On Thursday night, it was the last Club Handicap of the summer season which was enlivened by two notable performances. The winner with a PB was comparative newcomer Alan Elstone who just had the edge over runner-up Debbie Cooper after a close contest throughout the race that brought the best out of both. Cooper, a veteran of countless handicaps, is in very good form of late and finished only five seconds outside her PB for the 4.35 miles course set way back in September 2007. A very determined Jeremy McCandless is still setting the pace at the top of the points table and if anyone is to challenge him for the trophy over the coming six months they’ll have to show some consistently good form.
September Handicap Results: 1, Alan Elstone 34.03; 2, Debbie Cooper 34.26; 3, Karen Lanigan 41.26; 4, Graham Webster 27.31; 5, Greg Oulton 34.46; 6, Joe Greenwood 25.03; 7, Jeremy McCandless 42.07; 8, Fiona Geldard 36.12; 9, Tom Howarth 29.06; 10, James Waller 44.14.
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| LSARRC juniors at Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde's T & F meet |
A total of 10 Medals and 13 personal best performances was the tally for the twelve young Lytham St Annes athletes who competed at Blackpool Wyre & Fylde’s end of season track & field meeting on Saturday, a meeting in which competitors enjoyed weather conditions superior to those experienced at most of the summer competitions. Competing in her first track & field competition, eight year old Charlotte Thomson had a superb day finishing 5th in the 600m(2:30.8), 10th in the 80m(15.60) and 11th in long Jump(2.25m). In the same U9’s category Conner Norman and George Winstanley continued their improvement with Norman taking gold in the 80m (13.3PB) and silver in the Long Jump (2.9m) and Winstanley took gold in the 600m (2:07.7PB) and finished 6th in the 80m ( 14.1PB). There were three junior members in the U11’s age group. Simon Holt ran a strong 600m to earn a silver medal with 1:55 and he sprinted his way to a bronze in the 80m with 12.1(PB) and finished 5th in the long jump (3.6m). Georgia Norman jumped a personal best of 3.6m in the long jump and, in the process, earned a bronze medal and she was 5th in the 600m (2:07.4) and 6th in the 80m (12.8). Carmen Cole improved further on her trio of personal best performances fourteen days prior to this meeting with further improvements in all three events. She was 4th in the Long Jump (3.52m), 12th in the 80m (13.1) and 12th in the 600m (2:21.8). In the U13’s category James Nicholas earned a podium position finishing 3rd in 100m (14.2) and Rosie Taylor ran a good personal best in the 600m finishing 6th in 2:55.3. All age groups were set off together in the girls 1500m event and three Lytham girls were amongst the starters. Hollie Winstanley ran well to finish 5th in the U13G age group (5:55.7). Ella Moulding and Hannah Riley were the two U15’s and Moulding set of with intent from the gun and soon established a comfortable lead on the rest of the field taking gold in 5:08.3(PB). Riley was in the mix throughout the race and she put in a spirited finish to take silver in 5:25 (PB). As with the 1500m, all age groups were incorporated into one 800m race and Chloe Norman soon stamped her authority on the race moving into pole position at the end of the second lap. She went on to win the race comfortably with a personal best of 2:33.8.
Greg Oulton headed up north to Penrith to run the Orton Autumn 10k Fell Race also on Saturday. He found it a great race, not too onerous, difficult in places where the grass was really tufty and where he had to navigate limestone pavements, but nothing major. He completed the course in 1:05:35 and 65th place
It was a busy day on Sunday with a number of races having representatives from LSARRC.
Debbie Cooper ran the 5th Swinton 10 mile road race in Manchester, an undulating two lap course. Surprisingly, this was her first ever race at this distance, though normally she sticks to running on the fells. Debbie, running at a steady pace, was pleased to complete the course in 1:25:43 finishing 209th overall and 48th female.
It was also the annual Run Preston 5k and Run Preston 10k around the centre of Preston. Graham Webster was first home for Lytham in the 5k in an excellent 19:08, finishing 9th overall and 1st vet 60. Fiona Geldard was 60th in a time of 25:03 while James Whitworth was 78th in 26:55. There was little rest for Fiona and Graham before they ran again in the 10k.
In Blackpool, it was a family affair at the Subway 5k in Stanley Park. Simon Denye ran with Sydney Ramsden (9) who ran well, George Denye (8) who ran 20:57 for a new PB (both are junior members of the club) and Jessica Ramsden (6) who also ran well and completed the course- Jessica is hoping to join LSARR as soon as she is 7. Neil Tate ran with his father, brother, nephew, wife, 2 daughters (1 daughter Rebecca (age 11) is a junior member of LSARRC and fantastically completed the course in just over 22 minutes) and his son.
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