LSARRC News 1st October 2019

Success for LSARRC at Ulverston cross-country fixture.
 
The first fixture of the cross-country season saw Lytham Road Runners competing at Ulverston. Conditions were near enough perfect despite the rain earlier in the day.

Lytham Ladies at Ulverston

Nine members took part in the Senior Men’s race. Plaudits go to Mike Toft who was the first to complete the 9.1km course for Lytham in a time of 33:33 and 8th position overall. More Lytham runners followed with Jonathan Tuck (57th in 38:17), Andy Draper (58th in 38:18), Neil Tate (66th in 38:59), Dominic Garrett (69th in 39:10), Alex Tate (71st in 39:21), Chris Bowker (180th in 47:18), Peter Thomson (221st in 54:37) and Greg Oulton (227th in 58:39).

The excellent results meant that the Senior Men’s Team (Toft, Tuck, Draper, N. Tate, Garrett and A.Tate) finished 6th in the category, scoring 6 points in Division 2 to leave them in 2nd place.

The Senior Men’s (V40) Team (Tuck, N.Tate, Thomson and Oulton) finished 15th in the category, scoring 1 point in the Vet 40 Division 2 to leave them in 7th place.

The next cross-country event will take place on 9th November at Wilson Playing Fields, Hyndburn.

The Lytham ladies team performance shone at the first cross country event of the mid Lancs league season at the GSK sports club, Ulverston.  Although muddy underfoot the weather conditions were near perfect for the variable 6.4K course.  There were 6 ladies representing the club.  First home was Barbara Holmes (30:08) followed by Sue Hawitt (34:14), Claire Markham (34:26), Kirsten Burnett (41:58), Sylvia Gittins (46:12) and Catherine Maclachlan (47:49).  Overall team positions were 18 and 39. Lytham also achieved 11th V35 team place out of a total of 18 teams, 4th V35 team place and 3rd V55 team place.  The performance at Ulverston has ensured a solid start to the cross-country season to be built on as we go on through future fixtures.

On Saturday 28th and 13 of Lytham’s junior athletes made the trip to the first cross-country fixture of the year.

Rosa Gill was Lytham’s sole representative in the first race of the day - the under 11 girls’ race and ran well to complete the 2.2k race in 12:14 for 42nd place.  Lytham’s team in the 2.2k under 11 boys’ race was led home by Archie Belfield finishing 17th in 8:42 with team mates Freddie Markham (33rd in 9:30) and Lucas Tuck (52nd in 10:39) both making their cross-country debut bringing the team home.  Under 13 girl Leoma Gill was Lytham’s only athlete in the 2.36k under 13 girls’ race and finished in 13:34 for 53rd position.   Lytham fielded full team in the 2.8k under 13 boys race with the team of Oliver Thomson (25th in 11:44), Finlay Hughes (37th in 12:16) and Eric Wrigley at the age of 11 already in his 4th cross country season (49th in 13:10) bringing the team home in 8th place. 

James Andrews and Morgan Pritchard are both in their first season in the under 15 age group and ran well to complete the 4.4k race in 18:06 and 19:13 for 24th and 31st places respectively. 

Under 15 girls Sophie Bohannon 6th in 10:54, Brogan Murphy 25th in 12:17, Evie Houlihan (no time/position as yet) completed the team.

Under 17 Women - Maddy Markham was the only LSARRC in her age group coming in 4th place in 18:10 over the 4.4k course.

Parkruns, Alistair Leivers ran the Coventry parkrun and G Browne completed the Fountains Abbey parkrun.  The Beeston parkrun was visited by Hannah McCandless.  The Lytham Hall parkrun was completed by Darran Ames, Emily Quin, Adhamh Holton, Jason Sheridan, Jen Trohear, Claire England, Elizabeth Canavan, Robert Parker, Sue Henry, Julie Wiseman, Michelle Sheridan, Kirsten Burnett, Ruth Bye, Graham Young, Jeremy McCandless and Ella Wiseman.  Lewis McAfee completed the Blackpool parkrun.

Seven junior LSARRC members ran at a very waterlogged Park View junior parkrun on Sunday. Jayden Richardson was in 1st place overall in a time of 07:59, Archie Belfield 08:26, Jessica McNiven 09:50, Roman Holmes 10:42, Georgina Andrews 10:59, Evie Alker 11:04 and James McAfee 11:46.