LSARRC News 7th July 2015

Nigel Simpkin, Alan Elstone and Roy Stevens

Last Tuesday night saw the 4th race in the 2015 Inter Club Series.  The race was hosted by Thornton Cleveleys Running Club who are new to the league this season.  The 5 mile race started between Little Bispham and the Norbreck and headed up to Gynn Square along the cliffs before returning on the promenade.  The story of the night was the heatwave conditions causing most runners to be quite down on their normal 5 mile times, some had to resort to walking.  An excellent buffet was put on by the club afterwards at the new Norcross Social Club in Bispham.  Rob Danson of Wesham Road Runners kept up his excellent winning streak to win by over a minute in 26:04.  First lady was yet again Emily Japp of Blackpool Wyre and Fylde in 31:33 and 28th place.

Graham Webster

First home for Lytham St Annes was Joe Greenwood in a superb 6th place and 28:15 whom after his recent fell race win, has found a new confidence.  Joanna Goorney was 3rd female in the race in 47th place overall  in 33:53.  Graham Webster was first vet 60 in 34:29.

Debbie Cooper and Pam Binns

Overall in the team competition, LSA finished 6th team in the Open, 7th in the vets category, 6th in the vet 50s and 4th vet 60s.  The ladies finished in 5th place.

Results: Joe Greenwood 6th 28:15; Tom Howarth 19th 31:00; Simon Denye 27th 31:40; Joanna Goorney 47th  33:53; Graham Webster 51st 34:29; Justin Allitt 63rd 35:54; Richard Storey 84th 37:23; Claire England 106th 39:02; Alan Elstone 119th 39:39; Dawn Bloor 130th 40:18; Roy Stevens 131st 40:19; Nigel Simpkin 146th 42:13; Fiona Geldard 156th 43:01; Greg Oulton 166th 44:25; Pam Hardman 169th 44:38; Jeremy McCandless 177th 45:09; Debbie Cooper 188th 47:17; Sue Hawitt 189th 47:42; Pam Binns 200th 49:15; Dawn Lock 249th 65:26;

On Thursday night, Neil Tate made his debut on the fells at the Tockholes Evening Fell Race.  Normally known just as the Tockholes Fell Race, the name was changed due to the normal course not being accessible due to work on the dam. So instead of starting in Tockholes, for this year only, the race started at the bandstand in Sunnyhurst Park, Darwen.  Organised by Darwen Dashers, the course was 7.5 km with 363 m of ascent.  Although the weather was good, the midges were also very annoyingly out in force! The race was won by Chris Holdsworth of Clayton le Moors in 33:15.  Neil finished in 20th place in 39:36 whilst Greg Oulton was 79th in 51:46.  There were 95 finishers.

The 3rd Mid Lancs Track and Field fixture took place on Saturday afternoon at Salt Ayre, Lancaster.  Five juniors and four senior made the trip.  First event of the day was the senior men's hammer where Jeremy McCandless threw 14.17m for 9th place.  Jeremy, along with Greg Oulton, also competed in the discus with distances of 15.69  and 11th place and 14.22m for 12th place respectively. Jeremy and Greg scored more points for Lytham in the javelin with 12.9m and 12.6m respectively.

On the track, Graham Webster completed the 1500m in 5:33.1 for 7th place.  Then in the 3000m, Graham  was 7th in 11:44.7, Terry Hellings was 8th in 12:45.9, Greg Oulton was 9th in 14:37.2 and Jeremy McCandless was 10th in 14:51.2.  In the 3000m team race, LSA 1st  place and 7 points.  The last event of the day was the 4 *400m relay and "fresh" from the 3000m Graham (74s), Terry (84.1s), Jeremy (100.6s) and Greg (101.8s) took the maximum 7 points.

The juniors were just active as the seniors.  James Nicholas had an excellent run in the Under 13 Boys 100m Heat 2 to finish 1st in 13.8s whilst in the 200m (Heat 1) he finished in 3rd in 29.0s.  Simon Holt also ran the 200m (Heat 2) finishing 3rd in 30.5s.  He also ran the 800m for 12th place in 2:46.1 and took part in the Shot Putt throwing 6.04m for 4th place.  In the under 13 girls 1500m, Holly Winstanley was 3rd in 5:30.  Georgia Norman was 2nd in 31.4s in the Heat 2 of the under 13 girls 200m, 11th in Heat 1of the  800m in 3:08 .6 and 8th in the long jump in 3.69m.  Chloe Norman ran the under 15 girls 800m to finish in 3:32:.8 for 5th place.  In the long jump she was 10th with 4.31m and was 2nd in the high jump with 1.35m

It was the Blackpool Hilton Half Marathon on Sunday morning.  The race was won by Peter Lighting of Kent AC in 1:16:05 and had 146 finishers.  The club's sole representative was Neil Tate who finished in 11th place in 1:29:34.