LSARRC News 3rd May 2016

Simon Holt throwing a PB in the shot putt

Most of this last weekend's action was was track and field for Lytham St Annes athletes with local meets on both Saturday and Sunday.

The 2nd Mid Lancs Track and Field meet was held at Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday afternoon.  Conditions were far from perfect; cold, windy and occasional showers.  Still there was a good turn from all with clubs with LSARRC fielding 2 junior and 5 senior athletes.

Ella Moulding in the 800m

Eleven year old Simon Holt was first in action in the under 13 boys shot putt following on from the first meet  with another excellent competition.  He threw 7.35m which was a PB and gave him 2nd place.  He than ran the 800m finishing 3rd in his heat in 2:41 and finally the 200m again finishing 3rd in his heat in 30.3.  Ella Moulding was the second junior competing, this year having moved up to the under 17 girls category.  She comfortably won the 800m in 2:24.1.


2 senior ladies were in action.  Joanna Goorney, in her 1st  track meet this year was first in action in the 800m  finishing 1st in 2:42.3.  She next ran the 1500m in 5:23.7 for 1st place and finally finished with the 3000m with 11.28.7.  Rachael Wignall fresh from her London Marathon run the previous weekend chose to just focus on field events for this meet.  In the shot putt, she finished 6th with 5:39,  in the discus she finished 8th with 15:50 and in the javelin threw 9:19 for 5th place.  Greg Oulton and Jeremy McCandless also concentrated on field events.  Greg was 8th with 5.70 in the shot putt, 6th in the discus with 14.48 and through 9:19 in the javelin.  Jeremy was 5th in the discus in 15.59, 3rd in the javelin with 13.50 and 5th in the hammer with 17.61.  Graham Webster just ran in the 3000m recording 11:39.8 saving himself for the Northern Master T and F Championships the following day.  

Graham, Russ and Terry at the Northern Vets T and F

The Northern Masters Track and Field Championships were held at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday 1st May.   Three Lytham athletes (Graham Webster, Terry Hellings and Russ Chew) made the trip and in conditions more akin to the cross country season acquitted themselves well.   The first race involving Lytham athletes was the 800m and all three Lytham athletes toed the line.  Graham Webster finished in 2m 42.8s for first M60 and a gold medal, Terry Hellings in 2m 54.9s for second M60 and a silver medal with Russ Chew picking up M50 bronze in a time of 3m 04.3s.  Graham Webster and Terry Hellings were in action half an hour later lining up for the 3000m with Graham taking the M60 gold and Terry the silver in 11m 53s and 12m 13s respectively.  Russ Chew opted for the 200m and finished 3rd M50 in 36.6s for another bronze medal.  Next up for Lytham were Terry Hellings and Russ Chew in the 400m with Terry Hellings going one better than in the 3000 and 800m to finish first M60 in 78.6 for a gold medal with Russ taking bronze M50 in 80.6s.  Just 5 minutes later Terry Hellings was lining up with team mate Graham Webster in the 1500m. Graham again finished 1st M60 in 5m 39s for gold and Terry 2nd M60 in 6m 0.4s for a silver medal.  A successful day for Lytham, 3 athletes, 10 races and 10 medals (4 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronze)

Andy Unsworth at Lytham Hall parkeun

The  23rd Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday morning attracted 238 runners.  First finisher was Paul Muller of Horwich RMI Harriers in 17:40 whilst Lytham's Barbara Holmes was 1st lady with 21:28th in 20th place followed closely by Felicity Wolohan with 21:31.  Also for LSARRC, Andy Unsworth was 4th in 18:20, Chris McCarthy was 5th in 18:22, Tom Howarth was 6th in 18:38, Neil Tate was 7th in 19:07, Richard Storey  was 23rd  21:33, Morgan Pritchard was 43rd in 23:37 with Graham Webster accompanying him in 44th in 23:37, Claire England was 53rd in 23:48, Sue Hawitt was 60th in 24:08, Justin Allitt was 84th in 25:40, Laura Bremner was 85th in 25:48, Greg Oulton was 97th in 26:00, Jeremy McCandless was 108th in 26:55 and Clemmie Tierney was 169th in 30:25.

Claire England at Lytham Hall parkrun

The weather for the first run of the year on the 4.35 miles club summer handicap course on Thursday night was a far cry from what would be hoped for and, unsurprisingly, the tough conditions were reflected in race times. Veteran Pam Binns had a hard-earned but ultimately comfortable win while Alan Elstone, Sue Hawitt and Mark Selby were three who got the better of the squally weather to record PBs. Tom Howarth's excellent 25:19 was the best men's score and, on her first run on the course, Michelle Hook, 32:44 was the quickest lady.

Full Results: 1, Pam Binns 41.23, 30 points; 2, Greg Oulton 36.45, 29; 3, Colin Laidlaw 32.42, 28; 4, Sylvia Gittins 39.48, 27; 5, Tom Howarth 25.19, 26; 6, Alan Elstone 29.20, 25 PB; 7, Sue Hawitt 35.31, 24 PB; 8, Rachael Wignall 40.16, 23; 9, Graham Webster 28.41, 22; 10, Karen Lanigan 41.44, 21; 11, Dawn Lock 57.24, 20; 12, Jeremy McCandless 39.44, 19; 13, Richard Storey 33.04, 18; 14, Neil Tate 30.17, 17; Alex Tate 27.35; Daryl Bentley 28.26; Michelle Hook 32.44; Mark Selby 28.42, PB; Ross McKelvie 28.11; Hannah McCandless 40.58.