BURNDEN took home a big prize haul from both the Pennington Flash 5-Mile trail race and the fourth event in the Harrock Hill fell series.

At Pennington Flash, Rob Short was the first member to finish, completing the course 11th overall with a time of 30mins 59secs.

Paul Duke, 17th overall and third V40 in 31:26, Lee White, one place behind and second V45 in 31:28, and Marcus Taylor, 19th overall and third V45 in 31:39, ensured Burnden had four athletes in the top 20.

There were four age-group victories. Martyn Pollitt was first V55 in 32:54, Tony Wall first V60 in 36:54 and Mel Walker first V70 in 40:34. Gwen Kinloch was first F55 in 35:18.

Other notable runs were delivered by Isaline Pollitt, second F50 in 35:59, and Lyndsay Darbyshire, third F50 in 37:28.

Other results: Gareth Doherty 33:46, Simon Marland 35:14, Ged Turner 37:02, Steven Bate 37:35, Mark Butler 38:12, Don Nichol 38:31, David Morrison 39:20, Andy Warburton 40:09, Gayle Gerrard 40:19, Kris Worsley 40:44, Craig Philpot 40:48, Carolyn Barker 41:31, Don Taylor 43:18, Emma Walker 44:25, Kerry Stevenson 46:19, Louise Wall 46:26, Sue Blackman 52:54.

At Harrock Hill, Short again led the club contingent home over the 5.2-mile course with 902 feet of climbing, finishing 16th overall in 37:33.

Again there were a host of age-group wins. Steve Nolan was first M55 in 38:04 and Tony Wall first M60 in 44:22.

Paula Pilling was second in the women’s race and first L40 in 41:56.

Isaline Pollitt was first L50 in 45:24, Gwen Kinloch first L55 in 46:53 and Anne Ferguson first L60 in 45:36.

Shirley Staveley was second L50 with her time of 47:11, and Lyndsay Darbyshire was third in the same category with 49:05. Sheila Christie was second L55 in 55:00.

Paul Duke was third M40 in 38:13 and other notable successes came from Don Taylor, third M65 in 55:12, and Phil Glassbrook, third M70 in 56:07.

Other results: Marcus Taylor 38:42, Christophe Menand 45:38, Ged Turner 46:57, Steven Bate 47:12, Vicki Hamer 48:15, Mark Butler 48:36, David Broadhurst 50:13, Colm O’Brien 51:04, Emma Walker 56:18, Nadia Raza 57:00, Louise Wall 60:02, Sally Cottrill 62:54, Alec Cottrill 62:55.

Across the four races in the series, Shirley was L50 champion with her three race results.

John Turner led home a trio of members at the Rossendale Golf Ball 5.5-mile fell race with a time of 52:29, followed by Louise Fox in 1:21:15 and David Morrison in 1:43:02.

Julie Morrison completed the Blackpool Illuminations 10k in 1:12:56, crossing with David Morrison who registered 1:12:57.

George Butler was the leading performer at the West Lancs Tri in Edge Hill. His swim time of 6:03 was followed by 35:19 on the bike before a time of 19:14 for the run to post a total of 1:03:16.

Phil Holden was out of the pool in 11:18, off the bike after completing the section in 38:13 and taking 23:53 for the run to finish with 1:19:06.

Louise Fox completed the swim in 10:32, the bike course in 47:35 and the run in 26:45 for her combined time of 1:35:17.

Karen Ratcliffe took 10:43 for the swim and a bike time of 47:45, allied to 30:33 for the run gave her a finishing total of 1:36:20.

Liz McLellan took on the Darley Moor Duathlon and finished sixth in the women’s race and first F45-49 with her combined time of 1:06:25 – a bike ride of 34:47 sandwiched between run times of 19:49 and 10:15.

Julie Riddle took to the open water in Scotland for the Great Scottish Swim mile event at Loch Lomond, completing her first race over the distance in 58:31.

Jackie Oakes chose the 3k Windermere Wild Swim event in the Lake District and finished in 57:35.