Terry Dickenson and his team from Chorley Athletic Club have organised more than 100 races through Astley Park over the years.

This year’s four-race Chorley Park Series of trail races was the sixteenth, and there are senior and junior races at each fixture.

Terry has officiated at nearly every one, but following his heart attack last November, Mike Coppin took over for the first two races of the summer.

However, when he took his wife on a cruise, the irrepressible Dickenson was swiftly back in control for the last two on the final Friday evening in June and the first in July.

Local athlete James Kevan, who lives in Chorley but runs for Horwich Harriers, maintained his recent good form to win on both dates, and with three wins and a second to his credit in 2009 will surely win the series.

Dickenson has promised a special presentation evening for all the prize winners later in the year, and until then is staying tight-lipped about the final results, but the newly crowned British U23 Fell Running Champion is a dead cert.

He recorded 16:49 for the five kilometres at the last meeting ahead of Ben Harrison of Morpeth and former Rossendale man Lee Cook.

Neither of the runners-up ran in all four races, so the minor places will be between Joseph Massey of TriClan, Chorley Harriers Phil Iddon and Dave Biddulph and Paul Boardman of Horwich.

Isaline Hughes, from Burnden Road Runners, and Liz Proctor, from Bolton, were the women’s winners of the last two races with over 40 veteran Hughes being the title champion elect after top three finishes in every race.

Julie Ridehalgh, of Blackburn Road Runners, and Catherine Lee representing Lancashire Constabulary will also be well placed.

The junior winners will be easy to call as 15-year-olds Luke Betts from the organising club and Blackburn Harriers’ Beckie Taylor won the one-mile races on all four dates.