LSARRC News 29th January 2019

Junior news

This week the annual athletics competition against Kirkham Grammar Junior School

On 21st January Kirkham Grammar Junior School came to the YMCA to take part in a sports hall athletics competition against Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior team.  Lytham produced some excellent scores in the speed bounce where athletes do as many jumps as possible in 20 seconds. Top scorer for Lytham was Keira Lowe achieving 57 with Evie Wood, Clemmie Tierney, and Emilie Bielec, Charlie Kells and Morgan Pritchard all scoring 50 or more. Morgan Pritchard was equal first in the standing long jump with a leap of 186cm.  Sophie Tate competed well in the girl’s javelin competition with a longest throw of 13 metres. Clemmie Tierney was the best of the girl triple jumpers with a best distance of 5.2 metres. Charlie Kells performed well in the vertical jump. All athletes took part in either the 1, 2, 3 or 4 lap races and the event finished with everyone competing in the 4x1 lap relay and obstacle relay race.

Lytham juniors had 9 athletes at parkrun on Saturday.  First home for Lytham juniors was Ben Gregson in a personal best time of 20:21 for 16th place overall and 1st in his JM15-17 age group.  13-year-old Sophie Bohannon finished 18th overall, 3rd female and first in JW11-14 age category.   Maddy Markham also finished 1st in her JW15-17 age group with a time of 21:03 for 23rd place overall.  Lytham juniors finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the JM11-14 age category with Oliver Thomson (40th in 22:07), Morgan Pritchard (69th in 24:10) and Francis Morrison (95th in 25:32).  Archie Tate was first in his JM10 age group in a personal best time of 25:05.  Clemmie Tierney finished 3rd in her JW11-14 age group with a time of 26:46 for 122nd place overall with Ella Wiseman 264th in 36:59.

Lytham juniors also ran well at the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday with Jayden Richardson (7:57) just holding off the late challenge of Charlie Ormerod (7:58) by 1 second for the second week and finishing 1st for the 4th consecutive week.  Joshua McAfee finished 46th in a new personal best time of 13:43 with brother James 48th in 13:58.  Sophie Tate completed the Lytham contingent finishing 55th in 15:40.

Senior news
On Sunday just two Lytham athletes (Terry Hellings and Pam Hardman) made their way to Walton Le Dale to compete in the Hunters 10k.  On an undulating course and on a very windy day both performed well.  Terry Hellings finished in a time of 45:51 for 69th place overall from 409 finishers and picked up the prize for 1st in his age category of MV65.  Pam Hardman also won her FV60 age category in a time of 51:51 for 185th place overall.

Start of the St Annes 10 Miler

Also, on Sunday Sylvia Gittins and Pam Binns ran the st Anne’s 10 miler.  Pamela Binns ran the course in 1:45:28, whilst Sylvia Gittins managed 1:46:17.

As usual lots of Lytham runners attended at parkruns across the country.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Chris McCarthy was 2nd in 17:13 and Andrew Draper was 4th in 17:55, followed in Andy Unsworth in 5th (18:23).  Joanna Goorney was 2nd female in 20:19, coming 15th overall.  Other Results:  Mark Selby 19:45 (10th), Neil Tate 20:21 (17th), Ross McKelvie 20:25 (19th), Graham Webster 21:09 (25th), Darran Ames 21:27 (33rd), Mark Hughes 22:02 (39th), Jennifer Hill 22:24 (45th), Lewis McAfee 23:30 (60th), G Browne 23:41 (63rd), Susan Hawitt 24:59 (85th), Alex Tate 25:06 (89th), Adrian Sargent 25:43 (100th), Greg Oulton 26:10 (114th), Trevor Roberts 27:01 (129th), Claire England 28:58 (166th), Jeremy McCandless 30:55 (193rd), Maria Tierney 31:36 (209th), Ruth Bye 31:39 (210th), Graham Young 32:49 (228th), Gillian Oliver 33:33 (235th), Julie Wiseman 39:16 (271st), and Sue Henry 39:23 (274th).

At the Blackpool parkrun Jonathon Tuck and Lucy Tuck attended, Jonathon came 3rd in 19:09, and Lucy ran the course in 34:16.