LSARRC News 30th October 2018

Lytham Juniors at Fairclough Fun Run

As ever Saturday morning started with a parkrun for many of our runners.

Catherime Carrdus and John Bertenshaw ran the Preston parkrun finishing in 20:55 and 22:22. Alistair Leivers participated in the Coventry parkrun, finishing in 19:17. Neil Bayntun-Roberts entered the Hampstead Heath parkrun completing his race in 22:05. The LSARRC members who travelled the furtherst for parkrun this week were the Mcafee’s, they competed in the Clermont Waterfront parkrun. Lewis finished his race in 22:28, James in 45:48 and Joshua in 47:47. Joanna Goorney entered the Keswick parkrun and finished her race in 21:01. Stephen Tate ran the Dalby Forest parkrun competing the event in 24:37. Most Lytham runners ran the Lytham Hall Parkrun this weekend and achieved brilliant results. Joe Greenwood was the first Lytham runner to finish and second male overall, completing his run in 17:55. Andrew Draper finished his run in 18:00, Grahm Webster in 20:58, Maddy Markham in 21:16 and Terry Hellings in 21:59. Darran Ames was the next Lytham runner back in 22:06, Jennifer Hill in 22:17, Gavin Stanfield in 22:20, Dave Dunn in 22:51 and Mark Hughes in 22:57. Ben Gregson finished his race in 23:47, Gill Draper in 24:24, Claire Markham in 24:58 and Greg Oulton in 26:46. Laura Byrne n 27:50, Bob Clough in 28:26, Julie Wiseman in 29:04, Gillian Oliver in 29:59 and Paula McCandless in 30:31. Jeremey McCandless finished in 30:33, Graham Young in 30:42, Ruth Bye in 32:24 and Michelle Sheridan in 34:26. 

LSARRC juniors at Fairclough Fun Run

Sundays Fairclough Fun Run was the second race in the Lytham St Annes RRC junior road race championship and Lytham juniors were put in force with 17 athletes making the trip.  The race is an off road hilly 1 mile course held entirely within Wyreside Country Park.  Lytham athletes filled the first 5 places and 8 out of the first 9 places with 13 year old Sophie Bohannon taking the lead very early in the race and never relinquishing it finishing very strongly in an excellent time of 5m 41s, 28 seconds clear of the second athlete Lytham’s 9 year old Jayden Richardson who also finishing strongly in 6m 9s.  Third and fourth were Lytham’s 12 year old Frankie Ball (6m 14s) just outsprinting team mate 14 year old Ben Gregson (6m 15s) reversing the previous weeks result at the Green Drive Mile.  Next home for Lytham and in fifth place was 11 year old Oliver Thomson (6m 20s).  Lytham also filled seventh, eighth and ninth places with 10 year old Eric Wrigley finishing seventh in 6m 25s just getting the better of 15 year old Laura Bremner  (8th in 6m 28s) and 8 year old Archie Belfield (9th in 6m 34s).  8 year old Max Walker just out sprinted team mate 10 year old Finlay Hughes to finish 13th and 14th in 6m 54s and 6m 56s respectively.  Lucy Bohannon just held off the challenge of Clemmie Tierney to finish 15th in 7m 03s with Clemmie just 2 seconds behind in 16th place.  Next home for Lytham were10 year old  Leoma Gill (23rd in 7m 46s) and with Kiefer Richardson (24th in 7m 53s).  Also representing Lytham were 10 year old Ella Wiseman in her first season competing for Lytham finishing 28th in 8m 21s, 8 year old Rosa Gill (30th in 8m 33s) and Emily Wrigley (34th in 9m 01s).  A great turn out form Lytham juniors doing the club proud.

Just two Lytham juniors ran the Park View junior parkrun this week as most chose to run the Fairclough Fun Run but Finlay Hughes decided to do both finishing third in the junior parkrun with a time of 8m 57s before dashing to Wyreside Country Park for his second race of the day just an hour later.  Sophie was Lytham’s only other representative finishing 61st in 18m 11s.

At Lytham Hall pakrun 15 year old Maddy Markham was Lytham’s only junior athlete finishing 15th overall from 210 finishers, second  female and first in her age category with a time of 21m 16s for the 5k course.
             
On Sunday afternoon Ross McKelvie and Kirsten Burnett raced in the Lancaster Jailbreak 10K. The race was described as a good fast flat course until the evil hill to finish into the castle grounds. Ross came 7th overall in 38:42 and Kirsten finished in 51:58.

LSARRC News 23rd October 2018

Start of Green Drive Junior Mile

At this weekend's Lytham Hall parkrun, 27 LSARRC took part. The first runner back was Chris McCarthy in 17:12, Andrew Draper in 17:44, Alex Tate in 18:28 and James Buckley in 21:04. Graham Webster was the next runner back I 21:29, Ben Gregson is 21:42, Morgan Pritchard in 21:51 finishing just before Terry Hellings in 21:52. Maddy Markham was next back, finishing first in her age category, in 22:00, Gerry Browne in 22:41, Gavin Stafield in 23:17 and Kev Murray in 23:45. Gill Draper finished her race in 23:58, Finlay Hughes in 24:42, Mark Hughes in 24:43 and Kirsten Burnett in 24:58. Eric Wrigley finished his race in an impressive 25:39, Jacqui Murray in 26:00, Greg Oulton in 26:42 and Adrian Sargent in 26:48. Laura Byrne finished in 27:20, Rebbecca Willetts in 29:07, Graham Young in 30:26 and Paula McCandlessin 31:27. Jeremy McCandless completed his race in 31:29, Michelle Sheridan in 33:51 and Sarah Bagshaw.

There were also a number of LSARRC parkrun tourists this weekend. Darran Ames competed in the Old Deer Park parkrun in 21:45. Lorna Cragg completed her race at Preston in 35:26. Alistair Leivers raced at the Coventry parkrun in 20:02. Jennifer Hill and Olivia Johnson Allen took part in the Blackpool parkrun, finishing in 22:42 and 28:07 respectively. Neil Bayntun-Robers raced in the Bakewell parkrun in 24:14.

Start of Green Drive 5

Jonathan Tuck

On Sunday it was the club’s annual Green Drive Five and Junior mile. The five-mile event was once again sold out well in advance and was a great occasion with 403 finishers. Bob Clough, in his final stint as Race Director, was relived the rain held off- after last year’s Storm Brian caused some worries- and all his plans came together like clockwork. The race is popular with clubs and non- affiliated runners alike and is also used as the Lancashire AA 5 mile championship race, It’s a great distance for those newer to running, who saw some Lytham Hall parkrun participants take the step to a more competitive running event with the assurance that it would be just as supportive and friendly. Rob Danson of Wesham Road Runners held onto his crown to take the win in 25:41, closet followed by Altringham’s Dave Norman (26:00) and Simon Croft from Red Rose Runners in 27:09. Emily Japp from Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC took the Ladies win, the previous course (also set by her) with 27:47 and doubling her prize money. Second lady was Carla Davies of Red Rose (28:58) and third was Lytham’s own Catherine Carrdus (31:30). Red Rose was the biggest team represented and win both the male and female team prize.

Catherine Carrdus

Many of Lytham’s members were out marshaling on the course or supporting finishers, ably co-ordinated by Michelle Sheridan who was also the tail runner. A few did manage to take part as runners. Results: Ross McKelvie (30:15, 21st): Jonathon Tuck (30:21, 24th); Paul Veevers (30:41, 27th); Thomas Howarth (31:23, 33rd); Catherine Carrdus (31:30, 34th); Neil Tate (32:04, 40th); Barbara Holmes (35:08, 78th); John Bertenshaw (35:13, 81st); Rob Thompson (35:15, 82nd); Gavin Stansfield (36:29, 103rd); Mark Hughes (37:58,124th); Russ Chew (38:16, 127th); Peter Reid (38:49, 134th); Stephen Tate (39:42, 162nd); Claire Markham (40:28, 177th); Kirsten Burnett (41:22, 189th); Matthew Hill (41:39, 193rd); Trevor Roberts (42:49, 211th); Ruth Wheatley (46;13, 277th) and Angela Bremner (50:46, 349th). In the Lancashire competition, Lytham’s men’s team took second place being Wesham while the ladies too 3rd place. Barbara Holmes took the medal for first FV55.

107 juniors aged from 4-15 years ran in the junior Mile. 13 year old Luke Rawcliffe of Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC came in first position in a time of 05:16, first female runner was Lucy Tickle in a time of 05:55. Lytham had 27 runners; Jayden Richardson 06:03, Ben Gregson 06:04, Morgan Pritchard 06:04, Maddy Markham 06:05, Charlie Ormerod 06:18, Frankie Ball 06:20, Eric Wrigley 06:22, Laura Bremner 06:22, Archie Belfield 06:24, Finlay Hughes 06:33, Oliver Thompson 06:42, Billy Breakell 06;47, Max Walker 06:45, Clemmie Tierney 06:52, Isabel Tuck 07:07, Eleanor Francis 07:08, Lucy Tuck 07:13, Rebecca Fisher 07:14, Reef Breakell 07:16, Amara Thorpe 07:22, Charlotte Fisher 07:26, Leoma Gill 07:30, Rosa Gill 08:31, Ella Wiseman 08:40, Sebastien Koth- Wragg 09:20, Freya Thorpe 10:10, Sophie Tate 10:17. Lytham also won the 1st male team prize with Jayden Richardson, Ben Gregson and Morgan Pritchard.

Lytham's junior 1st male team

LSARRC News 16th October 2018

Another Fine Mess…..

Lytham ladies at Ulverston XC

Saturday saw the first meet of the mid-Lancs cross-country season in Ulverston, Cumbria, the birthplace of Stan Laurel.  The races took place in the tail end of Storm Callum – heavy rain, thick mud and plenty of standing water ensured the course was a fine mess! Despite the conditions this event was well organised and well marshalled by Glaxo Road Hill Harriers.

Even with atrocious travelling conditions, Lytham St Anne’s Road Runners fielded two teams in each of the senior men’s and senior ladies’ categories. The newly promoted senior men’s “A” team finished fifth overall with Chris McCarthy leading the charge in 10th position. Mike Toft and Joe Greenwood also finished in the top thirty. The result means senior men now hold third position in the top division, an excellent start to the season.

Jo Goorney, Catherine Carrdus and Mel Koth all finished in the top twenty of the senior ladies’ race to claim fourth place overall. As all of these three are in the LV45 age category it is no surprise that Lytham ladies were first in the FV35 and FV45 categories. In these categories the ladies have already performed better than in the whole of last season which augurs well for this one.

Full senior results from Ulverston.
Men: Chris McCarthy 36:20, 10th; Mike Toft 36:45, 17th; Joe Greenwood 37:18, 21st; Neil Tate 40:06, 63rd; Tom Howarth 40:46, 71st; Andrew Unsworth 41:15, 79th; Paul Veevers 41:52, 35:50; Ross McKelvie 42:13, 94th; Terry Hellings 47:45, 179th; John Bertenshaw 49:34, 194th; Mark Hughes 50:09, 198th; Jason Sheridan 59:58, 240th and Nigel Simpkin 60:18, 241st.
Ladies: Jo Goorney 28:30, 10th, LV45 2nd, Catherine Carrdus 29:12, 14th, LV45 3rd; Mel Koth 30:23, 16th, LV45 5th; Kirsten Burnett 37:48, 95th; Debbie Francis 43:26, 132nd; Gill Oliver 48:29, 148th and Sarah Bagshaw 51:57, 156th.

Despite the best efforts of storm Callum 12 hardy Lytham juniors made the trip to Ulverston on Saturday 13th for the first fixture of the 2018/2019 Mid Lancs cross country league.

The first race of the day and suffering the worst of the weather was the U11 girls 2.2k race.  First home for Lytham was Clemmie Tierney finishing 27th in 10:32 with Ellie Francis making her debut for Lytham just 2 seconds and one place behind.  Completing the Lytham contingent and bringing the team home in 8th place were sisters Leoma and Rosa Gill finishing in 10:48 for 31st and 13:02 for 38th respectively.

Next up were the under 11 boys also running 2.2k.  Lytham were well represented by Lewis Bentley 19th in 9:10 followed by Eric Wrigley (in his third cross country season despite being only 11) 24th in 9:34, Archie Belfield 25th in 9:38 and Finlay Hughes 33rd in 9:47 bringing the team home in 8th place.

Sophie Bohannon was Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 girls 2.6k race.  Sophie ran an excellent race to finish in 4th place in a very competitive race with just 14 seconds separating the first 4 athletes.

The2.8k under 13 boys’ race was next and Lytham had just 2 representatives.  Frankie Ball arrived with just minute to spare and ran well to finish 22nd in 11:46 with the hugely improved Oliver Thomson 32nd in 12:53.

Lytham’s final representative was under 15 boy Louis Eunson in his first cross country race for 2 ½ years Louis ran well to finish 23rd in 17:47.

Sunday saw 15-year-old Maddy Markham run her first ever 10k race in the Autumn Breaker 10k.  Maddy ran an excellent race to finish in 43:30 for 37th place from 340 finishers and first in her age category by over 15 minutes.

Lytham also had 5 representatives in the Park View junior parkrun.  10-year-old Jayden Richardson was a comfortable winner in 8:14 with Finlay Hughes in his second race of the weekend 3rd in 8:29. James McAfee ran a pb to finish 28th in 12:13 with Joshua McAfee 45th in 15:08 and Sophie 49th in 18:11.

On Sunday 8-year-old Max Walker qualified, with a gold medal, for the National British Biathlon championships to be held in Leeds in November. 

Andy Draper at the Yorkshire Marathon

Other news, Felicity Wolohan ran the Yorkshire marathon this weekend and got a PB with 3.05.19, 9th female and 189 overall.  The route starts at the university takes in the city of York and several surrounding Yorkshire villages - along with the high fiving vicar at Stockton on the Forest. We had rain, rain and more rain!

Greg Oulton drove up to Glenridding for the Lakeland Trails 14k Helvellyn race on Saturday. A great race, almost all off road, the rain made for an even more enjoyable route with most (10k or more) of the route turned to streams, with some of the paths being six inches or more under water. With a total of 1100 feet of climb, 600 of them in the first 2 miles which was all uphill with no relief at all. With a steep drop off soon after followed immediately by another 300 foot climb it soon tired out the legs and I was pleased to finish in 1 hour 53 minutes.

The next day Oulton returned to Glenridding for the Ullswater race. The flooding in the area meant the organisers had to resort to their emergency route, which was a slightly shorter 13k. In better weather (not much rain) and better under foot (not too much flooding up the mountains) it did include two killer climbs of 200 feet over quarter of a mile followed soon after by another 600-foot climb over half a mile, a stone staircase with no end in sight. As soon as we reached the top we had to descend a scree slope, dropping 700 feet over just less than a mile. With legs already tired from the previous days race Oulton was more than happy to finish in 1 hour 49 minutes.

Parkruns, unfortunately Lytham parkrun had to be cancelled however Julia Rolfe travelled to Preston and finished the course in 27:34 coming 20th female.  At the Blackpool parkrun James Buckley of Lytham ran 21:36 finishing 4th, Jacqui Murray ran 27:04 for 7th female spot and Laura Byrne ran 28:40 and came 11th female. 

In the junior parkrun on Sunday in Lytham Jayden Richardson was first to finish in 8:14, followed by Finlay Hughes in 8:29 for 3rd.  Other finishers were James and Joshua McAfee and Sophie Tate.  Well done to James who got a new personal best time of 12:13.

LSARRC Illumination run on Thursday night

LSARRC News 9th October 2018

Lytham runners achieve at the West Coast Half Marathon.

LSARRC at the West Coast HM

LSARRC was well represented in the point-to-point West Coast Half Marathon on Sunday morning.  Starting in almost perfect, if a little chilly, conditions from the Docks in Preston, ten club members headed back through Freckleton and Warton, where they were met with an unwelcome head-wind along Lytham Prom, before finishing at Fairhaven Lake.  First back for the Club, was Darran Ames with a new PB time of 01:35:47.70 (and 4th vet 40).  Second was Chris Bowker in 01:39:38.49 (knocking 5 minutes off his previous best time). New PBs were also achieved by Jacqui Murray and Lewis Mcafee.  Pamela Binns completed the course in 2:15:15 and won first prize for FV 65.

Full results:  P24 Darran Ames 01:35:47.70, P25 Chris Bowker 01:39:38.49, P63 Kev Murray 01:46:40.10, P71 Lewis Mcafee 01:48:18.80, P71 James Buckley 01:50:09.87, P119 Jacqui Murray 02:00:05.43,  P164 Laura Byrne 02:10:17.84, P172 Pamela Binns 02:14:15.82 (first FV65+), P195 Ruth Bye 02:24:22.03 and P218 Sarah Bagshaw 02:38:16.89.

Also, on Sunday Melanie Koth of Lytham ran the Rochdale Half Marathon.  Koth said it was a fantastic race, completely traffic free, with closed roads. Runners started in front of the historic town hall uphill to the park and then turned on the canal where we most of the route run, we left the canal near a big reservoir where we did a loop around it before heading back to the canal and a downhill finish. The course was well marshalled and lots of supporters around to give some motivation. There was also a 10k and a fun run.  Koth came 38th overall out of 403 runners, 4th Lady and 1st V45 in a time of 1:30:39 which is another diamond standard time for her.

Greg Oulton travelled to Haworth, Yorkshire, for the 10k,825 feet Withins Skyline fell race. Starting and finishing at Penistone Country Park, almost entirely off road with plenty of mud, climbing, styles and bogs to negotiate, Oulton finished in 1:17:30, over 7 minutes faster than his previous attempt last year.

As usual lots of club runners completed parkruns at the weekend.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Joe Greenwood was first home for the club, followed by Mark Selby for 4th.  Second female and 7th overall was Joanna Goorney in 20:27. 9th and 10th went to Neil Bayntun-Roberts (20:45) and Graham Webster.  Barbara Holmes was 3rd female in a time of 21:02, junior Maddy Markham ran well and finished in 21:32 for 4th female, and Gary Stansfield secured a new personal best time of 22:08.

Other Results:  Oliver Thomson 22:26 (24th), Mark Hughes 22:29 (27th), Dave Dunn 22:32 (28th), Kev Murray ran 22:44 (29th), Gill Draper 24:05 (50th), Claire Markham 24:27 (54th), Jacqui Murray 26:39 (88th), Trevor Roberts 26:51 (93rd), Jason Sheridan 27:36 (100th), Greg Oulton 27:54 (105th), Karen Lanigan 29:21 (123rd), Lewis McAfee 29:46 (127th), Lorna Jayne Cragg 29:50 (129th), Jeremy McCandless 32:28 (163rd) and Michelle Sheridan 34:23 (174th).

John Graeme Bertenshawe travelled to Lancaster and finished the parkrun there in a time f 22:56 for 39th position overall.

At the Fell Foot parkrun in Newby Bridge Rebecca Willetts came 144th in a time of 31:00.  Felicity Wolohan was 5th female at the Princes parkrun in Liverpool in a time of 22:53. At the Pennington Flash parkrun Ian Tate was 18th in 22:21.  Further a field at the Coventry parkrun Alistair Leivers of Lytham was 77th in 18:39.

At the junior parkrun in Lytham on Sunday 4 juniors took part and the first two finishers were from Lytham. Morgan Pritchard was first home in a time of 7:56. Jayden Richardson was second home in 8:17. James McAfee ran the course in 12:20 and his brother Joshua ran 15:36.

LSARRC News 2nd October 2018

Liz Abbott dazzles at Preston 10 k to finish 2nd female.
Paul Veevers and Liz Abbott ran the City of Preston 10k on Sunday. Paul finished in 22nd position with a time of 39:27, and Liz ran exceptionally well and was 12th overall and 2nd female in a time of 37:20, a tremendous achievement.

A large event starting and finishing on closed roads in Preston city centre. Taking in Avenham Park and including one or two hills!

LSARRC pacers at the Lytham Hall parkrun

At the Lytham Hall Park run on Saturday saw Chris McCarthy finishing first in a great time of 17:19. Joe Greenwood wasn’t far behind in 3rd spot.  The two top spots for the females went to Sophie Bohannon and Maddy Markham both juniors, who battled it out and were only separated by 1 second.  Lots of Lytham Club runners also acted at pacers for the 5k run.

Full Results:  Chris McCarthy 17:19 (1st), Joe Greenwood 18:30 (3rd), Andrew Draper 18:36 (5th), Ross McKelvie 20:02 (9th), Sophie Bohannon 20:02 (10th overall, and 1st female), Maddy Markham 20:03 (11th overall, 2nd female), Neil Bayntun-Roberts 20:25 (13th), Morgan Pritchard 21:12 (19th), Darran Ames 21:18 (20th), Jennifer Hill 22:02 (27th, 5th female), Neil Tate 22:0s (28th), Oliver Thomson 22:17 (31st), James Buckley 22:22 (34th), Mark Hughes 22:27 (36th), Alan Elstone 23:12 (46th), Kev Murray 23:54 (55th), Claire Markham 23:59 (56th), Gill Draper 24:02 (58th), Clemmie Tierney 27:05 (104th), Laura Byrne 27:17 (109th), G Browne 27:33 (112th), Pamela Binns 28:22 (122nd), Jacqui Murray 29:08 (134th), Karen Lanigan 29:25 (134th), Maria Tierney 29:38 (136th), Ruth Bye 30:27 (150th), Graham Young 32:12 (174th), Julie Wiseman 33:51 (183rd), Sarah Bagshaw 33:57 (184th), Jeremy McCandless 35:11 (196th), Paula McCandless 35:24 (197th), Jason Sheridan 36:55 (210th) and Gavin Stansfield 40:45 (volunteer/tail walker).

Lots of Lytham club members were parkrun tourists around the country.  Graham Webster attended the Old Deer parkrun near Richmond and came 15th, first male v65 in a time of 21:20 on a flat all grass 3 lap course.  Alistair Leivers ran the Coventry parkrun and was 5th overall in a time of 18:43. Ian Tate was a tourist at the Warrington parkrun can completed the course in 21:11 for 41st position overall.  A regular at the Princes parkrun in Liverpool, Felicity Wolohan was 1st female to finish in 21:11.  At the Fountains Abbey pakrun Roy Stevens ran 26:54, and more locally Joanna Goorney was first female at the Blackpool parkrun in 20:33.

On Sunday several Lytham juniors attended the junior parkrun, Morgan Pritchard was first in a time of 7:37. Jayden Richardson was 3rd in 8:20 and with 8:51 Eric Wrigley was 6th.  Rosa Gill ran a new personal best time of 10:44.