LSARRC News 21st January 2020

Junior Sophie Bohannon earns Lancashire vest.

8 of Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes were selected to represent Fylde schools in the Lancashire school’s cross-country championships at Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday.

Clemmie Tierney ran in the year 7 girls race finishing 51st in 11:02 taking 5th place in the Fylde team and helping them into 7th place.  Finlay Hughes completed the year 7 boys’ race in 11:16 for 72nd place.   Lytham had 3 representatives in the junior boy’s race with Charlie Ormerod (45th in 17:23) and Oliver Thompson (53rd in 17:43) both making the Fylde team which finished as 7th team.  Morgan Pritchard finished just 1 place and 2 seconds behind Thompson for 54th place in 17:45. In the junior girl’s race Sophie Bohannon ran exceptionally well to finish 2nd in 14:30 earning herself selection to represent Lancashire Schools in the National championships.  Evie Houlihan also ran well in the junior girls race to finish 32nd in 16:23. Lytham’s final representatives in a competitive intermediate girls’ race with Maddy Markham who finishing a creditable 15th in with a time of 15:13 and Brogane Murphy 33rd in 18:57.

Just 3 of Lytham’s junior athletes took part in the Lytham Hall parkrun with Matthew Holton 1st home finishing 8th overall and as 1st in his JM11-14 age group with a personal best time of 20:15 (his 4th consecutive pb).  Freddie Markham also finished 2nd in his JM10 age group in a tome of 25:00 for 89th position overall.  Ella Wiseman finished 306th in 43:26.

Sunday’s Junior parkrun saw 12 of Lytham’s junior take part and Matthew Holton was again 1st home for Lytham finishing 2nd overall in 7:36 his 2nd personal best of the weekend.  Eric Wrigley (4th in 8:55), Adam Jackson (5th in 8:59), Finlay Hughes (7th in 9:00) and Roman Holmes (8th in 9:00) all finished within 5 seconds of each other with not far behind (9th in 9:07).  Also representing Lytham were Georgina Andrews (14ht in 10:07), Jayden Richardson (23rd in 10:56) Kiefer Richardson (25ht in 10:59), James McAfee (26th in 11:01), Evie Alker (28th in 11:04) and Joshua McAfee (51st in 13:01).

On Sunday senior, Mel Koth completed the 4 Villages Half marathon in Helsby.  Koth reported that the conditions weren’t ideal with it being very foggy and freezing.  However, the atmosphere was fantastic, lots of local villagers supported all the runners.  The route went through the 4 surrounding villages of Helsby. Not a very flat course.  This race got chosen as a qualifier for a GB master vest in the half marathon distance, so the field of runners were high class.  Koth had a decent run and finished in a time of 01:31:16, which is 35 sec faster than last year.  Koth came 322 overall out of 1720runners, 32 lady and 7th in her v45 age group.

Lots of Lytham runners completed parkruns.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Ross McKelvie was 1st overall, Paul Veevers was 3rd and Alistair Leivers was 8th.  Not to be outdone the first 2 ladies spots went to Susan Samme and Gill Draper.  Sylvia Gittins also finished the course in 30:58.

Mark Hughes and Maria Tierney were tourists at the Witton park parkrun, and Claire England completed the Fleetwood Promenade parkrun.  At the Storthes Hall parkrun Joanna Goorney was first female.