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.