Thursday night saw the final race of the club's summer handicap series. It turned out to be a very hard fought finish amongst those filling the middle places but Debbie Cooper, in 1st place with a season's best, and Sue Hawitt with a fourth successive PB, finished clearly ahead of the rest. Newer member Rachel Scott in 3rd also ran well to record a PB by just one second. Unsurprisingly Sue comfortably retains her place at the top of the points table while Dawn remains second and Neil moves up to third. It was good to welcome a new face, Steve Ashton, who enjoyed himself enough to join the club immediately after the race. The traditional Jacob's Join and chips was enjoyed afterwards back at the YMCA. Next month, the handicap returns to the South Park course for the winter season.
Full results: 1 Debbie Cooper 36.03 SB; 2 Sue Hawitt 35.39 PB; 3 Rachel Scott 40.29 PB; 4 Hannah McCandless 36.18; 5 Alan Elstone 31.05; 6 Neil Tate 26.38; 7 Richard Storey 31.15; 8 Sylvia Gittins 38.51; 9 Alex Wiggins 37.11; 10 Alex Everest 35.30; 11 Dawn Lock 56.35; 12 Tom Haworth 26.27; 13 Jeremy McCandless 38.56; n/c Andy Unsworth 27.05; n/c Graham Webster 29.01; Est. Steve Ashton 38.10;
On a busy weekend for Lytham St Anne RRC members age 8 to 70 were competing from Blackpool to Berlin on track, road and cross country over distances from 80 metres to 26.2 miles.
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| Mel Koth |
Saturday 26th was the first Mid Lancs. cross country fixture of the season held on a challenging course in Astley Park, Chorley. First race if the day was the under 11 girls where Sydney Ramsden competing in her first cross country race finished the 1600m course in 7m 34s for 32nd place with Charlotte Thompson taking 54th place in 8m 42s. It was under 11 boy Louis Eunson who had Lytham’s highest finisher of the day finishing 4th in the under 11 boys in 6m 27s with George Denye just 11 seconds behind in 11th place. Hollie Winstanley in her best ever finish in the Mid Lancs. League took 10th place in the under 13 girl’s race. Spenser Unsworth also making his debut for Lytham finished in 47th place in 17m 17s in the under13 boy’s race. Lytham had 6 athletes in the senior women’s race and first home was Mel Koth in (12th, 28m 05s) followed by Barbara Holmes (34th and 1st FV55 in 29m 37s), Louisa Ruman (59th 32m 22s), Dawn Bloor (72nd, 34m 30s), Als Everest (73rd, 34m 31s) (140th , 51m 15s). The senior women’s team finishing 3rd in division 1.
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| Charlotte Thompson |
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| Louis Eunson |
The final race of the day was the 10k senior men’s race. Joe Greenwood was first home for Lytham in 48th place in 40m 09s followed by Neil Tate (42m 34s 75th ), Tom Howarth (43m 16s, 88th ), (43m 30s, 91st), Graham Webster (46m 12s, 132nd), Terry Hellings (47m 52s, 152nd), Colin Laidlaw (50m 14s 181st) and Steve Ashton making his debut for the club just a few days after joining (59m 13s, 230th). The men’s team got off to a good start to the season with the senior men finishing 2nd in division 3, the vet 40s first in division 3 of the vets and Graham Webster, Terry Hellings and Colin Laidlaw finishing as first v60 team.
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| Steve Ashton |
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| Louisa Ruman |
On Saturday night, Mark Willett was up in Lancaster for the last race in the Lancaster 5k series from Salt Ayre Leisure Centre. Under the late evening sunshine, Mark was delighted to claim a new PB of 18:57, his first time under 19 minutes (having done a PB-equalling 19.02 there the previous month). Mark was back in action the following morning at the Run Preston 5k. After his efforts the night before, he opted to pace his soon to be 11 year old neice around the gloriously sunny course finishing in 28:04.
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| Chloe Norman |
4 Lytham juniors competed at the Blackpool open track and field meeting at Stanley Park on Sunday. Under 9 girl Lucie McNally in only her second long jump competition jumped a pb of 2.97m a huge improvement on her previous best for second place and a silver medal. Under 13 girl Georgia Norman in her first high jump competition cleared a pb of 1.20m in the high jump finishing equal 3rd on height but 6th on count back. Georgia ran well in a competitive 800m race to finish 4th with another pb of 2m 55.5s. Georgia also ran the 80m finishing 4th in her heat in 15.7s. Chloe Norman picked up two gold medals with a pb of 1.43m in the under 15 girls high jump and a comfortable victory in the 800m in 2m 34.8s. Chloe also finished in 4th in the long jump with a jump of 4.29m. Under 9 boy Connor Norman took gold in the long jump with a jump of 3.18m and gold again in the 80m with a time of 12.7s.
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| Felicity and her brother, Malachy |
700 miles east, three Lytham Athletes were toeing the line the Berlin Marathon, reputedly a fast marathon course. And so it proved to be for the LSARRC runners with all three recording pb times. Quickest was Steve Hargreaves finishing in 2:39:21 for 45th M40. Emily Hargreaves finished 29th FV35 in 3:08:20 with Felicity Wolohan surprising herself to take over 10 minutes off her previous best to finish 809th female in 3:35:41. Felicity was also joined by her brother Malachy who did 3.23.12 in his first ever marathon.
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