In a busy weekend for Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors the main event was the fourth fixture in the Mid Lancs. Cross Country League on Saturday 12th at Townley Park, Burnley. Lytham were well represented in the first race of the day (the under 11 girls’ race) with 5 athletes competing. First home for Lytham was Isabel Tuck finishing 53rd in 8:35. Clemmie Tierney (61st in 8:48) and Leoma Gill (81st in 9:41) brought the team home in 10th place. Also competing for Lytham were Ella Wiseman (87th in 10:33) and Rosa Gill (88th in 10:37). Lytham’s under 11 boys’ team were also well represented with Eric Wrigley (37th in 7:31), Archie Belfield (46th in 7:38) Lewis Bentley (52nd in 7:43) and Finlay Hughes (59th in 7:54) matched the girls to bring the team home in 10th place. Sophie Bohannon was Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 girls race and in a close race with just 4 seconds separating 2nd to 4thplace produced Lytham’s best performance of the day to finish 4th in 9:34. In the under 15 girls race Maddy Markham had her best ever race in the Mid Lancs League to finish 8th in 11:11 with Brogan Murphy also with her best finish running well to take 20th position in 11:51. Under 15 Ben Gregson was the final Lytham junior to run and finished 38th in 15:45.
In the senior men’s race Joe Greenwood was 71st, followed by Thomas Howarth 73rd, Andrew Unsworth 76th, Paul Veevers 92nd , Jonathon Tuck 110th and Dominic Garett in 130th, this meant the first team came 13th in the team results. The second team of Neil Tate, Graham Webster, Chris Bowker, Terry Hellings, Mark Hughes and John Bertenshaw finished 32nd. In the senior Mens over 6o category the club did exceptionally well, the team placed 4th and consisted of Graham Webster finishing 7h, Terry Hellings 10th and John Bertenshawe 30th.
In the Ladies the team came 7th with Joanna Goorney leading the way in 8th, followed by Catherine Carrdus in 10th and Claire Markham 69th. In the over 45 section the same team secured 2nd place.
Eric Wrigley was out racing again on Sunday and led the Garstang 2-mile fun run to win comfortably in an excellent time of 13:41. In the adult race the Garstang 10K Pamela Binns ran 59:56:28 and Sylvia Gittins 1:00:47.
As usual several Lytham Club Members participated in the Lytham Hall parkrun, and one member travelled to the Warrington parkrun. At Lytham Chris McCarthy was first to finish the course in just over 17:30 minutes, next home was Alex Tate who was 6th. Jennifer Hill was the second female to finish the course. In his best run for some time 12-year-old Morgan Pritchard ran in the Lytham Hall parkrun finishing 17th in 21:36 and first in his JM11-14 age group. Francis Morrison finished 110th in 26:55 and 6th in the JM11-14 age group.
Brothers James and Joshua McAfee did the tail walking job at parkrun with their dad finishing in 48:19 and 48:29 respectively (276th and 277th).
Full Results: Chris McCarthy 17:32 (1st), Alex Tate 19:28 (6th), Darran Ames 21:21 (14th), Morgan Pritchard 21:36 (17th), Neil Tate 21:37 (18th), Graham Webster 21:39 (19th), Jennifer Hill 22:14 (27th overall, 2nd female), James Buckley 22:32 (28th), Richard Storey 23:50 (47th), Stephen Tate 24:43 (59th), Kathy Gaunt 25:12 (73rd), Lee Vaudrey 26:08 (97th), Francis Morrison 26:55 (110th), Trevor Roberts 27:02 (115th), Laura Byrne 28:59 (149th), Bob Clough 29:09 (153rd), Maria Tierney 31:24 (199th), Sue Henry 32:04 (207th), Michelle Sheridan 33:49 (224th), Jeremy McCandless 37:04 (249th), James McAfee 48:19, Joshua McCafee 48:29 (277th) and Lewis McAfee 48:40 (278th).
Ian Tate was a tourist parkrunner at Warrington and managed 13th place with a time of 20:39.
In the Lytham junior parkrun on Sunday Jayden Richardson finished 1st for the twelfth time and for the second consecutive week with a time of 8:10 with Max 3rd in 9:00. Leoma and Rosa Gill recovered well from Saturday’s cross country to finish 15th in 10:23 and 23rd in 11:21. James and Joshua were also out again finishing 42nd in 13:13 and 57th in 15:15.
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