LSARRC News 9th December 2014

Fiona, Felicity and Dawn happy with their PBs

The main attraction of the weekend was the Guy's 10 mile Road Race.  Organised by Garstang Running Club, this race over a flat country course starts and finishes at Guy's Thatched Hamlet, Bilsborrow, near Garstang.  Luckily the earlier rain had stopped but it was still quite breezy.  Gary Pennington of Preston Harriers was first man home in this popular race in a time of 54:46.  A loose horse which had slipped its reins near the start caused panic in some runners who had to move to the side of the lane out of its way.

Colin Laidlaw

It was success all around for Lytham ladies.  Felicity Wolohan clocked 1:16:31 for 148th place with a PB and and also achieved her club bronze standard for 10 miles. Likewise, Fiona Geldard achieved a PB of 1:20:51 in 185th place and her gold standard for a vet 50 while Dawn Bloor ran a PB in 1:25:43 for 229th place achieving a silver standard in the vet 45 age category.  She was particularly pleased with this since she had not been well for the last 10 days.  Finally, Sylvia Gittins was 2nd vet 65 in a time of 1:30:44 finishing in 275th place overall.

Terry followed by Felicity

First home for Lytham St Annes was Tom Howarth in 33rd place in a time of 1:04:30.  Graham Webster was next back in 56th place in 1:06:50 and first male vet 60.  Colin Laidlaw was 141st in a time of 1:16:06 and Terry Hellings was 149th in 1:16:31







Peter Cruse ran the Hoad Hill Harriers Xmas Pudding 10K in Ulverston - in a race of 357 finishers won by Marc Browne of Keswick AC in 33:00.  Peter finished 22nd and 1st vet 50 in 38:21.

On Saturday morning, Julia Rolfe headed to Avenham Park Preston for the weekly Preston ParkRun.  She finished 67th overall and 8th lady in a time of 25:30.

Last weekend, Colin Laidlaw headed off to the Bay of Biscay, Spain for the BMW Lurauto 37th International San Sebastian Marathon. As well as the marathon, there was a half marathon and a 10k race.  Colin chose to do the half marathon finishing in 731st position out of over 1500 runners in a time of 1:42:06.