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| Joanna Goorney at Mytholmroyd Fell Race (Courtesy of smithphoto.co.uk) |
On Sunday, Joanna Goorney took part in the Mytholmroyd Fell Race in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. This excellent fell race hosted by Calder Valley Fell Runners covers a distance of just over 6 miles with 1600 feet of ascent. Luckily, the morning's heavy rain ceased just before the start and started again just after the race had finished although the course was very wet and muddy and there was a gale force wind blowing across the top of Midgley Moor. Joanna finished 60th overall, 6th female and 2nd vet 50 in a time of 1:06:16.
16-year-old Maddy Markham, one of Lytham St Anne’s RRC best junior athletes, took part in the tough Longridge 7-mile road race on Sunday. Markham ran well in appalling conditions to finish 116th from 416 finishers in a time of 59:08 and was joined by Mel Koth and her mother Claire Markham to take the prize for first women’s team. 5 of Lytham’s juniors took part in the Lytham Hall 5k parkrun with Ben Gregson first home for Lytham junior athletes in 10th place and 1st in his JM15-17 age group. Matthew Holton ran a personal best time of 21:47 to finish 16th overall and 1st in his JM11-14 age group with Charlie Ormerod not far behind in 18th and 2nd JM11-14 in 21:51. Also finished 1st in his age category (JM10) taking 25th place overall in 22:42. Also representing Lytham was Eric Wrigley (108th in 27:42).
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| LSARRC at the Longridge 7 |
6 of Lytham’s junior athletes took part in the Park View 2k parkrun with Jayden Richardson finishing first in 7:46. Freddie Markham running in his 2nd parkrun of the weekend, finished 4th in 8:30. Joe Alker (6th in 8:51) and Finlay Hughes (8th in 9:31) were next home for Lytham. Georgina Andrews ran her 3rd personal best in as many weeks finishing 10th in 9:46 with Evie Alker also representing Lytham finishing 19th in 11:13.
As a result of excellent performances earlier in the year at the Fylde Schools cross country championships several of Lytham’s young athletes has this week been invited to represent Fylde in the Lancashire Schools Cross Country Championships. Sophie Bohannon, Brogane Murphy, Maddy Markham, Finlay Hughes, Oliver McIntyre, Clemmie Tierney and Charlotte Fisher have all been selected to represent Fylde with the opportunity to earn selection for Lancashire if they perform well.
At the Lytham Hall park run lots of Lytham runners attended. Ross McKelvie was first to finish in 17:32, which was a new personal time. Paul Veevers was the second finisher in18:27. Gill Draper was the first female to finish the course in a respectable time of 20:30. Andrew Draper finished in 20:34 for 8th. Susan Samme was the 2nd female finisher in a time of 20:51. Other finishers included Lewis McAfee, Neil Tate, Mark Hughes, Gavin Stanfield, Stephen Wise Peter Thomson, Jen Trohear, Bob Clough, Jeremy McCandless, Maria Tierney, Sylvia Gittins, Laura Byrne, Jacqui Murray, Robert Parker and Michelle Sheridan. There were several runners who achieved personal best times they were as follows: Ross McKelvie, Andrew Mullaney, and Simon Smith.
Alex Tate was 3rd at the Blackpool park run, further a field at the Kratherworld parkrun Rebecca Willetts ran well. John Bertenshaw completed the Bramley parkrun, Alistair Leivers was first at the Coventry parkrun in a great time of 17:29
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