Adrian Selby's funeral is next Tuesday, 12 noon at Radcliffe Crematorium, followed by a gathering at "Hardy Hall" Little Lever. Dress code being casual nothing formal.

If anyone is going to Hardy Hall please let me know so I can pass on the details for the catering

Thanks
Mark Emmett

Family flowers only, donations to I think the Hospice or Christies will let you know as soon as I find out

It is with great sadness that I have to anounce the untimely death of Adrian Selby in his early 40's. Adrian ran for Horwich RMI and up until his recent illness was a regular competitor and winner of our events. He was well known to a lot of local runners and will be sadly missed. Our thoughts go out to his family, from everyone involved with the Central Lancs Grand Prix

Radcliffe 3 Day Challenge :"I Conquered the Challenge."

Radcliffe 3 Day Challenge :"I Conquered the Challenge."

14th July sees the start of the 2nd running of the challenge with the well established Bull Hill Fell Race of approx 5.5 miles, starting from the Wagon & Horses Pub in Hawkshaw, near Bury at 7.30pm (Allow 10 minutes warm up to get to the start)

15th July sees the "Summer Cross Country" race around the woods of Giant Seat Scout Camp, approx 5.0 miles, race HQ being at the camp site near to Ringley motors, Ringley Road, Radcliffe. Starting at 7.00pm. This is an undulating course of varying terrain

16th July sees the start of the "Woodcocks 5 mile Trail Race" around the trail, roads and canal paths of Radcliffe and Ringley. A mainly flat course similar to our 10k but without the diversions so none of the tough up and downs. The easiest of the 3 races by far and justifiably so after the 2 previous days (Allow 10 minutes warm up to get to the start)

Last year in its 1st year it was a great success, Ginny Willey (Middleton Harriers) and Rob Jackson (Horwich RMI) were 1st home over the 3 days.

On line entry to individual races or series at www.ukresults.net £10 affiliated & £16 unafiliated for series

Hope to see some familiar faces there.
All the best
Mark Emmett
Radcliffe AC

Haigh Hall 4 - Weds 11th May

Haigh Hall 4 Mile Road Race, reg. at Wigan Rugby Club, Wingates Road, off Leyland Mill Lane, Wigan Lane (A449) between Cherry Gardens PH and Wigan Infirmary (WN1 2SJ - location map on entry form). Late entry desk from 7.15 at the start off Hall Lane.
2011 entry fees: £4/£6 (+£1 on night) or £6/£10 u/a if you pre-enter June's Trail race at same time (pay "Wigan Phoenix")
Contact: Paul Carroll, 21 Pilgrims Way, Standish, Wigan WN6 0AJ - tel. 01257 426166 evenings & weekends

Radcliffe 10k by Mark Emmet

On a day when heavy showers were expected the Radcliffe 10k was run in a variety of weather on a mild morning, the rain more or less holding off throughout the race. A field of 234 runners completed the second running of the new challenging course around the Nature trail, roads and paths of Ringley and along the canals of Radcliffe to finish on the "Nellie Halsted" track. The course was slightly longer than last year to get it as close to 10k as possible.
1st home was James Kevan of Horwich RMI in 34.30, followed by David Locket (V45) of Salford Harriers, Gareth Booth of Horwich RMI, Tom Carson (Junior Male) of Bolton United Harriers and in 5th place John Knowles of Burnden Road Runners.
1st lady home was Carly Needham of Rochdale Harriers in 38.23, followed by Joanna Goorney (L40) of Wesham Road Runners, Maria Lowe of Astley & Tylesley R.C., Kirsty Preece of Burnden Road Runners and 5th lady being Josie Maley of Astley & Tyldesley R.C.
There were plenty of CLGP runners in attendance with tremendous support at the end of the race as runners waited for their team mates to come in and had the opportunity to enjoy the refreshments provided by Asda, Radcliffe, who had seven unaffiliated runners competing for the "Tickled Pink" charity.
A good number of vets competed with probably the best performance of the day coming from John Riley of Northern Vets who finished the race in a credible 49.33 and 103rd place. At the other end of the age scale Tom Carson finishing in 4th place in 35.52 was a great piece of running for a Junior man.
Team prizes went to Astley & Tyldesley for the ladies and Horwich for the men.
On behalf of all at Radcliffe AC, I hope you had an enjoyable race which will be held again next year, you support of our race was greatly appreciated.

Mark Emmet
Radcliffe AC Chair

PS photo attached of the A & T debrief !

Radcliffe 10k

I've just run round the 10k course and at the moment it's definitely runnable in road shoes, however should it rain much more trail shoes may be the best option. On line entries open till Friday evening, entries will be taken on the day at no extra cost to our CLGP members as agreed.

Mark Emmett
Radcliffe A.C.

Trotters 5 - Written by Stewart Jones of Burden Road Runners

Well as you all know this was a new race which was "FLAT", well I have to confess I forgot to put Flat compaired to the historic races Burnden have put on.

But what I did do and I think you will all agree is I booked the weather, we couldn't have asked for better weather this time of year and I think the scenery

was perfect a little road and track taking you through an open farm were you could see Deer, Ostriches, Lama's and all sorts of animals, that's if you had the

time to look around and take in the view, but I know as a runner (some might say) you miss all the scenery when your fully committed to racing and focusing just on the race.

At 10am on Sunday the 6th March the race began and just under two hundred runners were off. This was a good mix of runners with 112 grand prix runners and the

rest made up of other clubs and non-club runners. At the front Marc Tillotson took the lead and quickly settled down and at the end of the first loop had commanded

a good lead, he was followed by a group with the likes of Nick Leigh from Altrincham, Thomas Carson from Bolton, Paul Mannion from Astley and Tyldesley, Stuart Sharp form Radcliffe

and Colin Rigby again from Astley and Tyldesley. they were followed shortly afterwards by the leading lady runners. Heading the lead was Maria Lowe of Astley + Tyldesley, followed by Kirsty

Preece from Burnden and Jose Maley again from Astley + Tyldesley

As the runners finished the race they were met by great support from people watching the race giving bags of encouragement.

All finishers were handed a technical T-Shirt. Also given out were goody bags and spot prizes which were all donated by Up and Running so I would

like to say a "Big Thank You" to them to help making a very good day.

I was stood at the finish with Andy Staveley and we both spoke to many runners after the race had finished, the feed back we got was very positive with people stating it was a

race they would return to next year, so again thanks for the positive feed back and thanks to all for their support. CHEERS

1st male Marc Tillotson, 2nd Nick Leigh, 3rd Thomas Carson

1st Female Maria Lowe, 2nd Kirsty Preece, 3rd Jose Maley

1st Male team: Marc Tillotson/Thomas Carson/Shay Walker - Bolton

1st Female team: Maria Lowe/Jose Maley/Jean Mann - Astley + Tyldesley

Mens Vets

V40 Paul Mannion, V45 Sean McMyler, V50 Steve Nolan, V55 Ken Fowler, Vet 60 Tony Hesketh, V65 Dave Weywell, V70 Phil Martin

Ladies Vets

V35 Caroline Scholes, V40 Kirsty Preece, V45 Jean Mann, V50 Joan Jackson, V55 Sheila Jones, V 60 Eileen Royal

1st Junior Male Daniel Johnson

1st male vet team: Paul Mannion/Colin Rigby/Sean Moran - Astley + Tyldesley

1st female vets team: Caroline Scholes/Jayne Dickinson/Catherine Jones - Bolton