GREEN DRIVE FIVE - SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER

 

Start of the 15th Green Drive Five - 11am Sunday 19th October 2014

Green Drive provided a lovely setting for the fifteenth running of the Green Drive Five held Sunday in bright autumn sunshine and attracting many participants from the local clubs.  Doubling as the Lancashire AA 5 Mile Championship it was an important race for the area's serious runners.

Race Winners: Rob Danson, 3rd, Rob Webb,
1st, and  David Rigby, 2nd on the start line. 

Race winner and Lancashire Champion was Rob Webb of Rossendale Harriers in a time of 26:17 with Preston Harriers David Rigby second in 26:24 and Wesham RR's Rob Danson in third place another 10 seconds back.

Joanna Goorney, first woman and Lancs
AA Women's 5 mile Champion with
presenter and club benefactor Bill White

Joanna Goorney of Lytham comfortably took the woman's prize in

31:31, 31st overall and with it the Lancahire Woman's 5 Mile Championship.  Catherine Carrdus of Wesham was second, 37th overall in 32:06 and Caroline Betmead of Blackpool Wyre & Fylde AC, third, 40th overall in 32:19.

With such a high proportion involved in helping and marshalling, organizers Lytham St. Annes Road Runners Club did well to field twelve runners who achieved the pleasing results of fourth men's team and third women's team. 

First back for Lytham was Joe Greenwood who finished in 29:09, running at under 6 minutes per mile for 13th place.  Completing the fourth-placed team and finishing close on each others' heels were Thomas Howarth, 33rd and Neil Tate, 34th.   Both averaged 6.24 per mile for 32:01 and 32:02 respectively.  The team accumulated 80 points against Lancashire Team Champions Blackpool Wyre & Fylde's 35. 

Other Lytham men competing were Mark Willette, 60th in 34:14, Russ Chew, 105th in 38:41 and Alan Elstone who managed 42:30 for 156th in his first 5 mile race.

 

LSARRC at the GD5: Neil Tate, Joanna Gourney, Joe Greenwood,
Ruth Wheatley, Fiona Geldard, Felicity Wolohan, Mark Willett,
Russ Chew and Alan Elstone

The six Lytham women won three prizes and medals between them and were third team.  Joanna Goorney with Barbara Holmes, 97th in 37:55, and Felicity Wolohan, 99th in 38:00, made up the team scoring 28 points to the Wesham leader's 16 points, a very good result for the Club.  Holmes together with Fiona Geldhard, 113th in 39:15, won their age category prizes and Lancashire gold medals in the FV55 and FV50 categories.  Wearing green for the first time, new recruit Ruth Wheatley put in a good performance to set a 5 mile PB 144th in 41:47.  Julia Rolfe finished 160th in 42:38.

 

Blackpool Wyre & Fylde bother and sister
winners: Jessica and Jamie Jackson

Twenty-six of the Club's Junior Section ran the Green Drive Mile putting in sparkling performances that would be the envy of many of their elders.

 

Simon Holt, 4th and first Lytham
member home

Simon Holt, aged 10, led home the contingent of the Lytham runners in 4th place running the mile in 6:16.  A trio of Lytham runners followed in 10th, 11th and 12th places all given 6:37: Chloe Norman, 14, was third girl, Harry Fellows, 13, and Louis Eunson, 9, were 8th and 9th boy across the line. 

Other results for LSARRC members at the Green Drive Mile: 14th

LSARRC's first girl Chloe Norman

Hollie Winstanley, 11, 6:39; 15th Aaron Forshaw, 10, 6:43; 16th George Winstanley, 9, 6:44; 17th Rosie Taylor, 11, 6:48; 19th Wade Agar, 13, 6:52; 21st Louisa Hart, 13, 7:03; 22nd George Denye, 8, 7:04; 23rd Spencer Unsworth, 10, 7:04; 24th Danny Forshaw, 8, 7:07; 26th Francis Morrison, 9, 7:13; 27th Isla Gordon, 11, 7:15; 30th Natasha Hart, 9, 7:20; 31st Rebecca Tate, 11, 7:21; 34th Emma Savidge, 10, 7:42; 35th Georgia Norman, 11, 7:43; 36th Olivia Aberra, 9, 7:46; 38th Charlotte Thompson, 8, 7:53; 42nd Jessica Addy, 8, 7:58; 48th Sydney Ramsden, 9, 8:13; 50th Eliza Booth, 9, 8:21; 56th Hollie Whiteside, 8, 9:15; 58th Leah Dawson, 10, 9:25.    

OTHER RACES 
Elsewhere Greg Oulton preferring the hillier challenges to the flat Green Drive Five ran at Littleborough in the White House Fell Race, his 38th race of the year.  He finished the 4.5 miles in 48:35.  Further afield Graham Webster returned to home territory to run the massive the Great West Run in Exeter.  Completing the half marathon in an excellent time for his age, he was 99th out of 2663 finishers and first MV60 in 1:30:34.

LSARRC News 4th / 5th October 2014

LSARRC members at Lytham Hall 5k -
Left to right: Julia Rolfe, Dawn Bloor, Pamela Hardman, James Whitworth, Neil Tate,
Joe Greenwood, Willie Richmond, Graham Webster, Wade Agar and Ella Moulding 

As might be expected with a race on their doorstep, Lytham St. Annes Road Runners were out in good numbers at the Lytham Hall 5K.  Fourteen including two from the Junior Section were competing and several more had come to shout on friends.

Mild sunshine and the lovely autumnal surroundings of Lytham Hall made this an attractive race.  It was also a gainful one for the Club with members taking away one overall race prize and four age group prizes. 

Ella Moulding, third
woman

Youngest Lytham runner Ella Moulding, in one of her first road races, beat many much older runners to take the overall third women's prize.  Moulding, just 13 years old, revealed real future potential with an under 20.00 minute finish in 19:23 and 24th place, just 43 seconds behind seasoned winner Caroline Betmead of BWFAC.

Men's age category prizes went to Graham Webster, 20th in 19:12, first MV60 and well clear of the next in his age group and Willie Richmond, MV50, 37th in 20:32.

Pam Hardman celebrated her
birthday with a win in the FV55

Successful Lytham women were Dawn Bloor, who won first FV45 with a PB of 23:35 in 63rd place and Pamela Hardman, celebrating her birthday with a win in the FV55 where she finished 76th in 24:57, 25 seconds better than her 2013 time for the same course.

 Joe Greenwood was Lytham's first finisher with a 9th placing and a time of 17:34.  Neil Tate was 17th in 18:56 and also running well was Richard Storey in 43rd place and 21:27.  James Whitworth, MV65, continues to make a steady improvement on his 5K times and finished in 25:58, 86th.  Felicity Wolohan also achieved a PB of 21:59, 49th.  Fiona Geldard, another cutting her standard times, finished in 23:06, 56th, bettering her existing PB by over 30 seconds. 

Wade Agar, second MJ ahead of
Alex Wiggins

The Club's other junior runner was Wade Agar, who was 2nd Junior Man in very good PB of 24:00, 67th.  Alex Wiggins was 69th in 24:05 and Julia Rolfe, FV50, 85th in 25:49.  Potential LSARRC runner Austin Burrows finished a promising 56th in 22:25

 Those who appreciated the autumn colours and atmosphere of Lytham Hall are likely to enjoy the Green Drive Five.  This well-known race similarly starts and finishes in a leafy environment a stones throw away in Green Drive off Park View Road on 19th October.  Doubling as the Lancashire Five Mile Championship it's a must for members of local clubs.  There's still time to make postal entries or enter on line in advance or just turn up on the day in time for the 11am start.     

Other Lytham members ranged further afield.  Simon Denye and Louisa Ruman ran the Congleton Half Marathon.  It's a hard Half Marathon with undulating route that is rarely flat and tests competitors with a demanding climb in the twelve mile.  Denye, MV40, finished 35th in a field of 500 in 1:23:21 and Ruman, FV35, with an impressive improvement, knocked a full six minutes from her previous best with 1:56:14 for 367th place.  A day earlier Greg Oulton travelled to the Saddleworth Edges Fell Race for this 13km race with 350m of climb.  Saddleworth Moor provided testing conditions with steep climbs and a variety of obstacles and under-foot conditions which took their toll on competitors with Oulton himself, slowed by a tumble and a stop to aid an injured competitor, finishing 78th in 1:45:42.

Joanna Goorney, British Female Vet
Lead Climbing Champion 

Liz Boon and John Wild with  fellow runner
following the successful completion of the
ChesterMarathon

 Liz Boon and John Wild went for the endurance running, contesting the huge Chester Marathon and finishing respectively 2063rd in 4h 44:26 and 2144th in 4h 50:53.

Taking a rest from running, Joanna Goorney showed her talent and versatility by retaining her Female Veteran British Lead Climbing Championship at Sheffield climbing wall at the weekend.

LSARRC News 30th September 2014

On Thursday night, it was the last Club Handicap of the summer season which was enlivened by two notable performances. The winner with a PB was comparative newcomer Alan Elstone who just had the edge over runner-up Debbie Cooper after a close contest throughout the race that brought the best out of both. Cooper, a veteran of countless handicaps, is in very good form of late and finished only five seconds outside her PB for the 4.35 miles course set way back in September 2007.  A very determined Jeremy McCandless is still setting the pace at the top of the points table and if anyone is to challenge him for the trophy over the coming six months they’ll have to show some consistently good form.

September Handicap Results: 1, Alan Elstone 34.03; 2, Debbie Cooper 34.26; 3, Karen Lanigan 41.26; 4, Graham Webster 27.31; 5, Greg Oulton 34.46; 6, Joe Greenwood 25.03; 7, Jeremy McCandless 42.07; 8, Fiona Geldard 36.12; 9, Tom Howarth 29.06; 10, James Waller 44.14.

LSARRC juniors at Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde's T & F meet

A total of 10 Medals and 13 personal best performances was the tally for the twelve young Lytham St Annes athletes who competed at Blackpool Wyre & Fylde’s end of season track & field meeting on Saturday, a meeting in which competitors enjoyed weather conditions superior to those experienced at most of the summer competitions. Competing in her first track & field competition, eight year old Charlotte Thomson had a superb day finishing 5th in the 600m(2:30.8), 10th in the 80m(15.60) and 11th in long Jump(2.25m). In the same U9’s category Conner Norman and George Winstanley continued their improvement with Norman taking gold in the 80m (13.3PB) and silver in the Long Jump (2.9m) and Winstanley took gold in the 600m (2:07.7PB)  and finished 6th in the 80m ( 14.1PB). There were three junior members in the U11’s age group. Simon Holt ran a strong 600m to earn a silver medal with 1:55 and he sprinted his way to a bronze in the 80m with 12.1(PB) and finished 5th in the long jump (3.6m). Georgia Norman jumped a personal best of 3.6m in the long jump and, in the process, earned a bronze medal and she was 5th in the 600m (2:07.4) and 6th in the 80m (12.8). Carmen Cole improved further on her trio of personal best performances fourteen days prior to this meeting with further improvements in all three events. She was 4th in the Long Jump (3.52m), 12th in the 80m (13.1) and 12th in the 600m (2:21.8). In the U13’s category James Nicholas earned a podium position finishing 3rd in 100m (14.2) and Rosie Taylor ran a good personal best in the 600m finishing 6th in 2:55.3. All age groups were set off together in the girls 1500m event and three Lytham girls were amongst the starters. Hollie Winstanley ran well to finish 5th in the U13G age group (5:55.7). Ella Moulding and Hannah Riley were the two U15’s and Moulding set of with intent from the gun and soon established a comfortable lead on the rest of the field taking gold in 5:08.3(PB). Riley was in the mix throughout the race and she put in a spirited finish to take silver in 5:25 (PB).  As with the 1500m, all age groups were incorporated into one 800m race and Chloe Norman soon stamped her authority on the race moving into pole position at the end of the second lap. She went on to win the race comfortably with a personal best of 2:33.8.

Greg Oulton headed up north to Penrith to run the Orton Autumn 10k Fell Race also on Saturday. He found it a great race, not too onerous, difficult in places where the grass was really tufty and where he had to navigate limestone pavements, but nothing major.  He completed the course in 1:05:35 and 65th place

It was a busy day on Sunday with a number of races having representatives from LSARRC.

Debbie Cooper ran the 5th Swinton 10 mile road race in Manchester, an undulating two lap course.  Surprisingly, this was her first ever race at this distance, though normally she sticks to running on the fells.  Debbie, running at a steady pace,  was pleased to complete the course in 1:25:43 finishing 209th overall and 48th female.

It was also the annual Run Preston 5k and Run Preston 10k around the centre of Preston.  Graham Webster was first home for Lytham in the 5k in an excellent 19:08, finishing 9th overall and 1st vet 60.  Fiona Geldard was 60th in a time of 25:03 while James Whitworth was 78th in 26:55.  There was little rest for Fiona and Graham before they ran again in the 10k.

In Blackpool, it was a family affair at the Subway 5k in Stanley Park.  Simon Denye ran with  Sydney Ramsden (9) who ran well, George Denye (8) who ran 20:57 for a new PB (both are junior members of the club) and Jessica Ramsden (6) who also ran well and completed the course- Jessica is hoping to join LSARR as soon as she is 7.  Neil Tate ran with his father, brother, nephew, wife, 2 daughters (1 daughter Rebecca (age 11) is a junior member of LSARRC and fantastically completed the course in just over 22 minutes) and his son.

LSARRC News 23rd September 2014

LSARRC Ladies team: Dawn Bloor, Joanna Goorney,
Felicity Wolohan, Fiona Geldard

Lytham St Annes Road Runners were well represented at the Northern Athletics Road Relays held over a 2 lap 6 km course around Birchwood Business Park, Warrington on Saturday.  Stockport Harriers dominated the results winning both the Ladies 4 stage  relay and the mens 6 stage relay.  The LSARR Ladies team asserted themselves well to finish in a very respectable 47th place. The men fielded one complete team which finished in 93rd overall and had 2 further runners in an incomplete team in their relay.
Results: Ladies 4 stage: Joanna Goorney (20) 23:57, Felicity Wolohan (39) 28:11, Dawn Bloor (46) 30:39, Fiona Geldard (47) 29:34.
Mens 6 stage: A Team - Andy Draper (115) 24:24, Joe Greenwood (100) 22:43, Simon Denye (93) 22:54, Neil Tate (93) 24:12, Willie Richmond (95) 27:08, Graham Webster (93) 24:01. B Team (incomplete) – Terry Hellings (131) 26:33, Richard Storey (132) 28:19.

LSARRC men at the Northern Relays

On Sunday, 3 LSARR athletes were in action at the Fleetwood Triathlon.  This 3 stage event consisted of a 400m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run held in calm autumn sunshine. Petr Martinovsky was first home for Lytham finishing 22nd overall in 1:04:29 (swim: 6:20, bike 37:38 and run 20:30).  Barbara Holmes put in an excellent performance to finish 4th lady and 2 vet lady in 1:08:29 (swim: 6:34, bike 39:55 and run 21:59) while Fiona Geldard finished 42nd lady in 1:22:04 (swim: 12:33, bike 45:39 and run 23:50) being particularly pleased with her run which was just 10 seconds outside her PB time.

Week of Monday 8th September 2014

The excellent venue of Woodbank Park, Stockport played host to the North West Counties Relays on Saturday with teams from Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire competing. 

Starting on the track, courses take a wide sweep of the flat Woodbank before plunging into adjacent pretty but demanding Vernon Park.  A steep descent into Vernon is followed by a tough climb out with the Juniors turning earlier for a 2600 metre course to the U17M and Seniors 3600 metres.

Lytham St. Annes fielded three teams and took away Lancashire Gold in the Under 15 Girls.  Ella Moulding, Chloe Norman and Hannah Riley became the U15G Lancashire Champions in a spirited and stylish performance. First out at midday was Ella Moulding who finished in 9:25.  Chloe Norman took second leg and achieved 10:28 and Hannah Riley ran 10:24 to bring the team in 12th overall and first Lancashire team in 30:17.   

Lancashire AA U15G Champions: Chloe Norman, Hannah Riley
& Ella Moulding

The Senior Woman's team finished in 56:16, 36th overall and 7th in Lancashire.  Julia Rolfe took the first leg and finished in 17:47; Dawn Bloor on second ran 17:52 and Sylvia Gittins on third, 20:37.  Fiona Geldard running in an incomplete team finished in 17:02

The Senior Men put up an admirable fight to finish 45th out of 54 teams.  Their total time of 56:31 achieved them a good 5th place in the Lancashire Championships.  Joe Greenwood took the competitive first leg finishing in 12:41.  Terry Hellings ran 15:27 on second, Neil Tate followed with 14:18 and Graham Webster on anchor, 14:05.   

Senior Men's Team who were 5th in Lancashire

The long-standing Garstang Half Marathon attracted two members of the Club both of whom ran well to secure their age category prizes. 

Starting and finishing on the flat viaduct across River Wyre, the course undulates without serious ascents until 9 miles when the road climbs above Grizedale Valley in one of the local races' most testing hills. It's a long climb that precedes a steep descent into the village of Scorton before the final three miles take competitors back to the finish. 

Simon Denye finished in a good 7th place in 1:23:50 and first MV40 while Pamela Hardman was the first FV55 in a creditable time for such a hard race of 2:04:01 and 117th place in a race of 148 competitors.

Greg Oulton was the only Lytham member to under take the 70-mile drive up to Crosby Garrett for the Great Westmorland Trail Race.  Contestants were treated to reasonably easy going for the first five miles but with a sting in the tail when a steep mile-long climb sorted out the fittest.  Glorious scenery and good weather rewarded the exertions.  Oulton finished in 1:10:15.

Felicity Wolohan running in the Park Run nearest to her work finished the Princes Park 5k in 22.07, second woman and representing a big advance for Wolohan.

Signalling the end of the track and field season, Blackpool Wyre & Fylde Athletic Club hosted the first of its two September Open Meetings at Stanley Park.  Warm windless sunshine was kind to both athletes and spectators alike, and, with a selection of events suitable for very young athletes below the UKA's Under 13 baseline, Lytham's younger juniors were out in force making the most of the opportunity. 

Nine LSARRC members took part, some as young as seven, competing in a total of fourteen events, and, with gold, silver and bronze medals at each age group on offer, the Juniors took home quite a hoard.

U9B's compete in the 80m sprint

In the Under 9 Boys category Connor Norman won his best placing in the 80m sprint where his 13.2 earning him a silver medal.  He also achieved 2:24.4 in the 600m and a PB of 2.91m for 6th in the long jump.  George Winstanley showed great composure in his first track and field event running 14.6 seconds for 80m and excelled at the longer distance, the 600m, where his 2:09.9 won him silver.

In the Under 11 age competition Georgia Norman finished 9th in the Long Jump with 3.22m, 6th in the 600m in 2:07.3 and narrowly missed out on a medal in the 80m, finishing equal 5th in 12.7 seconds.  Carmen Cole came close to a podium finish with 5th and a PB of 3.33m in the Long Jump.  She was 3rd in her heat of the 80m in 13.7 seconds.

U11Gs on the track

Simon Holt tried three events winning medals in all.  He won silver in the Under 11 Boys' long jump massively improving his PB by 18cm to 3.81m and bronzes in the 80m sprint with 12.3 seconds, and in the 600m endurance with 1:56.5.  Francis Morrison had good runs in both the 80m and 600m finishing 7th in both events in 13.9 seconds and 2:18.9 respectively.

  She was 3rd

Two Lytham Under 13s competed.  James Nicholas performed well in the 100m to finish 5th in 14.9 and Hollie Winstanley ran a composed 1500m in 5:58.3 to take the bronze medal.  

Under 15 Chloe Norman showed no signs of fatigue from the previous days relays running a very strong 800m finishing 2nd in 2:34.6 and adding another medal to her weekend tally.

 

LSARRC News 9th September 2014

Julia Rolfe followed by Debbie Cooper

Roy Stevens

It was the final Inter Club fixture of the year on Wednesday night. Red Rose Road Runners were the hosting club with a 4 mile undulating course in perfect conditions around Worden Park in Leyland. 

First home overall was Rob Danson of Wesham in a time of 20:37 whilst Joanna Goorney of Lytham St Annes was first lady in at time of 24:54 and 30th place overall.  Joe Greenwood, continuing his fine form was first home for LSARR in 11th place in 22:50.  Graham Webster was 38th in 25:17, Peter Cruse 39th in 25:22 and Neil Tate was 41st  in 25:33.  Terry Helling was 74th in 27:36 closely followed by Mark Willett in 26:47 for 76th place. Alex Wiggins was 102nd in 30:17, Greg Oulton was 123rd in 31:40, Debbie Cooper was 128th in 32:19, Julia Rolfe was 129th in 32:22 and Roy Stevens was 131st in 32:32.

With many clubs neck and neck in the team competitions, there was a real battle going on for top honours, particularly between the bigger clubs.  Overall, for the series, LSARR finished 5th in the open category, 4th in the women's, 5th in the vets, 4th in the vets 50s and their best result, 2nd in the vet 60s.

Ness Horne and Mark Willett

A number of Lytham St Annes runners made the trip up to the North East for the Great North Run.  Neil Tate completed the course in 1:40:16 in 2736th place whilst Emma Eldershaw produced a fantastic PB of 2:10:25 to finish in 17886.  Mark Willett running with his partner, Ness Horne, finished in 2:18:35 running for The Christie.

LSARRC News 2nd September 2014

LSARRC fell runners at Harrock Hill

Wednesday night saw the final race of 4 of the Harrock Hill Fell Race Series which was also used as the final race of 4 in the Inter Club Fell Race Series.  This popular race over 5.3 miles with 900 feet of ascent attracted 222 runners.  First home for Lytham St Annes was Joe Greenwood in an excellent 11th place and a time of 37:54.  Joanna Goorney was 35th and 3rd female in  40:21with Terry Hellings in 95th place and 45:52.  Debbie Cooper finished 167th in 52:55, Greg Oulton was 169th in 53:33, Julia Rolfe was 181st in 55:28 and Pam Hardman was 192nd in 57:08 and 1st female vet 55. 

The club's monthly handicap on Thursday evening was run in fine conditions producing  some notable performances over the 4.35 miles rural course.  The clear winner was Karen Kidner who looked exhausted as she reached the finish but was amply rewarded with an improvement of over two minutes for her best time of the summer and a first-ever handicap victory.

Behind her was a closely fought contest to decide the next three places where a determined Alan Elstone in second held off third-placed Brian Porter who in turn just edged ahead of James Waller in a frenzied final dash to the line.  Further good times were posted by the next two finishers, Alex Wiggins and Jeremy McCandless; each running PBs and with McCandless extending his lead on the annual points table as his closest pursuers Kev Ashworth and Neil Tate were somewhat off the pace this time.

Handicap winners: centre Karen Kidner 1^st;
left Alan Elstone 2nd; right Brian Porter 3^rd.

Full results and times: 1 Karen Kidner, 40.46; 2 Alan Elstone, 34.25; 3 Brian Porter, 34.13; 4 James Waller, 40.43; 5 Alex Wiggins, 32.58; 6 Jeremy McCandless, 39.22; 7 Karen Lanigan, 41.14; 8 Pam Hardman, 36.23; 9 Graham Webster, 6.00, 27.40; 10 Neil Tate, 27.51; 11 Laura Ashworth, 33.48; 12 Kev Ashworth, 30.58; 13 Fiona Geldard, 35.20; 14 Greg Oulton, 36.58; 15 Dawn Lock, 60.02,

Leading points scores after 5 races: Jeremy McCandless 149; Kev Ashworth 125; Neil Tate 118; Alex Wiggins 114; Laura Ashworth 107; Dawn Lock 106.

There was more action on the fells on Saturday morning in East Lancashire as Debbie Cooper and Greg Oulton took on the challenge of the Pendle 3 Peaks Fell Race.  The race starts in Barley heading up Pendle Hill 3 times, covering a distance of 9 miles and 2707 feet of ascent.  Debbie finished in a time of 2:11:04 finishing 66th overall and 13th female while Greg completed the course in 2:31:35 in 81st position, his toughest and longest fell race to date.

It was the final Mid Lancs Track and Field Meeting of the season and also the Medal Meeting on Saturday afternoon at Stanley Park Arena, Blackpool.

The junior section of the club was well represented by 4 young athletes.  Ella Moulding made a very impressive debut in the 3000m finishing first U15 girl in 11:14.1 and there were personal bests for Hollie Winstanley and James Nicholas. Hollie competed in the U13G 1500m and finished 6th in 5:43.50 and James ran in the U13B 100m finishing 13th overall in 14.20.  Chloe Norman continued her good form finishing 5th in the 800m in 2:36.10 and 6th in the Long Jump with 4.17m which was her best ever performance in the Mid Lancs. league and her second longest ever competitive jump.

Graham Webster receiving his medal from
British Hammer Thrower Sophie Hitchon

Graham Webster was LSARRC's only senior representative. Graham competed in three races and picked up three medals.  First race for Graham was the 800m finishing in 2:37.9 for a silver medal. Graham also took gold in the 1500m in a time of 5:20.6 and silver in the 3000m in 11:13.8.

Ness Horne and Mark Willett

Sylvia Gittins

The Blackpool Hilton 10k on Saturday saw a field of 249 runners with the winner James Mcllroy finishing in 32:58.  Vet 65 Sylvia Gittins finished in 149th place in an excellent time of 55:40 while Mark Willett accompanied his partner Ness Horne around the course to finish in a time of 57:53 and 168th and 169th places respectively as they prepare for next week's Great North Run in aid of The Christie.