LSARRC News 1st September 2015

The perils of fell racing - Jeremy's sprained ankle

Hannah McCandless and Joanna Goorney

  Wednesday night saw the final race of 4 in the Harrock Hill Fell Race Series and also the final race in the club's fell race championship.  6 Lytham athletes were in action for this excellent 5.3 mile fell race and conditions were almost perfect with the threatening black clouds in the distance not materialising.  The race was won by Darren Kay of Pudsey and Bramley in 33.40 while Horwich's Lindsey Brindle was as dominant as ever for first lady in 38:20.

Joanna Goorney was first home for Lytham St Annes in 41st place and also 2nd lady in 40:59 and picked up the usual winnings for this race of a great veggie box..  Terry Hellings 72nd in 43:54.  Hannah McCandless had an excellent race for 153rd and was also 1st under 23 so also picking up a veggie box. She was followed not far behind by Pam Hardman in 163rd in 55:23 and Julia Rolfe in 170th in 56:03.  Jeremy McCandless limped in in 200th place in 74:22 after coming a cropper about a mile from the finish, spraining his ankle.

Julia Rolfe

Pam Hardman

The club's August Handicap was on Thursday night with some excellent times being produced with no less than five of the eighteen runners posting PBs and four more recording their best time of the summer.  There were encouraging PBs for newcomers Hannah McCandless, Rachael Wignall, Rachel Scott and Claire England plus a very notable one for Neil Tate, a veteran of many handicaps.

Race winner was Oliver Hirsh running only his second handicap after a long absence.  Quickest round the 4.35 miles course was Joe Greenwood in 24.39 while FV50 Claire England's 31.51 was the fastest by a lady.

Full results: 1 Oliver Hirsh 32:05 SB; 2 Debbie Cooper 37:22 SB; 3 Hannah McCandless 36:08 PB; 4 Rachel Scott 40:30 PB; 5 Roy Stevens 32:17 SB; 6 Rachael Wignall 38:00 PB; 7 Roy Upton 30.58 SB; 8 Neil Tate 22:23 PB; 9 Ian Tate 32:44; 10 Graham Webster 28:32; 11 Claire England 31:51 PB; 12 Alex Everest 35:23; Joe Greenwood 24:39; 14 Nigel Simpkin 34:38; 15 Tom Howarth 26:24; 16 Dawn Lock 61:35; 17 Justin Allitt 36:36; 18 Fiona Geldard 44:01;

Simon Holt

The final fixture of the Mid Lancs. Track and Field league took place at Stanley Park on Saturday afternoon. and 6 athletes from Lytham St Anne's RRC made the short trip.  This was also the Medal Meet where to qualify, athletes need to have competed in at least 2 other Mid Lancs meets this summer.  First to compete for Lytham was Chloe Norman in the under 15 girls long jump with a best jump of 4.25m for 10th place. Unable to compete in her usual 800m due to a late change in the running order of events Chloe switched to the 200m and was rewarded with first place in her heat and a pb of 30.2s.  Final event of the day for Chloe was the high jump where she equalled her pb of 1.40m for 3rd place and a bronze medal.

Under 13 girl Georgia Norman ran well in the 100m finishing in 15.2s but again because of the amended order of events had to go immediately to the long jump where she jumped 3.56m for 10th place.  Georgia's final event of the day was the 200m where she ran well to finish in 32s.

Chloe Norman

Simon was next up for Lytham in the under 13 boys 800m and ran his second pb in as many races finishing in 2m 33.2s for 3rd place and a bronze medal.  Simon also competed in his first long jump competition for over a year and jumped well to come close to his pb jumping 3.74m for 8th place.  Simon also ran well in the under 13 boys 200m.

James Nicholas, returning from injury, ran 14.6s in the under 13 boys 100m for 5th place.

Lytham's only senior woman was Hannah McCandless who in her first ever long jump competition jumped 3.24m for a bronze medal and also achieved a pb of 5.80m in the shot.

Graham Webster

Any opportunity to compete locally will see Lytham's Graham Webster toeing the line.  This Mid Lancs. meeting was no exception with Graham taking the gold medal in the senior men's 1500m in 5m 25.4s and bronze in the 3000m in a time of 11m 34.3s.

The Lancaster 5k Summer Series was up to its 4th race out of 5 on Saturday night in beautiful weather (sunny and only a slight breeze)   The race was won by Matt Whitfield of Bristol and West AC.  Tom Howarth and Mark Willett were in action for the club, both having superb runs to record PBs.  Tom was 20th in 17:20 just holding off the 2 leading ladies Carolyne Baxter of Lancaster and Morcambe and Mhairi Duff of Dumfries RC who finished within a second of each other battling it out for top. Tom is currently in heavy training for the Chester Marathon at the start of October and looking in great shape.  Mark Willett was 54th and a little disappointed to just miss out on dipping under 19 minutes with 19:02 .  This was also after having run the Preston Parkrun in the morning where he recorded a time of 30:28 for 210th place after accompanying his 11 year soon-to-be niece around the course.

Hannah McCandless