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.