Strong winds gusting up to 30mph may have slowed times but didn't stop some good performances from members. Earliest back for the Club was Peter Cruse finishing first MV45 in a good run of 1:22:09, just fourteen places behind winner Rob Afflect of Preston Harriers who finished in 1:13:38.
The Club's other winner was one of its newer members Sylvia Gittins who won the FV65 prize finishing 241st in 2:00:40, an excellent time for her age group.Two club members are running four half-marathons in four weeks in aid of cancer charities. Fleetwood was the first of these for Simon Denye and Mark Willett who both achieved personal bests for this distance. Simon was 44th in 1:27:58, not far in front of Mark who finished 50th in 1:29:03.
Other club runners were: Joe Shaw, MV45, 95th in 1:37:54; Roy Stevens, MV55, 111th in 1:40:25, Stuart Wharrier, 249th in 2:02:03 and Dawn Lock, FV65, 317th in 2:39:32.
On Wednesday Mel Koth took part in the final race of this year’s Harrock Hill series. These are run from the village of Mawdesley near Burscough. A minutes silence was observed beforehand for the well-known Chorley Harriers blind runner Mike Ogle who died a few days earlier. This was the third time this year Mel had run in this race and, despite the warm weather, she achieved her fastest time yet of 40:50.
A good field of twenty-five runners competed in the club’s monthly handicap on Thursday. Twelve of these achieved personal or season’s best times with Sue Samme defying the years to run a time just six seconds slower than her course record set five years ago.
Fiona Geldard managed a remarkable improvement of over three minutes in first place while the fastest on the night was Joe Greenwood continuing his rapid improvement with another PB.
After the fifth race of the series Kevin Ashworth is topping the table with wife Laura breathing down his neck in second.
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