LSARRC News 18th June 2019

2019 Welsh Castles Relay Team

Lytham St Annes RRC took a full team of 20, to Wales for the 37th Welsh Castles Relay weekend, last weekend. The team this year included 4 ‘Castles’ debutants who all has a fantastic weekend. The challenge, as ever, was to cover the 208 or so miles from Caernarfon to Cardiff as quickly as possible. Although a little wet during Saturday morning, things soon brightened up leaving good conditions for running for the remainder of the weekend

Catherine Carrdus

The best result for Lytham came from Catherine Carrdus who won the 1st Lady prize on Stage 4, the 9.5-mile route from Maentwrog to Harlech Castle. Her time of 1:00:37 smashed the previous club record for the stage. Tom Howarth also had a great run on the 12.9-mile-long stage 15, from Epynt Visitor Centre to Brecon, to finish in 12th place overall.

The team finished 52nd out of 64 teams in the overall competition and 37th of 41 teams in the Open category. However, their total time to Cardiff of 26 hours 20 minutes and 3 seconds was 6 minutes faster than last year when the team finished in 40th position overall. This reflects how good the standard was this year with many teams taking some strong squads. All the Lytham team should be very proud of their hard efforts.

The full LSARRC team for 2019 was made up of:
Graham Webster, Terry Hellings, Claire Markham, Tom Howarth, Catherine Carrdus, Dave Dunn, Chris Bowker, Jonathan Tuck, John Bertenshaw, Sue Hawitt, Pam Hardman, Dominic Garrett, Willie Richmond, Paul Veevers, Ian Tate, Kirsten Burnett, Richard Storey, Ross McKelvie, Greg Oulton, Neil Tate.

Lytham runners at the Preston Inter Club

On the 12.06.19 LSARRC attended the Preston interclub event.  It was a typical wet June evening 41 Lytham Road Runners turned up to represent their club at the Preston Interclub. Excellent performances from each and every individual ensured that Lytham finished the evening a superb 1st Overall in the Open Category (Toft, Greenwood, Abbott, Howarth, Leivers, A.Draper, Garrett, Carrdus, Tuck and O.McIntyre); 2nd in the Female Vet 40 category (Carrdus, Koth, Cox, K.McIntyre and Hawitt); 3rd in the Ladies (Abbott, Carrdus, Koth, Cox and G. Draper); 3rd in the Veterans (Abbott, Carrdus, Tuck, Tate, Koth and Webster); 3rd in the Vet 60 category (Webster, Bertenshaw and Clough) and 5th in the Vet 50 category (Webster, Bertenshaw, Hawitt and Gaunt).

The range of results and scorers across the categories demonstrated that the club has a broad depth of talent, dedication, experience and potential across their senior and junior (age 15+) members. Other than the team as a whole, the most notable performance from the evening was from junior runner Oliver McIntyre (pictured, courtesy of David Wood), who at 15 years (and 4 days!) had only just become eligible to run in the Interclub Series. He finished 45th overall out of a total of 339 runners and was a point’s scorer in the Open Category (see junior news).

LSARRC at Freckleton Half Marathon

Also, over the weekend 19 Lytham runners ran the Freckleton half marathon on 16th June.  First home for Lytham was Thomas Howarth in 1:25:03 for 13th place.  Next to finish was Neil Tate in 1:31:54 for 57th.  Dominic Garett ran the course in a pb of 1:32:30 for 58th.  Paul Veevers finished the course in 1:33:34 for 62nd.  Other finishers were:  Mark Selby, Neil Baynton Roberts, Darran Ames, Lewis McAfee, Kev Murray, Chris Bowker, James Buckley, Derek Appleton, Pamela Hardman, Victoria Richardson (pb 2:07:31), Bob Clough, Johnny Wild and Ruth Bye.

Parkrun news
At the Lytham Hall parkrun Alistair Leivers was the first senior to finish the course, coming 2nd overall, and Jennifer Hill was the first senior woman finishing in 23:05.Full Results:  Alistair Leivers 19:58 (2nd), Graham Webster 21:13 (5th), Darran Ames 22:37 (20th), Jennifer Hill 23:05 (29th), Kev Murray 23:32 (36th), Susan Hawitt 24:58 (60th), Jason Sheridan 25:11 (63rd), Peter Thomson 26:37 (96th), Adrian Sargent 26:43 (97th), Greg Oulton 27:58 (121st), Jeremy McCandless 30:00 (162nd), Gillian Oliver 30:21 (173rd), and Sylvia Gittins 30:30

Rebecca Willetts ran the Blackpool parkrun, Julie Wiseman ran the Northwich parkrun and John Bertenshawe was at Hyde parkrun.

Junior news

Two of Lytham St Annes RRC junior boys made their debut in the Inter Club series at Avenham Park, Preston on Wednesday.  Oliver McIntyre at just 15 years and 6 days old was the youngest participant on the day and Lytham’s youngest athlete ever to compete in the series.   McIntyre ran exceptionally well to finish 45th from 337 in a time of 23:41 for the 3.9m course and was the 10th counter in the Lytham team helping them to 1st place in the open category.  Also making his debut was Ben Gregson finishing 107th in 26:40.
 
Three Lytham juniors took part in the Lytham Hall 5k parkrun on Saturday with 12 year old Oliver Thomson running well to finish 3rd overall and 1st in his JM11-14 age category in an excellent time of 20:28.  Clemmie Tierney was next home for Lytham junior athletes finishing 87th overall and 1st in her JW11-14 age category in a time of 26:09.  James McAfee ran a personal best time of 30:25 to finish 2nd in his JM10 age category.

Lytham athletes took the first 2 places at Park View Junior parkrun with Jayden Richardson finishing 1st for the 6th consecutive time in a time of 7:32 and Joe Alker 2nd in 8:08.  Also representing Lytham was Evie Alker who ran a personal best time of 10:26 to finish in 16th position.

Lytham juniors were out in force for the 2-mile fun run attached to Sunday’s Freckleton Half Marathon.  No official results are published but Jayden Richardson in his second run of the day finished 4th with Maddy Markham returning from injury 5th and 1st female.  Also running for Lytham were Brogane Murphy, Eric Wrigley, Archie Belfield, Freddie Markham, Rebecca Tate and Emily Wrigley.