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| U13 Silver for Sophie Bohannon |
Fourteen Lytham athletes made the trip to Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday 5th January to compete in the 2019 Lancashire Cross Country Championships. Condition under foot were very good with very little mud producing some fast times.
First race involving Lytham athletes was the 1.8k under 11 boys’ race. First home for Lytham was Eric Wrigley finishing 29th in a time of 7:19 with team mate Finlay HHughes 48th in 7:46. In the under 13 girls race Sophie Bohannon ran an excellent race to finish in second place in 12:27 for the 3k race picking up a silver medal and selection for Lancashire in the Inter Counties Cross Country championships. Ben Gregson finished 39th in the 3.8k under 15 boys’ race in 16:13. Lytham had two representatives in the under 15 girls’ race with Maddy Markham finishing 19th in 15:34 for the 3.8k race and Brogan Murphy 39th in 17:06.
The 6.7k senior Women’s race was the next race to include Lytham athletes and Joanna Goorney ran well to finish 15th and 2nd FV50 for a silver medal in 26:39. Claire Markham and Gillian Oliver both in their first cross country season for Lytham finished in 49th and 82nd respectively with times of 32:50 and 42:54.
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| LSARRC Ladies |
Final race of the day was the 9.8k senior men’s race where Lytham had further success with Terry Hellings picking up a gold medal finishing first MV65 in 44:31. First home for Lytham was Chris McCarthy finishing 71st in 35:55. Also representing Lytham were Neil Tate 103rd (39:50), Mark Hughes 180th (48:54) and Greg Oulton 189th (57:42).
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| Vet 65 Gold for Terry Hellings |
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| Mike Toft |
Sunday saw the central Lancashire half marathon take place. It's an undulated course around lea town, catforth, Inskip and Treales before heading back to Lea. The race was well organised, and weather was perfect, Lytham had 5 runners presenting the club. An impressive run by Mike Toft resulting in him winning the race and achieving a new clubs senior and overall record time of 01:14:06. Neil Tate was 61st overall in 01:30:47, Melanie Koth 70th overall, 3rd lady, 1st V45 in 01:32:49, Ian Tate 101st with a time of 01:39:05 and Mark Hughes 235th 01:55:38. The race had 488 runners finishing.
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| Mel Koth |
Also, Greg Oulton & Pam Hardman entered the Scout Scarr fell race on Sunday 6th January, nice calm day a bit misty higher up. Lovely race not too muddy. Hardman ran 46.33 and Oulton 49.38.
Several Lytham runners completed parkruns, at the Lytham Hall parkrun the first 3 spots went to Lytham runners and Sylvia Gittins gained a new personal best time.
Full Results
Andrew Draper 17:33 (1st), Ross McKelvie 17:37 (2nd), Paul Veevers 17:54 (3rd), Darran Ames 20:49 (19th), Michelle Hook 21:54 (28th overall, 4th female), James Buckley 22:05 (33rd), Morgan Pritchard 22:21 (36th), Graham Webster 22:22 (37th), G Browne 22:43 (43rd), Oliver Thomson 22:53 (46th), Kev Murray 23:17 (56th), Richard Storey 24:01 (66th), Stephen Tate 24:11 (73rd), Jason Sheridan 26:06 (99th), Clemmie Tierney 26:19 (105th), Trevor Roberts 26:51 (117th), Pamela Binns 27:48 (138th), Maria Tierney 27:57 (141st), Francis Morrison 28:07 (144th), Laura Byrne 28:15 (147th), Bob Clough 28:17 (149th), Karen Lanigan 29:04 (159th), Sylvia Gittins 29:44 (166th), Jeremy McCandless 29:52 (168th), Laura Dilks 30:39 (179th), Michelle Sheridan 34:45 (222nd), Ella Wiseman 35:55 (236th), Julie Wiseman 35:56 (237th) and Sue Henry 36:04 (239th).
Susan Samme Kirsten Burnett completed the Blackpool parkrun at Stanley Park and Samme was the first female finisher.
On Sunday at the junior parkrun in Lytham Jayden Richardson was first home in 8:13 followed closely by Eric Wrigley in 8:21, and Archie Belfield was 4th in 8:47. Other finishers were Sophie Tate and James and Joshua McAfee.
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