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.