{"id":3325,"date":"2019-06-17T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2019-07-11T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:49:35","slug":"the-leo-pollard-memorial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"The Leo Pollard Memorial Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Mick McGovern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longstanding Hendersons End Fell Race organised by Lostock A.C. has been renamed \u2018The Leo Pollard Memorial Race\u2019 in memory of its late club president Leo Pollard.&nbsp; This inaugural race was&nbsp; held on the usual 1st Thursday in June which this year was 6th at 7:30pm from Rivington Upper Barn, nr. Bolton GR SD634145.&nbsp; Note the race route was shortened by 1\/2 mile to 7 miles (1500ft ascent) by routing directly from the Mast to the Pike which introduces a very nice downhill moor section.  ARCC Chairman Chris Lloyd said <a href=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-P-memorial-race.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a few words (opens in a new tab)\">a few words<\/a> about Leo before the start of the race.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARCC COMPETITORS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>15<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robert Green &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0:53:40<\/li><li>140<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jessica Slater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1:32:19<\/li><li>155<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paul Garstang&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1:41:05<\/li><li>167<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Diane Green&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:00:08<\/li><li>167<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elaine Garstang&nbsp; 2:00:08<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other ARCC members ran under other club colours. A full results list is available on the Lostock A.C. website. Also on the Lostock AC website is an interesting video of the 2018 race produced by Pete Revald of Horwich RMI Harriers. Pete is a past winner of the Rivington Pike Race.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_3327\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 768px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3327 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Diane Green and Elaine Garstang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3328\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 768px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3328 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-Race-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jess Slater<\/figcaption><\/figure><br>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3333\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3333 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-race-route-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-race-route.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-race-route-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Leo-Pollard-Memorial-race-route-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The race route<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mick McGovern The longstanding Hendersons End Fell Race organised by Lostock A.C. has been renamed \u2018The Leo Pollard Memorial Race\u2019 in memory of its late club president Leo Pollard.&nbsp; This inaugural race was&nbsp; held on the usual 1st Thursday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/?p=3325\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achille-ratti-climbing-club.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}