LSARRC News 12th November 2019

Sue Henry at the Windmill 10k

 At the windmill 10k over the weekend Barbara Holmes was 1st female in the v60 category with a new club time of 44:48.   Over 30 Lytham runners took part, too many to mention, but all ran exceptionally well. Thomas Howarth was first for Lytham 17th 37.14,   2nd john tuck 28th 38.25,   3rd Andrew draper (pushing son Joshua in a pram) 38.31.  Gill Draper was 2nd lady in v35 category 178th 44.31

U11 girls at Hyndburn XC

There was a strong turnout for both the LSARRC Ladies and Men’s team at this weekend’s Hyndburn cross country, the 2nd event of this seasons Mid Lancs Cross Country league.  In extremely muddy conditions underfoot both teams didn’t disappoint.  Making up the first ladies team back and taking first place in the over 18, 35 and 45 teams were Joanna Goorney 8th and 2nd V45 in a time of 27:25 closely followed by Catherine Carradus 14th and 3rd V45 in a time of 28:38, completing the team for Lytham ladies was Mel Koth in position 18th and 4th V45 in a time of 29:13.  The second Lytham ladies team were made up of Barbara Holmes, Claire Markham and Julia Rolfe.  Debbie Francis and Catherine Maclachlan completed the team.

U11 boys at Hyndburn XC

As usual lots of Lytham runners took part in park runs locally and around the country the highlights were as follows.  Susan Samme was 1st female at the Blackpool parkrun in 21:33 and Mark Selby was 5th at the Lytham Hall park run in 20:32.

Senior ladies at XC Hyndburn

The Men came 13th in the Senior Men’s team result and were made up of Andy Draper, Jonathan Tuck, Dominic Garrett, Neil Tate, Paul Veevers and Alex Tate.  In the V40 team results Jonathan Tuck, Neil Tate, Paul Veevers and Peter Thomson came home in 12th place.  Thomas Howarth, Chris Bowker and Greg Oulton completed the team home.

A very muddy cross-country course at Hyndburn was the venue for the second fixture of the Mid Lancs Cross Country league and Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes were out in force.  First event of the day was the 2k under 11 girls race.  Ellie Francis was first home for Lytham finishing 26th in 11:07, Rose McIntyre recovered from fall on the first corner to finish 31st in 11:56 with Rosa Gill finishing 35th and bringing the team home in 5th place. 

Next event was the 2k under 11 boy’s race and 5 of Lytham’s under 11 boys toed the line.  Archie Belfield led the team home finishing 9th in 9:06, the ever improving Freddie Markham was next home for Lytham finishing 21st in 9:46, Lucas Tuck (40th in 10:41) and Nicholas Houlton (49th in 13:15) complied the team which finished 5th overall.  Bobby Hastwell was running well when he unfortunately lost both his shoes in the mud and was forced to withdraw.

Leoma Gill was Lytham’s sole representative in the 2.5k under 13 girls race and finished 40th in 15:58.   Lytham fielded a full team in the 3k under 13 boys race with Oliver Thomson leading the team home finishing 25th in 13:20.  Also representing Lytham were Matthew Holton who ran well on his cross country debut for Lytham to finish 26th in 13:29, Finlay Hughes (30th in 14:16) and Aaron Kirby completing the team which took 5th place.  Lytham had 2 representatives in the 3k under 15 girls 3k race with Evie Houlihan  reaping the rewards of her hard work in training to finish (24th in 14:20) just getting the better of teammate Brogane Murphy (25th in 14:44).  James Andrews represented Lytham well in the under 15 boys 3.6k race to finish 38th in 16:05.   Maddy Markham was Lytham’s only under 17 woman and as the victim of an unfortunate marshalling error but recovered well to finish 8th in 16+:40.  The final race for Lytham’s junior athletes was the under 17 men’s race where Ben Gregson (28th in 30:13) was first home for Lytham with Adhamh Holton finishing 30th in 31:22 on his cross country debut.

Senior men at Hyndburn XC

Just 2 of Lytham’s junior athletes chose to run the Lytham parkrun as most were at cross country.  Charlie Ormerod finished 16th overall in 22:12 and 2nd in his JM11-14 age category just 2 seconds off 1st place.  James McAfee finished 1st in his Jm10 age group in a rime of 33:47.

8 of Lytham’s juniors ran in Sunday’s Park View junior parkrun.  Lytham’s Jayden Richardson was 1st in 7:52, with Freddie Markham none the worse from the previous day’s cross country 3rd in 8:25.  Also representing Lytham were Joe Alker (5th in 8:33), Max Walker (8th in 9:27), Georgina Andrews (17th in 10:42), Evie Alker (18th in 10:52), Finlay Hughes (25th in 11:44) also ran cross country on Saturday and Joshua McAfee (34th in 13:19).