LSARRC News 16th April 2019

Junior News

Junior Rebecca Fisher earns a gold for discus throw


Saturday saw Nine of Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes attend Witton Park, Blackburn for the first fixture of the Mid Lancs. Track and Field League.

Star of the day for Lytham was under 15 girls Rebecca Fisher who competed very well in three events.  Rebecca won the discus with a throw of 20.97m over 5m clear of second place, picking up 7 points and smashing her personal best in the process.  Rebecca went on to finish 2nd in division 2 in both the 75m hurdles with a time of 13.8s and the high jump with a height of 1.30m earning a further 10 points.

 The first event on the track was the 100m where Lytham had 3 under 13 girls competing.  Quickest of the trio was Amara Thorpe who finished  3rd in her heat in a time of 15.4s earning 2 points for the club with Clemmie Tierney was not far behind in 15.8s for 1 point.  Also, in the under 13 race and making her first appearance on the track was Charlotte Fisher finishing 6th in her heat in a time of 16.9s.  Tierney and Thorpe went on to compete in the long jump and the 200m.  Tierney jumped very well in improve her personal best by 21cm to 3.65m for 11th place and 2 points.  Thorpe also jumped well to take 13th place with a best jump of 3.54m.  In the 200m Thorpe and Tierney 33.3s and 34.4s for 3 and 2 points respectively.  Charlotte Fisher went on to compete in her first ever hurdle race and despite hitting the penultimate hurdle managed to finish in 16.6s for 2nd place in division for 5 points.  Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 boys’ race was Finlay Hughes also making his debut on the track finishing in 16.6s and picking up 1 point for the club.

Under 15 boy Frankie Ball was tackling the 400m for the first time and ran exceptionally well to finish in 65.5s taking 2nd place in division 2 for 5 points.  Ball went one better in the 200m finishing in a personal best time of 28.3s and taking 1st place and 7 points in division 2.

Oliver Thomson was also making his track debut and ran well in the under 13 boys 1500m finishing 2nd in division 2 in a time of 5m 32s for 5 points.  Under 15 girl Brogan Murphy ran a very good tactical 800m race to finish 1st in division 2 in a time of 2m 46.6s picking up 7 points.  In her first year in the under 15 age group Sophie Bohannon ran well in a competitive race to finish 2nd in division 2 in an excellent personal best time in windy conditions of  5m 8.6s for 5 points.
Lytham filled the first 5 places in Sunday’s Park View junior parkrun.  First home was Jayden Richardson in a new personal best of 7m 28s.  Finlay Hughes in his second race of the weekend finished 2nd in 8m 8s closely followed in 3rd, 4th and 5th by Archie Belfield (8m 18s), Joe Alker (8m 28s) an James McAfee in a personal best  time of 11m 34s. Morgan Pritchard (35th in 11m 38s) and Joshua McAfee (61st in 14m 16s) also represented Lytham.

Three Lytham junior athletes ran in the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday with Morgan Pritchard running his 99th parkrun first home in 21m 27s for 27th place with Ben Gregson close behind in 21m 30s for 29th place.  10-year-old Freddie Markham ran well in his first 5k parkrun finishing 103rd in 26m 32s.
 
Senior news 

Julia Rolfe at the Radcliffe MT 10k

On Wednesday 10th  April Lytham’s Graham Webster returned to his preferred discipline to race in the first Northern Masters AC track meeting of the season hosted by Spenborough AC at Cleckheaton.  Webster competed in 3 events in just over 2 hours.  First event of the meeting was the 800m and Webster finished as 1st M65 in a time of 2m 50.7s.  Webster also finished as 1st M65 in the 1500m in a time of 5m 57.2s and as 2nd M65 in the 3000m in 12m 17s.

Julia Rolfe took part in the Radcliffe multi terrain 10k on Saturday.  A route that covered the trails, canal, roads and paths of Ringley, with a sharp uphill towards the finish.  Julia finished 2nd FV55 in 56.12.

Lots of LSARRC attended local parkrun and parkruns further afield.  At the Lytham parkrun first male and female spot went to Lytham runners, Hoe Greenwood and Joanna Goorney.  Other notable performances were Ross McKelvie coming 4th in 18:00 and Alistair Leivers 9th in 19:19, chased down by Neil Tate and Paul Veevers for 10th and 12th spot.  Dan Gregson and Bob Clough ran personal best times.  The Fleetwood parkrun was completed by Jennifer Hill, Jamaica Pond by Heid Haigh, John Bertenshawe completed the Blackpool parkrun, Kirsten Burnett travelled to Lancaster, Pamela Binns did the Preston park run and James Buckley completed the Pennington Flash parkrun.

Lytham Hall parkrun race director Neil Tate celebrating his 40th birthday