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| The prize winners at the LSARRC Presentation Evening |
One of the club’s most successful athletes over the years is Sue Samme, and she was the guest of honour. In his preamble club chairman Nigel Simpkin listed some of her memorable achievements including her team and individual medals when competing for England in the vets team; and her amazing achievement as the mid-Lancs cross country champion at the FV35 and FV45 levels as well as all of the senior ladies.
Nigel also listed some of the club’s successes over the last twelve months , including the senior ladies cross-country team silver medal and the men’s gold medal in their respective divisions. Barbara Holmes also became the world triathlon champion in the FV55-59 category, and how well the club had performed in various relays.
Chris McCarthy was the Seniors Men’s Champion for the first time, while Joanna Goorney, runner-up last year, was the Women’s Champion.
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| Dave Wood and Sue Samme |
A special award was made to Dave Wood for his unstinting service as a race photographer. He performs this task admirably for all local clubs, and many of the photos featured in the local press are taken by him.
Back in the racing world Pam Hardman and Rebecca Willetts travelled to Western Australia to take part in the Busselton Ironman 70.3 as a relay team with ex Lytham resident Lucy Goodall. The weather and the atmosphere were fantastic. The individual competitors started at 6am, 7am and 8am but there was a shark sighting in the bay and the 8 o’clock swimmers got dragged out of the sea and the beach was closed. For the first time in Ironman history the swim leg of the team event was cancelled. The 90.1km cycle and the 20.1km run went ahead but the sun was blazing and both Lucy and Pam suffered with the temperature of the tarmac. Both still managed to finish however.
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| Lucy Goodall, Pam Hardman and Rebecca Willetts |
Pam Hardman and Rebecca Willetts returned to the UK and took part in the St Annes sprint Triathlon on Sunday, with a great flat course they finished in positions 322nd and 258th with commendable times of 1:44:49 and 1:33:10 respectively.
Also on Sunday Mel Koth took part in the Outlaw half ironman distance in Nottingham. The race started at 6am with the men, and the ladies started 7am although they a long wait as they had to rack their bikes at 5am.
The swim of 1.2 miles is very tough as everyone tries to get into the best position. Mel was kicked twice in the face but at least her goggles stayed in place! When transitioning from the water they had to run back where the bikes were racked to cycle 56 miles over quite flat terrain with a couple of hills.
Then came the run. Someone cheekily pinched Mel’s socks out of her running shoes while the cycling was going on so she had to run a half-marathon distance of 13.1 miles without socks and so with blistering. But she did it, and managed to finish more than three minutes faster than a couple of years ago. The official results are still awaited.
A contingent of Lytham club members ran the Crazy Cow 10K in Avenham Park in Preston on Saturday in rather hot conditions. Jennifer Aldworth was the first back out of the gang, finishing 102nd, and 12th woman with a chip time of 46:16. Lee Morrison was next, 211th from 733 competitors, followed by Robert Parker a couple of minutes later in 264th. Laura Byrne in 418th, Penny Morrison in 564th and Michelle Sheridan, 600th, made up the rest of the group.
Juniors George Denye and Sydney Ramsden ran the Lancaster 5k on Saturday with George using it as a training run in preparing for next weeks Great Manchester junior run where he is hoping to be on the podium again. George broke the 20 minute barrier by six seconds, and finished 28th out of over 100 despite him being one of the few juniors. Sydney was 50th in 23:59.
George then did the Lytham Park View junior Parkrun for the 5th time clocking up his 5th win.
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