LSARRC News 15th August 2017

LSARRC at Chorley IC

Success at the inter club race in Chorley and prizes galore for several LSARRC runners at the Preston road races.

On Wednesday Chorley AC were the hosts for sixth and penultimate inter club race of the season. Based in the grounds of Astley Hall, 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.
Outstanding performances from Andy Draper, Mike Toft, Joe Greenwood and Neil Tate meant Lytham St Annes Road Runners had four top-twenty counters. But the club’s real success came in the team results.

Lytham ladies again excelled by winning their open competition with all five counters in the top fifteen, and taking first and third places. This was despite not having all their best runners present, so displaying the strength in depth of the Lytham ladies.
Catherine Carrdus and Michelle Hook took first and third places respectively, with Gill Draper (8th) and Jennie Hill (11th) showing rapid recent improvement. Mel Koth was the fifth counter in thirteenth.

The ladies team still hold first place in their table, and only need to finish fourth in the last race next month to win their championship. Elsewhere the vet 60s also did well, finishing third from the seven clubs thanks to efforts from Terry Hellings, Colin Laidlaw and Nigel Simpkin. The FV40s were fourth, with the club finishing fifth overall.


Lytham results from Chorley: Andy Draper 9th, 28:09; Mike Toft 11th, 28:24; Joe Greenwood 12th, 28:39; Neil Tate 21st, 30:00; Catherine Carrdus 37th, 1st lady and 1st FV40, 31:07; Michelle Hook 65th, 32:50; Mark Hughes 90th, 34:43; Gill Draper 92nd, 34:45; Terry Hellings 99th, 35:13; Jennie Hill 100th, 35:16; Mel Koth 104th, 35:33; Darren Ames 108th, 35:39; Colin Laidlaw 151st, 39:02; Chris Bowker 157th, 39:26; Peter Reid 158th, 39:28; Nigel Simpkin 174th, 40:42; Alex Everest 183rd, 41:15; Roy Stevens 187th, 41:28; Julia Rolfe 197th, 41:53; Pam Hardman 212th, 43:08; Bob Clough 241st, 46:17; Rob Parker 260th, 47:28; Jacqui Murray 262th, 47:57; and Sarah Bagshaw 297th, 57:24.

There were several superb performances at the City of Preston 5 mile and 10 mile road race on Saturday 12th August.  Gill Draper ran extremely well in the five-mile race and finished 3rd female in 35.10 In the same race Julia Rolfe won the V55 prize in 41.35.  In the 10-mile race Melanie Koth was the first female home in the V40 group and achieved a time of 1.14.30.  Michelle Hook had a cracking race and managed a new PB of 1.09.39 and Alexandra Everest ran an excellent race and secured a respectable time of 1.25.03.  Andy Draper was the sole LSARRC male and just missed out on the prizes and finished 4th in a time of 58.13.

At the Blackpool Air Show 10k on Sunday, Graham Webster broke his own club MV65 10k record by a whopping 36 seconds. The previous record was set in July, and Graham now holds five of the seven available records in his age category. In the race itself Graham, unsurprisingly, won his category, and was 45th overall from the 247 finishers.

Lytham St Anne’s Road Runners had 23 runners in action on Saturday 12th August at Lytham Hall parkrun, 5 of whom achieved PBS and 4 completed their 50th run. The runners included:  Alex Tate (17.57 PB), Andy Unswork (18.09 PB), Neil Tate 17.52 50th run), Graham Webster (20.06 just short of a PB 50th run), J

Congratulations must go to Michelle Hook who not only achieved a PB at Preston parkrun on Saturday 12th August, she was the first female home in 20.31, and to Felicity Wolohan who was the first female runner at the Princes parkrun in Liverpool in an exceptional time of 19.49.
 On Sunday 13th of August two Lytham runners ran in the Cartforth Canter the 3rd race in the series.  James Whitworth finished in 28.03 taking 59th place out of a field of 70 runners and Sue Hawitt finished in 24.06 a PB to take 1st in the FV50 category, taking 38th place overall and 7th female out of 29.

At Park View Junior parkrun in Lytham on Sunday 13th August 11 runners completed the course including:  Morgan Pritchard was the first back in 7.35 and Jake Balshaw got a new PB of 10.02.  Other runners included Eric Wrigley (8.13), Jessica Ramsden (9.09), Amara Thorpe (9.15), Clemmie Tierney (9.19), Jayden Richardson, Charlotte Fisher (9.55), Jack Greaves (10.16), Rebecca Fisher (10.36) and Sophie Tate (13.02).
oanna Goorney (1st female 20.50 50th run), Morgan Pritchard (1st junior 21.28 50th run), Emily Balshaw (21,39 PB), Terry Hellings (21.47), Chris Bowker (22.49 50th run), Darran Ames (23.03 50th run), Ian Balshaw (25.51 PB), Jacqui Murray (27.27), Christine Walker (27.51 PB), Laura Byrne (27.54), Greg Oulton (28.18), Liz Boon (30.02), Gillian Oliver (30.11), Paul McCandless (30.25), Jeremey McCandless (30.26), Karen Lanigan (30.43), Sarah Bradshaw (31.24), Rachel Wignall (32.36) and Bob Clough (34.37).