LSARRC News 18th February 2020

On Saturday 8th February 2020, Pam Hardman ran in the LWDA long distance walk/run of 24 miles ‘The Anglezarke Amble’ . Pam entered this as part of her training for the Lakeland 50 mile in Cumbria in July.

Pam described the route: The ‘Amble’ takes in much of the finest scenery in the West Pennine Moors.

The start of the walk/run passes through Lever Park Up to Rivington Pike, then to Winter Hill, which at almost 1500ft. is the highest point of the walk/run.
There is now a long descent, after which the way passes south of the village of Belmont to where, in a mile or so, it reaches the checkpoint. Once across the busy A666, straightforward walking/running leads to Turton and Entwistle Reservoir before making the long but gradual ascent along tracks to Darwen. Good walking across the moor and a short descent takes you to Roddlesworth Woods for the climb  over Great Hill, with great views, to White Coppice. From White Coppice good walking threads a line between, first of all Anglezarke Reservoir to the right, then Yarrow Reservoir to the left and finally the Upper Rivington Reservoir and the end of the walk/run in Rivington. Hot pot & peas & a cup of tea greeted us at the end.

LSARRC parkrun pacers

Saturday saw Lytham Hall parkrun celebrating the 200th event, with LSARRC providing pacers to help runners achieve new personal best times. Ross McKelvie was 1st male in 17:37, and Claire Markham was 1st LSARRC female in 91st place and a time of 24:15.

Lewis McAfee

Five LSARRC members took part in the Great North West Half Marathon on Sunday 16th February 2020 taking on the 40mph winds of storm Dennis as they ran along the coastal front at Blackpool.

Lewis McAfee 1st back for lytham (190) 1.43.59; Kevin Murray (344) 1.53.08; Stephen Wise (469) 1.58.49; Mick Widdop (472) 1.58.49 and Jacqui Murray (705) 2.11.09.

Also running on Sunday was Ross McKelvie who ran in the Lancaster Valentines 10km, Ross finished in 2nd place in a time of 33:51 just 6 seconds off the club record which must now be in danger in better conditions.

Five of Lytham’s junior athletes took part at Lytham Hall parkrun (5k) on Saturday with some excellent performances.   Matthew Holton was 1st home for Lytham juniors in 8th place overall and 2nd in his JM11-14 age group in an impressive time of 19:50 (his 6th consecutive parkrun personal best time).  Oliver Thomson also ran well to finish 28th overall and as 3rd in his JM11-14 group in a time of 21:42.  Adhamh Holton finished 52nd overall and 2nd JM15-17 in 22:52.  10 year old Freddie Markham ran well to finish 1st in his JM10 age category and 89th overall in a time of 24:14.  Nicholas Holton ran well to produce personal best time of 31:34 for to finish as 6th JM10.