Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
LSARRC News 21st August 2018
It was the Fleetwood Half Marathon over the weekend and the Lytham runners didn’t disappoint with Chris McCarthy finishing in 1 hour 19 minutes for second place.
Ross McCelvie finished 20 minutes later in 1 hour 39, followed by first lady for Lytham Catherine Carrdus in 1 hour 45 minutes. Lewis McCafee gained a new personal best time of 1 hour 54 minutes followed closely by Kathy Gaunt in 1 hour 58 minutes and Sue Hawitt in 1 hour 59 minutes.
Conditions were tough with a strong headwind, but some runners welcomed the cooler conditions due to the rain.
Kathy and Sue ran together experimenting with the Jeff Galloway technique (jeffing) run/walk and both managed to finish in under 2 hours.
Sunday saw Just two of Lytham’s junior athletes make the trip to Warrington for the Terry Davies Memorial open track and field meeting and both representing the club very well. Under 13 girl Rebecca Fisher continued her successful track season with some excellent performances. Rebecca first event was the 70m hurdles where in a very competitive field she finished 6th in a personal best time of 13.2s. Rebecca next event was the shot finishing 4th with a distance of 7.17m making what turned out to be a good decision to leave the competition after just two attempts to compete in the high jump where she achieved another personal best performance with a height of 1.35m for first place.
Under 13 boy Frankie Ball made a successful return to the track with a personal best of 13.9s and second place in his heat of the 100m. Frankie also ran in the 800m finishing exceptionally quickly making up about 30 metres in the home straight to move from fourth to second and finishing in a time of 2m 36s.
Pamela Hardman of Lytham ran the Longford Marathon on Sunday 19th August in County Longford Ireland. The weather was warm but cloudy, a nice friendly race of only 180 people, half of the course was on the busy roads and half through country lanes. Finishers received a lovely medal, t-shirt and the best goody bag ever.
Hardman’s time was disappointing but maybe a bit ambitious after only 3 weeks after the Lakeland 50. Hardman finished in5hr 14.52.
At the parkruns around the country there were some fine performances by the club. Andrew Draper was first home at Lytham, junior Oliver Thomson gained a personal best time and it was a first for 2 of our juniors, the McAffe brothers. Joanna Goorney was 1st female to finish, coming 7th overall.
Full Results: Andrew Draper 17:22 (1st), Joanna Goorney 20:36 (7th), Graham Webster 21:06 (8th), Neil Bayntun-Roberts 21:30 (11th), John Graeme Bertenshawe 21:40 (12th), Morgan Pritchard 21:47 (14th), Terry Hellings 22:28 (20th), Oliver Thomson 23:17 (26th), Neil Tate 23:19 (27th), Stephen Tate 24:52 (42nd), Laura Byrne 27:50 (80th), Karen Lanigan 29:40 (107th), Bob Clough 30:28 (115th), Gillian Oliver 30:51 (121st), Graham Young 31:48 (130th), Gill Draper 32:17 (130th), Sarah Bagshaw 32:52 (138th), Jeremy McCandless 32:59 (141th), Robert Parker 34:57 (153rd), James McAfee 39:19 (170th), Lewis McAfee 39:23 (171st), Joshua McAfee 39:48 (172nd), and Trevor Roberts 48:43.
Pamela Binns and Sylvia Gittins finished the Blackpool parkrun, Binns in just under 30 minutes. Darran Ames also finished another local parkrun in Fleetwood. Further a field G Browne completed the Knocknacarra parkrun in 23:00 and James Buckley ran the Huntingdon parkrun in 22:34.
At the junior parkrun in Lytham on Sunday the first three finishers were from Lytham and Oliver Thomson gained a new personal best. The first 3 were Morgan Pritchard, Jayden Richardson and Oliver Thomson. Archie Tate ran well to finish 10th.
Ross McCelvie finished 20 minutes later in 1 hour 39, followed by first lady for Lytham Catherine Carrdus in 1 hour 45 minutes. Lewis McCafee gained a new personal best time of 1 hour 54 minutes followed closely by Kathy Gaunt in 1 hour 58 minutes and Sue Hawitt in 1 hour 59 minutes.
Conditions were tough with a strong headwind, but some runners welcomed the cooler conditions due to the rain.
Kathy and Sue ran together experimenting with the Jeff Galloway technique (jeffing) run/walk and both managed to finish in under 2 hours.
Sunday saw Just two of Lytham’s junior athletes make the trip to Warrington for the Terry Davies Memorial open track and field meeting and both representing the club very well. Under 13 girl Rebecca Fisher continued her successful track season with some excellent performances. Rebecca first event was the 70m hurdles where in a very competitive field she finished 6th in a personal best time of 13.2s. Rebecca next event was the shot finishing 4th with a distance of 7.17m making what turned out to be a good decision to leave the competition after just two attempts to compete in the high jump where she achieved another personal best performance with a height of 1.35m for first place.
Under 13 boy Frankie Ball made a successful return to the track with a personal best of 13.9s and second place in his heat of the 100m. Frankie also ran in the 800m finishing exceptionally quickly making up about 30 metres in the home straight to move from fourth to second and finishing in a time of 2m 36s.
Pamela Hardman of Lytham ran the Longford Marathon on Sunday 19th August in County Longford Ireland. The weather was warm but cloudy, a nice friendly race of only 180 people, half of the course was on the busy roads and half through country lanes. Finishers received a lovely medal, t-shirt and the best goody bag ever.
Hardman’s time was disappointing but maybe a bit ambitious after only 3 weeks after the Lakeland 50. Hardman finished in5hr 14.52.
At the parkruns around the country there were some fine performances by the club. Andrew Draper was first home at Lytham, junior Oliver Thomson gained a personal best time and it was a first for 2 of our juniors, the McAffe brothers. Joanna Goorney was 1st female to finish, coming 7th overall.
Full Results: Andrew Draper 17:22 (1st), Joanna Goorney 20:36 (7th), Graham Webster 21:06 (8th), Neil Bayntun-Roberts 21:30 (11th), John Graeme Bertenshawe 21:40 (12th), Morgan Pritchard 21:47 (14th), Terry Hellings 22:28 (20th), Oliver Thomson 23:17 (26th), Neil Tate 23:19 (27th), Stephen Tate 24:52 (42nd), Laura Byrne 27:50 (80th), Karen Lanigan 29:40 (107th), Bob Clough 30:28 (115th), Gillian Oliver 30:51 (121st), Graham Young 31:48 (130th), Gill Draper 32:17 (130th), Sarah Bagshaw 32:52 (138th), Jeremy McCandless 32:59 (141th), Robert Parker 34:57 (153rd), James McAfee 39:19 (170th), Lewis McAfee 39:23 (171st), Joshua McAfee 39:48 (172nd), and Trevor Roberts 48:43.
Pamela Binns and Sylvia Gittins finished the Blackpool parkrun, Binns in just under 30 minutes. Darran Ames also finished another local parkrun in Fleetwood. Further a field G Browne completed the Knocknacarra parkrun in 23:00 and James Buckley ran the Huntingdon parkrun in 22:34.
At the junior parkrun in Lytham on Sunday the first three finishers were from Lytham and Oliver Thomson gained a new personal best. The first 3 were Morgan Pritchard, Jayden Richardson and Oliver Thomson. Archie Tate ran well to finish 10th.
Friday, 17 August 2018
LSARRC News 14th August 2018
Junior Rebecca Fisher travelled to Wrexham to compete in a track and field meeting on Saturday and came home with two gold medals and a bronze medal.
Lytham's under 13 girl Rebecca Fisher continued her excellent track season with a very successful trip to Wrexham to compete in the Les Baldwin Memorial open track and field meeting. In her first hurdle race for 6 weeks Rebecca still ran well to pick up a gold medal finishing first in a time of 13.6s. Rebecca also finished first for another gold in the shot with a new pb of 7.44m. Rebecca's final event of the day was the discus where, with no under 13 competition, she was competing in the under 15 event with the heavier 1kg discus for the first time but still managed to take third place for a bronze medal with a distance of 17.08m.
Sunday was the Preston 5/10 miler. Julia Rolfe of Lytham took part in the 5 miler and Melanie Koth in the 10miler. Julia Rolfe ran the course in 42:59 for 43rd overall, was 12th Lady and 2nd V55. Melanie Koth manged to finish in1:11:36 for 36th overall, and 4th Lady and 1st v40.
Before the start there was a big round applause for Graham Vickers (wesham Roadrunners) who sadly past away the night before. Vickers was a great character and very popular in the running community and will be sadly missed.
The rain stopped for the race, but the air was a bit sticky and made breathing a little tricky.
It was a well organised race on a flat course (1 lap for the 5miler, 2 laps for 10miler).
At the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday 11th August, Andrew Draper ran well to finish 2nd in 17:31. Six seconds later Alistair Leivers of Lytham completed the course. There wasn’t much between Mark Selby, Neil Bayntun-Roberts and Graham Webster who finished 8th, 9th and 11th. Jennifer Hill was the first female for Lytham, coming 14th overall in 21:32 and junior Maddy Markham ran an impressive 22:37 coming 30th.
Full Results: Andrew Draper 17:31 (2nd), Alistair Leivers 18:37 (3rd), Mark Selby 20:25 (8th), Neil Bayntun-Roberts 20:31 (9th), Graham Webster 20:41 (11th), Jennifer Hill 21:32 (14th), James Buckley 21:40 (19th), Maddy Markham 22:37 (30th), Gill Draper 22:41 (32nd), Oliver Thomson 23:25 (39th), Neil Tate 23:25 (40th), Kev Murray 23:38 (44th), Stephen Tate 24:43 (59th), Kate Benett 27:03 (96th), Greg Oulton 27:55 (112th), Laura Byrne 28:05 (115th), Jacqui Murray 28:06 (116th), Darran Ames 28:33 (124th), Bob Clough 30:14 (142nd), Ruth Bye 31:13 (159th) and Jeremy McCandless 34:06 187th.
There were several Lytham members who were tourists at other park runs around the country. Kirsten Burnett attended the Whitstable parkrun and ran the course in 27:48 and was the 34th female to finish the course. Felicity Wolohan travelled to Huntington parkrun and managed to finish the course as the fastest female in 20:22, and Pamela Binns attended the Preston parkrun in Brighton and finished in 29:25. G Browne of Lytham visited the Knocknacarra parkrun and was 10th overall in 22:44. Michelle and Jason Sheridan travelled and completed the Penrose parkrun and Susan Hawitt was 4th female at the Fordbank parkrun.
On Sunday 12th August Kirsten Burnett ran the Mount Ephraim 10K near Canterbury, Kent. Burnett described this as a scenic and undulating single lap route which started and finished at a country park but was mainly along country roads. The race atoned somewhat for several holiday ice creams nut Burnett completed the course in 59:41.
As usual the junior park run in Lytham took place on Sunday 12th August. Morgan Pritchard was fist home in 7:50 for Lytham. Frankie Ball was 4th in 8:16 followed by Jayden Richardson in 8:28. Other runners for Lytham were Leona Gill, Rosa Gill and James and Joshua McAffe.
Lytham's under 13 girl Rebecca Fisher continued her excellent track season with a very successful trip to Wrexham to compete in the Les Baldwin Memorial open track and field meeting. In her first hurdle race for 6 weeks Rebecca still ran well to pick up a gold medal finishing first in a time of 13.6s. Rebecca also finished first for another gold in the shot with a new pb of 7.44m. Rebecca's final event of the day was the discus where, with no under 13 competition, she was competing in the under 15 event with the heavier 1kg discus for the first time but still managed to take third place for a bronze medal with a distance of 17.08m.
Sunday was the Preston 5/10 miler. Julia Rolfe of Lytham took part in the 5 miler and Melanie Koth in the 10miler. Julia Rolfe ran the course in 42:59 for 43rd overall, was 12th Lady and 2nd V55. Melanie Koth manged to finish in1:11:36 for 36th overall, and 4th Lady and 1st v40.
Before the start there was a big round applause for Graham Vickers (wesham Roadrunners) who sadly past away the night before. Vickers was a great character and very popular in the running community and will be sadly missed.
The rain stopped for the race, but the air was a bit sticky and made breathing a little tricky.
It was a well organised race on a flat course (1 lap for the 5miler, 2 laps for 10miler).
At the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday 11th August, Andrew Draper ran well to finish 2nd in 17:31. Six seconds later Alistair Leivers of Lytham completed the course. There wasn’t much between Mark Selby, Neil Bayntun-Roberts and Graham Webster who finished 8th, 9th and 11th. Jennifer Hill was the first female for Lytham, coming 14th overall in 21:32 and junior Maddy Markham ran an impressive 22:37 coming 30th.
Full Results: Andrew Draper 17:31 (2nd), Alistair Leivers 18:37 (3rd), Mark Selby 20:25 (8th), Neil Bayntun-Roberts 20:31 (9th), Graham Webster 20:41 (11th), Jennifer Hill 21:32 (14th), James Buckley 21:40 (19th), Maddy Markham 22:37 (30th), Gill Draper 22:41 (32nd), Oliver Thomson 23:25 (39th), Neil Tate 23:25 (40th), Kev Murray 23:38 (44th), Stephen Tate 24:43 (59th), Kate Benett 27:03 (96th), Greg Oulton 27:55 (112th), Laura Byrne 28:05 (115th), Jacqui Murray 28:06 (116th), Darran Ames 28:33 (124th), Bob Clough 30:14 (142nd), Ruth Bye 31:13 (159th) and Jeremy McCandless 34:06 187th.
There were several Lytham members who were tourists at other park runs around the country. Kirsten Burnett attended the Whitstable parkrun and ran the course in 27:48 and was the 34th female to finish the course. Felicity Wolohan travelled to Huntington parkrun and managed to finish the course as the fastest female in 20:22, and Pamela Binns attended the Preston parkrun in Brighton and finished in 29:25. G Browne of Lytham visited the Knocknacarra parkrun and was 10th overall in 22:44. Michelle and Jason Sheridan travelled and completed the Penrose parkrun and Susan Hawitt was 4th female at the Fordbank parkrun.
On Sunday 12th August Kirsten Burnett ran the Mount Ephraim 10K near Canterbury, Kent. Burnett described this as a scenic and undulating single lap route which started and finished at a country park but was mainly along country roads. The race atoned somewhat for several holiday ice creams nut Burnett completed the course in 59:41.
As usual the junior park run in Lytham took place on Sunday 12th August. Morgan Pritchard was fist home in 7:50 for Lytham. Frankie Ball was 4th in 8:16 followed by Jayden Richardson in 8:28. Other runners for Lytham were Leona Gill, Rosa Gill and James and Joshua McAffe.
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
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