My Glossopdale Diary 2014

January



The Trigger is the toughest of races but very popular with the Harriers

Ladies team prize at Hit the Trail, Sue Clapham 1^st V45 followed by tea and cakes at Chez Zoe.

Ladies team prize at the Trigger.
Caitlin Rice 1^st Lady at Lambs Longer Leg and Tigger Tor.
Mike Mawby and Kirsty Johnson represent the club at the Northern XC Champs at Knowsley.
John Stephenson completes Marmot Dark Mountains overnight event on Bleaklow and Kinder.

February

Great year for ever-smiling Caity



Good times enjoyed at the YHA Shropshire weekend.

Tim Budd 2^nd overall Combined Titterstone Clee and Long Mynd Valleys.
Caity 1^st overall Combined and 1^st Lady Titterstone Clee.
Kirsty 3^rd Senior Lady @ Boggart Hole Clough XC. 2^ndoverall in SELXC series.
Mike Mawby and Kirsty Johnson compete at the National XC Champs.
Caity 1^st Lady Ratcliffe 10.
Mark O 1^st New Chew Short course.

March

Zoe very popular at Cloud Nine

Jereon holding regular Monday night speed sessions throughout the year.
Caity 1^st Lady @ Wolfs Pit.

Lins cycles over the Snake and back to complete the Wolfs Pit race, Caity 1st Lady.
11 runners at the Trafford 10K Champs Counter which passes without another Chipgate. 

Paul and Cheryl Stitt get married

6 @ the Donard Challenge in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, first counter British Fell Champs where Zoe is first to emerge from the 'mayhem in the mist' and with Caity and Lins placed 5^th in the team competition.

Lynne and Tim host popular 'Strength and Running' classes.
 



April




All smiles at 'Stride Through The Woods', a 2015 Champs Counter

Caity a marvellous 5th in English Fell Champs counter @ Pendle. Women's team 9th.
PBs for Ryan Costello, Caity, Ian Oates and Neil at the Asics Manchester Marathon.
Sue, Kirsty, Zoe PBs at the Virgin London Marathon.
Andy Burnett PB at the historic 'We're Still Racing Anyway' Rebel Sheffield Half-Marathon.

Tim and Alice 1^st mixed pair at Rab Snowdonia MM.

120 runners at Sue's Herod Farm race, Caity 1^st Lady.

Tim Budd 1^st U/40 at Ras Y Moelwyn.

Good turnout at Stride Through The Woods.

Caity 4^th Lady @ 3 Peaks; wins at Kinder Downfall following day!

Nick Ham completes another Fellsman.

May

More prizes for the GDH Babes team

A week to remember for SuperCaity:- a superb 3^rdat English Champs Counter at Coniston (Sat), 1^stat Moorfield 5K (Sun), James Thorn (Mon), Burbage Skyline (Tues), 2^ndBuxworth 5 (Fri), 1^stCressbrook Crawl (Sat), completed 83 mile High Peak Hog Cycle (Sunday) with several others from the club in atrocious weather.

Steve, Chris and Neil 1^st Men's team at Moorfield 5K.

4 teams complete Old County Tops in good weather unlike 2013.

Caity 1^st Lady at Lantern Pike Dash, Saddleworth and Bamford Sheepdog Trials race.

Six race at Jura. Tim Budd wins sub 4hour whisky glass.

Nick Ham completes Welsh Valleys 100.

13 at the Dovestone Diamond Champs counter. Ladies win team prize, Steve 1st MV45, Sue 1st FV45, Zoe 1st FV35.

Caity wins her 1st Lakes AL race at the Long Duddon.

Charlie becomes V40 and hosts a well-attended garden party.

June



Glossopdale Blokes win prizes too

Lindsay and Alison 2nd FVets 3^rd Female pairing overall in LAMM C Class at Strathcarron.

Caity 2^nd female at this stage in English Fell Champs after 3 races.

Tim B, Chris, John H 2^nd team prize at Cwn Pennant.

Chris and Caity in first place in their categories after 4 races in North Wales Champs.

16 runners out at Club Champs race at Round the Ressers.
Nev and Neil father and son double in Fun on the Fells vet category prizes.
Good turnout at the Summer Solstice bash.
John H, Chris and Rich win team prize at the Kinder Trog. 13 running at this Fell Champs race.
Carl Bedson and Lins win at the Vegan Carneddau.
Mike Mawby 7^th and sub 1.20 at the Runfest Wales Half Marathon.

July



Sikobe doing it in 'stile'



Tour de France fever hits Glossop. Many cycle, run or walk up the valley to witness this great event. Dipper-in-chief Sikobe runs to Hebden Bridge with Sue and John prior to racing in the Heptonstall Grand Depart Fell Race!

Chris Jackson continues good Welsh series form with 9^th at Moel Siabod.
Zoe, Lins and Cheryl win Ladies Team Prize at Wormstones.
4 in first 10 at Charlesworth, Caity 1^st Lady, drinks and nibbles post-race @ new Chez Zoe.
8 run at English Champs counter at Kentmere, Chris and Caity having done Snowdon day before.
Caity in 1^st position in English Fell Champs after Kentmere, Beryl 3rd FV65.
Caity 1^st Female at Peak Forest.
Ian Oates completes Full Outlaw Ironman.
Many at Gravy 6 & Millbrook Monster with Ryan, Tim Nudds and Ben in competitive top 20, great chip butty post-race.
Many GDHrs enjoy Skye trip with a  Cycling Tour and the Cuillin Ridge just some of the delights savoured.
Rich White completes the Rydale Round race prior to becoming a V40.

August

Great year for young Chris

Jon Matthews 1st V50 in the 70 miles Grim Reaper Ultra Marathon raising money for local charities Mummy's Star and Reuben's Retreat.

Caity wins again locally at Cracken Edge and Eccles Pike.
Sikobe, Sue and John 1^st team at inaugural Steam Bunny Bluff.
Caity 1st place and new course record at Chipping Show and 1st also at Cannonball Sheep Fell Over race.
Mike Mawby 1.21 and 11th place at the Canterbury Half Marathon.
Tim Culshaw completes the TDS (Tour de Savoie) one of the UTMB series.
Chris Jackson 2nd @ Hairy Dog and good points in the British Champs race at Maesgwyn Muddle.
The following day Chris is 2nd to Mark O at the Crowden Horseshoe so the Fell Champs go to the final counter at the 'Grin 'n Bear It' race in November.
Caity wins at Crowden Horseshoe, her 21st win of the year. 

 

September







Keen competition at the Plum Fair Scamper with Ben at the front





Chris 2nd again and Lins 1st FV45 at Hades Hill and confirmed as Midweek Champions.
Caity and Chris run the Ben Nevis race, Caity 4^th, bronze medal and prize.
Sue Clapham, a marvellous 2^nd Lady at the 56 mile Bullock Smithy.
Steve Crossman and Ian Oates do two legs each at the 4 leg Cross Keys Road/Fell Relay. Surely we must have at least one team in this next year?
Charlie's Shelf Moor race attracts a classy field of 100 runners with Lakeland club winners even though Sarah Tunstall does a 'Cinderella' and leaves her chocolate shoe behind at the ball!
Mike Mawby in elite pen with Mo and pb 1.17.07 at the Great North Run.
Caity 4^th at Hodder Valley to finish a fabulous 4^th overall in the English Champs series.
Beryl Buckley an equally fabulous 3rd FV65 in the same series.
Caity wins the following day at the Plum Fair Scamper, Vet category prize for Nev, everyone back to Caity's for tea and cakes.
Jo Nuttall, 2^nd Lady at the Yorkshireman Off-Road Marathon.
Caity confirmed as 8^th in the British Fell Running Champs, Ladies team 12th.
Sue Clapham 1^st Lady @ Big Stockport 10K.
Caity and Chris win Jack and Jill prize @ Scafell race, trophy presented by the legendary Joss. Caity 1^st Lady and again at Dale Head.
Caity 4^th Lakeland Classics Trophy, 1^st Lady and joint 2^nd overall in the Hayfield Fell Championships and 1^st Lady Penistone Hill Race.







October



All smiles at the finish of a tough race at Woodbank



Sue hosts end of summer get together.

Jo Nuttall 2^nd jt female and 4^th overall at Gower Ultra 50.
Caity 1^st female at Saddleworth Edges (new record time) and first again at Race You To The Summit.
Autumn Fellrunner magazine is a Glossopdale special edition.
Club has a team at the Ian Hodgson Relays.
Sikobe hosts pre Cross Country Ugali party.
Great turnout at Woodbank Park for 1^st fixture in the newly joined Manchester Area XC League.
Glossopdale history made with 4 teams at the FRA Relays on the Middleton Fells.
Sue Clapham 3.22 and 3^rd LV50 @ the BMW Frankfurt Marathon.
10 runners at Neil's inaugural Moorfield 5K Handicap.

November





Ever-competitive Kirsty, another runner who had a great year





Andy Anastasi races at Shepherds Skyline the day before moving up into the V50 category.

Chris and Caity confirmed in 2^nd places in North Wales Fell Series.

24 at the Beehive runs and social gathering (thanks due to Tim B).
Caity 1^st Lady at Cop Hill Fell Race and Tour of Pendle.
Mark Ollerenshaw clinches Fell Championship by winning at Grin 'n Bear It, Caity Female Champ.
10 out at Manchester Area XC League match 2 at Sherdley Park, St Helens, thanks for the tent Lins.
Sikobe in rich vein of form 1^st GDHr back out of 7 at the Roaches.
Malc Brown PB at the Preston 10.
Alice on foot beats Tim C on bike at Harriers v Cyclists race.
GDHrs join in Jasmin's Birthday run and post-run party with Konrad.
Caity and Chris 1^st mixed pair @ RAB Mini MM in Edale.
14 run at the £2 Famous Grouse, Caity 1^st Lady.
Kirsty's 2^nd place at the Salford Ladies Race makes the running headlines in the Glossop Chron.

December

Keeping warm post-race at Boggart Hole

22 at Royal Oak runs and social gathering.

Daily reccies by GDHrs in the Kinder Bermuda Triangle searching for the Trigger Christmas Tree route. However, they later learn that Kinder Gates might be locked on race-day.
Great weekend for the club with large numbers at Boggart Hole Clough XC and Gravy Pud Race.
Sue Clapham 2nd V50 at XC,1^st Ladies Team win @ Gravy Pud, Steve Crossman 1^st V45.
Kirsty massive PB @ Stockport 10 and 2nd at SELXC Tandle Hill fixture.
Neil 5K PB, 5^th and 2^nd V40 Todmorden 5K Winter Series, also PB at Ribble Valley 10K
New format 2015 Club Championship revealed to widespread approval.
15 on Friday daytime pre-Christmas Magical Mystery Tour.
30 in biggest ever GDH Pack Run on Presentation Party Day hosted by Dave and Ines.
Chris and Caity Club Champs, Steve wins Road/Trail Champs and Age-Grade Shield, Lins Midweek.
Sikobe wins the coveted Most Improved Runner in possibly the toughest year so far to win it.

Carl Bedson wins the infamous Bomb Trophy from stiff opposition for services to misnavigation !

Caity 1^st Lady at the Stoop and her 29th victory in a fabulous 2014.
Prizes for Lins, Zoe, Ladies Team + Rachel and Sharn, and John S at the Festive Disorientation.





You don't have to be a bit mad to be a runner but it does help!



Here's to a Great 2015 with Glossopdale Harriers! Not the biggest running club but one of the best!