all.  Full results here Pos Time Name Team Senior Men 1 24:07 Tom Adams Ilkley 161 56:13 Antonio Cardinale Otley U17 Girls 1 17:25 Neve Hardcastle Longwood 21 22:41 Kate Robinson Otley U17 Boys 1 17:08 Theo Jacques Skyrac 19 19:16 Jenson Brogden Otley U15 Boys 1 15:30 Kristian…

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Report from Howard Jeffreys We escaped the deluge that engulfed the world championship elite men’s cycle race and the conditions were pretty good for the race which kicked off at 10.00 O’clock. The rain overnight had swelled an already swollen river so in parts on the trail sections a sloping six inch strip of mud was the only passable part of the path. The conditions underfoot made for generally slower times all round than last year. Today I was not…

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Report from Scott: Scott Harrington finished in 108th position and was 7th V40 in a time of 2.25.04 which was a big PB Winner was Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) in 2.01.04 There was over 44,000 finishers

Report from Sarah F: Anyone who reads my race reports (all 2 of you!) will know I am particularly partial to a mountain marathon (which for the un-initiated has everything to do with mountains and very little to do with the marathon!). The ROC (formerly RAB) at the end of September has been a firm favourite since I first ran it in 2008 (the second edition of the event). I ran with my usual MM partner Kate, who I have…

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Woodhouse Moor parkrun A total of 444 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Nathan EDMONDSON Ilkley Harriers AC 00:16:13 17 1 Caitlin FIELDER Unattached 00:19:09 80 71 Paul TRANTER Otley AC 00:23:03 92 80 Brent CARR Otley AC 00:23:31 344 117 Pamela TRANTER Otley AC 00:31:26 Oakwell Hall parkrun A total of 139 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Ian WILSON Spenborough & District AC 00:20:02 8 1 Tracey GALLAGHER Pudsey Pacers…

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