LSARRC News 7th February 2017

Lytham Junior parkrun - start

The Lytham Hall Parkrun has been going for over a year now. This is a 5K course, fine for most adults but a bit much for smaller legs. This was put right on Sunday with the first of the Junior Parkruns, organized by Lytham club member Maria Tierney. Also with a 9am start, this course is only 2 kilometres, around Park View, and is for children aged between 4 and 14. It will now be held regularly every Sundays

For the first race glorious winter sunshine tempted over a hundred children from their sleepy Sunday morning beds to stretch their legs round the course. Some of the smaller ones needed a little help from mums and dads but the enjoyment level was high on a very successful and well-organised first race.

Out of the 105 finishers only eight were club runners, mostly from Lytham’s juniors.  Charlie Ormerod was the first Lytham boy home in fifth. Amara Thorpe also had a good run to finish just 17 seconds behind Charlie for the second girl spot.

Amara Thorpe at the Lytham Junior parkrun

Deeper in Lancashire on Sunday the hilly but popular Blackburn Winter Warmer10K and junior 2K races were held. In the 2K Lytham St Annes Road Runners scored a triple first. George Denye was first in the M8-10 category, finishing fifth overall, while Helana White was 12th overall and first in her F8-10 category. Laura Bremner also led her F14-17 category.

Lytham results from the Blackburn 2K. George Denye 7:40; Helana White 8:13; Morgan Pritchard 8:32, 15th; Eric Wrigley 8:52, 19th; Sydney Ramsden 8:53, 21st; Laura Bremner 8:54, 22nd; Jessica Ramsden 9:59, 47th; Hebe Tierney 10:15, 59th, and finally 5year old Sebbie Koth 12:55, 144th.

Mel Koth, always a glutton for punishment, ran the 2K junior run with son Sebbie before taking on the 10K. As can be expected in Blackburn, the course was hilly with the first two miles up a steep incline.  Mel ran well to finish as the second F40 in 45:16 before completing her day’s activities with a further 14.5 mile run home as part of her marathon training. Watch out London!

Also representing Lytham in Blackburn, FV70 Sylvia Gittens finished the first in her age category with a gun time of 01:01:42.

In Liverpool Felicity Wolohan ran the Halewood 5K, a monthly race that raises money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Felicity’s time was 20:02 so she didn’t quite manage to crack the 20 minute barrier, but she did knock 28 seconds from her previous personal best and was the third lady.

This Saturday will be one of the relatively rare occasions when cross-country comes to Fylde. Around 600 runners from all over the North West will converge on Rossall School to contest the fifth round of the mid-Lancs season with Lytham St Annes Road Runners co-hosting the event.

The club will be gearing-up to build on their excellent results at Burnley in January when all teams moved up in their divisions. The senior men's team came an unprecedented sixth out of 26 teams, while the women’s team finished in the same position to put both in contention for promotion this season.