LSARRC News 23rd April 2019

Maddy Markham sets a club record at local parkrun and Lytham Ladies win the team event at Caldervale.

Sue Hawitt and Morgan Pritchard
celebrating parkrun milestones

Lytham St Annes RRC junior athletes produced some excellent performances at Saturdays Lytham Hall 5k parkrun.  First home for Lytham juniors was 15-year-old Maddy Markham smashing her previous best time by 57 seconds to finish as first female and 15th overall in a time of 19:05.  Markham’s time makes her the second fastest ever in her JW15-17 age group at Lytham parkrun and Lytham’s fastest ever junior girl.  13-year-old Sophie Bohannon ran well to finish 20th overall and 1st in her age category equalling her personal best time of 19:39 a time which also places her 2nd in the all-time list for her JW11-14 age group at Lytham Hall parkrun.  Oliver Thomson ran his 3rd consecutive personal best time finishing 27th in 20:35.  Morgan Pritchard was celebrating his 13th birthday by running his 100th parkrun in his fastest time for 8 months to finish 34th in 20:58.  Also representing Lytham were 11 year old Clemmie Tierney finishing 147th in 26:11 and Joshua McAfee finishing 296th in a new personal best of 34:50.

5 Lytham Runners ran the Caldervale 10 miler on Good Friday.  A beautiful day in the country, with lovely views but a challenging undulating course.  Enjoyable refreshments were then served in the village hall. The results were as follows:  Catherine Carradus 1.11.12. First lady, Jennifer Hill 1.21.45, Pam Hardman 1.33.26. 1st Vet 60, Neil Tate 1.09.2, and Mark Hughes 1.40.29.  The ladies won the team event.

LSARRC at the Caldervale 10

Lots of LSARRC attended parkruns.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Alex Tate was first home and Joanna Goorney was first senior lady home. Full Results: Alex Tate 18:22 (8th), Alistair Leivers 18:55 (11th), Ross McKelvie 19:05 (14th), Joanna Goorney 19:37 (18th), Darran Ames 20:58 (35th), Lewis McAfee 21:52 (40th), Terry Hellings 22:34 (51st), Kev Murray 22:52 (55th), Jennifer Hill 22:59 (57th), Claire Markham 23:07 (59th), Stephen Tate 24:46 (98th), Vicki Richardson 25:48 (137th), Adrian Sargent 26:17 (153rd), Kirsten Burnett 26:54 (166th), Susan Hawitt 27:56 (194th), Claire England 27:57 (195th), Kathy Gaunt 27:58 (196th), Greg Oulton 28:08 (198th), Rebecca Willetts 28:19 (204th), Pamela Binns 28:19 (204th), Jacqui Murray 29:20 (226th), Karen Lanigan 29:30 (229th), Sue Henry 30:05 (240th), Sylvia Gittins 30:49 (251st), Bob Clough 34:13 (289th), Robert Parker 34:27 (293rd), James McAfee 34:50 (296th), Michelle Sheridan 35:04 (300th), Jeremy McCandless 37:55 (327th) and Maria Tierney 38:30 (330th).

Olivia Johnson Allen ran the Blackpool parkrun in 31:07 and Graham Webster attended the Old Deer parkrun and completed the course in 21:55 coming 11th overall.

Lytham were also well represented at the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday.  First home for Lytham was 10-year-old Jayden Richardson finishing 3rd in a new personal best of 7:19 for the 2k run.  Joe Alker finished 6th also in a new personal best time of 8:16 just losing out to team mate Archie Belfield who finished 5th just 1 second ahead in 8:15.  Also representing Lytham were Bobby Hastwell (9th in 8:42), Freddie Markham (16th in 9:05), Evie Alker (33rd in 10:44), Emily Wrigley (34th in 10:52), Joshua McAfee (60th in 13:49) and Sophie Tate (71st in 15:53).