Safety Cover

Today 9 team members, plus Two Land Rover Ambulance team vehicles and team minibus provided Standby Rescue Cover for the Wilton Arms (Bolton) Serpent 6 Trail Race which takes in the trails around the Smithills Estate.

Organised by Time2Run Events , 135 runners took part in the 6 mile route Starting and finishing at the Wilton Arms on Belmont Road.

Today saw the team providing standby rescue cover for the Rivington Trail Half Marathon event.
Organised this year by the Chorley Ladies Football Club with the route starting at Rivington & Blackrod School, and heading north to the White Coppice area, and then returning to Rivington via the Rivington Reservoir system.

Eleven team Call Out list members attended to provide standby rescue cover, with members all around the course and the Start / Finish.

The event concluded early mid afternoon with all 200 competitors completing the route with only a small number sporting minor cuts and bruises.

The team passes its grateful thanks to the Chorley Ladies Football Club for taking on the organising of the event and the generous donation of £500.00 to the Team.

This evening 12 team members supported the Bull Hill Fell Race.

Organised by Radcliffe Athletics Club, the race starts in Hawkshaw, in the East of our area. The race climbs 1100 feet in 5.5 miles.

Thankfully the race passed without incident.

Today saw the team supporting the Enriched Events Edgeworth Half Marathon.

11 team members supported the runners. Thankfully our services were not required

This evening the team provided standby rescue cover for the annual Aggies Staircase Fell Race, organised by the Darwen Dashers.

153 runners took part in the race, supported by 22 team members strategically positioned around the course.

Thankfully the race passed without incidents.