LSARRC News 2nd April 2019

Junior Maddy Markham sets a 5K club record at Salt Ayre.

Junior News

LSARRC junior ladies at the Power of 5k race.

Friday evening saw four of Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors make their way to Salt Ayre, Lancaster looking to run well competing in the Power of the 5k race.  They did not disappoint, first home for Lytham and running an excellent race to win the B race was 15-year-old Maddy Markham in a time of 19.16 smashing her previous personal best and currently ranking her 7th in the UK for 2019. Maddy also set a new LSARRC record for junior ladies and achieved a Gold club standard.

13-year-old Sophie Bohannon also ran very well to finish 3rd overall also in a huge personal best time of 19:27 ranking her 15th in the UK for 2019.  Sophie also achieved a Gold club standard.
Completing the Lytham junior contingent were 14-year-old Brogan Murphy finishing 14th in 22.03 just pulling away from team mate 16-year-old Laura Bremner who finished 16th in 22.17.  Both Brogan and Laura achieved Bronze club standards.

At Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday not content with having ran a PB the night before Maddy Markham was the first LSARRC junior back in 17th place in a time of 21:03, Morgan Pritchard was 20th 21:16, and Clemmie Tierney 78th in a PB of 24:35,

At Park View junior parkrun on Sunday Jayden Richardson was in 1st place in 07:32, Finlay Hughes 3rd 08:04, Bobby Hastwell 7th in 08:39 a new PB, Jessica McNiven 10th a PB 09:04, Freddie Markham 11th 09:17, Joe Alker 17th 10.13 and James MacAfee 37th 13:09.

Senior news

LSARRC at  Power of 5k race.

Four Lytham athletes made the short trip up to Lancaster on Saturday for the Mother’s Day 10k. Conditions were fair, and times were fast throughout the field with the temperature being close to perfect for road racing.

Mother's Day 10k at Lancster

The race takes in the historic Lancaster quayside before heading out across the Millennium Bridge and along the river to the Morecambe Triangle before turning back to climb towards the finish in the shadow of Lancaster Castle.

Jennifer Hill was first lady home for Lytham in 44.30 after a fantastic start along the narrow first 400m. Jennifer was followed in by Susan Hawitt and Kathy Gaunt finishing in 49.57 and 50 minutes respectively, with Sue playing pacemaker. Ross McKelvie, running his third race in less than 24 hours, was 5th overall in a new personal best time of 36.45 for the distance
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Also, on 30th March Sylvia Gittins ran the Coniston 14 in a great time of 2:28:29.

Other news, Julia Rolfe and Pam Hardman ran the Muddy Bottoms 9 miler yesterday 31st March, setting off from Bamber Bridge leisure centre, this was a map reading/instruction race through farm fields and trail paths, not muddy this year nice & dry and they really enjoyed it with a bonus of pies & pies at the end.  Time finished 1.59.27.

Julia Rolfe at the Muddy Bottoms 9 miler

As usual Lytham members completed local parkruns. Joe Greenwood was first to finish at the Lytham Hall Park, parkrun finishing in 18:20, followed by Alex Tate for second in 18:39.  Joanna Goorney was the second female to finish the course in 19:56, Michelle Hook was 3rd female in 20:38.  Graham Webster was 14th overall in 20:57, and a second later Darran Ames.  Other results:  Mark Hughes 22:01, Claire Markham 23:29, Jason Sheridan 24:01, Trevor Roberts 26:56, Pamela Binns 27:47, Karen Lanigan 29:00, Sue Henry 29:25, and Jeremy McCandless 30:01.  Kirsten Burnett completed the Fleetwood parkrun, Gerry Browne travelled to Newby Bridge, Richard Storey completed the Hagley parkrun and Jonathon Tuck the Preston parkrun.