It is now less than 2 weeks to go until the Green Drive Five and Green Drive Junior Mile on the 18th October, 2 great races organised by Lytham St Annes Road Runners. The Green Drive Five is a fast and accurately measured five miles suitable for both elite and slower runners. It also incorporates the Lancashire AA 5 Mile Championships. Starting and finishing in the attractive surroundings of Green Drive in Lytham, the flat course is perfect for achieving PBs. The Green Drive Junior Mile is an accurately measured mile held in advance of the senior race for athletes aged 8 to 15. Starting at the same location as the Green Drive Five, the course takes a safe off-road out and back route to the far end of Green Drive. All finishers receive a medal. Further details can be found on the LSARRC website www.lythamrunners.org.uk and online entry is available at https://bookitzone.com/mark_selby/cI2FFX.
Apart from the local parkruns, there were very few races this last weekend in the North West.
On Saturday morning, Richard Storey did the Preston parkrun where he recorded a time of 22:39 for 60th place for the 5k course. The popular park run attracted 278 runners.
The main attraction of the weekend was the Chester Marathon which has become more and more popular as an autumn marathon over the last couple of years. Seven members from the club ran the race. The weather was perfect and it was well organised marathon. The course went along lovely country closed roads, wasn't too crowded, undulating in places and was very enjoyable.
First home for Lytham St Annes was Tom Haworth who despite finding the conditions warm still finished in a new PB by 40 seconds of 2:57:04 in 54th position. Andy Draper was next in 124th place and a time of 03:06:28. Roy Stevens was 1301st in 4:12:30. Pam Binns had an excellent run to finish 1917th and first vet 70 in 4:51:10. Not far behind were Sylvia Gittins and Pam Hardman who both finished together in 4:57:08 and 1982nd and 1983rd place. For Sylvia, it was laying the ghosts to rest after having to pull out of the Manchester Marathon last April just a few days before with a virus – very disappointing after months of training. Johnny Wild just crept in order 5 hours in 04:59:17 for 2017th place.
Joanna Goorney took a break from running this last weekend and instead competed in the British Lead and Speed Climbing Championships at Awesome Walls Climbing Centre in Sheffield. The event held over 2 days included juniors, seniors and veterans competing and also incorporated the final round of the IFSC Paraclimbing Cup series 2015. Joanna retained her title as Female Veteran British Lead Climbing Champion.
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