LSARRC News 30th April 2019

LSARRC runners impress at the London Marathon.

Mel Koth and Sue Hawitt

LSARRC were well represented at the London Marathon with 8 runners.

The weather was perfect, cold at the start and cool throughout the day. Melanie Koth and Sue Hawitt ran personal best times.  Koth ran over 3 minutes faster than her time in 2012, and Hawitt after gaining a place through the club ballot ran a 6-minute personal best time.  As ever the atmosphere was amazing, and it had a record breaking 42549 runners finishing!

Full Results:  Melanie Koth 3:09:05, 3218 overall, 254 lady, 26th V45, Andrew Unsworth 3:12:02, 3570 Overall, 525 V45, Joanna Goorney 3:13:17, 3749 Overall,  374 lady, 12th V50,  Sue Hawitt 4:04:38, 16014 OV, 4427 lady, 378 V50, Heidi Haigh 4:27:24, 21958 OV, 6690 Lady, 999 V45, James McAffee 4:28:02, 22145 OV, Jacqui Murray  4:49:34, 27712 OV, 9325 Lady, 1636 V40  and Laura Byrne 5:19:01, 33728 OV, 12415 lady,  6515 V3

Also, over the weekend 3 members of LSARR competed today in the Wray 10k Sat 27th April. Beautiful countryside but the weather was cruel, luckily the rain stopped just as we set off. The villagers make scarecrows on a different theme each year and display them outside their house. This festival runs on for a week with the fells race next week.
Times below:

Pam Hardman 51.09. 1st V60
Jason Sheridan 52.58
Michelle Sheridan 1.18.08 coming back after injury.

Several club runners attended parkruns.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Chris McCarthy was 1st overall in 18:09, the next senior home was Alistair Leivers coming 6th in 19:48.  Darran Ames was 9th in 21:32, Dan Gregson ran 22:41 for 22nd.  Other results included Claire Markham coming 31st in 23:41.  Richard Storey ran 24:31 for 44th, Ruth Wheatley 27:31 (85th), Greg Oulton 28:31 (100th), Karen Lanigan 29:08 (107th), Julie Wiseman 21:14 (120th), Sue Henry 31:18 (122nd), Robert Parker 31:29 (125th), and Jeremy McCandless ran 39:22.  Kirsten Burnett ran the Hyndburn parkrun and Heidi Haigh ran the Brooklands parkrun.

Junior News

Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes were out in force and competing with some success last weekend.  Despite the very challenging conditions of brutally strong winds Saturday saw 11 of Lytham’s juniors take part in the Blackpool Festival of Running 2k on North Promenade.  Lytham’s juniors filled the first 3 places with 9-year-old Jayden Richardson finishing 1st in 7:30, 11-year-old Lewis Bentley 2nd in 8:00 and 10-year-old Finlay Hughes 3rd in 8:05.  Next home for Lytham was 8-year-old Archie Belfield finishing 6th in 8:24 with 9-year-old Max Walker just one place behind in 8:34. First of the Lytham junior girls was 11-year-old Clemmie Tierney finishing 9th overall in 9:03.  Also flying the Lytham flag were 9-year-old Jessica McNiven (11th in 9:23), 11-year-old Leoma Gill (13th in 9:49), Kiefer Richardson (17th in 9:47), 11-year-old Ella Wiseman (20th in 10:11) and 9-year-old Rosa Gill 49th in 11:52).

Just 2 of Lytham’s juniors opted for the 5k with 15-year-old Maddy Markham continuing her recent good form ran an excellent race in the difficult conditions to finish with a time of 20:47 earning her 7th place overall and first female.  14 year old Brogan Murphy also ran well to take 14th place and 3rd female in 23:38. 

13 year old Sophie Bohannon chose to run the Lytham Hall parkrun and despite the windy conditions ran her 2nd fastest time for parkrun finishing 5th from 172 in 19:46.  Lucy Bohannon running her first parkrun for 18 months finished 82nd in 27:14.  Lytham juniors were well represented and also produced some good performances in Sunday’s Park View Junior parkrun.  In his second run of the weekend Jayden Richardson finished 1st in 7:40 and Finlay Hughes also in his second run of the weekend finished 2nd in a new personal best time of 7:55.  Lytham also finished 3rd with Joe Alker completing the 2k course in 8:24.  Also representing Lytham were Bobby Hastwell (6th in 8:55), Evie Alker (23rd in11:15) and James McAfee 31st in 12:12.