LSARRC News 9th April 2019

Mel Koth 1st Lady at the Darwen Half Marathon

Gavin, Mel and Jennifer at Darwen Half Marathon

Sunday 7th April was the Darwen Half Marathon, with perfect weather conditions for a challenging race.  The course has very tough hills up and down but also the most beautiful scenery. It's not a pb course with its 1500feet of climbs but the great atmosphere and support made it a great race.
3 Lytham runners took part.  Mel Koth was the first 1st lady, 17th overall, 1:32:43, 16min faster than last year and 10min course pb.  Jennifer Hill 5th lady, 70th overall, 1:44:48 and Gavin Stansfield 79th overall, 1:46:02.

Also, over the weekend, Pendle interclub fell race took place on Saturday 6th April.  Pam Hardman & Julia Rolfe were the only LSARR members to attend the event.Hardman finished in 56.05 and Rolfe 58.27.  On a beautiful spring day where better than a race on. the fells, nice & dry under foot. A hard climb then a drop down to the valley to then climb up to a steeper climb but shorter and then downhill to the end, this was not easy but enjoyable.  A bottle of the local ale for all finishers.

As usual numerous club runners completed local parkruns.  Ross McKelvie was first home at the Lytham Hall parkrun coming 2nd in 18:32. Next senior was Alistair Leivers in 19:40 for 7th.  Graham Webster ran the course in 20:37 for 11th.  Neil Bayntun-Roberts came 21st in 21:21, and next to finish was Jennifer Hill who was the second female on the day to finish in 21:32.  Other finishers included:  Kev Murray, Susan Hawitt, Claire Markham, Trevor Roberts, Matthew Holton, Pamela Binns, Jeremy McCandless, Sue Henry, Julie Wiseman, Gillian Oliver, Robert Parker and Michelle Sheridan.    Catherine Carrdus was the first female finisher at the Preston parkrun and Joanna Goorney 2nd female at the Huddersfield parkrun.

Junior news

Ten-year-old Charlotte Fisher competed in the Lancashire Schools Combined Events Championships held at Hyndburn over Saturday and Sunday.  Fisher did particularly well in the vortex howler throw taking first place with a distance of 23.59m.  Thirteen-year-old Frankie Ball was also competing on the track on Sunday at Trafford open track meeting.  Ball’s first event was the 800m where in a fast run race he finished in 4th place.  Ball went on to compete in his first ever 300m and ran very well taking the lead with 100m to go but his lack of experience over the distance meant he just got pipped on the line for first place.

As usual Lytham juniors were well represented at Lytham Hall parkrun.  First home for Lytham was 13-year-old Sophie Bohannon who ran exceptionally well finishing 6th overall and 1st female from 219 finishers in a new personal best time of 19:39. Oliver Thomson also ran a new personal best of 20:41 for 12th position overall and 1st in his JM11-14 age category.  12-year-old Morgan Pritchard, in his 98th parkrun, finished 18th in 21:11.  Also representing Lytham were Adamh Holton 37th in 23:21, Clemmie Tierney 75th in 25:23 and Matthew Holton 107th in 24:16.

Lytham juniors also had 5 athletes in the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday.  Joe Allker was the first Lytham athlete home in a time of 8:30 for 2nd place.  Bobby Hastell finished 5th in a time of 9:07.  Also running for Lytham were Evie Alker 14th in 10:49 and brothers James and Joshua McAfee finishing 32nd in 12:42 and 43rd in 13:54 respectively.