LSARRC News 13th September 2016

Juniors and coaches at North West Counties Road Relays

In a busy week for Lytham St Annes Road Runners, the highlight was undoubtedly the North West Counties Road Relays held at Delamere Forest in Cheshire on Saturday.  Lytham entered seven teams, two senior men’s, one senior woman’s and four junior teams (a best ever turn out for the flourishing Lytham junior section).

Amara Thorpe sprinting to finish

First race was the under 11 boys and girls racing together over a 3 legs of 1.6km each.  George Denye was on the first leg for Lytham boys and finished in second place with a time 6:06 the fourth best time of the day in the under 11 boys race.  Morgan Pritchard ran the second leg in 6:52 with 8 year old Eric Wrigley in his first race for the club bringing the team home in 7th place overall and 2nd Lancashire team.  Amara Thorpe ran the first leg for the under 11 girls finishing in 7:34 (2nd Lancashire team) handing over to Jessica Ramsden who competed the course in 7:47 unfortunately a late injury to the 3rd leg runner meant the team was incomplete. The under 13 girls were next to race for Lytham.  Sophie Bohannon ran the first leg and despite taking a fall in the crowded start and competing with girls up to 3 years her senior finished the 3.2km course in 7th place overall and 2nd from Lancashire recording a time of 14:24 (the 8th quickest time of the day from 97 competitors).  Rebecca Tate (18:40) and Sydney Ramsden (16:21) brought the team home in 24th place overall and 4th Lancashire team.  Final junior team for Lytham was the under 15 girls’ team of Laura Bremner (16:27), Lucie Bohannon (18:17) and Hollie Anderson (19:13) all making their debut for the club and each running a 3.2km lap of the lake finished 23rd overall and 4th Lancashire team. A great turnout from Lytham juniors and some good performances.

Under 15 Lucie Bohannon

Both the men’s and women’s race was advertised as 6.4km per leg but was nearer 7km.  The women’s race was over 3 legs and Lytham’s senior women’s team of Mel Koth (31:11), Louisa Ruman (35:37) and Sylvia Gittins (42:22) all ran well to finish in 59th position overall and 12th Lancashire team.  The men’s race was over 4 legs of the same 2 lap course and Lytham had two teams. The A team was led off by Chris McCarthy  who finished the 2 lap course in 25:00,  Second leg runner Ross McKelvie finished in 25:57 with 3rd and 4th leg runners Tom Howarth (26:42) and Neil Tate (27:43) bringing the team home in 34th place overall  and 8th Lancashire team in a total time of 1:45:22.   The B team of Terry Hellings (30:24), Richard Storey (31:29), Greg Oulton (36:57) and Graham Webster (28:45) finished 70th  team overall and 13th Lancashire team.

Mel Koth returned to Delamere Forest on Sunday for the tough Mondane Trail half marathon a hilly course with several streams to negotiate.  Mel ran well to finish 55th of 219, 5th female and 3rd FV40.

Nine Lytham members made it to the Lytham parkrun with Neil Baytun-Roberts first Lytham member home in 20:01 for 10th place.  Charlie Wiltshire, (66th in 26:22), Freddie Wiltshire (108th in 30:33) and Pam Binns (110th in 30:40) were all making their parkrun debut with Pam setting a new VW70 record for  the Lytham parkrun.  Other Lytham finishers were Gerry Browne (34thin 23:19), Sue Hawitt (43rd in 24:43), Graham Young (78th in 27:59), Sarah Bradshaw who ran a new pb of 29:19 for 93rd place and Jeremy McCandless (104th in 30:20).  Ian Tate ran in the Warrington parkrun taking 25th place in a new pb of 21:07.

LSARRC at Red Rose Inter Club

Wednesday was the seventh and final race in the inter club road race series hosted by Red Rose
Road Runners and run in and around Worden Park, Leyland.  Nineteen Lytham made trip for the 4.3m race and Joe Greenwood first home for Lytham in 24:59 for 7th place.  Chris McCarthy was next in 12th place in 25:54 closely followed by Ross McKelvie (18th, 26:12).  Graham Webster (58th, 4th MV60 in 29:01), Terry Hellings (86th, 7th MV60 in 30:42)) and Roy Stevens (131st, 10th MV60in 33:56) made up the vet 60 team and finished 3rd team in the Vet 60 category.  Other Lytham finishers were Thomas Howarth (28th, 27:07), Michelle Hook (81st and 9th female in 30:34), Ian Tate (91st, 30:46), Melanie Koth (99th, 31:50), Richard Storey (118th, 32:58),  Colin Laidlaw (145th, 34:38> Greg Oulton (168th, 36:39), Jeremy McCandless (198th, 29:53), Pat Bullen (215th, 42:39), Ruth Bye (225th, 44:52), Sarah Bradshaw (233rd, 45:39), Sarah Bagshaw (240th, 48:06) and Dawn Lock (247th, 53:10).

New member Kirsten Burnett headed to the North East to join Mo Farah and over 40,000 other athletes to take part in the Great North Run, Kirsten finished in 2h 22m 20s for 23329 place from 42,000 finishers.