LSARRC News 16th January 2018

Under 11 girls at Mid Lancs cross country

Senior men’s team finish 4th at the Mid-Lancashire cross country fixture, in Burnley and McKelvie impresses at the Lancaster 5K.
The fourth Mid Lancashire Cross Country fixture took place at Townley Park, Burnley on Saturday 13th January 2018.  LSARRC sent 11 male competitors falling just short of a complete B team.  Conditions underfoot were good with just mainly surface mud in places, due to not much rain that week.  The senior men’s race was approximately 9.8K running laps round the perimeter of playing fields.  The results were as follows:  Mike Toft 18th in 34:40, Joe Greenwood 19th in 34:46, Andy Draper 24th in 35:20, Thomas Howarth 56th in 37:32, Paul Veevers 60th in 37:57, Neil Tate 75th in 38:54, Graham Webster (V60) 155th in 43:16, Terry Hellings (V60) 157th in 43:24, Gavin Stanfield (V40) 178th in 44:55, Chris Bowker 205th in 47:54 and Greg Oulton (V50) 229th in 55:15.  LSARRC finished 4th out of 24th in the team results.

In the Ladies race, Lytham was well represented.  Catherine Carrdus finished 23rd in 23:13. Next home was Melanie Koth in 24:31 for 44th, then Alexandra Everest in 28:36 for 99th and Kirsten Burnett in 30:01 for 117th.  The team finished 16th overall.  The Ladies over 35 team of Carrdus, Koth and Burnett finished in 11th overall.

In the under 15 girl’s 3K race Laura Bremner finished 25th in 12:51 and Lucy Bohannon 39th in 14:40.
Morgan Pritchard was the only Lytham runner in the Under 13 boys race.  In an exciting finish Pritchard finished the course in 11:58 for 31st position overall.

The Under 13 girls team of Sophie Bohannon, Brogan Murphy and Rebecca Fisher all ran superbly to secure 7th position, an improvement of 2 places on her last run.  Bohannon was the first to finish in 9:49 for 7th, Murphy finished in 10:49 for 33rd, and Fisher in 12:42 for 60th.

Eric Wrigley and Lewis Bentley represented Lytham in the Under 11 boys race.  Wrigley came 47th in 7:48 and Bentley was close behind in 7:50 for 50th, going neck and neck for the whole race.

In the Under 11 girls race Lytham fielded 5 competitors.  First home for the club completing the 2K course, in a time of 8:26 was Jessica Ramsden.  Close behind was Clemmie Tierney in 8:31 for 38th, and Amara Thorpe was 46th finishing in 8:47.  The team of Ramsden, Tierney and Thorpe came 10th overall.  The fourth runner for the club was Leoma Gill (58th in 9:18) and her 8-year-old sister Rosa, the youngest in the race and making her cross country debut finished in 10:59 for 76th place.

On a busy Saturday, Several Lytham runners ran the Lancaster 5K.  The course was flat, out and back course alongside the river.  Conditions were pretty good for January, although quite breezy.  Ross McKelvie had a great run, working with a group at the front of the race and he came 3rd overall with 17:32.  Gill Draper was next back for the club, 9th overall and 3rd lady in a personal best time of 19:50 taking nearly 2 minutes off her previous 5K.  Emily Balshaw had a fantastic run and was delighted with her sub-21 personal best of 20:36, finishing 11th overall and 4th lady.  Ian Balshaw was back next in 24:13, 17th position and only narrowly outside the club bronze standard by 3 seconds.  Christine Walker finished in 20th position in 27:50 and 8th lady and Jake Balshaw followed close behind in 28:32 for 23rd.

At the Lytham Hall Park parkrun on Saturday there weren’t quite as many LSARRC present as there usually is, due to the cross-country fixture.  However, 14 members completed the course, and the first two positions went to Neil Tate and Alex Tate, respectively.  Graham Webster was first in the age category VM65-69, and Darran Ames wasn’t far behind Webster in 12th position overall. Brian Porter achieved a personal best and Susan Hawitt was the first female in the age category VM50-54.

Full Results:  Neil Tate 18:19 (1st), Alex Tate 18:43 (2nd), Graham Webster 20:47 (9th), Darran Ames 21:10 (12th), James Buckley 22:24 (25th), Kev Murray 22:44 (30th), Brian Porter 23:47 (43), Roy Stevens 24:40 (48th), Susan Hawitt 26:00 (65th), Stephen Tate 27:39 (91st), Jeremy McCandless 29:40 (133rd), Gillian Oliver 29:44 (134th), Michelle Sheridan 31:28 (156th), and Sarah Bagshaw 32:32 (161st).

Several Lytham members attended other parkruns around the country.  Ian Tate ran the Warrington parkrun and came 12th.  At the Barrow parkrun Neil Bayntun-Roberts came 7th.  Jennifer Hill and Olivia Johnson Allen attended the Blackpool parkrun and came 15th and 116th.

LSARRC at Garstang 10k

Sunday 14th January saw 6 LSARRC participants in the Garstang 10K. This is a well-established race that starts and finished at Garstang High School. The course has a few ups and downs as it takes in some of the rural lanes out towards Caldervale before heading back to Garstang. There were 447 finishers who enjoyed the good, if chilly, conditions. The race was won by Rob Webb of Rossendale Harriers in 32:16, with Amanda Crook of Southport Waterloo AC the first lady in 35:19. First home for LSARRC was Ian Tate in a new personal best of 41:58 for 56th place overall. 

Full Results:  Ian Tate 41:58 (56th), Richard Storey 47:53 (151st), Kirsten Burnett 59:41 (336th), Laura Byrne 59:42 (337th), Michelle Sheridan 01:05:57 (399th), and Penny Morrison 1:07:02 (412th).

Also on, Sunday 14th January 2018 Felicity Wolohan ran the Brass Monkey Half Marathon in York.  The race started at York Racecourse and took the runners through Bishopthorpe, Acaster Selby, Appleton Roebuck and back through Bishopthorpe to finish behind the Racecourse grandstands.  Wolohan ran a personal best of 1:25.49 and was 9th female, 199 out of 1485 overall.
As usual a number of juniors ran the junior parkrun in Lytham, on Sunday.  Seven junior attended and 2nd overall position went to Charlie Ormerod and first girl was Clemmie Tierney, for the second week running.  Full Results:  Charlie Ormerod 8:04 (2nd), Eric Wrigley 8:48 (4th), Jayden Richardson 9:03 6th), Clemmie Tierney 9:14 (8th), Charlotte Fisher 9:45 (16th), Archie Tate 9:59 (17th), and Blair Selbie 11:01 (29th)