LSARRC News 30th August 2016

Helen Clitheroe with Rebecca and Sophie Tate

Wednesday saw five Lytham members head to Parbold for the last in this year’s series of Harrock Hill fell races.  Joe Greenwood was first home for Lytham in a time of 36:08 for 8th place picking up one of the traditional prizes on offer at Harrock Hill – a box of fresh fruit and vegetables.  Terry Hellings was next home in 46:33 for 94th place followed by Debbie Cooper (50:50, 134th), Greg Oulton (56:40, 178th) closely followed by Pam Hardman (56:57, 180th).   This was also the final race in the club fell racing championship leaving Greg Oulton and Julia Rolfe as the club fell racing champions.

Local Olympian Helen Clitheroe and GB international pole vaulter Max Eaves were guests at this week’s Lytham parkrun.  Helen started the event and both Helen and Max went on to take part in the 5k run.  Lytham were well represented with Neil Tate first home in 18:48th for 10th place with Joanna Goorney 1st lady in 19:55 for 13th place. 10 year old Morgan Pritchard ran a pb time of 23:00 for 49th place with his regular pacemaker Graham Webster immediately behind.  Other Lytham results were Greg Oulton (25:21. 85th), Jeremy McCandless (26:36, 104th), 8 year old Eric Wrigley (26:49, 109th), Bob Clough (29:30, 149th), Gillian Oliver (29:48, 155th),  Sarah Bagshaw (32:50, 189th) with 11 year old  Rebecca Tate and her younger sister Sophie acting as sweep and finishing in 39:34.  

8 year old Eric Wrigley with his dad

Saturday evening saw the first Blackpool Illuminations 5k & 10k events, previously known as the Hilton 10k. Four members of the club headed down for the races out of a total of 780 runners across the 2 races, in near perfect running conditions with no wind - an unusually lucky occurrence for a Blackpool race!

Michelle Hook

Claire England and Ross McKelvie entered the 5k, while Colin Laidlaw and Michelle Hook ran the 10k race. It was a great night for the club results wise, with Ross coming second place overall in 17:37 and Claire winning her age category in 23:32. Great effort from both!
In the 10k race on a undulating course (for the second half!), Michelle achieved a personal best of 43:48 coming 6th female overall, and Colin came home in 48:13 and achieved 2nd place for his age category.

The medal meeting of the Mid Lancs. track and field league took place at Leigh Sports Centre on Saturday afternoon with senior lady Rachael Wignall in her first season for Lytham the club’s only representative.  Rachael competed in the long jump (5th, 2.60m), shot (4th, 4.41m) and discus (6th, 12.67m).

Saturday afternoon saw Greg Oulton as the only Lytham member brave enough to take on the challenge of the Chipping fell race a tough 7.75 mile race with 1800 feet of climbing.

On Thursday 22 athletes (including 7 first timers) took part in the LSARRC monthly handicap. Sarah Bagshaw (36:55), a graduate from the Lytham beginners group, was first home in the competition proper but was beaten to the winning post by fellow beginners group graduate Sarah Bradshaw (36:20), a testament to the success of the Lytham beginners group.

Other finishers were Julia Rolfe (28:13), Dawn Lock (45:10), Greg Oulton (28:22), Roy Stevens (26.34), Gerry Brown (25:28), Hannah McCandess (30:17), Jeremy McCandless (30:30), Neil Tate (21:16), Claire England (26:52), Karen Lanigan (33:41), Joe Greenwood (20:00), Debbie Cooper (27:36), Pam Binns (34:03), Sylvia Gittins (32:49), Julie Oldrid (36:55), Pat Bullen (32.12), Gillian Oliver (33:41), Kirsten Burnett (32.05), Ingrid Oravcova (32.24) and Kim McGuire (32.24).

LSARRC News 16th August 2016

Julia Rolfe at Chorley Inter Club

Chorley AC were the hosts for the latest inter club race, based in the grounds of Astley Hall in Chorley on 10th August, this is not only one of the most scenic of the inter-club road races but one of the toughest, with two unforgiving long steady climbs.

The unrelenting rain made it unsteady underfoot in places, but helped some athletes to faster times on the undulating 4.8 mile course. Despite running 85 miles in training in the previous few days, Thomas Howarth led the Lytham team finishing in fifteenth place, with a time of 29:36, knocking 10 seconds off his previous years’ time..

There were good team performances by Lytham’s female vet 40 ladies of  Joanna Gourney (finishing first lady overall), Melanie Koth, Debbie Cooper, (who managed to beat her time last year by a staggering three minutes), Julia Rolfe and Pam Binns, all helping to place Lytham female vets 40 in third place.

Terry Hellings at Chorley Interclub

The men’s vet 60 team did equally as well, finishing third with a great effort by Graham Webster, Terry Hellings who still had plenty in the tank for a sprint finish at the end and Colin Laidlaw.

FULL RESULTS: Tom Howarth, 15th, 29:36; Justin Allitt, 30th, 30:45; Joanna Goorney, 40th and 1st woman, 31:56, Graham Webster, 54th, 33:13, Terry Hellings, 87th, 35:40; Melanie Koth, 96th, 36:18; Colin Laidlaw, 124th, 38;38; Derek Heron, 133rd, 39:34, Debbie Cooper, 134th, 39;35, Roy Stevens, 137th, 39;43, Nigel Simpkin 144th, 40;38, Julia Rolfe, 145th, 40:40, Alexandra Everest, 153rd, 41;04, Greg Oulton, 159th, 41;59, Jeremy McCandless, 185, 45;09, Hannah McCandless, 189th, 45;32, Pamela Binns, 197th, 47;31, Sarah Bagshaw, 219th, 55;07, Dawn Lock, 229, 60;50.

The next Inter Club Road Race is the last one for 2016, hosted at Worden Park in Leyland in September.

Last Saturday saw Lytham Road Runners stage their second running club ‘Takeover Day’ of the Lytham Parkrun.  Numbers were strong as Preston Parkrun had been cancelled with 222 runners taking part.  The Takeover event was a chance for Lytham Road Runners to promote the club whilst staging the 35th Lytham Parkrun.  Many of the members were volunteering by marshalling or acting as pacemakers, but LSARRC still managed to field 25 athletes.   Jo Goorney was 1st home for Lytham , 1st lady and 9th overall in a time of 20.01.   Andy Draper paced Lytham junior George Denye to 14th in 21.19 with senior Andy immediately behind.  10 year old Morgan Pritchard ran with his regular pacemaker Graham Webster finishing in 50th and 51st place respectively.  10 year old junior girl Amara Thorpe knocked over 3 minutes off her pb to finish in 26.04 for 134th place.  10 year old Jessica Ramsden (108th, 27.55) and senior Des Heron (69th, 25.06) also ran pb times. Other Lytham athletes were Neil Tate (41st, 23.01), Michelle Hook incorporating parkrun as part of a longer training run (59th, 24.10), juniors Frances Morrison (70th, 25.07) , Sydney Ramsden (74th, 25.14), Eric Wrigley (85th, 26.00), Jessica Ramsden (108th, 27.55), Clemmie Tierney (130th, 29.00), Rebecca Tate (133rd, 29.03) and Sophie Tate acting as sweep (221st, 44.25), Als Everest in her first parkrun (82nd, 25.53), Louisa Denye (109th, 27.56), Graham Young (115th, 28.14), Alan Elstone (131st, 29.01) and Sue Hawitt (138th, 29.10) both on pace making duties and returning from a long term injury Bob Clough (144th, 29.43).

Not one to miss an opportunity to race Graham Webster headed to the Catforth 5k Saturday evening for his second 5k race of the day.  Graham finished in 19.57 for 31st place and 2nd MV60.  First home for Lytham was Chris McCarthy in 17.16 for 7th with Andy Draper not far behind in 17.23 for 7th and 9th places respectively.  Also representing Lytham were 41 00:21:23 271 Storey Richard (41st, 21.23), Claire England (50th, 22.58) and Greg Oulton (72nd, 25.47).

Sunday saw Greg Oulton heading off to Penrith for the Lowther Lakeland Trail Half Marathon.  A tough trail race with 1650 feet of climbing and including fording the Lowther river.  Greg finished in 2:27:10.