LSARRC Press Report 17th April 2012

Four senior men represented Lytham St Annes Road Runners at the first of the 2012 mid-Lancs track and field fixtures at Stanley Park on Saturday. Veterans Graham Webster and Terry Hellings toed the line with Tom Howarth for the first senior men's race of the day, the 800m. Tom was first across the line for Lytham in 2:28 for 9th place and 3 points for the club. Just four seconds and one place behind was Graham with Terry 12th.


An hour or so later the same three athletes lined up for the 1500m. Tom was again first home for Lytham in 4:58.2 and 5th place for 5 points, Graham 6th for 4 points with Terry 8th.

For the 3000m the trio were joined by Mark Willetts. This is a team event with the first three club members counting. Tom, and Mark won the team event picking up 7 points for Lytham in the process.

Finally the four competed in the 4x400m relay. Tom ran the first leg followed by Graham, Terry and Mark to take 4th place overall but first in the division for a further 7 points for Lytham.

The following day four of the junior members of the club competed in the Wigan Harriers open track and field meeting. The youngest of the quartet Tom Reid finished 6th in the 75m sprint with a time of 14.4 seconds and 6th in the 600m in 2:39.6. He then went on to jump 1.88m in the long jump to earn 7th place.


In the U11 boys long jump Joe Mason achieved a personal best of 2.98m to finish 9th while Ben Mason was one place behind with 2.94m. Rebecca Walker jumped 2.82m to finish 10th in the U11 girls competition.

In the U11 boys 75m Ben Reid finished 7th in 11.7 and Joe Mason 8th in 11.9. Rebecca was 13th in the 75m in 12.7. Ben Reid ran a superb 600m and with a very fast final 200m he cut his way through the field to take 2nd place in 2:01.8.




The outstanding performance of the cross-country season was by Lytham athlete Susan Samme who pulled off the amazing feat of winning three individual gold awards. These were presented to her on Friday at the awards evening. As well as the overall competition Sue won two different age categories, the first person to do this.


Sue was awarded gold in the Senior Women's category, the Vet 35 and, her true age category, the Vet 45. She was also part of the gold winning Lytham’s Women's Veteran 45 team, who won their division. Accompanying Sue to the rostrum this time were team captain Julia Rolfe, Linda Baxter, Pam Hardman, Sylvia Gittins, Fiona Geldard and Dawn Lock.


Bill and Dawn Lock took part in the fiftieth Isle of Man Easter Athletics Festival. This involves running three races in three days. Despite this Bill ran his best 10k for three years, and had the honour of being in the same team as former Olympian Ron Hill for the final race, a relay.