HORWICH Harriers were very well represented at the Bolton Active Sports Awards ceremony where the club had five members shortlisted for awards. -Glynne Lever was nominated for coach of the year while his daughter Katie was up for the volunteer-of-the-year award.

Both spend many hours behind the scenes and on the track at the Bolton Arena with the junior athletes, including Charlotte Vickers who was nominated for the achiever of the year award.

Glynne said he and Katie found it inspirational to see what goes on in sport in Bolton.

“The amount of different sports involved was superb," he said.

"Although we didn’t win it was an honour just to be shortlisted on such a prestigious awards night.”

Emma Donaldson was also in the volunteer-of-the-year category, not least for the great work she has done with the junior parkrun at Queens Park.

It was also another week of achievement for Tony Hesketh who, having been nominated for the unsung hero award, followed up the next day by joining the squad of junior fell runners he coaches at the Fell Runners Association presentation.

Toby Middleton medalled with third place overall in the boys' under-15 competition behind Sam Smith of Wharfedale and William Longden of Buxton, the three of them having a ding-dong rivalry throughout the six-race season.

The Harriers’ juniors have had a great year on the fells and finished eighth of 49 clubs in the FRA championship.

As well as Toby the big points-earners for the team were Robert Seddon, Imogen Andreassen and Charlotte Wilkinson.

Tony Hesketh has his own target this year, which is to complete 70 races in his first year as a septuagenarian.

On Sunday at the Yarrow River Splash, he won the M70 first prize and completed his 34th race since May.

In similar vein David Barnes is aiming for 60 races in 2018 as a 60-year-old and on Saturday at the Meanwood Valley trail race in Leeds he won the M60 first prize and now needs only another five races to hit his target.

It was the final round of the English Fell Championships this weekend at Cautley Horseshoe where Graham Schofield continued his great run of results with third place in the M60 category, beating 18 other runners in the category.

Elsewhere in the Lakes, runners were greeted by warm damp conditions on Sunday at the classic Three Shires fell race, which can be a gruelling test in the best of weather. Jonathan Bruton and Dan Gilbert finished 41st and 46th, respectively.

In parkrun there were two first places for the Harriers – Gareth Booth at Preston and a fine first time over the finish line for Luke Brindle at Bolton.

Marty Arnot-Smith was second at the Queens Park junior parkrun.

Meanwhile, Lukas Siska returned to his home state of Texas and won the Disciple Dash at Midland at altitude of a few thousand feet.

Results: Disciple Dash 10k road race (Midland, Texas) – 1st Lukas Siska 33:32; David Emanuel Cowm Reservoir 5k trail race (Whitworth) – 32nd David Barnes 21:40; Meanwood Valley 7.5-mile trail race (Leeds) – 68th David Barnes 59:11; Yarrow River Splash 10k trail race (Chorley) – 33rd Tony Hesketh 53:15; Cautley Horseshoe fell race (near Sedbergh) – 132nd Graham Schofield 1:00:35, 140th Mark Walsh 1:01:14; Run for All Bury 10k road race – 1,100th Olwyn Smith 1:08:28; Lancaster Castle 10k road race – 117th Justine Topping 1:04:15, 118th Kristina Mountain 1:04:15; Three Shires fell race – 41st Jonathan Bruton, 46th Dan Gilbert.