LSARRC News 8th December 2015

After an action packed previous weekend, Storm Desmond played havoc with events in the North West over this last weekend.  The first local run to be cancelled was the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday morning in only its second week due to concerns of trees being blown over in the grounds in the strong wind.  The next victim, was the highly popular Guys 10 organised by Garstang Running Club on Sunday morning.  That had to be cancelled due to the severe flooding in the area.  And finally in Lancaster, the Lancaster 3-1-5 Half Marathon was postponed due to flooding.  Club runners who had planned to take part in the Hoad Hill 10k in Ulverston had the problem of getting there due to flooded roads on the route there.  The actual race course was fine and went ahead with a very limited field.

Felicity Wolohan at Liverpool Cross Country last week

Felicity Wolohan made a late but good decision to run the Princes Park parkrun in Liverpool on Saturday morning.  Her efforts were rewarded with an excellent time of 21.31 finishing 1st female and 23rd overall from 125 finishers.

Also doing a parkrun was Julia Rolfe who ran in the South Manchester parkrun which is in held in Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield.  There were 200 finishers and Julia finished 83rd and 11th female in 25:47.

Joanna Goorney at Guiseley (Courtesy of woodentops.org.uk)

On Sunday afternoon, Joanna Goorney took part in the Senior Ladies race in final meet of four in the West Yorkshire Cross Country Series.  The event was held at Nunroyd Park, Guiseley, near Leeds.  Luckily Storm Desmond had calmed down leaving a sunning afternoon and a fine, testing muddy course.   Joanna  finished 20th and 2nd vet 45 covering the 3.2mile course in 24:30.

Missed from previous results, Sylvia Gittins ran the Conwy Half Marathon 2 weeks ago on the 22nd November.  The race was won by Matthew Bond of Sale Harriers in a time of 1:07:00 and there were 2458 finishers.  Sylvia finished in 1815th and 1st vet 65 in a time of 2:15:07.