LSARRC News 26th March 2019

Catherine Carrdus shines at the Cheshire 10K, coming first in her age category.

LSARRC at Cheshire 10k

Lytham Runner’s attended the Cheshire 10k.  The results were as follows: 
Graham Webster 43:35 1st vet65, Thomas Howarth 36:08, Catherine Carrdus 39:04 1st in her age category, Ian Tate 40:45 Personal Best, John Bertenshaw 46:16, and Sue Hawitt 47:13 Personal Best of over 2 minutes which she puts down to her marathon training.

The course started in the grounds of Airley Hall in Cheshire and continued out onto the surrounding countryside on closed roads. Runner’s were greeted by a saxophonist which added to the great atmosphere.  The weather was perfect crisp clear morning with blue sky’s and a little bit of sun peeping through

On Sunday Mel Koth of Lytham attended the waters Wilmslow half marathon. Koth finished in 01:32:16, 353 overall, 26th lady and 3rd FV45 out of 3800 runners. Koth reported this was a great organised race with lots of marshals, closed roads and some challenging unexpected climbs. This year was the first year they had also a 10k and fun run. It was a dry but very cold morning with some icy headwind.  

Joanna Goorney at the start of the Edale Skyline

On Sunday, Joanna Goorney ran in the Don Morrison Edale Skyline Fell Race.  The 21-mile-high level route around the Edale valley in the Peak District takes in 4300 feet of ascent.  Conditions this year were particularly dry although there was a cold blustery wind most of the way round.  The excellent pie and peas at Edale village hall after the race was most welcome.  Joanna finished in 117th place, 11th female and 1st V50 in a time of 3:48:52.

Several Lytham runners ran parkruns, and there were several personal best times.  Ross McKelvie was 3rd overall at the Lytham parkrun in a time of 17:34 (pb).  Andrew Draper was next to finish coming 9th in 18:35, Alex Tate was 10th in 19:17 and 14th was Mark Selby in 19:35.  Other Results:  Neil Tate 20:54 (22nd), Darran Ames (21:08), Jennifer Hill 21:31 (30th), Terry Hellings 22:05 (37th), Lewis McAfee 22:05 pb (38th), Mark Hughes 22:30 (41st),  Gavin Stanfield 23:46 (58th), Pamela Binns 28:19 (130th), Sylvia Gittins 29:42 (159th), Gillian Oliver 29:46 (161st), Karen Lanigan 29:53 (162nd), Maria Tierney 31:00 (177th) and Jeremy McCandless 31:04 (179th).

Sue Henry ran the Lancaster parkrun and Kirsten Burnett of Lytham ran the Blackpool parkrun.  G Browne visited Scotland and completed the Dundee parkrun.

Junior News
In a busy weekend for Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors the main event was the first track and field meeting of the season at Stanley Park where nine Lytham juniors competed over 14 events.

First up for Lytham and also making his debut on the track was 8-year-old Archie Belfield in the under 9s 600m.  Archie comfortably won in an excellent time of 2m 12.4s.  Archie also competed in the 80m and finished 2nd in his heat in 14.2s.  Under 11 girl Jessica McNiven was also making her track debut and finished 7th in the 600m in a time of 2m 37s and 6th in her heat of the 80m in 14.1s.  Lytham had three competitors in the under 13 girls 100m.

Amara Thorpe was the quickest in 15.3s, with Clemmie Tierney finishing in 15.7s and Charlotte Fisher, also making her first appearance on the track, in 17.4s.  Amara and Clemmie also competed in the long jump with Clemmie getting the better of her team mate on this occasion with a best jump of 3.44m for 21st place and Amara clearing 3.26m for 214th.   In her 3rd event of the day Clemmie went on to compete in the 200m and ran well to finish 2nd in her heat in a time of 32.9s.

Under 15 girl Rebecca Fisher’s first event was the 75m hurdles where she finished 5th in a time of 14.75s.  Rebecca was disappointed with her performance in the hurdles but made up for it by comfortably winning the discus with a best throw of 20.28m smashing her previous best for the 1k discus by over 2.5 metres.   Francis Ball in his first race as an under 15 competed in the 800m finishing 5th in 2m 35s.  Sophie Bohannon moved from cross country for the last 3 weekends to the track this week and in her first race as an under 15 ran very well in the 1500m to finish a close 2nd in a personal best time of 5m 9.8s.

Under 17 girl Maddy Markham opted for the 3000m, her first ace over this distance, and finished very well to move into 2nd place overall (1st under 17) just failing to catch the winner by 0.8s.

Saturday morning saw five Lytham juniors make their way to Lytham Hall for parkrun.  First home for Lytham junior was Ben Gregson who finished 17th in 20.28.  Oliver Thomson achieved his target of a sub 21-minute time finishing 20th in a personal best time of 20:53 (1st JM11-14).  Also representing Lytham were Morgan Pritchard (36th in 22:04), Adam Holton (47th in 23:03) and Matthew Holton 99th in 26:33.

7 Lytham athletes competed at the Park View junior parkrun and in excellent conditions 5 achieved personal best times.  First home was Jayden Richardson finishing 1st in a personal best 7:29. Joe Alker (3rd in 8.27), Bobby Hastwell (4th in 8:46), Freddie Markham (6th in 8:54) and Evie Alker (21st in 10:28) also all ran personal best times.  Also representing Lytham were brothers James McAfee (34th in 12:12) and Joshua McAfee (43rd in 13:57)