LSARRC News 7th May 2019

The ladies deliver a strong performance at the interclub meeting.

 Thursday was LSARRC Interclub race. With the works on the prom we had to revise the course and it meant it was a bit shorter than usual with 4.6miles.  The weather was perfect dry, cool and a glimpse of sunshine. We had a strong team of 33 Lytham runners, the ladies showed a strong performance and finished the night on top of both ladies’ team and ladies v40 team.

Results: Toft 24:45 , 3rd overall (ov), Abbott 25:58, 10th ov, 1st Lady, T. Howarth 27:06, 23 ov, R. Mckelvie 27:28, 30 ov,  A. Draper 27:34, 34 ov ,A. Tate 27:37, 38 ov,J. Tuck 28:06, 45 ov, D. Garrett 28:21, 51 ov, C. Carrdus 28:55, 62 ov, 2nd lady, 1st v45, P. Veevers 29:13, 63 ov, D. Butler 29:49, 80 ov M. Koth 30:00, 84 ov, 4th lady, 3rd v45, D. Bentley 30:01, 85 ov, S. Samme 31:17, 115 ov, 8 lady, 2 v55, G. Webster 31:38, 124 ov, I. Tate 32:32, 140 ov B. Holmes 32:38, 143 ov, 12 lady, 3 v55, J. Bertenshaw 32:51 149ov, J. Hill 33:05, 156 ov, 15 lady, A. Holton 33:23 Jnr, 164 ov,L. Cox 33:41, 170 ov, 18 lady C. Bowker 34:09, 180 ov, L. Bremner 34:16, 184 ov, 22 l, 1st jnr, T. Hellings 34:17, 185 ov, J. Buckley 34:45, 200 ov, C. Markham 34:47, 201 ov, K. McIntyre 35:55, 222 ov, 32 lady, S. Tate 38:55, 279 ov,D. Francis 41:44, 326 ov, 86 lady K. Burnett 43:31, 351 ov, 102 lady, S. Henry 44:32, 111 lady, A. Bremner 44:54, 368 ov, 113 lady, and T. Roberts 59:51, 411 ov (tail runner)

LSARRC marshalls at IC

Maddy and Mel at Avenham Park 5k

At the Avenham park 5k Mel Koth ran the course in 20:18, 25th ov, 3rd lady, 1st v45 (diamond standard!).  Claire Markham managed 23:15, 56 ov, 13th lady, 6th v45 andVicki Richardson 25: 33, 105th ov, 37th lady.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Ross McKelvie was 2nd in 18:20 followed by Joe Greenwood in 4th (19:11), Catherine Carrdus was 1st female and 5th overall in 19:15.  Paul Veevers was 4 seconds later in 19:19.  Other results:  Graham Webster 21:03 (16th), Darran Ames 21:06 (17th), Jennifer Hill 21:59 (22nd), John Bertenshawe 22:26 (25th), Terry Hellings 22:39 (28th), G Browne 24:20 (57th), Claire Markham 24:23 (58th), Vicki Richardson 25:33 (86th), Adrian Sargent 26:24 (97th), Susan Hawitt 26:52 (107th), Trevor Roberts 27:03 (112nd), Pamela Binns (141st), Claire England 28:15 (145th), Lewis McAfee 29:46 (167th), Sylvia Gittins 29:49 (171st), Ruth Bye 30:50 (192nd), Jeremy McCandless 31:25 (204th), Robert Parker 32:31 (223rd), Sarah Bagshaw 40:57 (275th).

At the parkrun in Newby Bridge 4 Lytham runners completed the course, these included Jason and Michelle Sheridan, Julie Wiseman and Sue Henry.  Scott Gall travelled to Newcastle to complete the parkrun there and Joanna Goorney was fist female at the Dolgellau parkrun.

Junior News

LSARRC juniors at the Avenham Park FunRun

A busy and successful week for Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors started on Wednesday with under 13 Oliver Thomson competing in the Local Independent Schools Athletics Championships and taking 1st place in the 800m followed by 4th in the 1500m.

Thursday saw Under 17 athletes Laura Bremner and Adhamh Holton making their debut for Lytham’s home fixture of the inter club road league.  Bremner finished the 4.6-mile course in 34:16 to finish as first junior female.  Holton finished as 6th junior male in 33:23.

The 2ndfixture in the Mid Lancs. Track and Field league took place at Hyndburn on Saturday and Lytham were well represented.   Star of the day for Lytham was under 15 Rebecca Fisher who picked up a maximum 21 points finishing 1st in division 2 in the high jump with a height of 1.30m, 1st again in the shot put with a distance of 7.47m and 1st in her specialist event the discus with a distance of 20.13m.  Conditions were particularly difficult for the sprinters with a strong headwind.  Lytham had 3 under 13 girls in the 100m with Clemmie Tierney just getting the better of Amara Thorpe finishing in 16.3s and 16.5s respectively.  Charlotte Fisher also competed in the 100m finishing in 18.00s.  Thorpe and Tierney went on to compete in the long jump also jumping into a strong headwind did well with bests of 3.30m and 3.27m.  Final event for Tierney and Thorpe was the 200m where Tierney finished in 33.7s and 5th in division 2 just getting the better of her team mate who finished in 34.6s and 6th place.   Under 15 girl Brogan Murphy finished strongly in the 800m taking 1st place in division 2 equalling her season’s best time of 2.46s.  In the under 15 girls 1500m Sophie Bohannon continued her good recent form to finish in a personal best time of 5:05.5s despite a strong wind to take 2nd place in division 2.  Final athlete on the track for Lytham was under 13 boy Oliver Thomson in the 1500m.  In a very competitive trace Thomson well to finish 3rd in division 2 in a time of 5:33.5s.

Lytham juniors were out in force again on Monday at Avenham Park for the fun run and 5k race.  Lytham had 3 juniors in the 5k and first home for Lytham was 13-year-old Sophie Bohannon who ran exceptionally well to finish 14th overall and first female in an excellent time on a very hilly course of 19:40. 15 year old Maddy Markham finished in 27th in 20:25 with 13 year old Eric Wrigley 51st in 22:54. 

15 Lytham juniors lined up for the fun run and took the 1st seven places with Jayden Richardson taking first in 5:07s followed by Finlay Hughes (5;20), Archie Belfield (5:37), Joe Alker (5:37), Lewis Bentley (5:45), Max Walker (5:48), Bobbie Hastwell (5:51).  Also representing Lytham were Clemmie Tierney (11th in 6:05), Freddie Markham (12th in 6:08), Leoma Gill (15th in 6:35), Kiefer Richardson (16th in 6:41), Emily Wrigley (20th in 7:10), Rosa Gill (24th in 7:17), Evie Alker (25th in 7:17), Sebastien Koth-Wragg (29th in 7:29) and James McAfee (37th in 7:38), Joshua McAfee (72nd in 9:46).

Lytham juniors filled the first 3 places at Park View junior parkrun with Jayden Richardson (1st in 7:19), Joe Alker (2nd in a pb of 8:12), Archie Belfield (3rd in 8:20).  Bobby Hastwell, Leoma Gill and Rosa Gill all ran personal bests of 8:35, 9:30 and 10:28 respectively. Evie Alker finished 21st in 10:47 while Eric Wrigley ran with his sister Emily to both finish in 11:05.

13 year old Morgan Pritchard finished 20th in 21:33 at Saturdays Lytham Hall parkrun.