Wednesday 4 September 2019

LSARRC News 3rd September 2019

Lytham ladies Joanna Goorney and Mel Koth impress over the weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, 4 members of LSARRC crossed the border into Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire for the Blackshaw Head Fete Fell Race to be greeted by a cold wind and rain.  Luckily by the start of the race, the main downpour had stopped although runners were treated to a couple shorter showers along the route.  The 8.9km course with 274m of ascent heads over to the trig point on Standing Stone Hill on Heptonstall Moor finishing back in the fete field. First home for the club was Joanna Goorney in 26th place, 3rd female and 1st FV50 in 47:08, Darryl Bentley was 36th in 49:56, Debbie Cooper was 69th in 57:49 and Greg Oulton was 101st in 71:21.

GoldenBall 10 miler

Over the weekend The Golden Ball 10 miler a flat fast course through a network of paths and track in Lancaster, took place.  Conditions were good, it was dry partly cloudy with very little wind. 106 runners completed.  Mel Koth finished 2nd Lady, 22nd overall and 1st F Vet 45 with a time of 1:11.01.  Kathy Gaunt ran a superb race for 48th overall in 1:21:26 and Sue Hawitt was 51st overall in 1:21:48, knocking an amazing 3 minutes of her previous best time.

On Saturday lots of Lytham runners completed parkruns around the country.  The highlights at the Lytham Hall parkrun were Alistair Leivers was 2nd overall, first back for the club in a great new personal best tie of 18:10.  Alex Tate also got a pb of 18:59.  6th and 7th sport went to Neil Tate, and Jonathon Mark Ladd respectively, with Mark also getting a personal best time of 19:53.  Pamela Binn was 1st vf 70-74 in 28:06.  Paul Veevers was first home at the Crosby parkrun, Julie Wiseman visited the Belton House parkrun, closer to home Ruth Bye and Claire England completed the Fleetwood Promenade parkrun.

Three of Lytham’s junior athletes took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun.  First home for Lytham juniors was 12 year old Sophie Bohannon finishing 12th overall, 1st in her JW11-14 age group and also 1st female in a time of 20:47.  Brogane Murphy finished as 3rd in JW11-14 age group in a time of 23:39.  Also representing Lytham were Leoma Gill out sprinting her mum to finish 132nd in 29:29 and James McAfee (198th in 32:52).  Lytham St Anne’s RRC were represented by 8 of their junior athletes at Park View junior parkrun.  Archie Belfield ran a personal best time for the 2nd consecutive week finishing 1st in a time of 7:49.  Also achieving a personal best time was Adam Jackson finishing 5th in 8:34.  Also representing Lytham were Bobby Hastwell (8th in 9:17), Jessica McNiven (11th in 9@25), Finlay Hughes (15th in 10:14), Evie Alker (24th in 11:02), James McAfee in his 2nd parkrun of the weekend (25th in 11:02) and Joshua McAfee (50th in 13:25).

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