Exciting 5k podium festival at Leicester.

Many sub 15 expected.

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Keeping up with the Joneses

Many thanks to our Ladies Cross Country Captain, Debbie Crook, for the report on a very successful Parbold Hill race for LPS. There’s lot’s of noteworthy performances but a special mention to Dan Jones – who won this years gruelling event and to his brother Adam for more dives than Tom Daly. Here’s Debbie’s report: […]

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Albert Knowles

Albert ‘Bertie’ Knowles 1934-2024

Funeral will be at Thornton Crematorium on Wednesday 28th February at 13.30 One of most memorable and pleasant characters of local athletics sadly passed away on the 2nd February 2024 at the age of 89. Albert ‘Bertie’ Knowles had been involved in athletics for over 70 years. As a young boy growing up in post […]

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Mud Slingers at Witton, feet of flames at Halewood & Battersea

The annual January mud fest at Witton Park lived up to expectations as our athletes took part in the Lancashire Cross Country Championships, many of whom looked like they were auditioning for the Persil automatic adverts at the end (ask your mum or dad). It’s always great to see our younger athletes turn out for […]

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Condolences

Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton are sad to announce the passing of two former members who died during December.   Geoff Warriner was a member of the very successful Pembroke road and cross team of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Geoff was Liverpool & District cross country champion in 1961 and 1962. He was active club […]

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Muddy hell on a wet and wild weekend

Hats off to anyone who ran this weekend. Whether that was doing the front crawl at Ormskirk Park run swim event, Skelm’s attempt to recreate American Werewolf in London at the L&D cross country at the Beacon or those making in up the mid lancs team at Lancaster. Literally hats off to those there because […]

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The Big 50!

50 years ago this year, Bruce Springsteen released his debut album, the famous western “Bonanza” finished after 440 episodes, Russia began a radio controlled exploration of the moon, George Foreman beat Joe Frazier to win the WBC and WBA heavyweight titles and the Vietnam War ended. In the same year Pink Floyd released “Dark Side […]

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A run in the park, a day in the lakes

ERRA National Road Relays – Sutton Park The 6 stage relays is one of the most anticipated road running events in the calendar.  The quality of competition is excellent, each year “names” from the athletics world take part wearing their club vests.  This year was no different with Stewart McSweyn, Philip Sesemann, Omar Ahmed and […]

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LPS on the Trail and Road

The road and trail race season is gathering pace with events seemingly happening every week. This week, the two that LPS members mostly attended were the Mawdesley 10k trail and the Knutsford 10K. Co Cross Country Captain Andrew Foster came home 4th on the day and 1st in his age group with a time 39:43 […]

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Young guns having some fun

We had a good turn out at the North West Road Relays last week with our Senior Men Team and U13 boys team both winning silver medals.   It’s rare that we have entered junior teams in the relays but was great to be able to enter U11 boys , U13 girls , U13 Boys, […]

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