LSARRC News 12th February 2019

Liz Abbott of Lytham shines at Leigh.

 This weekend it was the 5th fixture in the Mid Lancs Cross Country league held at Leigh Sports Village, Liz Abbott led the way for the ladies’ team.

The ladies’ cross-country team has been performing very strongly so far this season, with only one more event remaining at Cuerden valley. The course at Leigh sports village was relatively flat with a few gravel/mud paths and running around a grassy sports field. The weather was mild, so not too many challenges compared with the usual cross-country events.

Liz Abbott running superbly came in as first lady and first L35. A comment overheard from the side lines was, “Who is that runner?”

The ladies who took part; Liz Abbott, Cath Carrdus, Claire Markham, Pam Hardman, Julia Rolfe, Julie Wiseman, Debbie Francis and Michelle Sheridan.

Team results were 6th positions for the ladies’ team, consisting of Abbott, Carrdus and Markham.  2nd position for the LV 35 team, 3rd position for the LV 45 team and 4th position for the LV 55 team.
There were a couple of newcomers to the event Julie Wiseman and Michelle Sheridan, both seemed to enjoy taking part for their first ever cross country and hopefully they will come back for more.
With only one event remaining our standings in the league are as follows:
Division 2- 2nd place team, separated by 1 point.
Overall LV35 1st team, LV45 1st place team.

The Senior men’s team finished 6th overall, the team consisted of, Mike Toft (10th), Thomas Howarth (53rd), Joe Greenwood (63rd), Paul Veevers (66th), Johnathon Tuck (68th) and Dominic Garett (71st).   The second team came 27th overall and consisted of Ross McKelvie (117th), Graham Webster (162nd), Chris Bowler (171st), Terry Hellings (172nd), John Bertenshaw ( 226th) and Jason Sheridan (230th).   In the V60 category the men’s team finished 4th with Graham Webster coming (8th), Terry Hellings (9th) and John Bertenshaw (24th).

The wind was at its strongest when five junior Lytham athletes lined up for the first event of the day, the 2.3k under 11 girls’ race.  In a close finish the first three home for Lytham finished within 3 seconds of each other with Ellie Francis (42nd in 9:42) just getting the better of Isabel Tuck (45th in 9:43) and Clemmie Tierney (46th in 9:46).  Also competing for Lytham in the under 11s were Rose McIntyre (67th in 10:42) making her first competitive appearance in a Lytham vest with Rosa Gill (78th in 12:16) completing the Lytham contingent and bringing the team home in 12th place. 

The under 11 boys were next where the Lytham team of Lewis Bentley (26th in 8:40), Eric Wrigley (39th in 8:53) and Archie Belfield (51st in 9:14) all ran well to finish as 9th team.  In a competitive under 13 girls race Sophie Bohannon, despite just recovering from a chest infection ran well to finish in a time of 8:03 taking 7th place.  Lytham had two representatives in the under 15 girls race with Maddy Markham first home in 15th place in a time of 10:37 and the improving Brogan Murphy just 15 seconds behind and  17th in 10:52. Under 13 boy Oliver Thomson was the final Lytham junior to compete finishing 32nd in 11:00 for the 3k race.

Twelve-year-old Morgan Pritchard was Lytham’s only junior at Blackpool parkrun finishing 55th in 24:40 in his 90th parkrun.

Parkruns
At the Stanley Park, parkrun on Saturday 9th February 7 Lytham members completed the course.  Susan Samme was the first female to finish, 9th overall in 20:38.  Other finishers from Lytham were Darran Ames, Graham Webster, James Buckley, Gavin Stansfield, Morgan Pritchard and Sue Henry. Kirsten Burnett attended the Hyndburn parkrun and Jennifer Hill attended the Victoria Dock parkrun.

In Sunday’s junior parkrun Jayden Richardson was first home for Lytham finishing 2nd overall in 8:01.  Archie Belfield in his second race of the weekend finished 4th in 8:28 with Max Walker not far behind and 5th in 8:30 improving his personal best by 21 seconds.  Also representing Lytham were James McAfee (41st in 12:18), Sophie Tate (52nd in 13:35) and Joshua McAfee (55th in 13:47).

LSARRC News 5th February 2019

Due to the weather Lytham Parkrun was not on this weekend, although this didn’t stop Lytham Road Runners from running over the weekend. Liz Abbott was the first female back for the Blackpool parkrun in 17:44. Andrew Draper was third in 17:59, Jennifer Hill in 22:04, Neil Tate in 22:35 and James Buckley in 22:44. Morgan Pritchard was next back in 23:08, Claire Markham in 24:01, Jason Sheridan in 26:52, Michelle Sheridan in 34:26 and Sue Henry in 40:04.

Lytham St Annes RRC athletes Ross McKelvie, Pam Hardman and Terry Hellings made their way to Lancaster on Saturday to represent Lytham in the 3-1-5 Winter 5k. The course is a fast, flat out and back course run on a cycle path following the river Lune. First home for Lytham was Ross McKelvie running well to take 6th place in a time of 17:44. Terry Hellings finished in 19th overall and 1st in his MV65 age category with Pam Hardman taking 24th place in a time of 24:26 and also finishing 1st in her FV60 age category.

A record five junior athletes from Lytham St Annes RRC were selected to represent Fylde in the Lancashire Schools Cross Country Championships held at Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday February 2nd.

In the junior girls race for years 8 and 9 Sophie Bohannon ran well to finish 6th overall, first home for Fylde and 1st of the year 8 girls to earn herself selection to represent Lancashire Schools in the English Schools Cross Country Championships.  Brogan Murphy also ran in the junior girls’ race finishing 30th in 15:27 and fourth home for Fylde and helping them into 5th place.

In the Intermediate girls race Maddy Markham was second home for Fylde and finished strongly to take 11th place overall in 16:15 earning a reserve spot for the Lancashire team in the National finals.  Lytham had two representatives in the year 7 boys race with Charlie Ormerod third home for Fylde finishing 27th overall in 9:06 and helping Fylde into fourth place.  Oliver Thomson was not far behind finishing 55th in 9:37.

Fifteen junior Lytham athletes returned to Witton Park on Sunday for the Blackburn Winter Warmer 2k Fun Run.  Jayden Richardson was first home for Lytham in a time of 8:14 and 2nd place in the 8-10 age category. Finlay Hughes 14th in 8:29 and Max Walker 19th in 8:47 were next home for Lytham taking 4th and 6th in the 8-10 age category.  Lewis Bentley just out sprinted Archie Belfield to finish 20th in 8:47 with Archie 22nd in 8:51.  Eric Wrigley completed the Lytham boys contingent finishing 25th in 9:08.  Clemmie Tierney was the first of the Lytham junior girls finishing 35th overall in 9:29. Also competing for Lytham were Leoma Gill (56th in 10.23), Ella Wiseman (65th in 10:52), Kiefer Richardson (94th in 11:42) and Rosa Gill (97th in 12:06).

Just 3 Lytham athletes ran the Park View junior parkrun with new member Freddie Markham first home for Lytham in 5th place and a new personal best time of 9:02.  Joshua McAfee and Sophie Tate finished 45th and 46th in 15:38 and 15:41 respectively.

LSARRC News 29th January 2019

Junior news

This week the annual athletics competition against Kirkham Grammar Junior School

On 21st January Kirkham Grammar Junior School came to the YMCA to take part in a sports hall athletics competition against Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior team.  Lytham produced some excellent scores in the speed bounce where athletes do as many jumps as possible in 20 seconds. Top scorer for Lytham was Keira Lowe achieving 57 with Evie Wood, Clemmie Tierney, and Emilie Bielec, Charlie Kells and Morgan Pritchard all scoring 50 or more. Morgan Pritchard was equal first in the standing long jump with a leap of 186cm.  Sophie Tate competed well in the girl’s javelin competition with a longest throw of 13 metres. Clemmie Tierney was the best of the girl triple jumpers with a best distance of 5.2 metres. Charlie Kells performed well in the vertical jump. All athletes took part in either the 1, 2, 3 or 4 lap races and the event finished with everyone competing in the 4x1 lap relay and obstacle relay race.

Lytham juniors had 9 athletes at parkrun on Saturday.  First home for Lytham juniors was Ben Gregson in a personal best time of 20:21 for 16th place overall and 1st in his JM15-17 age group.  13-year-old Sophie Bohannon finished 18th overall, 3rd female and first in JW11-14 age category.   Maddy Markham also finished 1st in her JW15-17 age group with a time of 21:03 for 23rd place overall.  Lytham juniors finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the JM11-14 age category with Oliver Thomson (40th in 22:07), Morgan Pritchard (69th in 24:10) and Francis Morrison (95th in 25:32).  Archie Tate was first in his JM10 age group in a personal best time of 25:05.  Clemmie Tierney finished 3rd in her JW11-14 age group with a time of 26:46 for 122nd place overall with Ella Wiseman 264th in 36:59.

Lytham juniors also ran well at the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday with Jayden Richardson (7:57) just holding off the late challenge of Charlie Ormerod (7:58) by 1 second for the second week and finishing 1st for the 4th consecutive week.  Joshua McAfee finished 46th in a new personal best time of 13:43 with brother James 48th in 13:58.  Sophie Tate completed the Lytham contingent finishing 55th in 15:40.

Senior news
On Sunday just two Lytham athletes (Terry Hellings and Pam Hardman) made their way to Walton Le Dale to compete in the Hunters 10k.  On an undulating course and on a very windy day both performed well.  Terry Hellings finished in a time of 45:51 for 69th place overall from 409 finishers and picked up the prize for 1st in his age category of MV65.  Pam Hardman also won her FV60 age category in a time of 51:51 for 185th place overall.

Start of the St Annes 10 Miler

Also, on Sunday Sylvia Gittins and Pam Binns ran the st Anne’s 10 miler.  Pamela Binns ran the course in 1:45:28, whilst Sylvia Gittins managed 1:46:17.

As usual lots of Lytham runners attended at parkruns across the country.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Chris McCarthy was 2nd in 17:13 and Andrew Draper was 4th in 17:55, followed in Andy Unsworth in 5th (18:23).  Joanna Goorney was 2nd female in 20:19, coming 15th overall.  Other Results:  Mark Selby 19:45 (10th), Neil Tate 20:21 (17th), Ross McKelvie 20:25 (19th), Graham Webster 21:09 (25th), Darran Ames 21:27 (33rd), Mark Hughes 22:02 (39th), Jennifer Hill 22:24 (45th), Lewis McAfee 23:30 (60th), G Browne 23:41 (63rd), Susan Hawitt 24:59 (85th), Alex Tate 25:06 (89th), Adrian Sargent 25:43 (100th), Greg Oulton 26:10 (114th), Trevor Roberts 27:01 (129th), Claire England 28:58 (166th), Jeremy McCandless 30:55 (193rd), Maria Tierney 31:36 (209th), Ruth Bye 31:39 (210th), Graham Young 32:49 (228th), Gillian Oliver 33:33 (235th), Julie Wiseman 39:16 (271st), and Sue Henry 39:23 (274th).

At the Blackpool parkrun Jonathon Tuck and Lucy Tuck attended, Jonathon came 3rd in 19:09, and Lucy ran the course in 34:16.

LSARRC News 22th January 2019

Lytham runners complete half marathons over the weekend.

On Sunday 20th January Melainie Koth and Ian Tate completed the 4 villages half marathon in Helsby.  The course was completely on closed roads.  The weather was perfect for running and there was great support all the way around with lots of scout groups handing water and sweets out.  Koth ran 3 minutes faster than she did in 2011 and finished in a time of 1:31:21, coming 247th overall and 26th lady and 5th V45.  Ian Tate managed the course in 1:37:01 coming 405th overall, 360th ae and 65th V40.

Also, on Sunday several Lytham members ran the Inskip half marathon. First was Chris McCarthy coming 10th in 76:33. Second home was Andrew Draper in 78:42 for 15th.  Next was Thomas Howarth in 82:06 for 25th, all of who ran a seasons best.  Jennifer Hill and Michelle Chadwick both ran 99:54 coming 89th and 90th respectively and both ran a seasons best.

At the Lytham parkrun on Saturday 19th January Lytham had 29 club members take part.  The first 4 finishers were from LSARRC.  Andrew Draper was first to finish in 18:14, one second later Paul Veevers completed the course.  Alistair Leivers and Andy Unsworth were 3rd and 4th respectively with only 3 seconds between them.  Chris Bowker, Claire Markham., Clemmie Tierney and Sylvia Gittins.

With no local races Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes were out in force at the weekend at both Lytham Hall parkrun and Park View Junior parkrun and produced some excellent performances.

Lytham Hall parkrun

15-year-old Maddy Markham very well to finish 9th overall and was not only first of the Lytham juniors to finish but also first in her age group (JW11-15) and first female achieving a personal best time of 20:02 making her the 3rd quickest in her age group since Lytham parkrun began over 3 years ago.  Next home for Lytham was 13-year-old Sophie Bohannon 13th overall in 20:20, second female and 1st in her JW11-14 age group.  Ben Gregson 15th in 20:45 was not far behind and finished 1st in his JM11-15 age group.  Oliver Thomson ran very well to achieve a personal best time of 21:36 to finish 24th (1st JM11-14).  Finlay Hughes finished 75th overall in a time of 25:04 and 1st in his JM10 age group. Clemmie Tierney’s hard work in training is reaping rewards with Clemmie running her 4th personal best time in 5 weeks to finish 87th in 25:47 comfortably achieving her sub 26 minute target.   Francis Morrison ran his quickest time for five weeks finishing 91st in 25:59 and 3rd in his JM11-14 age group.   

Full Results
Andrew Draper 18:14 (1st), Paul Veevers 18:15 (2nd), Alistair Leivers 18:28 (3rd), Andy Unsworth 18:31 (4th), Maddy Markham 20:02 (9th overall, 1st female), Ross McKelvie 20:03 (10th), Sophie Bohannon 20:20 (13th overall, 2nd female), Ben Gregson 20:45 (15th), Chris Bowker 21:06 (19th), Darran Ames 21:15 (22nd),  Oliver Thomson 21:36 (24th), Jennifer Hill 21:52 (27th overall, 5th female), Claire Markham 23:30 (42nd overall, 7th female), G Browne 23:48 (45th), Kathy Gaunt 24:56 (70th), Jason Sheridn 24:59 (71st), Finlay Hughes 25:04 (75th), Mark Hughes 25:05 (76th), Clemmie Tierney 25:47 (87th), Terry Hellings 25:57 (90th), Francis Morrison 25:59 (91st), Adrian Sargent 26:48 (104th), Pamela Binns 28:09 (132nd), Maria Tierney 28:50 (146th), Sue Henry 29:30 (161st), Sylvia Gittins 29:42 (163rd), Bob Clough 29:57 (166th), Jeremy McCandless 31:45 (179th), and Gillian Oliver 34:32 (208th).

Susan Samme impressed at the Stanley Park parkrun, in Blackpool.  She finished in a time of 20:50, the first female to finish and coming 8th overall.  Joanna Goorney was also the first female to finish the Lancaster parkrun in 21:40.

At the kew Woods parkrun in Southport Graham Webster finished 10th in 22:18. James Buckley also completed the Preston parkrun in 24:08.

In Sunday’s Park View Junior parkrun Jayden Richardson led the way home finishing 1st for the 3rd consecutive week in 7:49 just holding off the fast finishing Charlie Ormerod finishing 2nd and just 1 second behind Jayden in 7:50.  Archie Belfield was next over the finish line for Lytham finishing 6th in 8:35.  Finlay Hughes in his 2nd parkrun of the weekend finished 7th in 8:50 with the rapidly improving Max Walker just 1 second behind running a personal best time of 8:51.  James McAfee ran well to finish 33rd also in a personal best time of 11:43.  Eleanor Collinge 43rd in 12:15 and Joshua McAfee 68th in 16:06 completed the Lytham contingent.

LSARRC News 15th January 2019

In a busy weekend for Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors the main event was the fourth fixture in the Mid Lancs. Cross Country League on Saturday 12th at Townley Park, Burnley.  Lytham were well represented in the first race of the day (the under 11 girls’ race) with 5 athletes competing.  First home for Lytham was Isabel Tuck finishing 53rd in 8:35. Clemmie Tierney (61st in 8:48) and Leoma Gill (81st in 9:41) brought the team home in 10th place.  Also competing for Lytham were Ella Wiseman (87th in 10:33) and Rosa Gill (88th in 10:37).  Lytham’s under 11 boys’ team were also well represented with Eric Wrigley (37th in 7:31), Archie Belfield (46th in 7:38) Lewis Bentley (52nd in 7:43) and Finlay Hughes (59th in 7:54) matched the girls to bring the team home in 10th place.   Sophie Bohannon was Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 girls race and in a close race with just 4 seconds separating 2nd to 4thplace produced Lytham’s best performance of the day to finish  4th in 9:34.  In the under 15 girls race Maddy Markham had her best ever race in the Mid Lancs League to finish 8th in 11:11 with Brogan Murphy also with her best finish running well to take  20th position in 11:51.  Under 15 Ben Gregson was the final Lytham junior to run and finished 38th in 15:45.

In the senior men’s race Joe Greenwood was 71st, followed by Thomas Howarth 73rd, Andrew Unsworth 76th, Paul Veevers 92nd , Jonathon Tuck 110th and Dominic Garett in 130th, this meant the first team came 13th in the team results.  The second team of Neil Tate, Graham Webster, Chris Bowker, Terry Hellings, Mark Hughes and John Bertenshaw finished 32nd.  In the senior Mens over 6o category the club did exceptionally well, the team placed 4th and consisted of Graham Webster finishing 7h, Terry Hellings 10th and John Bertenshawe 30th.

In the Ladies the team came 7th with Joanna Goorney leading the way in 8th, followed by Catherine Carrdus in 10th and Claire Markham 69th.  In the over 45 section the same team secured 2nd place.
Eric Wrigley was out racing again on Sunday and led the Garstang 2-mile fun run to win comfortably in an excellent time of 13:41.   In the adult race the Garstang 10K Pamela Binns ran 59:56:28 and Sylvia Gittins 1:00:47.

As usual several Lytham Club Members participated in the Lytham Hall parkrun, and one member travelled to the Warrington parkrun.  At Lytham Chris McCarthy was first to finish the course in just over 17:30 minutes, next home was Alex Tate who was 6th.  Jennifer Hill was the second female to finish the course.  In his best run for some time 12-year-old Morgan Pritchard ran in the Lytham Hall parkrun finishing 17th in 21:36 and first in his JM11-14 age group.  Francis Morrison finished 110th in 26:55 and 6th in the JM11-14 age group. 

Brothers James and Joshua McAfee did the tail walking job at parkrun with their dad finishing in 48:19 and 48:29 respectively (276th and 277th).

Full Results:  Chris McCarthy 17:32 (1st), Alex Tate 19:28 (6th), Darran Ames 21:21 (14th), Morgan Pritchard 21:36 (17th), Neil Tate 21:37 (18th), Graham Webster 21:39 (19th), Jennifer Hill 22:14 (27th overall, 2nd female), James Buckley 22:32 (28th), Richard Storey 23:50 (47th), Stephen Tate 24:43 (59th), Kathy Gaunt 25:12 (73rd),  Lee Vaudrey 26:08 (97th), Francis Morrison 26:55 (110th), Trevor Roberts 27:02 (115th), Laura Byrne 28:59 (149th), Bob Clough 29:09 (153rd), Maria Tierney 31:24 (199th), Sue Henry 32:04 (207th), Michelle Sheridan 33:49 (224th), Jeremy McCandless 37:04 (249th), James McAfee 48:19, Joshua McCafee 48:29 (277th) and Lewis McAfee 48:40 (278th).

Ian Tate was a tourist parkrunner at Warrington and managed 13th place with a time of 20:39.
In the Lytham junior parkrun on Sunday Jayden Richardson finished 1st for the twelfth time and for the second consecutive week with a time of 8:10 with Max 3rd in 9:00.  Leoma and Rosa Gill recovered well from Saturday’s cross country to finish 15th in 10:23 and 23rd in 11:21. James and Joshua were also out again finishing 42nd in 13:13 and 57th in 15:15.

LSARRC News 8th January 2019

Mike Toft breaks club record and Sophie Bohannon gains a Lancashire vest.

U13 Silver for Sophie Bohannon

Fourteen Lytham athletes made the trip to Witton Park, Blackburn on Saturday 5th January to compete in the 2019 Lancashire Cross Country Championships.  Condition under foot were very good with very little mud producing some fast times.

First race involving Lytham athletes was the 1.8k under 11 boys’ race.  First home for Lytham was Eric Wrigley finishing 29th in a time of 7:19 with team mate Finlay HHughes 48th in 7:46.  In the under 13 girls race Sophie Bohannon ran an excellent race to finish in second place in 12:27 for the 3k race picking up a silver medal and selection for Lancashire in the Inter Counties Cross Country championships.  Ben Gregson finished 39th in the 3.8k under 15 boys’ race in 16:13.  Lytham had two representatives in the under 15 girls’ race with Maddy Markham finishing 19th in 15:34 for the 3.8k race and Brogan Murphy 39th in 17:06.

The 6.7k senior Women’s race was the next race to include Lytham athletes and Joanna Goorney ran well to finish 15th and 2nd FV50 for a silver medal in 26:39.  Claire Markham and Gillian Oliver both in their first cross country season for Lytham finished in 49th and 82nd respectively with times of 32:50 and 42:54.

LSARRC Ladies

Final race of the day was the 9.8k senior men’s race where Lytham had further success with Terry Hellings picking up a gold medal finishing first MV65 in 44:31.  First home for Lytham was Chris McCarthy finishing 71st in 35:55.  Also representing Lytham were Neil Tate  103rd (39:50), Mark Hughes 180th (48:54) and Greg Oulton 189th (57:42).

Vet 65 Gold for Terry Hellings

Mike Toft

Sunday saw the central Lancashire half marathon take place.  It's an undulated course around lea town, catforth, Inskip and Treales before heading back to Lea. The race was well organised, and weather was perfect, Lytham had 5 runners presenting the club.  An impressive run by Mike Toft resulting in him winning the race and achieving a new clubs senior and overall record time of 01:14:06.  Neil Tate was 61st overall in 01:30:47, Melanie Koth 70th overall, 3rd lady, 1st V45 in 01:32:49, Ian Tate 101st with a time of 01:39:05 and  Mark Hughes 235th 01:55:38.  The race had 488 runners finishing.

Mel Koth

Also, Greg Oulton & Pam Hardman entered the Scout Scarr fell race on Sunday 6th January, nice calm day a bit misty higher up. Lovely race not too muddy.  Hardman ran 46.33 and Oulton 49.38.

Several Lytham runners completed parkruns, at the Lytham Hall parkrun the first 3 spots went to Lytham runners and Sylvia Gittins gained a new personal best time.

Full Results
Andrew Draper 17:33 (1st), Ross McKelvie 17:37 (2nd), Paul Veevers 17:54 (3rd),  Darran Ames 20:49 (19th), Michelle Hook 21:54 (28th overall, 4th female), James Buckley 22:05 (33rd), Morgan Pritchard 22:21 (36th), Graham Webster 22:22 (37th), G Browne 22:43 (43rd), Oliver Thomson 22:53 (46th), Kev Murray 23:17 (56th),  Richard Storey 24:01 (66th), Stephen Tate 24:11 (73rd), Jason Sheridan 26:06 (99th), Clemmie Tierney 26:19 (105th), Trevor Roberts 26:51 (117th), Pamela Binns 27:48 (138th), Maria Tierney 27:57 (141st), Francis Morrison 28:07 (144th), Laura Byrne 28:15 (147th), Bob Clough 28:17 (149th), Karen Lanigan 29:04 (159th), Sylvia Gittins 29:44 (166th), Jeremy McCandless 29:52 (168th), Laura Dilks 30:39 (179th), Michelle Sheridan 34:45 (222nd), Ella Wiseman 35:55 (236th), Julie Wiseman 35:56 (237th) and Sue Henry 36:04 (239th).

Susan Samme Kirsten Burnett completed the Blackpool parkrun at Stanley Park and Samme was the first female finisher.

On Sunday at the junior parkrun in Lytham Jayden Richardson was first home in 8:13 followed closely by Eric Wrigley in 8:21, and Archie Belfield was 4th in 8:47.  Other finishers were Sophie Tate and James and Joshua McAfee.

LSARRC News 1st January 2019

Mel Koth led the way at Leyland.

LSARRC at Worden Park

At the Boxing Day 10k, 15 Lytham runners represented the club.  A relatively flat 10k course in and around Worden Park in Leyland, all on roads... Perfect for burning off the Christmas Turkey... and the pudding... and the booze!

Perfect weather conditions and a great atmosphere meant a sold-out race with 500 runners was a great way to run off the xmas pudding.  Neil Tate was first home for the club coming 17th, another highlight was Mel Koth who ran exceptionally well and was the first female finisher.
Full Results: 17th Neil Tate 38:12, 24th Alex Tate 39:01, 46th Mel Koth 42:08 1st lady, 59th Ian Tate 43:36, 83rd Louise cox 45:46,124th James Hartley 48:32, 182nd Kirsten Burnett 52:07, 193rd Julia Rolfe 52:36, 210th Jason Sheridon 53:21, 338th Sue Henry 1:01:08, 355th Kathy Gaunt 1:01:55, 366th Julie Wiseman 1:02:50, 450th Sue Hawitt 1:15:27, 453rd Nicola wiseman 1:16:25, and 457th Michelle wiseman 1:16:49.

Astley park festive 4 took place on Sunday 30th December.  This was a new event which was organised in 3 weeks by Chorley AC and Epic Events. The course was the route of Chorley, Astley park summer trail series.  It's 4.4miles long, 2.5 laps with a killer hill to run up 3 times and runs on park paths, trails and through the woods. The event was sold out with 250 runners and a lot of runners came dressed up. 

As it was raining all night and drizzled during the race it was quite muddy in places.  Mel Koth was the only Lytham runner and she finished 27th overall, 3rd lady in a time of 31:48.

On Saturday 29th December several Lytham runners attended local, and further a field parkrun.  At the Lytham Hall Park parkrun Sophie Bohannon was the first to finish, first female finisher, and 15th overall.  Bohannon was closely supported and followed by Ross McKelvie, Darran Ames and Andrew Draper.  Junior Clemmie Tierney managed a new personal best time for the course. 

Full Results:  Sophie Bohannon 20:56 (15th overall, 1st female), Ross McKelvie 20:56 (16th), Darran Ames 21:05 (18th), Andrew Draper 21:06 (19th), Ben Gregson 21:32 (22nd), Mark Hughes 22:24 (38th), James Buckley 23:01 (44th), Morgan Pritchard 23:07 (46th), G Browne 23:08 (48th), Graham Webster 23:12 (49th), Kev Murray 23:19 (52nd), Stephen Tate 24:04 (66th), Maddy Markham 24:08 (69th), Lewis McAfee 25:05 (90th), Claire Markham 25:07 (91st), Clemmie Tierney 26:08 (109th), Julie Wiseman 27:49 (133rd), Pamela Binns 28:26 (141st), Adrian Sargent 29:07 (163rd), Maria Tierney 30:09 (173rd), Sue Henry 30:35 (181st), Trevor Roberts 51:28 (volunteer/tail walker).

At the Stanley Park, parkrun in Blackpool Chris McCarthy ran the course in 18:04 to secure 1st position and Susan Samme was the first female finisher in 20:42.  Rebecca Willetts completed the Lancaster parkrun in 32:15 and Paul Veevers completed the Crosby parkrun in 59:59 for 1st position.  At the Cassiobury parkrun Julia Rolfe completed the course in 26:20 and at the Southsea parkrun Ruth Bye managed 31:21. Terry Hellings was 12th at the Basildon parkrun, running the course in 22:44.

At the junior parkrun in Lytham on Sunday, Jayden Richardson was first home for the club in 8:09 coming 2nd overall, Archie Belfield was 4th in a time of 8.33.  Other finishers were James and Joshua McAfee and Sophie Tate.

Sylvia Gittins has been busy over the festive period on 22nd December she ran the Kingston Upon Thames parkrun in a time of 30:27 she also ran the Bushy Park Christmas day parkrun in 31:39 and the Stragglers Boxing day 4 miler in 36:43.