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).