LSARRC News 27th August 2019

Juniors impress at Stanley Park athletics meeting.

It was a weekend of personal best performances for Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes starting with the Mid Lancs, Medal Track and Feld meeting at Stanley Park.

Under 13 girl Charlotte Fisher achieved PBs in the 70m hurdles with a time of 14.3s, in the discus with a distance of 13.02m and the high jump with a height of 1.25m good enough for a silver medal.  Older sister Rebecca Fisher also performed well picking up a bronze medal in the 75m hurdled with a time of 13.9s and silver in the discus with a distance of 21.55m.  Under 15 boy Frankie Ball, in his first outing on the track this season, finished 2nd in his heat of the 200m in a personal best time of 27.6s.  Under 15 girl Brogane Murphy finished strongly in the 800m taking 5th place also achieving a personal best time of 2m 39.7s.  Under 13 girls Amara Thorpe and Clemmie Tierney both competed in the long jump clearing 3.28m and 3.3m respectively and in the 100m with times of 15.6s and 16.1s.  Tierney went on to compete in the 200m finishing in 33.8s.  Sisters Rebecca and Charlotte Fisher went on to compete in the Trafford open track and field meeting on Monday.  Charlotte improved on all her performances from Saturday smashing her 70m hurdles PB by almost a second to finish in 13.46s, improved her discus PB to 13.321m and her high jump PB to 1,30m picking up a silver medal in the process.   Older sister Rebecca Fisher competed in the 75m hurdles finishing in 13.81s and in the discus with a distance of 22.27m good enough for a silver medal.
Just 3 of Lytham’s junior athletes took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun.  Archie Belfield was first home for Lytham juniors finishing 64th overall and 1st in his JM10 age group in a time of 24:24.  Also representing Lytham juniors were Adhamh Holton 65th in 24:26 and Matthew Holton 119th in 26:45 and 1st in his JM11-14 age group.

7 of Lytham’s juniors ran in the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday.  Lytham filled the first 2 places with Jayden Richardson (7:53) and Archie Belfield (PB of 8:01s).  Jessica McNiven (13th in 9:40), Evie Alker (22nd in 10:59), Eric Wrigley (30th in 11:56), James McAfee (39th in 12:33) and Joshua McAfee (44th in 13:23)

4 Lytham Runners ran the Golf Ball Fell Race on the evening of 21st August. This was the final race in the brilliant mid-week series put on by Rossendale Harriers.   It was a very muddy wet event and the finishers were Daryl Bentley 52:03, Debbie Cooper 01:02:40, Pamela Hardman 01:08:17 and Julia Rolfe 01:10:49.

Lots of Lytham runners attended parkruns, locally and further afield.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun first home for the club was Mark Selby, who completed the course in 19:53 for 7th overall.  Not far behind in 8th was Mark Selby in 20:06.  The first female finisher was Joanna Goorney in 20:12, 9th overall.  Gill Draper managed 4th female spot in a time of 21:44.  Other results:  Lewis McAfee 22:05 (29th), Gavin Stanfield 22:10 (30th), Chris Bowker 22:36 (33rd), Susan Hawitt 23:31 (51st), Jennifer Hill 23:38 (52nd), Hannah McCandless 25:14 (83rd), Mark Hughes 25:27 (91st), Brian Porter 27:05 (129th), Jeremy McCandless 27:53 (143rd), Claire England 28:36 (165th), Maria Tierney 29:10 (172nd), Trevor Roberts 29:13 (174th), Elizabeth Canavan 29:26 (181st), Ruth Bye 32:57 (238th), Catherine MaClachlan 33:53 (252nd), and Sue Henry 42:06 (315th).

Ian Tate completed the Warrington parkrun in 21:44 for 45th position overall.  Darran Ames was a tourist park runner at the Cuerden Valley parkrun completing the course in 23:26 for 25th. 

James Buckley travelled further a filed to Weymouth parkrun and managed the course in 23:20 for 117th.  Whinlatter Forest parkrun was attended by Kirsten Burnett coming 184th in 37:58, and G Browne travelled to the Lanark Moor parkrun and 24:50 for 11th.

LSARRC News 20th August 2019

LSARRC at Chorley Inter Club

A busy week for Lytham St Annes Road Runners started on Wednesday 14th with 32 members making their way to Astley Park for the 6th fixture in the Inter Club league.  Lytham’s women’s team performed particularly well with Liz Abbot (1st female in 29:12 for the undulating 4.7 mile course), Catherine Carrdus (2nd female and 1st FV45 in 32:08), Joanna Goorney (4th female and 2nd FV45 in 33:32), Maddy Markham (at just 15 running exceptionally well to finish as 5th female and 1st junior female in 33:43) and Mel Koth (6th female in 33:58) bringing the women’s team home comfortably in 1st place.  Carrdus, Goorney and Koth were joined by Louise Cox (36:02) and Claire Markham (39:52) to convincingly winning the FV40 team race. 

Also representing Lytham were Joe Greenwood (15th in 29:01), Thomas Howarth (20th in 29:24), Alistair Leivers (21st in 29:46), Dominic Garrett  (35th in 30:45), Neil Tate (42nd in 31:32), Darryl Bentley (62nd in 33:15), David Butler (71st in 33:49), Ross McKelvie (128th in 37:11), Mick Widdup (139th in 37:55), Ben McCabe (147th in 38:30), Dan Gregson (157th in 39:19), Derreck Appleton (164th in 39:41), Sue Hawitt 173rd in 40:21), Pam Hardman (177th in 40:39), Debbie Cooper (183rd in 41:08), Roy Stevens (197th in 42:18), Peter Reid (212th in 43:29), Peter Thomson (224th in 44:41), Bob Clough (228th in 45:53), Julia Rolfe (236th in 46:39), Pam Binns (257th in 48:13),  Jeremy McCandless (260th in 48:19), Sylvia Gittins (271st in 49:32), Julie  Wiseman (274th in 50:57) and Sarah Bagshaw (291st in 66:50).

Lytham’s under 15 girl Rebecca Fisher was one of the youngest competitors in the under 15 age category in the discus at the Northern Athletics Championships (an event that attracts the best athletes in the North of England).  In the qualifying Fisher smashed her previous best of 22.62m by almost 3 metres qualifying for the final with a throw of 25.41m and went on to finish a very creditable 6th in the final.

On Saturday afternoon, 3 members of LSARRC made the trip over to Darwen for the Darwen Gala Catherine Dowdall Memorial Fell Race.  Disappointingly the The Darwen Gala was cancelled but the actual race was superbly organised by Darwen Running group with great marshalling, a well flagged course, with hot dogs, beer and soft drinks for finishers and a wealth of category and spot prizes. The 4.7 mile course with 928 feet of ascent has most of the climbing in the first 2.5 miles followed by a technical muddy descent added to by the recent very wet weather.  Luckily the sun shone all the way round.  First home for the club in 7th place and 1st vet 40 was Darryl Bentley in 41.48 closely followed by Joanna Goorney in 8th place, 41:55 and 1st female. Debbie Cooper was 33rd, 4th female and 1st vet 40 in 49:41.

Prizes from Darwen Gala Catherine Dowdall Memorial FR

Saturday evening saw 4 Lytham athletes make their way to North Shore for the Run the Lights 10 and 5k races.  Lewis McAfee was 1st home for Lytham in the 10k finishing 91st in 47:05.  Pam Binns finished in 548th and as 1st FV65 in 63:03 with Juli Wiseman 639th in 64:19.  Ross McKelvie was Lytham’s sole representative in the 5k and despite being sent the wrong way by a marshal still managed to finish 2nd in a time of 18:02.

6 Lytham athletes took part in a very windy Fleetwood Half marathon on Sunday.  Catherine Carrdus ran well to finish 37th overall and as 1st FV45 in 1:36:40.  Also representing Lytham were David Butler 39th in 1:36:58, Susan Hawitt (167th in 1:55:00), Roy Stevens (170th in (1:56:02), Kathy Gaunt (550th in 1:56:02) and Heide Haigh (243rd in 2:06:03).

Lytham athletes were competing at parkruns from the North of Scotland, the West and North of Ireland and the South West of England this weekend.  Liz Abbott finished 5th overall and as 2nd female in the Inverness parkrun in 18:47.  Meanwhile on the west coast of Ireland Gerry Browne was finishing 25th in 23:46 in the Knocknacarra parkrun while on the North coast Ruth Bye finished 171st at the Eglinton parkrun in 40:20.  In the South West of England Maria Tierney finished the Eden Project parkrun in 32:33 for 326th place and Darran Ames was 17th at Shepton Mallet in 21:47.  Closer to home 23 Lytham athletes took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun.

Lytham took the first 2 places in the Park View junior parkrun with Jayden Richardson 1st in 7:46 and Archie Belfield 2nd in 8:07.  Also flying the Lytham flag were Eric Wrigley (7th in 9:04), Jessica McNiven (11th in 9:34), James McAfee (16th in 10:48), Joe Alker (18th in 10:51), Evie Alker (20th in 10:57) and Joshua McAfee 40th in 13:03.

LSARRC News 13th August 2019

Last Wednesday Melanie Koth of LSARRC, 7th August, completed the capenwray sprint tri, which is a 500m open water swim, 20k  bike ride and finish with a 5k run.

It's a tough little evening summer series, the swim was brutal, Koth said she felt like she was in a washing machine, receiving several kicks and being dunked. The bike route was a very rolling course with a couple of tough hills, which was a leg burner.

The run was a straight out and back run along the canal but not great for overtaking people as very narrow path and a lot of runners coming towards you, also with the rain, Koth said it got quite slippy.

Koth finished 85th overall,11th lady, 2nd v45 in a time of 1:18:34.
Our new member Catherine MacLachlan took part in the Aquathlon (500m swim and 5k run)
She finished 10th overall,4th lady and 1st v50 in a time of 54:44.

Sunday saw the city of Preston 5mile and 10mile race in Walmer Bridge. The 5mile, 1 lap race was an English championship race. Lytham had 2 runners taking part.

Mike Toft: 17th overall in a time of 26:57
Louise Cox: 49th overall, 13th lady, 1st v45 in a time of 35:36

The 10 miler was 2 laps of the course and started 10min later with 2 lytham ladies running.

Mel koth: 25th ov, 4th lady and 1st v45 in a diamond standard time 1:10:29
Michelle Chadwick : 26th ov, 5th lady in a time of 1:10:31
Koth was full of a cold and throat infection but managed to have a good run to achieve her last missing diamond standard time. It was great to have Michelle back from injury with another fab run.

In terms of parkrun news, at the Lytham Hall parkrun the first 3 spots went to Lytham runners, Alistair Leivers, Alex Tate and Ross McKelvie, respectively.  Joanna Goorney was first female and  Pamela Binns was 1st vf 70 plus with a time of 27:50, 8 seconds short of a pb.

Junior news
Eight of Lytham St Annes RRC’s junior athletes took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday.  First 2 home for Lytham juniors were Oliver Thomson and Morgan Pritchard finishing 20th and 25th in 21:28 and 21:51 respectively and 2nd and 3rd in their JM11-14 age group.  Ben Gregson was next back finishing 31st in 22:32. Brother and sister Maddy and Freddie Markham were next home 98th and 101st in 25:35 and 25:42 (a personal best for Freddie).  Also representing Lytham were Adhamh Holton (113th in 26:45) and sisters Leoma and Rosa Gill (173rd and 202nd in 29:37 and 30:52). 

Six of Lytham’s junior athletes ran in the Park View junior parkrun with Jayden Richardson taking part in his 102nd junior parkrun and finishing 1st for the 32nd time.  Freddie Markham in his 2nd parkrun of the weekend finished 5th in 8:43. Also flying the Lytham flag were Archie Tate (8th in 9:09), Joe Alker (9th in 9:12), Jessica McNiven (13th in 9:18) and Evie Alker (30th in 11:10).

LSARRC News 6th August 2019

Junior Report

Saturday saw 4 Lytham juniors make the trip to the 5th fixture in the Mid Lancs. Track and field league held at Litherland Sports Centre.  First on the track for Lytham was under 13 girl Clemmie Tierney in the 100 finishing in 15.8s taking 4th place in in division 2.   Tierney also finished 4th in division 2 in the 200m with a time of 33.8s and in the long jump with a leap of 3.68m,just 1cm short of her personal best.  Under 13 girl Charlotte Fisher was top scorer for Lytham picking up 3 points for 4th place in division 2 in the high jump with a height of 1.25m equalling her personal best.  In her 1st ever competition at shot and discus Fisher  went on to finish 1st in division 2 for 7 points in both the shot with distance of 4.87m and the discus with 12.28m.  Just one point behind Charlotte was older sister under 15 girl Rebecca Fisher who picked up 5 points for 2nd place in the high jump equalling her personal best with a height of 1.35m, 4 points for 3rd in the shot with a distance of 6.37m and 7 points for 1st place in the discus with a distance of 22.12m.  Under 13 boy Oliver Thomson decided to drop down from his usual 1500m to the 800m and ran well finishing strongly to take 1st place in division 2 in a time of 2m 43.6s.  Thomson also made his debut at long jump clearing 3.36m for 3rd place in division 2.

Just 3 Lytham juniors took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun.  Jessica McNiven finished 1st in her JW10 age group in a time of 27m 42s.  Also representing Lytham were Adhamh Holton (89th in 25m 48s) and Archie Tate (78th in 25m 12s).

Lytham juniors were out in force for Sunday’s Park View junior parkrun.  Jayden Richardson finished 1st in a time of 7m 39s.  Also representing Lytham were Charlie Wiltshire (4th in 8m 09s), Eric Wrigley (8th in 8m 49s), Freddie Wiltshire (9th in 8m 52s), Freddie Markham (12th in 9m 03s), Bossy Hastwell (13th in 9m 03s), James McAfee (43rd in 11m 40s), Joshua McAfee (49th in a personal best of 12m 09s) and Finlay Hughes 53rd in 12m 21s.