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.
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