LSARRC News 14th January 2020

Lytham Ladies excel at the Burnley cross-country fixture.

LSARRC ladies at Burnley

 The fourth meeting of this season’s Mid-Lancs Cross Country saw the Lytham runners travel to Towneley Park in Burnley, on Saturday 11th January.  Not to be put off by the blustery and overcast conditions, 9 senior Ladies and 9 Senior Men took to their respective start lines.

The ladies were first up to tackle their 5.8km course, continuing to show their fine running form of late. Joanna Goorney was once again first back for Lytham, 14th overall, 3rd in the L35 category and 2nd in the L45 category, in a time of 23m18s. Next home for Lytham was Catherine Carrdus, 18th overall, 4th in the L35 category and 3rd overall in the L45 category (23m35s). Mel Koth then finished in 21st overall, 5th in the L35 category and 4th in the L45 category (23m55s), ensuring that Lytham ‘A’ finished in the team event 3rd overall and 1st in both the L35 and L45 events.

More LSARRC ladies at Burnley XC

Barbara Holmes was next across the finish line, 41st overall and 1st in the L55 category (25m10s). Claire Markham, 77th overall (27m05s) was the 5th Lytham runner to finish, followed by a sprint to the line between Julia Rolfe, 110th overall (29m07s) and Pam Hardman (29m10s). Holmes, Markham and Rolfe ensured that the Lytham ‘B’ team finished 23rd overall. Holmes, Rolfe and Hardman secured 2nd place in the L55 team category. The two remaining runners, Kirsten Burnett and Gillian Oliver, brought the Lytham team home ensuring that the Ladies team featured three times in the overall results table.

Peter Thomson

Andy Draper

ate finished 85th overall (40m23s), Ross McKelvie 95th overall (40m37s) with Peter Thomson bring home the Lytham runners, 262nd overall (55m01s).

Although the final results have yet to be confirmed the Ladies should move up to 2nd place in Division 2, move up to 1st in the V35 teams, maintain their 1st place in the V45 teams and move up to 4th place in the V55 teams. The senior males leapfrogged Leven Valley to take up 2nd place in Division 2. Fantastic running from all involved.

The next event in the cross-country calendar is on 8th February at Lawson’s Ground, Blackpool.

11 of Lytham St Anne’s Road Running Club junior athletes made the trip to the 4th fixture of the Mid Lancashire Cross Country League held at Townley Park, Burnley on Saturday 11th.  First race of the day was the 2k under 11 girls race and Cassie Houlihan, Lytham’s sole representative, in only her 2nd cross country race ran well to finish 60th in 9:52.  The under 11 boys ran the same distance and Lytham were well represented by Archie Belfield finishing 26th in 7:50 and Freddie Markham who finished 59th in 8:39.

Lytham also had 2 representatives in the under 13 boys 3.2k race with Oliver Thomson first home for Lytham finishing 27th in 12:12 and Eric Wrigley 53rd in 14:06.  Sophie Bohannon was first home for Lytham in the under 15 girls’ race completing the 3.2k in 11:34 for 5th place.  Brogane Murphy finished 31st in 12:49 with Evie Houlihan finishing 29th in 13:25 to bring the team home in 4th place.

In the under 15 boys 4k race Morgan Pritchard and James Andrews had a close race with James just getting the better of Morgan in the 2nd half of the race to finish 29th in 16:29 with Morgan Pritchard 31st in 16:49.  The last of Lytham’s juniors to compete was under 17 girl Maddy Markham who finished strongly to finish 5th in 16:03.

11-year-old Eric Wrigley was competing again on Sunday in the Garstang 2-mile fun run and ran well to finish 4th in 13:26.

Matthew Holton was Lytham’s only junior athletes at Lytham Hall’s parkrun on Saturday and continued his good form running a personal best time of 20:56 for 13th place overall and finishing 1st in his JM11-14 age category.

6 of Lytham’s junior athletes ran in the Park View Junior parkrun on Sunday.  First to finish for Lytham and taking 2nd place overall in 8:30 was Joe Alker.  Georgina Andrews and Jayden Richardson finished 5th and 6th with the identical time of 9:46. Also representing Lytham were Evie Alker (18th in 11:22) and brothers Joshua and James McAfee finishing 22nd and 33rd in 11:41 and 13:41 respectively.

At the Lytham Hall parkrun on 11th January 2020 LSARRC had 5 runners who finished in the first 10 laces., the highlight being Ross McKelvie finishing first. Full Results:  Ross McKelvie 17:42 (1st), Chris McCarthy 19:33 (3rd), Alistair Leivers 20:38 (7th), Gill Draper 20:41 (8th overall, 1st female), Mark Selby 20:43 (9th), Susan Samme 20:53 (11th), Neil Tate 20:54 (12th), Darran Ames 21:48 (28th), Lewis McAfee 22:54 (41st), Kev Murray 23:48 (56th), James Buckley 25:28 (93rd), Simon Smith 25:30 (94th), Kathy Gaunt 26:35 (128th), Susan Hawitt 26:38 (129th), Adrian Sargent 27:53 (166th), Jen Trohear 27:58 (169th), Bob Clough 28:07 (173rd), Elizabeth Canavan 28:14 (174th), Jacqui Murray 28:45 (190th), Andrew Mullaney 28:47 (193rd), Claire England 29:34 (209th), Maria Tierney 29:38 (211th), Karen Lanigan 29:53 (221st), Ruth Bye 30:46 (245th), Sylvia Gittins 31:34 (258th), Jeremy McCandless 32:30 (278th), Michelle Sheridan 33:06 (286th), Robert Parker 33:11 (288th) and Graham Young 33:26 (289th).

Liz Abbott was the first lady to complete the Preston parkrun in a great time of 18:33, and Sue Henry, Julie Wiseman and Kirsten Burnett were tourists at the Clitheroe Castle parkrun.

LSARRC at the Garstang 10k