LSARRC News 19th July 2016

Caldervale Supper run took place on Thursday night with 111 runners. The 4 mile undulating course from Caldervale Village Hall attracted quite a few club members.  Neil Tate was first home for the club in 5th place in 23:15 closely followed by his younger brother Alex in 23:24.  Richard Storey was 22nd in 27:13, Ian Tate was 28th in 28:17, Claire England was 38th in 30:11, Alex Everest was 43rd in 30:43, Pam Hardman was 51st in 31:34, Sue Hawitt was 64th in 33:15, Jeremy McCandless was 68th in 33:38 and Hannah McCandless was 71st in 34:23.

Greg Oulton

Also on Thursday night was the short but sharp Bull Hill race, with 1100 feet of climb over 5.5 miles.  Organised by Radcliffe AC, the race starts in Hawkshaw.  First home was Danny Hope of Horwich RMI in 35:34.  Joe Greenwood had a good run to finish in 16th place in 41:41 whilst Greg Oulton was 152 in 1:00:17.  There were 201 finishers.

Greg Oulton was back out on the fells on Saturday afternoon along with Pam Hardman this time.  They head off to Warton Crag Fell Race near Carnforth for the 5.8 mile course with 183m of ascent over Warton Crag and Deepdale Woods. 1st finisher was Tom Cornthwaite of Northumberland Fell Runners by nearly 2 minutes in 37:03.  Greg was 61st 60:00 whilst Pam was 63rd in 61:53.

Terry, Fiona and Graham

On Sunday the 17th Fiona Geldard, Graham Webster and Terry Hellings headed to the Olympic Park in London and joined 11,000 other competitors to take part in the Great Newham 10k. Olympic gold medallist and local athlete Christine Ohuruogo started the run which then looped around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park before giving runners the opportunity to enter the Olympic  Stadium, run on the track and cross the finish line where, amongst others, Mo Farah, Jess Ennis and Usain Bolt won gold in 2012. First back for Lytham was Graham in 212th place with a time of 42:21, Terry, running just a mile from where he grew up, was next in 44.43 for 378th place with Fiona Geldard finishing in 1756th with a time of 60.12.

Sue Hawitt and her son at the Windmill Half Marathon

Claire England followed by Roy Stevens

Windmill Half Marathon also took place on Sunday morning.  Starting from Fairhaven Lake, the 2 lap course headed up to Lytham twice.  The race attracted quite a number of LSARRC athletes amongst the 517 finishers.


Full Results: Chris Mccarthy 8th 1:21:59; Andrew Unsworth 21st 1:27:01; Neil Tate 22nd 1:27:02; Felicity Wolohan 53rd 1:35:17; Alan Elstone 101st 1:40:25; Gerry Browne 146th 1:47:13; Claire England 157th 1:48:03; Roy Stevens 158th 1:48:05; Sue Hawitt 259th 1:48:01; Alex Everest 288th 1:59:52; Rachael Wignall 504th 2:42:08

Steve Ashton

Steve Ashton became an Ironman on Sunday after finishing the gruelling Bolton UK Ironman triathlon.  He completed the course in 15:57:56 (2.4 mile swim 1:23:46, 112 mile bike 7:53:28, 26.2 mile run 6:20:04).

Sophie Bohannon

The 31st Lytham Hall parkrun took place on Saturday morning with a total of 189 runners.  First finisher this week was Jeremy Ladyman of Valley Striders in a time of 17:30.  10 year old Sophie Bohannon had an excellent first ever parkrun to finish in 22nd place with a time of 22:13 and another 10 year old having a great run was Eric Wrigley who knocked over a minute of his PB to finish in 58th place with 24:39..  The Tate family were out in force with Neil accompanying one of his daughters, 10 year old Sophie whilst his other daughter, Rebecca accompanied her mum Annette. in her first ever parkrun.

Morgan Pritchard followed by Francis Morrison

Full Results: Mark Selby 14th 20:58; Sophie Bohannon 22 22:13; Joanna Goorney 23 22:13; Francis Morrison 45 23:58; Morgan Pritchard 48 24:04; Richard Storey 49 24:05; Eric Wrigley 58 24:39 Jeremy McCandless 77 26:29; Lucy Bohannon 82 26:55; Holly Anderson 103 28:35; Sophie Tate 173 35:30; Neil Tate 174 35:32; Rebecca Tate 182 39:56;

Julia Rolfe took in parkrun whilst in Poland last week.  She ran the Krakow parkrun on 9th  July.  She took 25 minutes to complete the flat 5k course in very warm conditions.  She found it a friendly group of 85 runners and was also 1st vet 50.

LSARRC News 12th July 2016

St Annes Carnival 5k

The main event of the week for Lytham St Annes RRC Carnival 5k and 1500m fun run on Sunday. Lytham juniors represented the club very well in the 1500 with 11 year old boy Louis Eunson taking 1st place in 5:39 and 10 year old Sophie Bohannon in her first race for the club 3rd overall and first girl in 5:43 both beating older more experienced athletes. Other Lytham results were George Denye (4th in 5:46), Charlie Ormerod (5th in 6:01), Morgan Pritchard (7th in 6:13), Laura Bremner (9th in 6:19), Francis Morrison (10th in 6:28), Rebecca Tate (11th in 6:30), Sydney Ramsden (12th in 6:42), Jennifer Hayes (14th in 6:48), Lucy Bohannon (15th in 6:48), Hebe Tierney 18th in 7:03), Amara Thorpe (19th in 7:10), Clemmie Tierney (20th in 7:12), Charlotte Simms (22nd in 7:19), Ruby Simms (26th in 7:26), Eric Wrigley (27th in 7:26), Jessica Ramsden (30th in 7:30), Hollie Anderson (31st in 7:41), Sophie Tate (32nd in 7:58), Charlie Stephenson (35th in 35:08), Ethan Currie (47tg in 8:57) and 4 year old Sebastien Koth 67th in 10:20.

Sydney Ramsden, Lucy Bohannon and Jennifer Hayes
St Annes Carnival 1500m Fun Run

The Carnival 5k also proved a successful event for Lytham with 3 men in the top 10 (Thomas Howarth, 5th in 18:36, Neil Tate, 6th in 18:41 and Ross McElvie, 8th in 18:46) ensuring the team prize. Other Lytham finishers for Lytham were Mark Selby (15th in 20:00), Alan Elstone (21st in 21:01), Dave Dunn (27th in 22:03), Claire England (28th in 23:16 and 1st FV50), Steve Quarmby (41st in 23:22), Roy Stephens (45th in 23:50), Des Heron (46th in 23:55), Sue Hawitt (50th in 24:26), Steve Tate (54th in 25:18)Pam Hardman (55th in 25:25), Maria Tierney (72nd in 28:17), Rachael Wignall (119th in 29:20), James Whitworth (135th in 29:57) and Nicola Mason (114th in 39:09). Prizes were presented by the Carnival Queen at the Lord Derby.

St Annes Carnival 1500m Fun Run

Just 4 members made it to the 30th Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday with Chris McCarthy first home for Lytham taking 8th place in 19:00. 10 year old Morgan Pritchard finished in a pb time of 23:02 in 33rd place with Sue Samme and Terry Hellings in 34th and 35th both recording 23:07, Maria Tierney and Karen Lanigan both ran pb times of 27:53 and 30:30 for 87th and 114th places respectively.

20 Barriers Fell Race

The 20 Barriers Fell Race from Carnforth on Tuesday night was chosen as the 3rd race in the Inter Club Fell Race and as a result there was a good turnout from LSARRC. After last year's problems with the course being sabotaged and runners going the wrong way, there were no such problems this year and every thing ran smoothly. The course is a great introduction to off-road running with a mixture of running along the canal, over fields and along gravel tracks and covers a distance of just over 5 miles with 500 foot of ascent. With 208 finishers, Chris Arthur from Bowland Fell Runners was the clear winner by over 2 minutes in 31:08. Chris McCarthy had an excellent run to finish 5th in 34:37 whilst Joanna Goorney was 1st lady in 20th place in 38:03. Neil Tate was 26th in 38:22. Next home was Richard Storey in 97th place in 46:05, Debbie Cooper was 105th in 46:58, Claire England was 113th in 48:27, Sue Hawitt was 126th in 50:45, Greg Oulton was 134th in 51:23, Karen Lanigen was 187th in 59:42 and Dawn Lock was 207th in 72:13.

LSARRC juniors and coaches at the Presentation Evening

The Junior Presentation Evening was held on Thursday night at Lytham YMCA, proved very popular and Lytham’s most successful with over 70 juniors, parents and coaches attending, Events started off with an hour of games for the juniors finishing with a juniors versus coaches relay which was won by the juniors. The presentation then followed with food afterwards provided by the Refuel Cafe Bar. 10 year old Morgan Pritchard was the winner of the Coaches Cup awarded not solely for achievement but to the athlete who, in the opinion of the coaches, has shown the most dedication and takes account of attendance, effort, attitude to fellow athletes as well as coaches. Other awards were – handicap winner Amara Thorpe, U11 girls XC Sydney Ramsden, U13 girls XC Rebecca Tate, U11 boys XC Louis Eunson (runner up George Denye), U13 boys XC Simon Holt, bronze XC medals awarded to U11 girls Charlotte Thompson, Jessica Ramsden and Keira Van Bogeruen and U11 boy Morgan Pritchard. Athlete of the year award for Thursday group was Harry Fellows, Tuesday’s award went to Sophie Bohannon and Monday’s was shared by sisters Hebe and Cleme Tierney

Junior prize winners

Felicity Wolohan did the Ladies Forest Park 5km in Warrington on Wednesday 6th finishing in 6th position with a time of 21 minutes.

A number of club members were back out again on the fells on Thursday night for the Tockholes Evening Fell Race which takes in Darwen Tower. First home on the 9.4 km course with 310m of ascent was Nick Leigh of Horwich RMI in 35:19. Lytham had 2 top ten finishers with Joe Greenwood in 6th with 39:13and Chris McCarthy in 10th with 41:13. Greg Oulton was 58th in 1:01:38 aand Jeremy McCandless was 60th in 1:06:47. There were 62 finishers.

Joanna Goorney headed over to Sheffield for the weekend, judging at the British Bouldering Championships. Whilst there, she took in the Sheffield Hallam parkrun from Endcliffe Park. The parkrun was celebrating its 6th anniversary and to celebrate, the course was run in reverse, a novel idea except with the large numbers (586 runners), it made the start quite slow with most of the first mile on narrow pavement. Joanna was 2nd lady and 44th overall.

LSARRC News 5th July 2016

Rachael Wignall

The fourth fixture in the Mid Lancs Track and Field league took place on a windy but dry Sat 2nd July at Salt Ayre Sports Centre, Lancaster.

Lytham’s sole representative on the track was the versatile under 13 boy Simon Holt. Simon's first event was the 800m and in conditions not conducive to good times he performed well in a field of 15 to finish in a time of 2m 48.2s taking 3rd place in division and picking up 4 points for the club. Simon’s next event on the track was the 200m where he finished in 3rd of 11 in 30.8s and 2nd in division 2 for a further 5 points. Simon transferred his attention to the field events competing in the shot where he achieved a distance of 6.69m finishing 4th of 11 and 2nd in division 2 for a further 5 points.

Simon Holt

Mid Lancs Track and Field, Lancaster

Rachael Wignall was Lytham’s only senior woman and in her first season competing at track and field for Lytham performed well. Rachael took 1st place in division 2 of the senior woman’s long jump with a jump of 3.02m earning 7 points. Rachael also picked up 5 points in the shot for her 2nd place in division 2 with a distance of 5.48m and 4 points in the discus with a distance of 14.29m finishing 3rd in division 2.

Jeremy McCandless was first up for the senior men in the hammer picking up 7 points for 1st place in division 2 with a distance of 13.99m. Jeremy was joined by Greg Oulton in the shot achieving distances of 6.26m and 5.59m picking up 2 and 1 points respectively for 5th and 6th place in division 2.  Greg also competed in the discus finishing 5th in division 2 with a distance of 12.94m earning 2 points and the javelin again finishing 5th in division 2 with a distance of 13.13m.

Chris  McCarthy ran the Lostock Hall Carnival 5k on Saturday lunchtime.  Dave Rigby of Salford Harriers fresh from his victory at the Freckleton Half Marathon a couple of weeks won by nearly a minute in 15:35.  Chris finished in 4th place in 17:41 out of 66 runners.

Saturday evening saw the second race of three in the Catforth Canter 5k Race Series. The race was won by Jason Parker of Preston Harriers in 16:25 with 72 finishers.  Richard Storey was LSARRC's sole representative finishing in 41st place in 21:55.

Lytham Hall parkrun

The 29th Lytham Hall parkrun took place on Saturday morning in bright but windy conditions.  Finishing first again was Paul Muller of Horwich RMI Harriers in 17:47 whilst Lytham's Felicity Wolohan was the first lady finisher in 14th place and 20:54.  10 year old George Denye running in his first parkrun had an outstanding run to finish in 11th place in a time of 20:18.  There were also a number of PBs for LSARRC athletes including Neil Bayntun-Roberts who was 10th in 20:17, Claire England who was 27th and 4th lady in 23:06,  junior Sydney Ramsden whowas 47th in 24:50 and Greg Outlon who was 53rd in 25:09.  There were 176 finishers.

Laura Bremner

Full Results: Neil Bayntun-Roberts 10th     20:17; George Denye 11th 20:18; Neil Tate 12th 20:19; Mark Selby 13th 20:31; Felicity Wolohan 14th 20:54; Gerry Browne 21st 22:29; Claire England 27th 23:06; Morgan Pritchard 35th 23:49; Terry Hellings 36th 23:53; Francis Morrison 41st 24:37; Laura Bremner 43rd 24:40; Sue Hawitt 45th 24:43; Sydney Ramsden 47th 24:50; Greg Oulton 53rd 25:09; Jeremy Mccandless 88th 28:26; Gillian Oliver 96th 29:05; Liz Boon 113th 30:29;

Neil Tate and George Denye

Roy Steven ran the St Peters parkrun in Sydney Park, St Peters, Sydney,Australia for the 3rd week in succession in beautiful sunshine.  Hopefully this will be the last time because he is hoping his daughter will come home next year.  He got another PB for this course, which has a mega hill, in 23.32 and his fastest 5k this year.  He finished 81st out of 283 finishers.

Thursday night saw the Club's monthly handicap race, the third in this year's series using the summer course of 4.35 miles.  It was a wet, wet evening with the course disrupted by road works also but nevertheless a close race ensued.  Two newcomers were welcomed to the handicap; Steve, yet another of the Tate family, who ran an excellent veteran's time and Joanne Cain who was the quickest lady.

Another excellent well attended Jacob's Join was enjoyed afterwards back at the Club's headquarters at Lytham YMCA.

Full Results: 1 Jeremy McCandless 36:51; Hannah McCandless 39:12; 3 Derek Caborn 39:.06; 4 Sue Hawitt 34:44; 5 Colin Laidlaw 31:53; 6 Claire England 33:03; 7 Alex Tate 27:12; 8 Greg Oulton 35:53; 9 Graham Webster 28:24; 10 Debbie Cooper 33:42; 11 Gerry Brown 31:57; 12 Joe Greenwood 24:35; 13 Alan Elstone 29:41; 14 Tom Howarth 25:52; 15 Neil Tate 26:43; 16 Chris McCarthy 25:16; 17 Pam Binns 42:51; Est Steve Tate 35:28; Est Joanne Cain 32:21;

23rd - 26th June saw the Europe Corporate Games take place in Liverpool in which companies, businesses and other social sector services compete in various sports from poker to dragonboat racing, swimming to football.  On the Saturday, Graham Webster ran as a guest competitor for CSC business in the 5k at Ormskirk University winning a silver medal over an undulating course in 20:13 for V60 category.  2 hours later, he ran in the 4 x 1 mile relay leg bringing his team to finish 5th overall in a time of 6:10.