LSARRC's nomination for Community Club of the year has made it to the shortlist for this year’s Fylde Sports Awards, as have club members Terry Hellings for Coach of the Year, Greg Oulton for Volunteer of the Year and Bill & Dawn Lock for the Lifetime Achievers award.
The awards will be presented at the Glendower Hotel, St Anne’s on Friday 8th November 2019.
Over the weekend, Angela Bremner ran The Great North Run, her first ever half marathon, finishing just inside her 2h 20 target with a time of 2h 19m 24s in 21498th position from the 43000 finishers. Sue Hawitt and Kathy Gaunt of Lytham also completed the Great North Run. Sue Hawitt managed the course in1:50:30 new PB and in Kathy Gaunt 1:54:09.
Sue Hawitt said the conditions were good for running although a bit on the hot side for some, however there was plenty of water and showers out on the course. The crowd were amazing and lived the whole route from Newcastle to South Shields. 57,000 runners took part in the iconic race it was very busy but the atmosphere was amazing . Sue and Kathy ran for Crohn’s and Colitis UK raising over £800.00 for the charity
Pamela Binns ran the Wirral 1/2 marathon yesterday ( 8th September) Her results were 2nd FV65+, time was 2:10:16.
Lots of Lytham runners completed parkruns around the country. At the Lytham Hall park run Alistair Leivers was 1st overall with a new pb of 17:49. Second spot went to Neil Tate who ran 18:43, Andrew Draper was 10th in 20:21. Gill Draper was 2nd female home in 21:18 and Darran Ames was 25th in 21:51. James Buckley (23:37), Kev Murray (23:54) and Dan Gregson (24:03) coming 51st, 58th and 64th respectively. Other finishers were Hannah McCandless, Matthew Holton, Peter Thomson, Freddie Markham, Claire Markham, Claire Markham, Greg Oulton, Rebecca Willetts, Adrian Sargent, Elizabeth Canavan, Jeremy McCandless, Robert Parker, Jacqui Murray, Laura Byrne, Sue Henry, Michelle Sheridan and James McAfee.
Lewis McAfee ran the Worsley Woods parkrun in 22:00, the Brockenhurst parkrun was completed by G Browne and the Keswick parkrun was attended by Jennifer Hill. Further a field at the Jersey parkrun Stephen Wise completed the course in under 25 minutes and closer to home at the Fleetwood Promenade parkrun Clare England Kirsten Burnett attended.
Junior News
The final fixture in the Inter Club road race league took place at Worden Park on Wednesday 4th Sept and a trio of Lytham St Anne’s RRC 15-year-old junior athletes took part. First home for Lytham’s juniors was Oliver McIntyre finishing the 4.1 miles course in 27:01 for 70th place overall and as 3rd junior male. Maddy Markham ran well to finish 98th in 28:26 and as 3rd junior female. McIntyre and Markham both made the Lytham open team in 7th and 10th place respectively helping the team into 5th place. Markham was also part of Lytham’s winning female team. Also representing Lytham was Ben Gregson who, returning to fitness, ran well to finish 140th in 30:32.
7 of Lytham’s juniors ran in the 5k Lytham Hall parkrun with 15 year old Maddy Markham first of Lytham’s juniors to finish in 20:41 for 14th place overall and as 1st female and first in her JW11-15 age category. Also representing Lytham’s juniors were Ben Gregson (18th in 21:17), Adhamh Holton (31st in 22:37), Morgan Pritchard (24th in 21:45), Matthew Holton (82nd in 25:34), Freddie Markham (110th in 26:52) and James McAfee (227th in 33:24).
First home for Lytham in Sunday’s junior parkrun was Archie Belfield finishing 1st for the 2nd consecutive week in a time of 8:01 for the 2k run. Finishing 3rd and 5th respectively were Joe Alker (8:39) and Freddie Markham (8:49). Also representing Lytham were Jessica McNiven (9th in 9:43), Evie Allker (18th in 11:01) and brothers James and Joshua McAfee finishing 34th in 12:21 and 36th in 12:35 respectively.
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