AFTER finishing as runner-up to club colleague Ian Fisher on a number of occasions Otley AC's Neil Cayton had victory within his grasp when he collapsed through exhaustion in the Otley Ten Mile Road Race.

Cayton managed to finish second of the 274 finishers after enduring warm and challenging conditions for this year's Otley Motors sponsored race held last Wednesday.

The race was started by Otley Town Mayor, Coun Betty Bevan, from Otley Civic Centre. The runners set off along Pool Road through Pool and then Leathley before tackling the first protracted climb of Leathley Lane.

At the top of this hill, the runners, led at this stage by Cayton who was takling advantage of Fisher's absence, turned left descending to Lindley Bridge before climbing again up Cinder Lane and then returning to Otley along Farnley Lane.

An unfortunate Cayton then experienced great physical exhaustion in the latter stages and was overtaken by the young Leeds City athlete Tim Midge who won the race in an impressive time of 57.55 in view of the conditions.

Neil retained his first local trophy finishing second in 58.16 followed by Pudsey and Bramley's Richard Pattinson, third in 58.23. Bingley Harriers enjoyed success in the team competition based on three to count.

In the ladies race, winning again was Darlington Harriers' Alison Raw, in a splendid 66.58. Keighley and Craven were well represented in the front end of the ladies race and hence won the team prize. Other Otley AC finishers included Mark Blagg 143rd in 78.25, Hannah Peacock 210th in 86.11 and Andrew Rayner 241st in 93.04.

Otley AC would like to extend a significant acknowledgement to the event's main sponsor, Otley Motors, whose generous support in both financial and staff terms once again ensured that the event was an outstanding spectacle.

Thanks also have to be expressed to the club members, friends and officials whose assistance was much appreciated by the participants as too was the additional help provided by Yorkshire Water.

RESULTS:

1,Tim Midge (Leeds City AC),00:57:55; 2, Neil Cayton (Otley AC) 00:58:16;3, Richard Pattinson first MV40 (Pudsey & Bramley) 00:58:23; 4, Andrew Meskimmon (Dewsbury RR) 00:59:06; 5, Craig Keedy (St Theresa's) 00:59:27; 6, Nigel Bedell (Bingley H) 01:00:24; 7, David Megson (Rothwell H) 01:00:46; 8,Nigel Armitage (Pudsey P) 01:01:00; 9, George Rutten (Rothwell H) 01:01:16; 10,Shaun Wilkinson (Keighley & C) 01:01:53;11,David Potter (Bingley H) 01:02:06;12, Dave Waywell first MV60 (Wesham RR) 01:02:24; 13,Donald Kennedy (Longwood H) 01:03:01; 14, Amarnath Ahir first MV45 (Bingley H) 01:03:09; 15, Robert Bumstead (Valley S) 01:03:49; 16, David Lancaster (York Acorn) 01:03:59;17, Andrew Neesom (York Acorn) 01:04:05;18,Ian Waller (Harrogate H) 01:04:28; 19, Michael Gibbs U\A 01:04:33; 20,Richard Joel (Ilkley H) 01:04:38; 21,Robert Samuels (Pudsey P) 01:04:42; 22, Gareth Wilson (Leeds & Bradford Tri) 01:04:44); 23, Jonathan Uttley U\A 01:04:48; 24,Jason Westmoreland (Rothwell H) 01:05:03; 25,Graham Molyneux (Harrogate H) 01:05:04;26,Chris Mobbs U\A 01:05:06; 27,Raymond Woodhead first MV50 (Bradford Airedale) 01:05:09; 28,Jamie Hutchinson (Ilkley H) 01:05:09; 29, Jim Wheldon (Pudsey P) 01:05:32;30,Steve Curtis (Keighley & C) 01:05:46;31,Mark Iley (Ilkley H) 01:05:53; 32, Paul Gwilliam U\A 01:05:55; 33, Deri Thomas U\A 01:06:16; 34,Dave Jepson (Ilkley H) 01:06:21; 35, Richard Scott U\A 01:06:30; 36,Tim Broomfield (Harrogate H) 01:06:36; 37, Darrell Moore (Knavesmire H) 01:06:48; 38, Stephen Balmforth U\A 01:06:49; 39,Paul Kelly (Darlington H) 01:06:50; 40,Colin Chown (Pudsey P) 01:06:54; 41, Alison Raw first lady and first LV40 (Darlington H) 01:06:58; 42, Mike Cheseldine (Leeds City) 01:07:02; 43, Charles Marshall (Keighley & C) 01:07:07; 44, John Atkinson (Ilkley H) 01:07:13; 45, John Booth first MV55 U\A 01:07:20; 46, Mick Brearley (St Bede's) 01:07:25; 47, Paul Hunter (Valley S) 01:07:39; 48, Paul Lee U\A 01:07:52; 49, Chris Smith (Idle AC) 01:07:54; 50, Richard King (Valley S) 01:08:04.

51, Steve Wood (Horsforth H) 01:08:05; 52, Andrew Brown (Kirkstall H) 01:08:14; 53, Arthur Timmins (Harrogate H); 54, Neil Chapman (Ilkley H) 01:08:20; 55, Ian Livesey U\A 01:08:26; 56,Stephen Wood (Knavesmire H) 01:08:29; 57,Graeme Tiffany (Pudsey P) 01:08:32; 58, Nick Richardson (Ilkley H) 01:08:33; 59, Michael Lalley (Rothwell H) 01:08:37; 60, Elizabeth Tomes (Keighley & C) second lady 01:08:46; 61, Stephen Dolan U\A 01:08:47; 62, Ian Kitching U\A 01:08:48; 63, Peter Mullery (Rothwell H) 01:08:53; 64,Mike Baldwin (Ilkley H) 01:08:57; 65,Iain Gibbons (Ilkley H) 01:09:00; 66,Tamara Hird third lady (Wharfedale H) 01:09:05; 67, Trevor Clough (Leeds City) 01:09:10; 68, Elish Woffenden first LV35 (Keighley & C) 01:09:32; 69, Lionel Theobald (Kippax H) 01:09:33; 70, Kevin Watson (Horsforth H) 01:09:42; 71, Ben Lowans U\A 01:09:50; 72, Peter Bramham (Keighley & C) 01:09:52; 73, Jonathan Smith (Airecentre P) 01:09:54; 74, Paul Shaw (Horsforth H) 01:09:55; 75, Dave Burdon (Pudsey P) 01:09:59; 76, Oliver Downing (Bingley H) 01:10:02; 77, Steven Bradshaw U\A 01:10:08; 78, Graham Hopkinson (Horsforth H) 01:10:35; 79, Jeffrey Paget (Ilkley H) 01:10:44; 80, Ed King (Horsforth H) 01:10:59; 81, Paul Smithson (Keighley & C) 01:11:03; 82, John Morrison (Rothwell H) 01:11:06; 83, Liam Dumher 01:11:11; 84, Richard Baldwin U\A 01:11:12; 85, Andrew May U\A 01:11:25; 86, Lorne McNeil (Baildon R) 01:11:27; 87, Stephen Mitchell (Pudsey P) 01:11:34; 88, Sean Morrison U\A 01:11:43; 89, Stephen Brook (Queensbury RC) 01:11:54; 90, Iain Jones (Horsforth H) 01:12:03; 91, Andrew Wormald U\A 01:12:08; 92, Phil Eddison (Rotherham H) 01:12:20; 93, Fred Gibbs first MV65 (Bingley H) 01:12:26; 94, Michael Long (Bingley H) 01:12:33; 95, Peter Shields (Ilkley H) 01:12:36; 96, Bob Wightman (Ilkley H) 01:12:37; 97, David Smart (Leeds & Bradford Tri) 01:12:42; 98, Adam Tennant U\A 01:12:45; 99, Graham Howell (Pudsey P) 01:12:46; 100, Stephen Griffiths U\A 01:12:53.

101, Helen Turton U\A 01:13:05; 102, Mark Bolton (Baildon R) 01:13:23; 103, Kali Taylor (Keighley & C) 01:13:28; 104, Rob Pawson U\A 01:13:59; 105, David Hamer (Keighley & C) 01:14:08; 106, Antony Smithson U\A 01:14:13; 107, Eric Morley (Nidd Valley RR) 01:14:19; 108, Andrew Smallwood (Leeds & Bradford Tri) 01:14:21; 109, Andy Dalby (Baildon R) 01:14:24; 110, Christine Preston (Keighley & C) 01:14:30; 111, Martin Smillie U\A 01:14:33; 112, Carl Heron U\A 01:14:34; 113, David Swinton U\A 01:14:41; 114, Chris Brown U\A 01:14:42; 115, Mark Woodhead U\A 01:14:46; 116, Ian Patchett (Abbey R) 01:14:48; 117, Philip Jones (Baildon R) 01:14:58; 118, Elizabeth McCann (Ilkley H) 01:15:06;119, Tim Pocock (Road Runners) 01:15:23; 120, Dave Chapman U\A 01:15:25; 121, Suzanne Bedford U\A 01:15:33; 122, Alan Boothroyd U\A 01:15:40; 123, Charles Oxtoby (Leeds & Bradford Tri) 01:15:48; 124, Andrew Fold (Baildon R) 01:15:50; 125, Joanne Belcher (Idle AC) 01:15:57; 126, Anthony Swanepol (Ilkley H) 01:15:58; 127, Peter Wade (Skyrac) 01:16:05; 128, Gary Burns (Horsforth Fell) 01:16:09; 129, Robert Hunter (Rothwell H) 01:16:24; 130, John Smith (Ilkley H) 01:16:36; 131, Jim Eyre (Baildon R) 01:16:37; 132, Tony Minikin (Keighley & C) 01:16:47; 133, Ansar Farook U\A 01:17:03; 134, Emma Hanson (Baildon R) 01:17:10; 135, Rebecca Cesar De Sa (Skyrac) 01:17:21; 136, John Tate (Airecentre P) 01:17:27; 137, Colin Eaton U\A 01:17:33;138, Michael Balmforth (Stainland Lions) 01:17:47; 139, Mark Dixon (Pudsey P) 01:17:56; 140, Andy Hall (Chapel Allerton R) 01:18:05;141, Andrew Heathcote U\A 01:18:06; 142, Tom Paget U\A 01:18:15; 143, Mark Blagg (Otley AC) 01:18:25; 144, Edward East (Idle AC) 01:18:30; 145, Paul Gibson U\A 01:18:38; 146, Stephen Parsons (Horsforth H) 01:18:40; 147, Michael Dowling U\A 01:18:41; 148, Terry Weaver U\A 01:18:43;149, Roger Ward (Rothwell H) 01:18:50; 150, Adrian Marshall U\A 01:19:02.

151, Andy Roberts U\A 01:19:04; 152, Peter Edwards U\A 01:19:08; 153, Andy Dobson (Horsforth H) 01:19:10; 154, Peter Restall U\A 01:19:12;155, Christopher Cheetham (Keighley & C) 01:19:16; 156, William Linley U\A 01:19:18; 157, Keith Wood (Ilkley H) 01:19:26; 158, Jane Howard (Baildon R) 01:19:30; 159, Garrett Reynolds (Kirkstall H) 01:19:37; 160, John Laurie U\A 01:19:40; 161, Gary Naylor (Idle AC) 01:19:49; 162, Jean Sullivan (Ilkley H) 01:19:53; 163, Julie Hustwit (Kirkstall H) 01:20:04;164, Kath Hoyer (Wesham RR) 01:20:15; 165, Paul Sanderson (Valley S) 01:20:24; 166, Simon Redshaw (Valley S) 01:20:30;167, Robert Bowman (WY Police) 01:20:32;168, Neil Foster U\A 01:20:33; 169,Mark Preston (Stainland L) 01:20:35; 170, Rachel McEnery (Keighley & C) 01:20:36; 171, Jay Kitchen (Kippax H) 01:20:42; 172, Vince Murphy (St Bede's) 01:20:52; 173, Phil Routh (Idle AC) 01:21:20; 174, Richard Clarke U\A 01:21:24; 175, Dawn Morley (Valley S) 01:21:32; 176, Nick Mellor (Ilkley H) 01:21:36; 177, Jon Idle U\A 01:21:50; 178, John Coates U\A 01:21:56; 179, Sarah Leaver (Horsforth H) 01:21:58; 180, Paul Milnes (Baildon R) 01:22:08; 181,Helena Deeney (Ilkley H) 01:22:11; 182, Paula Byrne (Kirkstall H) 01:22:13; 183, Donald Priestley U\A 01:22:20; 184, Stewart Taylor (Ilkley H) 01:22:39; 185, Stephen Dooley (Rothwell H)01:22:58; 186,Colin Lea (Knavesmire H) 01:23:02; 187, Rob Eastman U\A 01:23:14; 188, Peter Bedwell (Ilkley H) 01:23:18; 189, Tracy Almond (Chapel Allerton RR) 01:23:29; 190, Ben Ram U\A 01:23:36; 191, David Darton (Knavesmire H) 01:23:57; 192, Malcolm Sharp (Baildon R) 01:24:02; 193, Susan Coates (Baildon R) 01:24:11;194, Paul Luxton (Kirkstall H) 01:24:14; 195, Derek Goodenough (Wesham RR) 01:24:20; 196, Helen Shew (Ilkley H) 01:24:25;197, Jason Hanson U\A 01:24:28; 198, Hamid Houman (Baildon R) 01:24:33; 199, Richard Wysocki (Dragons) 01:24:49; 200, Gillian Burnell (Rothwell H) 01:24:53.

201, Mick Scott U\A 01:24:53; 202, Paul Hoodless (Spenborough) 01:25:07; 203,Roberto Gaylord (Spenborough) 01:25:08; 204, Richard Whale (Horsforth H) 01:25:26; 205, Carl Cooney U\A 01:25:32; 206, Derek Martin (Abbey R) 01:25:44; 207, Bernadette Gibbons (Ilkley H) 01:25:53; 208, Garry Keenan U\A 01:25:58; 209,Gerry Waterton (Kippax H) 01:26:05; 210, Hannah Peacock (Otley AC) 01:26:11; 211, Ronald Davies U\A 01:26:15; 212, Geoffrey Kay (Baildon R) 01:26:27; 213, Andrew Simister U\A 01:26:48; 214, Richard Medford U\A 01:26:53; 215, Alison Garlick (Idle AC) 01:27:01; 216, Michaela Sill (Rothwell H) 01:27:04; 217, Richard Handford (Keighley & C) 01:27:07; 218, Darryl Barber (Pudsey P) 01:27:13; 219, Angela Scott U\A 01:27:14; 220, Moira Lenaghan (Crossgates) 01:27:22; 221, Alan Metcalfe (Horsforth H) 01:27:25; 222, Sarah Booth (LDWA) 01:27:26; 223, Richard Anderson (Rothwell H) 01:27:54; 224, Alison Hunter (Kippax H) 01:28:00; 225, Christopher Day (Scunthorpe) 01:28:18; 226, Richard Thomas (Kirkstall H) 01:28:21; 227, Angela Went (NY Police) 01:28:23; 228, Steven Preston U\A 01:28:27; 229, Amnudy Scott (Idle AC) 01:28:29; 230, Steven Hemingway (Spenborough) 01:29:01; 231, Alan Webster (Bingley H) 01:29:16; 232, Hussain (Spenborough) 01:29:31; 233, David Comyn U\A 01:29:42; 234, Ruth Murphy (St Bede's) 01:30:29; 235, James Parrish (Baildon R) 01:30:30; 236, Sara Dyer (Valley S) 01:31:09; 237, Alana Taylor U\A 01:31:19; 238, Stewart Lay (Kippax H) 01:32:30; 239, Jonathan Jarratt U\A 01:32:44; 240, Michael Berry U\A 01:32:57; 241, Andrew Rayner (Otley AC) 01:33:04; 242, Pam Lund (St Bede's) 01:33:09; 243, Graham Green U\A 01:33:46; 244, Chris Daffern (Valley Hill R) 01:33:57; 245, Rebecca Riley U\A 01:33:58; 246, Chris Goyle U\A 01:33:59; 247, Bernard Foster (Abbey R) 01:34:07; 248, Arthur Wood (Pudsey P) 01:34:29; 249, Catherine Ladd (Abbey R) 01:34:32; 250, Michael Bednall (Rothwell H) 01:34:35.

251, Neal Shotter (Kirkstall H) 01:34:53; 252, Andrew Timson U\A01:35:46; 253, Lisa Sorby (Ripon R) 01:36:21; 254, Fiona Schneidel U\A 01:36:41; 255, David Wood (Kirkstall H) 01:36:42; 256, Andrew Palmer (Ripon R) 01:37:09; 257, Kirsty Anne Breaks (Baildon R) 01:38:37; 258, Roger Dawson (Skyrac) 01:38:41; 259, Derek Mitchell U\A 01:39:09; 260, Stuart Hatfield (Nidd Valley) 01:39:12; 261,Richard Ogden (Rothwell H) 01:39:21; 262, Melanie Jarratt U\A 01:41:11; 263, Paul Adams (Knavesmire) 01:41:13; 264, Russell Mines (Ilkley H) 01:41:41; 265, Hilary Wharam (Horsforth H) 01:41:56; 266, Anne Briggs U\A 01:41:59; 267, Kevin Nicholas (Dragons) 01:42:00; 268, Debra Brown U\A 01:43:12; 269, Patrick Nesden (Kirkstall H) 01:44:02; 270, Andrew Brown U\A 01:44:26; 271, Sue Newton U\A 01:49:28; 272, Mick Place (NY Police) 01:49:29; 273, John Heptonstall U\A 01:50:34; 274, Graham Dawson (Horsforth H) 01:54:00.

Team Results: Men - 1, Bingley Harriers; 2, Rothwell Harriers; 3, Pudsey Pacers. Ladies - 1, Keighley and Craven; 2, Ilkley Harriers; 3, Idle AC.

On Saturday, two club members took part in arguably one of the most difficult short course fell races in the area at Buckden Pike. Finishing in 9th place was Matt Cox and Dale Foster was just behind.

On Tuesday night, members ran in the fourth Harrogate League Road Race at Skipton and results and pictures are available from www.harrogate-league.org.uk

Tonight and next Tuesday training returns to normal commencing from Otley RUFC at 7.15 where runners of all abilities are welcome to join in with the various training groups catering for all abilities.

This coming weekend, a message of good luck is expressed to Nick Hodgkinson, as he will be commencing in the early hours of Saturday morning the challenge to conquer the 42 peaks of the Bob Graham Route around Keswick.

Skyrac AC

With temperatures forecast to soar into the 80s last Sunday where would any self respecting fell runner wish to be other than pounding over Kinder in the 18 mile Kinder Trog?

Skyrac's four competitors had mixed fortunes as a result of the searing heat and navigational problems but fellrunners cannot expect to be blessed with rain, mist and biting cold every time they turn out.

The winner was Phillip Winskill (Dark Peak) in 2.04.22 around 20 minutes slower than the race record reflecting the torrid conditions. For Skyrac Rob Weston was 24th in 2.33.39, followed by 29th Duncan Asquith (2.35.40), 88th Martin Farrar (3.04.00) and Graham Breeze.

On the previous Wednesday the Coiners Fell Race from Mytholmroyd was resurrected after an 11 year absence and attracted 51 runners. Steve Oldfield (Bradford Airedale) won in 52.28 and since Steve is a V45, Duncan Asquith who finished 11th in 57.44 was awarded the First V45 prize. Graham Breeze finished 28th in 66.17 beating everyone aged over 50.

Joggers and racers are all welcome at Skyrac via 01943 874046 or www.skyrac.org.uk

Northern AAAs

THere was a hat-trick of medals from three local Leeds City AC athletes at the North of England AAA Senior Championships, held at Manchester's Sportcity Stadium.

Gold fell to Simon Deakin after a strong run in the humid, strength sapping conditions. He recorded the fine time of 14 mins.38.05s. Eighteen year-old Andrew Staniland picked up the silver medal in the long jump with a leap of 7.45m. However, this was again tantalisingly short of the 7.50m needed to qualify for the European Junior Championships in Lithuania at the end of July.

He also recorded two 7.40m performances in the same competition.

In the women's 1500m, Celia de Maria added yet another medal to her season's growing and impressive collection when she came third with 4 mins.33.25s.