LSARRC News 5th Novemer 2019

Halloween record for McKelvie at Heron’s Reach

A be-mulletted, mustachioed, sleeveless plaid shirt adorning Ross McKelvie threw it back to the 80's and a first-place finish for Lytham at the Halloween Heron's Reach 5k on Thursday night.

The race went out fast, but the combination of undulating trail, significant water feature, and darkness saw the competition fall away until just McKelvie and an athlete from Keswick AC remained in contention from the 294 runners taking part.

Waiting until the 4k mark, McKelvie picked up the pace and kicked hard for home taking the win in 19:21 and knocking 31 seconds off the long 5k's course record.

LSARRC runner at the Lancaster HM

Eight Lytham runners completed the Lancaster half marathon over the weekend.   A very successful day for LSARRC runners.  The lades won the team prize and the men came second.  Thomas Howarth came 9th overall in 1:22;12.  Neil Tate coming in 5 minutes later in 1:27:45 for 20th.  Lewis McAfee gained a new persona best time of 01:42:58 for 80th and Mark Widdop was 112th in 01:49:30. Kevin Murray managed the course in 01:51;52 for 131st.  Jacqui Murray (2:13:7), Laura Byrne (02:17:28) and Kirsten Burnett (02:27:15) made up the winning ladies’ team.

As usual lots of LSARCC completed parkruns around the country, some of the highlights were as follows.  At the Preston parkrun Jonathon Tuck was 4th in 19:11, a difficult 3 lap course with an unforgiving incline.

At the Lytham Hall parkrun Ross McKelvie finished first in 18:11. Not far behind were other Lytham runners, Alex Tate and Neil Tate were 2nd and 4th.  Other notable performances were junior Oliver Thomson who came 14th in 22:04 and first female was junior Maddy Markham in 23:03.  Pamela Binns ran the course in 28:47 and was the first woman veteran 70-74 to finish.  Other finishers were:  Morgan Pritchard, Eric Wrigley, Freddie Markham, Charlie Ormerod, Dan Gregson, Stephen Wise, Andrew Mullaney, Peter Thomson, Simon Smith, Adrian Sargent, Clemmie Tierney, Greg Oulton, Claire England, Rebecca Willetts, Maria Tierney, Claire Markham, Sylvia Gittins, Robert Parker, Bob Clough, Ruth Bye, Jeremy McCandless, Michelle Sheridan, Sue Henry and Sarah Bagshaw.

Kirsten Burnett travelled to Blackpool and completed the Stanley Park parkrun, and Darran Ames travelled to Fleetwood.  G Browne went further a field to Crathes Castle parkrun and came 15th.

On Sunday there was lots of success at the junior parkrun in Lytham.  Jayden Richardson was first home in 8:01, agonisingly close to breaking the 8-minute mark.  Freddie Markham with a new pb of 8:11 was 3rd overall. Other finishers were Archie Belfield, Eric Wrigley, Adam Jackson, Finlay Hughes, Jessica McNiven, Georgina Andrews, Joshua McAfee (11:56), and  James McAfee.