Burnden Race Report May 10th

Created by Suzi Walmsley

On May 6th, a few of our Burnden Road Runners ventured over to Astley to take part in a 3-part series of races.

These races are held over a few months and led to some cat win results for Lyndsay Darbyshire and Shirley Staveley.

Results -

Gareth Lowe – 28:32

Lyndsay Darbyshire – 28:56 Cat award for F50

Gayle Gerrard – 29:22

Shirley Staveley – 31:12 Cat award for F60

Jenni Partington – 31:13

Clair Marland – 32:35

Gareth Lowe – 28:32

Lyndsay Darbyshire – 28:56

Welsh trips for long distances

Steven Walton visited the Welsh mountain Snowdonia to tackle a half marathon; he finished with the time of 1hr 48mins 20 seconds.

Steven came 79th out of 690, and 8th in his age group.

David Morrison and Mark Jackson completed the Excalibur marathon.

Mark got a PB knocking 59 mins and 26 seconds off his previous attempt with a time of 5:22:29. With accolades of P12 and first vet for 40 – 50.

David got a finishing time of 07:51:54, this was despite taking a wrong turning and running to a dead end and back. He says he will not return again.

Leeds Marathon and Half Marathon

Marathon

Jenni Partington – 4:25:40

Andy Norman (guiding Katy) 4:36:30

Josh Palmer (guiding Andy) - 5:18:38

Half Marathon

Rachel Norman – 1:59:15

A race reported to be brilliant, if not undulating and lumpy.

A club championship race and a prize of cheese, what a day on 10th May.

On Sunday 10th May, several Burnden runners made their way over to Longridge to complete BlackSticks 10k race. A great hilly race with fabulous views and brilliant volunteers along the way.

Instead of a medal, a packaged slice of blue cheese was provided to runners.

Results

Suleman Badat 00:39:42

Lee White 00:40:30

Gareth Doherty 00:41:32

Mike Caine 00:42:33

Gary Avison 00:43:19

Andy Dunleavy 00:44:07

Ravi Patel 00:44:12

Jake Quinn 00:46:28

Gayle Gerrard 00:47:48

Lyndsay Darbyshire 00:47:53

Alistair Marland 00:47:58

Marie Parkinson 00:49:04

Simon Marland 00:49:17

Linda Doherty 00:50:05

Sarah Woodiwiss 00:51:06

Kimberly Lowe 00:51:31

Tony Woodiwiss 00:51:49

Anne Ferguson 00:52:34

Richard Blake 00:53:04

Kathryn Baron 00:55:35

Clair Marland 00:56:07

Ciaran Marland 00:56:14

Emma Beardwell 00:56:20

Paul Christie 00:56:22

Elaine Roper 00:56:31

Julia Hall 00:57:35

Gillian Morris 00:57:38

Mark Butler 00:58:20

Steve Holt 00:59:34

Steven Bate 00:59:55

Justin Bones 01:00:08

Louise Bentley 01:03:39

Lisa Berry 01:05:36

Natasha Clarke 01:06:33

Ann Butler 01:09:08

Carol Richardson 01:11:01

Joanne Eddleston 01:11:01

Sue Marland 01:11:19

Gillian McGowan 01:14:32

Lyndsay Berisford 01:15:52

Anthony Fulop 01:18:46

Cheryl Dunleavy 01:20:30

Maz Matthews- Wyatt 01:24:42

Ian Mann 01:30:36

Suzi Walmsley 01:58:25

Vivienne Bentley 01:58:25

Parkrun Tourism

Sue and Simon Marland have managed to attend an inaugural parkrun No. 1 event, at Drumlanrig Castle parkrun that started on May 9th, 2026.

It is described as, a beautiful one lap through the woodland and trails of the grounds, plus an out and back in front of the castle to finish.

This is very much a recommended trip up to Scotland to complete this one.

Simon finished in 25.00 and Sue finished in 35.18