LSARRC News 23rd April 2019

Maddy Markham sets a club record at local parkrun and Lytham Ladies win the team event at Caldervale.

Sue Hawitt and Morgan Pritchard
celebrating parkrun milestones

Lytham St Annes RRC junior athletes produced some excellent performances at Saturdays Lytham Hall 5k parkrun.  First home for Lytham juniors was 15-year-old Maddy Markham smashing her previous best time by 57 seconds to finish as first female and 15th overall in a time of 19:05.  Markham’s time makes her the second fastest ever in her JW15-17 age group at Lytham parkrun and Lytham’s fastest ever junior girl.  13-year-old Sophie Bohannon ran well to finish 20th overall and 1st in her age category equalling her personal best time of 19:39 a time which also places her 2nd in the all-time list for her JW11-14 age group at Lytham Hall parkrun.  Oliver Thomson ran his 3rd consecutive personal best time finishing 27th in 20:35.  Morgan Pritchard was celebrating his 13th birthday by running his 100th parkrun in his fastest time for 8 months to finish 34th in 20:58.  Also representing Lytham were 11 year old Clemmie Tierney finishing 147th in 26:11 and Joshua McAfee finishing 296th in a new personal best of 34:50.

5 Lytham Runners ran the Caldervale 10 miler on Good Friday.  A beautiful day in the country, with lovely views but a challenging undulating course.  Enjoyable refreshments were then served in the village hall. The results were as follows:  Catherine Carradus 1.11.12. First lady, Jennifer Hill 1.21.45, Pam Hardman 1.33.26. 1st Vet 60, Neil Tate 1.09.2, and Mark Hughes 1.40.29.  The ladies won the team event.

LSARRC at the Caldervale 10

Lots of LSARRC attended parkruns.  At the Lytham Hall parkrun Alex Tate was first home and Joanna Goorney was first senior lady home. Full Results: Alex Tate 18:22 (8th), Alistair Leivers 18:55 (11th), Ross McKelvie 19:05 (14th), Joanna Goorney 19:37 (18th), Darran Ames 20:58 (35th), Lewis McAfee 21:52 (40th), Terry Hellings 22:34 (51st), Kev Murray 22:52 (55th), Jennifer Hill 22:59 (57th), Claire Markham 23:07 (59th), Stephen Tate 24:46 (98th), Vicki Richardson 25:48 (137th), Adrian Sargent 26:17 (153rd), Kirsten Burnett 26:54 (166th), Susan Hawitt 27:56 (194th), Claire England 27:57 (195th), Kathy Gaunt 27:58 (196th), Greg Oulton 28:08 (198th), Rebecca Willetts 28:19 (204th), Pamela Binns 28:19 (204th), Jacqui Murray 29:20 (226th), Karen Lanigan 29:30 (229th), Sue Henry 30:05 (240th), Sylvia Gittins 30:49 (251st), Bob Clough 34:13 (289th), Robert Parker 34:27 (293rd), James McAfee 34:50 (296th), Michelle Sheridan 35:04 (300th), Jeremy McCandless 37:55 (327th) and Maria Tierney 38:30 (330th).

Olivia Johnson Allen ran the Blackpool parkrun in 31:07 and Graham Webster attended the Old Deer parkrun and completed the course in 21:55 coming 11th overall.

Lytham were also well represented at the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday.  First home for Lytham was 10-year-old Jayden Richardson finishing 3rd in a new personal best of 7:19 for the 2k run.  Joe Alker finished 6th also in a new personal best time of 8:16 just losing out to team mate Archie Belfield who finished 5th just 1 second ahead in 8:15.  Also representing Lytham were Bobby Hastwell (9th in 8:42), Freddie Markham (16th in 9:05), Evie Alker (33rd in 10:44), Emily Wrigley (34th in 10:52), Joshua McAfee (60th in 13:49) and Sophie Tate (71st in 15:53).

LSARRC News 16th April 2019

Junior News

Junior Rebecca Fisher earns a gold for discus throw


Saturday saw Nine of Lytham St Anne’s RRC junior athletes attend Witton Park, Blackburn for the first fixture of the Mid Lancs. Track and Field League.

Star of the day for Lytham was under 15 girls Rebecca Fisher who competed very well in three events.  Rebecca won the discus with a throw of 20.97m over 5m clear of second place, picking up 7 points and smashing her personal best in the process.  Rebecca went on to finish 2nd in division 2 in both the 75m hurdles with a time of 13.8s and the high jump with a height of 1.30m earning a further 10 points.

 The first event on the track was the 100m where Lytham had 3 under 13 girls competing.  Quickest of the trio was Amara Thorpe who finished  3rd in her heat in a time of 15.4s earning 2 points for the club with Clemmie Tierney was not far behind in 15.8s for 1 point.  Also, in the under 13 race and making her first appearance on the track was Charlotte Fisher finishing 6th in her heat in a time of 16.9s.  Tierney and Thorpe went on to compete in the long jump and the 200m.  Tierney jumped very well in improve her personal best by 21cm to 3.65m for 11th place and 2 points.  Thorpe also jumped well to take 13th place with a best jump of 3.54m.  In the 200m Thorpe and Tierney 33.3s and 34.4s for 3 and 2 points respectively.  Charlotte Fisher went on to compete in her first ever hurdle race and despite hitting the penultimate hurdle managed to finish in 16.6s for 2nd place in division for 5 points.  Lytham’s only representative in the under 13 boys’ race was Finlay Hughes also making his debut on the track finishing in 16.6s and picking up 1 point for the club.

Under 15 boy Frankie Ball was tackling the 400m for the first time and ran exceptionally well to finish in 65.5s taking 2nd place in division 2 for 5 points.  Ball went one better in the 200m finishing in a personal best time of 28.3s and taking 1st place and 7 points in division 2.

Oliver Thomson was also making his track debut and ran well in the under 13 boys 1500m finishing 2nd in division 2 in a time of 5m 32s for 5 points.  Under 15 girl Brogan Murphy ran a very good tactical 800m race to finish 1st in division 2 in a time of 2m 46.6s picking up 7 points.  In her first year in the under 15 age group Sophie Bohannon ran well in a competitive race to finish 2nd in division 2 in an excellent personal best time in windy conditions of  5m 8.6s for 5 points.
Lytham filled the first 5 places in Sunday’s Park View junior parkrun.  First home was Jayden Richardson in a new personal best of 7m 28s.  Finlay Hughes in his second race of the weekend finished 2nd in 8m 8s closely followed in 3rd, 4th and 5th by Archie Belfield (8m 18s), Joe Alker (8m 28s) an James McAfee in a personal best  time of 11m 34s. Morgan Pritchard (35th in 11m 38s) and Joshua McAfee (61st in 14m 16s) also represented Lytham.

Three Lytham junior athletes ran in the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday with Morgan Pritchard running his 99th parkrun first home in 21m 27s for 27th place with Ben Gregson close behind in 21m 30s for 29th place.  10-year-old Freddie Markham ran well in his first 5k parkrun finishing 103rd in 26m 32s.
 
Senior news 

Julia Rolfe at the Radcliffe MT 10k

On Wednesday 10th  April Lytham’s Graham Webster returned to his preferred discipline to race in the first Northern Masters AC track meeting of the season hosted by Spenborough AC at Cleckheaton.  Webster competed in 3 events in just over 2 hours.  First event of the meeting was the 800m and Webster finished as 1st M65 in a time of 2m 50.7s.  Webster also finished as 1st M65 in the 1500m in a time of 5m 57.2s and as 2nd M65 in the 3000m in 12m 17s.

Julia Rolfe took part in the Radcliffe multi terrain 10k on Saturday.  A route that covered the trails, canal, roads and paths of Ringley, with a sharp uphill towards the finish.  Julia finished 2nd FV55 in 56.12.

Lots of LSARRC attended local parkrun and parkruns further afield.  At the Lytham parkrun first male and female spot went to Lytham runners, Hoe Greenwood and Joanna Goorney.  Other notable performances were Ross McKelvie coming 4th in 18:00 and Alistair Leivers 9th in 19:19, chased down by Neil Tate and Paul Veevers for 10th and 12th spot.  Dan Gregson and Bob Clough ran personal best times.  The Fleetwood parkrun was completed by Jennifer Hill, Jamaica Pond by Heid Haigh, John Bertenshawe completed the Blackpool parkrun, Kirsten Burnett travelled to Lancaster, Pamela Binns did the Preston park run and James Buckley completed the Pennington Flash parkrun.

Lytham Hall parkrun race director Neil Tate celebrating his 40th birthday

LSARRC News 9th April 2019

Mel Koth 1st Lady at the Darwen Half Marathon

Gavin, Mel and Jennifer at Darwen Half Marathon

Sunday 7th April was the Darwen Half Marathon, with perfect weather conditions for a challenging race.  The course has very tough hills up and down but also the most beautiful scenery. It's not a pb course with its 1500feet of climbs but the great atmosphere and support made it a great race.
3 Lytham runners took part.  Mel Koth was the first 1st lady, 17th overall, 1:32:43, 16min faster than last year and 10min course pb.  Jennifer Hill 5th lady, 70th overall, 1:44:48 and Gavin Stansfield 79th overall, 1:46:02.

Also, over the weekend, Pendle interclub fell race took place on Saturday 6th April.  Pam Hardman & Julia Rolfe were the only LSARR members to attend the event.Hardman finished in 56.05 and Rolfe 58.27.  On a beautiful spring day where better than a race on. the fells, nice & dry under foot. A hard climb then a drop down to the valley to then climb up to a steeper climb but shorter and then downhill to the end, this was not easy but enjoyable.  A bottle of the local ale for all finishers.

As usual numerous club runners completed local parkruns.  Ross McKelvie was first home at the Lytham Hall parkrun coming 2nd in 18:32. Next senior was Alistair Leivers in 19:40 for 7th.  Graham Webster ran the course in 20:37 for 11th.  Neil Bayntun-Roberts came 21st in 21:21, and next to finish was Jennifer Hill who was the second female on the day to finish in 21:32.  Other finishers included:  Kev Murray, Susan Hawitt, Claire Markham, Trevor Roberts, Matthew Holton, Pamela Binns, Jeremy McCandless, Sue Henry, Julie Wiseman, Gillian Oliver, Robert Parker and Michelle Sheridan.    Catherine Carrdus was the first female finisher at the Preston parkrun and Joanna Goorney 2nd female at the Huddersfield parkrun.

Junior news

Ten-year-old Charlotte Fisher competed in the Lancashire Schools Combined Events Championships held at Hyndburn over Saturday and Sunday.  Fisher did particularly well in the vortex howler throw taking first place with a distance of 23.59m.  Thirteen-year-old Frankie Ball was also competing on the track on Sunday at Trafford open track meeting.  Ball’s first event was the 800m where in a fast run race he finished in 4th place.  Ball went on to compete in his first ever 300m and ran very well taking the lead with 100m to go but his lack of experience over the distance meant he just got pipped on the line for first place.

As usual Lytham juniors were well represented at Lytham Hall parkrun.  First home for Lytham was 13-year-old Sophie Bohannon who ran exceptionally well finishing 6th overall and 1st female from 219 finishers in a new personal best time of 19:39. Oliver Thomson also ran a new personal best of 20:41 for 12th position overall and 1st in his JM11-14 age category.  12-year-old Morgan Pritchard, in his 98th parkrun, finished 18th in 21:11.  Also representing Lytham were Adamh Holton 37th in 23:21, Clemmie Tierney 75th in 25:23 and Matthew Holton 107th in 24:16.

Lytham juniors also had 5 athletes in the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday.  Joe Allker was the first Lytham athlete home in a time of 8:30 for 2nd place.  Bobby Hastell finished 5th in a time of 9:07.  Also running for Lytham were Evie Alker 14th in 10:49 and brothers James and Joshua McAfee finishing 32nd in 12:42 and 43rd in 13:54 respectively.

LSARRC News 2nd April 2019

Junior Maddy Markham sets a 5K club record at Salt Ayre.

Junior News

LSARRC junior ladies at the Power of 5k race.

Friday evening saw four of Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors make their way to Salt Ayre, Lancaster looking to run well competing in the Power of the 5k race.  They did not disappoint, first home for Lytham and running an excellent race to win the B race was 15-year-old Maddy Markham in a time of 19.16 smashing her previous personal best and currently ranking her 7th in the UK for 2019. Maddy also set a new LSARRC record for junior ladies and achieved a Gold club standard.

13-year-old Sophie Bohannon also ran very well to finish 3rd overall also in a huge personal best time of 19:27 ranking her 15th in the UK for 2019.  Sophie also achieved a Gold club standard.
Completing the Lytham junior contingent were 14-year-old Brogan Murphy finishing 14th in 22.03 just pulling away from team mate 16-year-old Laura Bremner who finished 16th in 22.17.  Both Brogan and Laura achieved Bronze club standards.

At Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday not content with having ran a PB the night before Maddy Markham was the first LSARRC junior back in 17th place in a time of 21:03, Morgan Pritchard was 20th 21:16, and Clemmie Tierney 78th in a PB of 24:35,

At Park View junior parkrun on Sunday Jayden Richardson was in 1st place in 07:32, Finlay Hughes 3rd 08:04, Bobby Hastwell 7th in 08:39 a new PB, Jessica McNiven 10th a PB 09:04, Freddie Markham 11th 09:17, Joe Alker 17th 10.13 and James MacAfee 37th 13:09.

Senior news

LSARRC at  Power of 5k race.

Four Lytham athletes made the short trip up to Lancaster on Saturday for the Mother’s Day 10k. Conditions were fair, and times were fast throughout the field with the temperature being close to perfect for road racing.

Mother's Day 10k at Lancster

The race takes in the historic Lancaster quayside before heading out across the Millennium Bridge and along the river to the Morecambe Triangle before turning back to climb towards the finish in the shadow of Lancaster Castle.

Jennifer Hill was first lady home for Lytham in 44.30 after a fantastic start along the narrow first 400m. Jennifer was followed in by Susan Hawitt and Kathy Gaunt finishing in 49.57 and 50 minutes respectively, with Sue playing pacemaker. Ross McKelvie, running his third race in less than 24 hours, was 5th overall in a new personal best time of 36.45 for the distance
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Also, on 30th March Sylvia Gittins ran the Coniston 14 in a great time of 2:28:29.

Other news, Julia Rolfe and Pam Hardman ran the Muddy Bottoms 9 miler yesterday 31st March, setting off from Bamber Bridge leisure centre, this was a map reading/instruction race through farm fields and trail paths, not muddy this year nice & dry and they really enjoyed it with a bonus of pies & pies at the end.  Time finished 1.59.27.

Julia Rolfe at the Muddy Bottoms 9 miler

As usual Lytham members completed local parkruns. Joe Greenwood was first to finish at the Lytham Hall Park, parkrun finishing in 18:20, followed by Alex Tate for second in 18:39.  Joanna Goorney was the second female to finish the course in 19:56, Michelle Hook was 3rd female in 20:38.  Graham Webster was 14th overall in 20:57, and a second later Darran Ames.  Other results:  Mark Hughes 22:01, Claire Markham 23:29, Jason Sheridan 24:01, Trevor Roberts 26:56, Pamela Binns 27:47, Karen Lanigan 29:00, Sue Henry 29:25, and Jeremy McCandless 30:01.  Kirsten Burnett completed the Fleetwood parkrun, Gerry Browne travelled to Newby Bridge, Richard Storey completed the Hagley parkrun and Jonathon Tuck the Preston parkrun.

LSARRC News 26th March 2019

Catherine Carrdus shines at the Cheshire 10K, coming first in her age category.

LSARRC at Cheshire 10k

Lytham Runner’s attended the Cheshire 10k.  The results were as follows: 
Graham Webster 43:35 1st vet65, Thomas Howarth 36:08, Catherine Carrdus 39:04 1st in her age category, Ian Tate 40:45 Personal Best, John Bertenshaw 46:16, and Sue Hawitt 47:13 Personal Best of over 2 minutes which she puts down to her marathon training.

The course started in the grounds of Airley Hall in Cheshire and continued out onto the surrounding countryside on closed roads. Runner’s were greeted by a saxophonist which added to the great atmosphere.  The weather was perfect crisp clear morning with blue sky’s and a little bit of sun peeping through

On Sunday Mel Koth of Lytham attended the waters Wilmslow half marathon. Koth finished in 01:32:16, 353 overall, 26th lady and 3rd FV45 out of 3800 runners. Koth reported this was a great organised race with lots of marshals, closed roads and some challenging unexpected climbs. This year was the first year they had also a 10k and fun run. It was a dry but very cold morning with some icy headwind.  

Joanna Goorney at the start of the Edale Skyline

On Sunday, Joanna Goorney ran in the Don Morrison Edale Skyline Fell Race.  The 21-mile-high level route around the Edale valley in the Peak District takes in 4300 feet of ascent.  Conditions this year were particularly dry although there was a cold blustery wind most of the way round.  The excellent pie and peas at Edale village hall after the race was most welcome.  Joanna finished in 117th place, 11th female and 1st V50 in a time of 3:48:52.

Several Lytham runners ran parkruns, and there were several personal best times.  Ross McKelvie was 3rd overall at the Lytham parkrun in a time of 17:34 (pb).  Andrew Draper was next to finish coming 9th in 18:35, Alex Tate was 10th in 19:17 and 14th was Mark Selby in 19:35.  Other Results:  Neil Tate 20:54 (22nd), Darran Ames (21:08), Jennifer Hill 21:31 (30th), Terry Hellings 22:05 (37th), Lewis McAfee 22:05 pb (38th), Mark Hughes 22:30 (41st),  Gavin Stanfield 23:46 (58th), Pamela Binns 28:19 (130th), Sylvia Gittins 29:42 (159th), Gillian Oliver 29:46 (161st), Karen Lanigan 29:53 (162nd), Maria Tierney 31:00 (177th) and Jeremy McCandless 31:04 (179th).

Sue Henry ran the Lancaster parkrun and Kirsten Burnett of Lytham ran the Blackpool parkrun.  G Browne visited Scotland and completed the Dundee parkrun.

Junior News
In a busy weekend for Lytham St Anne’s RRC juniors the main event was the first track and field meeting of the season at Stanley Park where nine Lytham juniors competed over 14 events.

First up for Lytham and also making his debut on the track was 8-year-old Archie Belfield in the under 9s 600m.  Archie comfortably won in an excellent time of 2m 12.4s.  Archie also competed in the 80m and finished 2nd in his heat in 14.2s.  Under 11 girl Jessica McNiven was also making her track debut and finished 7th in the 600m in a time of 2m 37s and 6th in her heat of the 80m in 14.1s.  Lytham had three competitors in the under 13 girls 100m.

Amara Thorpe was the quickest in 15.3s, with Clemmie Tierney finishing in 15.7s and Charlotte Fisher, also making her first appearance on the track, in 17.4s.  Amara and Clemmie also competed in the long jump with Clemmie getting the better of her team mate on this occasion with a best jump of 3.44m for 21st place and Amara clearing 3.26m for 214th.   In her 3rd event of the day Clemmie went on to compete in the 200m and ran well to finish 2nd in her heat in a time of 32.9s.

Under 15 girl Rebecca Fisher’s first event was the 75m hurdles where she finished 5th in a time of 14.75s.  Rebecca was disappointed with her performance in the hurdles but made up for it by comfortably winning the discus with a best throw of 20.28m smashing her previous best for the 1k discus by over 2.5 metres.   Francis Ball in his first race as an under 15 competed in the 800m finishing 5th in 2m 35s.  Sophie Bohannon moved from cross country for the last 3 weekends to the track this week and in her first race as an under 15 ran very well in the 1500m to finish a close 2nd in a personal best time of 5m 9.8s.

Under 17 girl Maddy Markham opted for the 3000m, her first ace over this distance, and finished very well to move into 2nd place overall (1st under 17) just failing to catch the winner by 0.8s.

Saturday morning saw five Lytham juniors make their way to Lytham Hall for parkrun.  First home for Lytham junior was Ben Gregson who finished 17th in 20.28.  Oliver Thomson achieved his target of a sub 21-minute time finishing 20th in a personal best time of 20:53 (1st JM11-14).  Also representing Lytham were Morgan Pritchard (36th in 22:04), Adam Holton (47th in 23:03) and Matthew Holton 99th in 26:33.

7 Lytham athletes competed at the Park View junior parkrun and in excellent conditions 5 achieved personal best times.  First home was Jayden Richardson finishing 1st in a personal best 7:29. Joe Alker (3rd in 8.27), Bobby Hastwell (4th in 8:46), Freddie Markham (6th in 8:54) and Evie Alker (21st in 10:28) also all ran personal best times.  Also representing Lytham were brothers James McAfee (34th in 12:12) and Joshua McAfee (43rd in 13:57)

LSARRC News 19th March 2019

Liz Abbott - 1st female at the Inverness Half Marathon

Liz Abbott put Lytham on the map with an amazing run at Inverness half marathon on 10 March to come back as 1stfemale in1:16:52.   This was Liz’s first half in almost a decade and she took close to 10 minutes off her personal best.  The time means Liz will start next month’s Manchester marathon with the elites. 

 Jacqui Murray, Kirsten Burnett and Laura Byrne at Barcalona Marathon

Also on 10 March, 3 ran Barcelona marathon.  Jacqui Murray was first back in 4:40:08, followed by Kirsten Burnett in 4:51:34 and Laura Byrne in 5:07:27.

Last weekend was a busy one, with over 180 miles of racing in total.  Heidi Haigh was possibly the only one to see sunshine as she ran the Paphos marathon in 4:11:36.

5 members took part in The Wigan Run Festival.  Sue Samme was 1st female in the 5k in 20.19,which ranks her the third in the country. Ian Tate was the next runner back (20:49), Neil Baytun-Roberts (23:14) and Kathy Gaunt (24:22). Terry Hellings ran the 10 mile race in 1:17:13 (1st V65).  Pam Hardman also completed 10 miles, setting a club age record for 1:26.06 and taking the 1st VF60 place.  Pam Binns ran the half marathon in 2:14:32 to win 1st over 70, followed by Sylvia Gittins in 2:21:35 for 2nd over 70.

Four members ran the Lakeland Trails 10k, although unfortunately Michelle Sheridan had to pull out with an injury sustained during the wet and muddy race.  Greg Oulton finished in 1:11:33, Juli Wiseman in 1:17:48, and Gillian Oliver 1:23:03.

Junior member Sophie Bohannon represented Lancashire in the Inter County XC in Leeds, finishing 87th out of 340.

At Lytham Hall parkrun, junior Maddy Markham put in an excellent performance to take the first lady finisher spot, ably paced by fellow club runner and coach Ross McKelvie.  Results were: Maddy Markham 20:13; Ross McKelvie 20:14; Joanna Goorney 20:29; Darran Ames 22:01; James Buckley 23:35; Claire Markham 23:50; Gavin Stanfield 25:08; Morgan Pritchard 25:44; Liz Boon 29:43; Sue Henry 30:06 and Jeremy McCandless 34:59.  Meanwhile at Preston parkrun, Catherine Carrdus was 2nd lady in 20:332.  Catherine was joined by Graham Webster and John Bertenshaw who ran 22:14 and 24:18 respectively.

At Sunday’s Park View junior parkrun, braving hailstones, 8 out of the 55 runners were from the club, including 4 of the 1st 5 finishers. Well done to Jayden Richardson, Finlay Hughes, Eric Wrigley, Joe Alker, Archie Belfield, Freddie Markham, Clemmie Tierney and Evie Alker for showing great spirit in dreadful conditions!

LSARRC News 12th March 2019

 The trio of Koth, Webster and Hellings impressed over the weekend.

On form Graham Webster competed in the British Masters cross country championships held in Stormont, Belfast on 9th March. Graham finished the 6k race in a time of 28:17 to take 15th place overall and 4th in his MV65 age category.  On the same day, Terry Hellings competed in the New Longton 10k on Saturday 9th.  In adverse conditions Hellings ran well to finish 50th in 45:55 also picking up the prize for 1st place in his MV65 age category.

Graham  Webster finishing the British Masters XC Champs

On Sunday 6 Lytham runners faced the horrible weather at Irwell 20-mile race near Manchester.  Melanie Koth ran superbly was the first lady to finish the course, and it was 4 minutes before the course had another female finisher, they experienced all four seasons during the race, heavy rain, hailstorm, heavy snowfall and a little bit of sunshine. Due to the weather conditions a lot of park paths were flooded, deep with mud, more like a xc race. The marshals were amazing, very supportive and encouraging!

Lytham runners at the Irwell 20 mile race

First back for Lytham was Neil Tate, 22nd overall, 2:27:06, Mel Koth was 30th overall, 1st lady, 2:35:43, Sue Hawitt 160th overall, 3:11:19, Lewis McAffee 161st, 3:11:33, Heidi Haigh 175th, 3:16:36.

 Several runners completed parkruns across the country over the weekend.  Jonathon Tuck, John Graeme Bertenshaw and Julia Rolfe completed the 3 lap Preston parkrun the times were as follows (22:15, 25:10 and 26:33.  Joanna Goorney was the second female finisher at the Huddersfield parkrun and G Browne completed the Inverness parkrun.  Chris McCarthy was 2nd at the Lytham parkrun finishing in 17:19, Ross McKelvie was 9th in 20:27 and the Darran Ames 15th, in 21:43.  Claire Markham was 3rd female in 23:26, other results Richard Harry Storey 23:50, Jason Sheridan 27:54, Julie Wiseman 31:12, Susan Hawitt 31:51, Jeremy McCandless 33:40, Michelle Sheridan 34:52, Maria Tierney 34:52, Claire England 36:30, Clare Taylor 36:49 and Sue Henry 38:04.

Junior News
Lytham’s Sophie Bohannon earned her first county vest when being selected to represent Lancashire in the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships held at Prestwold Hall, Loughborough on Saturday 9th March.  Sophie justified her selection running well in the under 13 girls race to finish 104th overall in a time of 14:15 and as 3rd counter for the Lancashire team helping Lancashire into 16th place.

Saturday also saw four Lytham juniors ran in the Lytham Hall 5k parkrun.  First home for Lytham juniors was 15 year old Maddy Markham who ran well in difficult conditions to finish 10th overall and 1st her JW11-15 age category in a time of 20:26.  Ben Gregson was next in 13th place also taking first place in his JM15-17 age category in 21:29.  11 year old Clemmie Tierney also took first place in her age category of JW11-14 finishing 69th overall in 26:16.  12 year old Morgan Pritchard recovering from injury completed his 94th parkrun in 27:35 finishing 87th.

Torrential rain did not deter 43 hardy junior athletes running at the Park View junior parkrun on Sunday including 6 Lytham juniors.  First home for Lytham was Jayden Richardson finishing 1st in 7:43 comfortably of second placed Joe Alker also a Lytham athlete finishing in 8:31.  Freddie Markham was next Lytham athlete finishing  7th in 9:28.  Despite the adverse conditions Evie Alker improved her pb by 7 seconds finishinvg 20th in 10:53.  Also flying the Lytham flag were brothers Joshua and James  McAfee  finishing 40th and 43rd in 15:13 and 17:55 respectively.