LSARRC News 22nd September 2015

Ladies Team Captains Alex Everest

Stanley Park was the venue for the 2015 Northern Athletics road relays where athletes from clubs from the whole of the north of England congregated to compete.   Lytham St Anne’s athletes were out in force marshalling the junior events before the start of the senior men’s and women’s races.
 
The senior men’s race consisted of 6 legs of 6 kilometres.  Joe Greenwood ran the first leg for the Lytham A team finishing in a time of 23m 27s for 68th place.  Terry Hellings finishing in 106th place for the B team in 27m 56s. Joe handed over to Tom Howarth finishing in 24m 25s for 70th place.  Neil Tate struggling with a hamstring injury completed the 3rd leg in 27m 17s for 80th place followed by Andy Draper (25m 09s, 79th), Richard Storey (29m 18s, 81st) and Graham Webster (26m 03s, 478th) the team finishing 77th overall from 116 starters.

The women’s race was 4 legs of 5.2 kilometres and first leg runner for the Lytham women’s A  team was Melanie Koth who completed the 5.2k course in 21m 54s for 44th place with Dawn Lock running finishing in 38m 44s for 72nd place for the B team.  Team captain Alex Everest was next up for Lytham A team finishing in 24m 52s for 49th place followed by Fiona Geldard (24m 09s, 45th) and Louise Ruman 24m 52s, 46th).  The team finished in 45th place overall from 72 starters.

Tom Howarth at the relays

Neil Tate donned his Lytham Vest again on Sunday for the second running of the Lancaster Castle Half Marathon.  The route takes in the rural Luneside countryside and is fairly flat but has a sting in the tail with a punishing last quarter mile up to Lancaster Castle.  Neil completed the race in 1h 30m for 13th place.

Fiona Geldard was also competing again on Sunday.  Fiona is intending to compete in the 2016 Florida Iron Man (2.4m swim, 112m bike ride followed by a 26.2m run) and regularly takes part in triathlons as part of her training so competition just down the road in Fleetwood was an opportunity not to be missed.  Fiona completed the 400m swim in 11m 05s, the 12m bike ride in 46m 40s and the 5k run in 23m 03s for a total time of 1h 20m 46s, 18th female veteran, 29th female and 183rd overall from 364 finishers.