LSARRC News 4th May 2022

Ross McKelvie

PERSONAL bests and first place finishes capped a great week of running for Lytham St Annes Road Runners.

Chris Cottam

Ross McKelvie stormed to victory in the Avenham Park 5km, finishing in an impressive 16:58.  It was a good Bank Holiday Monday for Chris Cottam who secured himself a new personal best of 20:36 in the same race, with Mel Koth just behind him - her time of 20:42 was enough for 3rd lady.

Mel Koth

And Lytham also led the way in the junior 2km race, with Jayden Richardson taking first place overall in 4:50 and Georgina Andrews first girl (4th overall) in 5:47.  Joe Alker was 2nd in 5:21, Evie Alker 10th (3rd girl) in 6:24, Kiefer Richardson 11th in 6:29 and Eve Selby 14th (5th girl) in 6:57.

 

Earlier in the week there was success for Louise Cox, who finally secured a sub-45 minute 10km run, running 44:02 at the Run Media City event in Salford, first in her V50 category.

Mick Widdop took part in the Morecambe Half Marathon on Sunday, running 1:59 on a difficult course, which took in the beach.

The McAfee family travelled to Liverpool to take part in the John West Running Festival.  Juniors James and Joshua - who also set a new 5km parkrun PB of 27:03 at Lytham Hall on Saturday - took part in the 2km race, finishing in 8:59 and 9:19 respectively.  Dad Lewis ran the 10km race, finishing in 51:07.

There was very different terrain for Joanna Goorney, who took part in 67th Peaks Fell Race on Saturday.  The race took in Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, across the 23.3mile course, which includes 5279km of ascent.  Joanna finished in 4:34:12 for 195th place.

Also taking on the fells were Claire Markham and Julia Rolfe, who took part in Sunday’s six mile Hambledon Hill run.  Claire - in her first fell race - finished in 1:03:51 and Julia in 1:05:01.  

Earlier in the week, there was a club outing to the Ripley Supper Run, a four mile run in Lancaster ending with pie and peas.  Neil Tate finished first of the club’s 16 runners in 27:36.  Also running were Mark Hughes (28:24), Graham Webster (29:02), Dan Gregson (29:07), Lewis McAfee (29:52), Kate price Edwards (30:47), Pamela Hardman (33:06), Barry Broughton (33:40), Sue Hawitt (34:23), Greg Oulton (35:19), Julia Rolfe (35:27), Ruth Williams (35:44), Catherine MacLachlan (35:57), Liz Canavan (36:13), Kat Fawcett (41:19) and Richard Storey (41:21).