Lytham All Stars Report 26/11/18

 

It has been a busy weekend for the junior squad from Lytham St Annes  Road Running Club.  Main event of the weekend was the second fixture in The Mid Lancs. Cross Country League where Lytham had 16 athletes.  The fixture was incorporated into the British Athletics Cross Challenge held at Sefton Park, Liverpool which acts as a selection race for the British team for the European Cross Country Championships and consequently attracts some of the best athletes in the country.

First race of the day was the under 11 boys where Lytham had 5 representatives.  First home for Lytham was Eric Wrigley finishing the 2500m race in a time of 8:01 for 35th position.  Lewis Bentley (8:10, 44th), Archie Bellfield (8:15, 49th) and Finlay Hughes (8:23, 59th) were close behind.  Curtis Da’Vols in his first race for Lytham finished in 89th in a time of 10:16 with the team finishing in 10th place.  The Lytham under 11 girls were also well represented finishing as 13th team.  First home for Lytham was Clemmie Tierney in 43rd place with a time of 9:15 just out sprinting team mate Isabel Tuck (9:16, 44th).  Also competing for Lytham were Ellie Francis (51st in 9:30), Leoma Gill (59th in 9:47),
Ella Wiseman (67th in 10:52) and Rosa Gill (68th in 11:07).  In a very competitive close fought under 13 girls race Sophie Bohannon finished 5th in a time of 12:01 for the 3000m race.   Oliver Thomson was Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 boys race and finished 48th in a time of 13::05 for 3000m.  Maddy Markham in her first cross country event for the club ran well to finish 14th in 12:16 for the 3000m race.  The 3000m under 15 boys was the last race including Lytham juniors.  Louis Eunson finished 42nd in 11:49 with Ben Gregson also in his first ever cross country race for the club finishing 59th in 13:02.

Saturday also saw 8 year Max Walker in only his second biathlon competing in the national final of the British Biathlon Championships in Leeds.  The extra training Max has been putting with his coaches at Blackpool Aquatics and at Lytham St Annes Road Runners paid off as he achieved huge personal bests in his 50m swim (49.02s) and 400m run (86:21s) taking 17th place overall.

On Sunday two Lytham juniors took part in a 1 mile Fun Run in Moor Park, Preston.  Lewis Bentley finished comfortably first in a time of 5m 27s with Ella Wiseman 3rd overall and first female in 6m 47s.

With many Lytham juniors busy elsewhere just 3 Lytham Athletes competed in the Park View junior parkrun.  Jayden Richardson finished 2nd 7:59 with James McAfee (32nd in 13:59) and Joshua McAfee (36th in 15:24) also running.

LSARRC News 27th November 2018

Lytham Ladies impress at the mid-Lancashire Cross Country in Sefton.

LSARRC ladies' team at Liverpool XC

On Saturday 24th November 2018 the British Athletics Cross Challenge took place, which also included, within the race, the 2nd fixture of the mid-Lancashire cross country league.    The venue was Sefton Park, Liverpool.  The weather was perfect, dry and not too cold not like in previous years.  Several senior and junior athletes from Lytham took part.

One of the highlights was the performance of the Ladies team who manged to secure 4th team place overall, 1st team in the V35 category and 1st V45.  Lytham lady, Liz Abbot led the way finishing 6th overall (2nd L35) in a marvellous time of 29:01.  Catherine Carrdus was 16th overall and 2nd L45 in 32:32. Joanna Goorney also impressed with a tie of 33:30 and claimed 3rd overall spot in the L45 category.  Melanie Koth ran well and finished the course in 34:31 coming 5th in her respective age category and Claire Markham completed the Lytham Ladies team, running the course in 41:28.  Full Results:6th LizAbbotL35/2  29:01 (first XC), 16th Catherine carrdus L45/2 32:32, 21st Joanna Goorney L45/3 33:30, 28th Melanie Koth  L45/5. 34:31 and 106th Claire Markham L45/27. 41:28.

LSARRC men's team at Liverpool XC

Eight men represented Lytham in the senior division.  Joe Greenwood was the first to finish, coming 53rd in 34:48.  Next was Thomas Howarth in 36:54 for 100th overall position, next 101st was Neil Tate 3 seconds behind Howarth in 36:57.  Other Results included:  Jonathon Tuck 37:16 (110th), Graham Webster 42:18 (228th), Terry Hellings 43:24, Mark Hughes 45:16 27snd, and Greg Oulton 53:30 for 316th overall position.

Lytham was also well represented in the junior section.  The highlights were Sophie Bohannon coming 5th in the girls under 13 race in a time of 12:01 and Maddy Markham came 14th in 12:16 (first xc) .  9girls represented the club in the under 11 girls race they were Clemmie Tierney in 9:15 for 43rd, Isabel Tuck 44th in 9:16, Elli Francis 9.30 for 51st and Leoma Gill in 9:47 for 51st, 59th position went to Leoma Gill in 9:47, Ella Wiseman 67th in 10:52 and Rosa Gill 68th in 11:07.

In the under 11 boys the results were 35th Eric Wrigley 8:01,44th Lewis Bentley 8.10,49th Archie Belfield 8:15 59th, Finlay Hughes 8:23 89th and Curtis Da’Volls 10:16 (first xc).

U13 boys the only representative was 48th Oliver Thomson 13:05.  In the under 15 boys race Louis Eunson came 42nd in 11:49 and Ben Gregson was 59th in 13:02 which was his first cross country race.

Also, on Saturday 24th November, thirteen club members took the short trip over to Wesham to join a total of 491 participants in one of the North West’s oldest continually running 10k road races.  In more pleasant conditions than previous years, the slightly undulating course took runners around the lanes of Salwick and Lea Town.  First back for the club was Andy Unsworth in 37:32 (p14 and 4th V45), followed by Darran Ames in 42:41 (p59 and 6th V40) who set a new 27s PB around the course.  James Hartley was third junior male back 44:07 (p79).

Full results: P14 Andy Unsworth 37:32, P59 Darran Ames 42:41, P79 James Hartley 44:07, P91 Alan Elstone 44:43, P114 Dez Appleton 46:15, P135 Kev Murray 47:36, P174 Lewis McAfee 49:43, P185 Kathy Gaunt 50:22, P205 Adrian Sargent 51:23, P318 Laura Byrne 57:06, P319 Jacqui Murray 57:06, P397 Ruth Bye 62:40, andP466 Sarah Bagshaw 73:24.

At the Lytham Hall parkrun there weren’t as many Lytham club members completing the course because of the cross-country fixtures and a local 1oK race however Gavin Stanfield and David Dunn gained new personal best performances.  Neil Bayntun-Roberts was the first to finish for 4th position overall in 20:23 for 4th.  Gavin Stanfield was 7th in 21:19 and David Dunn 15th in 22:16. Other results included:  Susan Hawitt 24:20 40th, Jason Sheridan 26:37 69th, Pamela Binns 29:16 97th, Sylvia Gittins 30:26 106th, Sue Henry 30:33 107th, Paula McCandless 30:54 112th, Jeremy McCandless 30:55 113th, Robert Parker 34:57 131st and Julie Wiseman 31:51 for 160th.

Julia Rolfe of Lytham attended at the Cassiobury parkrun and ran the course in 26:37 and at the Knocknacarra parkrun G Browne ran the course in 23:24. Ian Tate travelled to the Pennington Flash parkrun and was 15th in 22:08.

Sunday saw the junior parkrun take place in Lytham.  Jayden Richardson was first home in 7:59 for 2nd, and James and Joshua McAfee also completed the course.

LSARRC News 20th November 2018

Liz Abbott smashes 12-year-old record.

Liz Abbott at the Preston 10 Mile Road Road

LSARR were represented by 10 members at the 37th Preston 10-mile road race on Sunday 18th November.  Almost perfect, albeit a slightly chilly running conditions greeted the 508 runners for the fast and flat 2-lap course around Hutton.  Andy Draper was first club runner back in 14th position with a time of 57:32. Liz Abbott was second back for the club in 28th, completing the course in 59:30.  By doing so, Abbott broke a long-standing club record, knocking 1:17 off Sue Samme’s 12-year-old record, set at the same race back in 2006.  Furthermore, Abbot was first lady back, Lancashire Champion and Lancashire FV35 Champion.  Further down the field, Darran Ames was paced round by Ross McKelvie to achieve a sub-70min PB.  Results:  P14 Andrew Draper (57:32), P28 Liz Abbot (59:30), P40 Joe Greenwood (1:00:54),P53Thomas Howarth (1:02:44), P64 Alex Tate (1:03:50),P102 Catherine Carrdus (1:07:09),P146 Darran Ames (1:09:58), P147 Ross McKelvie (1:09:58),P222 Chris Bowker (1:17:03),P370 Greg Oulton (1:29:19).

Saturday saw the 35th running of the very popular Tour of Pendle Fell Race. The route starts in Barley and takes a meandering route over and around Pendle Hill managing to cover 16.8 miles and 4800 feet of ascent.  Although mainly blue skies, a strong easterly wind added to the fun in the tough second half.  Joanna Goorney and Debbie Cooper were both in action. Joanna was 258th in 3:33:22 and Debbie was 347th in 3:51:00.

On Sunday Elfyn Gittins ran the Conway Half Marathon, completing the course in 2:25:56, coming 3rd in the over 70 category.  Also, Heidi Haigh Ran 2 days of hell of a hill marathon. 1st lady finisher both days 5.12 Wednesday time 4.49 Sunday. 4000 ft of climbing each day.

As usual several LSARRC members completed parkruns, with Lytham Hall parkrun not going ahead several runners attended the Blackpool parkrun at Stanley Park.  Ross McKelvie was first home for the club, and second overall in 20:45.  Maddy Markham was the 1st female, 7th overall in 20:45, Neil Tate 19th in 21:45.  Other Results:  Gavin Stanfield 21:54 (24th), Lewis McAffee 23:51 (53rd), Jennifer Hill 23:58 (66th), Stephen Tate 24:21 (66th), Claire Markham 24:40 (77th), Adrian Sargent 25:54 (95th), Greg Oulton 26:19 (106th), Bob Clough 29:11 (144th), Jeremy McCandless 29:59 (162nd).

At the Fleetwood parkrun Terry Hellings was 11th in 22:03, Kev Murray was next in 23:09, Jacqui Murray 26:34 and Laura Byrne 27:45.  Rebecca Willetts ran the Lancaster parkrun in just over 30 minutes.  Alistair Leivers ran the Lancaster parkrun in an impressive 19:19 for 13th position.

Three LSARRC members ran the Preston parkrun Kirsten Burnett (25:27), Julie Wiseman (30:47) and Michelle Sheridan (36:12).

Six juniors completed the junior parkrun which is held on Sunday in Lytham.  Jayden Richardson was first home in 7:48 for first position overall.  Archie Belfield was 3rd in 8:31.  Next was Clemmie Tierney in 9:24 for 7th overall and 1st female.  Other finishes included: Leoma Gill, James and Joshua McAffee.

LSARRC News 13th November 2018

Toft breaks 10K club record at Arley Hall.

At the Arley Hall 10K in Cheshire on Saturday Mike Toft shaved 4 seconds off the previous Senior Men’s 10K record, finishing in 33:45.  Graham Webster also impressed with a finish time of 43:11, the first V65, coming 205th overall out of 1347 runners.  Other runners who attended the event were Catherine Carrudus and Tom Howarth.

LSARRC at Windmill 10k

The Windmill 10k took place on Sunday, a local race starting with a moving 2-minute silence beside Lytham Windmill. The race is a fast and flat one and with great weather conditions saw some excellent performances from club runners.

Andrew Draper ran exceptionally well to finish 5th in a time of 35:18:17. Paul Veevers wasn’t far behind in 13th in a time of 38:11:66.  Neil Tate of Lytham came 28th in 40:42:92.  James Hartley ran 44:00:86 for 72nd place and Alan Elstone was 99th in 45:01:83.  James Hartley is the first junior member to complete the 10k course.

Other results included:  Mark Hughes (46:09:33, 122nd), Gerard Browne (46:21:38, 131st), Susan Hawitt (49:32:08, 22nd – first female to finish of Lytham and a new personal best time), Kathy Gaunt (50:22:59, 254th), Kirsten Burnett (50:28:54), Gill Draper (50:45:82, 273rd), Jason Sheridan (52:19:81, 273rd), Laura Byrne (56:25:01, 511th and a new pb), Ruth Wheatley (56:28:32, 514th), Louise De Gier Flood (59:39:02, 667th), Olivia Allen (1:28:45, 700th), Julie Wiseman (1:42:98, 744th), Graham Young (1:04:21, 842nd), Michelle Sheridan (1:12:05, 1061st), and Nicola Wiseman (1:14:20, 1103rd).

At the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday there were several runners who completed the course.  Andy Unsworth was first to finish for Lytham, coming 3rd overall in a time of 18:59.  Chris McCarthy from Lytham managed 5th overall in 19:27 followed by junior Maddy Markham who was second female, and 7th overall in 20:16.  Ross McKelvie was 8th in 20:17, followed by Ben Gregson (20:39, 10th), and Andrew Draper (20:42, 11th).  Ben Gregson, Oliver Thomson and Stephen Tate all gained new personal best times. Darran Ames was 16th, 1st VM40 in 21:01.

Other runners included:  James Buckley (21:50, 23rd), junior Oliver Thomson (21:56, 25th), Neil Tate (21:56, 26th), Kev Murray (22:54, 35th), Stephen Tate (23:25, 40th), G Browne (23:41, 47th), Finlay Hughes (24:39, 70th), Mark Hughes (24:41, 72nd), Claire Markham (24:57, 77th), Adrian Sargent (26:05, 92nd), Greg Oulton (26:31, 100th), Jacqui Murray (26:46, 107th), Pamela Binns (28:41, 140th), Jeremy McCandless (29:18, 146th), Bob Clough (29:24, 147th), Sarah Bradshaw (32:51, 179th), Claire England (32:52, 180th), Maria Tierney (35:26, 202nd), Jason Sheridan (36:57, 208th), Pamela Hardman (37:42, 211th), Michelle Sheridan (38:30, 215th), Daniella Neggiora (46:03, 223rd), Ruth Bye (46:06, 225th), Laura Byrne (01:10:29, 227th), and Julie Wiseman (1:10:30, 228th).

Paul Veevers and Rae Willougby made the short journey to Stanley Park to complete the parkrun.  Veevers ran the course in 18:49 for 3rd place.   Terry Hellings attended the Princes parkrun and came 74th in 22:35. Joanna Goorney was a tourist park runner at Hyndburn and she managed to be the first female finisher in 22:40.  Finally Alistair Leivers completed the Coventry parkrun in 18:49 for 5th.
On Sunday a number of junior completed the Lytham parkrun.  Jayden Richardson finished first in 8:02.  Archie Belfiled was 3rd in 8:43, Finlay Hughes was 4th in 8:49.  Leoma Gill ran the course in 9:53 for 10th and sister Rosa Gill managed 11:26 for 23rd.  Other runners for Lytham included Sophie Tate, James McAfee, and Joshua McAfee.

On a different note the club held its annual ballot for the London Marathon and Sue Hawitt is representing the club in 2019.  There were 7 members who met the criteria and Lauren Burnett did the draw which was recorded live at the club for members to watch.

LSARRC News 6th November 2018

The Saucony National Cross-Country Relay Championships was staged in Berry Hill Park in Mansfield on Saturday. The was the 30th year that the English Cross-Country Association have held the event at this venue and there were over one thousand teams entering the ten races.

Lytham St Anne’s Road Running Club entered a full team of four in the senior men’s event, each running a 5K leg. The event always attracts the country’s top cross-country athletes, and the bone-dry conditions led to fast times with several competitors running their legs in under 15 minutes. 

Chris Bowker, Graham Webster, Jonathan Tuck and Neil Tate ran each leg in turn with Jonathan putting in the fastest time for Lytham. Out of 153 full teams to finish Lytham’s men finished 117th , no mean feat when competing against such a high standard.

Greg Oulton and Nigel Simpkin also made the 300-mile round trip to run in an incomplete team.
Lytham results from Mansfield. A Team: Leg 1, Chris Bowker 22:19. Leg2, Graham Webster, 22:21. Leg 3 Jonathan Tuck, 18:56 and leg 4, Neil Tate 19:25. Total team time 01:23:02. Also, Greg Oulton 27:42 and Nigel Simpkin 28:13.

On Sunday 4th November three intrepid Lytham runners headed up the motorway to Keswick for the Derwentwater 10, a rather hilly ten-mile race starting in Keswick. Going clockwise round Derwentwater and with a total climb of about 800 feet, it's certainly not a pb course, but hugely enjoyable. After all the rain the night before many of the roads had streams running down them with icy cold water straight off the mountain side.  The fine rain greeted the runners for the first 4 miles and then the sky became clear, the runners getting great views of Derwentwater whilst climbing to the top.

Pam Hardman was first home for Lytham in 1:30:20 (269th, 1st FV60, a new club record), Julia Rolfe finished in 1:32:07 (284th) with Greg Oulton in 350th place in 1:39:13.

Also, on Sunday it was the “35th through the villages” race, a very rural and tough 8.5miles around/ through the villages of wheelton, Brinscall and Abby village with some brutal inclines/ hills to test the stamina of the runners.
Perfect weather and great support around the course helped immensely to tackle the hills.

Melanie Koth and junior James Hartley represented Lytham.

Melanie Koth finished 51st overall, 4th lady and first V45 in a time of 59:47 (a course PB).

James Hartley finished 131st overall, 115th male and 2nd Junior Male in a time of 1:07:58.

Over the weekend several Lytham members completed parkruns around the country.  At the Lytham Hall Park parkrun Andrew Draper was first home securing 3rd place in 18:18 and Paul Veevers a second later for 4th.  Alex Tate was 7th in 19:14. Jennifer Hill was first female in 21:59 and junior Oliver Thomson impressed with a new pb of 22:16 for 31st spot.  Other Results included:  Neil Bayntun-Roberts 21:09 (16th), Darran Ames 21:11 (17th), James Buckley 21:24 (21st), Ben Gregson 21:55 (27th), G Browne 22:49 (39th), Gill Draper 24:03 (56th), Adrian Sargent 26:36 (100th), Laura Byrne 27:50 (112th), Bob Clough 27:53 (115th), Jeremy McCandless 27:56 (116th), Rebecca Willetts 28:44 (138th), Karen Lanigan 29:52 (156th), Graham Young 30:20 (167th), Julie Wiseman 30:29 (168th), Michelle Sheridan 34:44 (197th) and Kirsten Burnett 45:08 (219th).

At the Blackpool parkrun Andy Unsworth was 3ed in 18:49. Other attendees from Lytham were junior Clemmie Tierney, Pamela Binns and Maria Tierney.  Liz Abbott was the second female at the Preston parkrun and at the Basildon parkrun Terry Hellings was 17th.

Morgan Pritchard attended a parkrun whilst on holiday in America and attended the Clermont Waterfront parkun and finished the course in 24:09.

At the junior parkrun on Sunday Jayden Richardson was second, next home for the club was Archie Belfield who was 3rd and Finlay Hughes 6th.  Clemmie Tierney was first female and Sophie Tate also completed the course.

LSARRC News 30th October 2018

Lytham Juniors at Fairclough Fun Run

As ever Saturday morning started with a parkrun for many of our runners.

Catherime Carrdus and John Bertenshaw ran the Preston parkrun finishing in 20:55 and 22:22. Alistair Leivers participated in the Coventry parkrun, finishing in 19:17. Neil Bayntun-Roberts entered the Hampstead Heath parkrun completing his race in 22:05. The LSARRC members who travelled the furtherst for parkrun this week were the Mcafee’s, they competed in the Clermont Waterfront parkrun. Lewis finished his race in 22:28, James in 45:48 and Joshua in 47:47. Joanna Goorney entered the Keswick parkrun and finished her race in 21:01. Stephen Tate ran the Dalby Forest parkrun competing the event in 24:37. Most Lytham runners ran the Lytham Hall Parkrun this weekend and achieved brilliant results. Joe Greenwood was the first Lytham runner to finish and second male overall, completing his run in 17:55. Andrew Draper finished his run in 18:00, Grahm Webster in 20:58, Maddy Markham in 21:16 and Terry Hellings in 21:59. Darran Ames was the next Lytham runner back in 22:06, Jennifer Hill in 22:17, Gavin Stanfield in 22:20, Dave Dunn in 22:51 and Mark Hughes in 22:57. Ben Gregson finished his race in 23:47, Gill Draper in 24:24, Claire Markham in 24:58 and Greg Oulton in 26:46. Laura Byrne n 27:50, Bob Clough in 28:26, Julie Wiseman in 29:04, Gillian Oliver in 29:59 and Paula McCandless in 30:31. Jeremey McCandless finished in 30:33, Graham Young in 30:42, Ruth Bye in 32:24 and Michelle Sheridan in 34:26. 

LSARRC juniors at Fairclough Fun Run

Sundays Fairclough Fun Run was the second race in the Lytham St Annes RRC junior road race championship and Lytham juniors were put in force with 17 athletes making the trip.  The race is an off road hilly 1 mile course held entirely within Wyreside Country Park.  Lytham athletes filled the first 5 places and 8 out of the first 9 places with 13 year old Sophie Bohannon taking the lead very early in the race and never relinquishing it finishing very strongly in an excellent time of 5m 41s, 28 seconds clear of the second athlete Lytham’s 9 year old Jayden Richardson who also finishing strongly in 6m 9s.  Third and fourth were Lytham’s 12 year old Frankie Ball (6m 14s) just outsprinting team mate 14 year old Ben Gregson (6m 15s) reversing the previous weeks result at the Green Drive Mile.  Next home for Lytham and in fifth place was 11 year old Oliver Thomson (6m 20s).  Lytham also filled seventh, eighth and ninth places with 10 year old Eric Wrigley finishing seventh in 6m 25s just getting the better of 15 year old Laura Bremner  (8th in 6m 28s) and 8 year old Archie Belfield (9th in 6m 34s).  8 year old Max Walker just out sprinted team mate 10 year old Finlay Hughes to finish 13th and 14th in 6m 54s and 6m 56s respectively.  Lucy Bohannon just held off the challenge of Clemmie Tierney to finish 15th in 7m 03s with Clemmie just 2 seconds behind in 16th place.  Next home for Lytham were10 year old  Leoma Gill (23rd in 7m 46s) and with Kiefer Richardson (24th in 7m 53s).  Also representing Lytham were 10 year old Ella Wiseman in her first season competing for Lytham finishing 28th in 8m 21s, 8 year old Rosa Gill (30th in 8m 33s) and Emily Wrigley (34th in 9m 01s).  A great turn out form Lytham juniors doing the club proud.

Just two Lytham juniors ran the Park View junior parkrun this week as most chose to run the Fairclough Fun Run but Finlay Hughes decided to do both finishing third in the junior parkrun with a time of 8m 57s before dashing to Wyreside Country Park for his second race of the day just an hour later.  Sophie was Lytham’s only other representative finishing 61st in 18m 11s.

At Lytham Hall pakrun 15 year old Maddy Markham was Lytham’s only junior athlete finishing 15th overall from 210 finishers, second  female and first in her age category with a time of 21m 16s for the 5k course.
             
On Sunday afternoon Ross McKelvie and Kirsten Burnett raced in the Lancaster Jailbreak 10K. The race was described as a good fast flat course until the evil hill to finish into the castle grounds. Ross came 7th overall in 38:42 and Kirsten finished in 51:58.

LSARRC News 23rd October 2018

Start of Green Drive Junior Mile

At this weekend's Lytham Hall parkrun, 27 LSARRC took part. The first runner back was Chris McCarthy in 17:12, Andrew Draper in 17:44, Alex Tate in 18:28 and James Buckley in 21:04. Graham Webster was the next runner back I 21:29, Ben Gregson is 21:42, Morgan Pritchard in 21:51 finishing just before Terry Hellings in 21:52. Maddy Markham was next back, finishing first in her age category, in 22:00, Gerry Browne in 22:41, Gavin Stafield in 23:17 and Kev Murray in 23:45. Gill Draper finished her race in 23:58, Finlay Hughes in 24:42, Mark Hughes in 24:43 and Kirsten Burnett in 24:58. Eric Wrigley finished his race in an impressive 25:39, Jacqui Murray in 26:00, Greg Oulton in 26:42 and Adrian Sargent in 26:48. Laura Byrne finished in 27:20, Rebbecca Willetts in 29:07, Graham Young in 30:26 and Paula McCandlessin 31:27. Jeremy McCandless completed his race in 31:29, Michelle Sheridan in 33:51 and Sarah Bagshaw.

There were also a number of LSARRC parkrun tourists this weekend. Darran Ames competed in the Old Deer Park parkrun in 21:45. Lorna Cragg completed her race at Preston in 35:26. Alistair Leivers raced at the Coventry parkrun in 20:02. Jennifer Hill and Olivia Johnson Allen took part in the Blackpool parkrun, finishing in 22:42 and 28:07 respectively. Neil Bayntun-Robers raced in the Bakewell parkrun in 24:14.

Start of Green Drive 5

Jonathan Tuck

On Sunday it was the club’s annual Green Drive Five and Junior mile. The five-mile event was once again sold out well in advance and was a great occasion with 403 finishers. Bob Clough, in his final stint as Race Director, was relived the rain held off- after last year’s Storm Brian caused some worries- and all his plans came together like clockwork. The race is popular with clubs and non- affiliated runners alike and is also used as the Lancashire AA 5 mile championship race, It’s a great distance for those newer to running, who saw some Lytham Hall parkrun participants take the step to a more competitive running event with the assurance that it would be just as supportive and friendly. Rob Danson of Wesham Road Runners held onto his crown to take the win in 25:41, closet followed by Altringham’s Dave Norman (26:00) and Simon Croft from Red Rose Runners in 27:09. Emily Japp from Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC took the Ladies win, the previous course (also set by her) with 27:47 and doubling her prize money. Second lady was Carla Davies of Red Rose (28:58) and third was Lytham’s own Catherine Carrdus (31:30). Red Rose was the biggest team represented and win both the male and female team prize.

Catherine Carrdus

Many of Lytham’s members were out marshaling on the course or supporting finishers, ably co-ordinated by Michelle Sheridan who was also the tail runner. A few did manage to take part as runners. Results: Ross McKelvie (30:15, 21st): Jonathon Tuck (30:21, 24th); Paul Veevers (30:41, 27th); Thomas Howarth (31:23, 33rd); Catherine Carrdus (31:30, 34th); Neil Tate (32:04, 40th); Barbara Holmes (35:08, 78th); John Bertenshaw (35:13, 81st); Rob Thompson (35:15, 82nd); Gavin Stansfield (36:29, 103rd); Mark Hughes (37:58,124th); Russ Chew (38:16, 127th); Peter Reid (38:49, 134th); Stephen Tate (39:42, 162nd); Claire Markham (40:28, 177th); Kirsten Burnett (41:22, 189th); Matthew Hill (41:39, 193rd); Trevor Roberts (42:49, 211th); Ruth Wheatley (46;13, 277th) and Angela Bremner (50:46, 349th). In the Lancashire competition, Lytham’s men’s team took second place being Wesham while the ladies too 3rd place. Barbara Holmes took the medal for first FV55.

107 juniors aged from 4-15 years ran in the junior Mile. 13 year old Luke Rawcliffe of Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC came in first position in a time of 05:16, first female runner was Lucy Tickle in a time of 05:55. Lytham had 27 runners; Jayden Richardson 06:03, Ben Gregson 06:04, Morgan Pritchard 06:04, Maddy Markham 06:05, Charlie Ormerod 06:18, Frankie Ball 06:20, Eric Wrigley 06:22, Laura Bremner 06:22, Archie Belfield 06:24, Finlay Hughes 06:33, Oliver Thompson 06:42, Billy Breakell 06;47, Max Walker 06:45, Clemmie Tierney 06:52, Isabel Tuck 07:07, Eleanor Francis 07:08, Lucy Tuck 07:13, Rebecca Fisher 07:14, Reef Breakell 07:16, Amara Thorpe 07:22, Charlotte Fisher 07:26, Leoma Gill 07:30, Rosa Gill 08:31, Ella Wiseman 08:40, Sebastien Koth- Wragg 09:20, Freya Thorpe 10:10, Sophie Tate 10:17. Lytham also won the 1st male team prize with Jayden Richardson, Ben Gregson and Morgan Pritchard.

Lytham's junior 1st male team