Six junior members of the club were selected to represent Fylde on Saturday in the Lancashire Schools Cross Country Championships which were staged at Blackburn’s Witton Park. First to race was Layla Foley in the senior girl’s race, the route for which incorporated two energy sapping climbs up the infamous saucer hill. Layla ran a fantastic race to finish 4th in 17:51. Ross Hart got off to a good start in the inter boys race but then had the misfortune to lose one of his shoes in the first half of the race. He nevertheless continued with one shoe for the remainder of the race, still finishing a very creditable 43rd in 23:37. Ella Moulding and Chloe Norman were both on the start line for the Junior Girls race. Ella followed her usual race tactics of leading from the gun and although pressed throughout the race she maintained the lead throughout the race to win in a time of 12:11. Chloe also has a superb race to finish 30th in 14:28. Both girls contributed to Fylde taking the bronze award. Two young Lytham athletes had progressed to the year 7 races and James Nicholas, who is more accustomed to a 100m sprint on the track, ran a very creditable 8:51 in the boys race to finish 74th. Hollie Winstanley ran a very strong race to finish top ten in the girl’s race crossing the line 9th in 8:16. Hollie was second counter for the Fylde team which finished 2nd overall.
Both Layla and Ella will now go on to represent Lancashire at the English Schools Cross Country Championships next month at the same venue.
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| Terry and Greg at Grizedale |
On Saturday, Terry Hellings and Greg Oulton headed up to the Lake District to compete in the Grizedale Forest Trail Half Marathon. Although advertised as a half marathon, the course turned out to be a little longer than the regular 13.1 miles, closer to 14.65 miles. It was very hilly with 1700-1800 feet of climbing with ice and snow to traverse in places, up over mountains and through the forest. The winner was Ewan Malloch in 1:33:21.70 of Woodford Green Essex Ladies/Team Bath. Terry finished in 52nd place in 2:01:40 and was 1st vet 60 beating last year's 1st male60 by 4 minutes and 50 seconds whilst Greg was 126th in 2:23:15. Incidentally for Greg, since taking up running (only 3 years ago), he has now run 3000 miles and climbed over 100,000 feet. As well as a half marathon, there was also a full marathon which Greg was happy that he didn't do - that was measured at nearly 28 miles instead of the usual 26.2 miles!
The Blackburn Winter Warmer 10k attracted nearly 500 runners on Sunday morning and was won by local lad Ben Fish of Blackburn Harriers in 33:08, a clear winner being nearly one and a half minutes ahead of 2nd place. Mark Willett was first home for Lytham St Annes in 54th place and 42:17. Not far behind was Coling Laidlaw in 95th place and 44:53
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| Mark Willett |
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| Colin Laidlaw |
Felicity Wolohan went over to Southport for the Mad Dog 10k, a very popular race with nearly 2000 finishers. The route the race takes is very attractive heading out along the Marine Drive in Southport into then a little in around the esplanade attractions and then back out onto the seafront for the last stretch. Conditions were favoutable, it being a bit foggy but luckily there was little wind. Felicity came in just short of her PB at 45.18, 29th female and 276th out of 1982.
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