LSARRC News 3rd December 2019

Barbara Homes shines at Myerscough 10-miler

On Sunday 1st December Barbara Holmes and Sylvia Gittins attended the Myerscough 10 miler.  The first mile looped around the college and then joined St Michael's Road. The route then turned into Pinfold Lane, then Right onto Preston Road near Inskip. A further right turn into Hornby Lane led back to Pinfold Lane. The route returned to Myerscough College finishing outside the Equestrian Centre. Lancashire cheese was given to all finishers. Holmes was the first F60 to finish the course and reported that it was very frosty and slippy underfoot on the lanes.  Gittins completed the course in 1:42:18.

At the Lytham Hall parkrun Ross McKelvie was first home in 17:39, not far behind was Alistair Leivers in 2nd in a time of 17:54.  Two other Lytham runners finished in the top ten they were Andrew Draper in 19:35 for 5th and Mark Selby 8th in 20:47.  Andre Mullaney gained a pb of 24:06 (27th).  Other finishers included:  Gavin Stanfield, Mark Hughes, Peter Thomson, Kathy Gaunt, Claire England, Maria Tierney, Jeremy McCandless, Robert Parker, Graham Young, and Chris Bowker.

Joanna Goorney impressed at the Storthes Hall parkrun completing the course in 23:44 for 1st female spot and 7th overall.  Sue Henry was a tourist park runner at the Portobello parkrun in Edinburgh completing the course in 31:33.  G Browne visited the Highbury Fields parkrun and completed the course in 24:41.

Lytham Ladies - 1st ladies team at the Wesham 10k

16-year-old Maddy Markham’s decision to run the Wesham 10k rather than her usual parkrun on Saturday turned out to be a good decision.  Markham ran well to finish as 1st junior female in 44:28 and was joined by seniors Catherine Carrdus and Claire Markham to take the women’s team prize.  Also representing Lytham’s junior athletes was Ben Gregson finishing as 2nd junior male and  131st overall in a time of 45:20

Freddie Markham was Lytham’s only junior representative at the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday and finished in a time of 23:19 to comfortably win his JM10 age category finishing 19th overall from 183 finishers.

Park View junior parkrun on Sunday saw 6 of Lytham’s junior athletes brave the icy conditions.  First finisher was former Lytham athlete George Denye  returning to Park View parkrun for the first time in a year to run a personal best time of 6:56.  First home for Lytham and in his 2nd parkrun of the weekend was Freddie Markham in a time of 8:22 for 3rd place overall and again finishing 1st in his JM10 age group.  Also finishing 1st in her age category was Georgina Andrews who finished 15th overall in a personal best time of 9:48.  Also representing Lytham were Joe and Evie Alker finishing 21st and 22nd in 11:13 and 11:14 respectively and brothers James and Joshua McAfee doing the tail walkers job to finish 49th and 50th in 25:54.