Helen Saghal and Lisa Gawthorne raced at the Spring Oulton Park duathlon on 29th April, this event should have taken place in March but was cancelled due to snow. Helen won her age group with Lisa taking 3rd in the same age group, this is likely to be the girls last duathlon before the world […]
Archive | 2018
Excellent Debut from Matthew
Seventy LPS athletes made the journey to Preston for the second fixture in this season’s Mid-Lancs Track & Field league. There were some excellent individual performances, none more so than from debutant, Matthew Hughes (U15B). The 14 year old from Formby was a comfortable winner of both 100m (12.3 sec) & 200m (24.9 sec). Other […]
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LPS Ladies first and second at Tunnel 10k
The annual Mersey Tunnel Run took place on Sunday with over 2,500 entries. The race started on the Liverpool side of the Mersey before entering the tunnel after 1Km. It was a steady ascent for the next 2K before the athletes saw daylight on the Wirral side. The final 5K from the Wallasey ferry terminal […]
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Debbie Campbell wins Curlys 5k Series
Debbie Cambell completed a hat rick of victories in the Curlys 5k trail series in March and early April. The three off road races are held in and around the Horwich area over hilly trail courses. Andrew Foster was also successful in the series with two 3rd places and a 4th which was enough to […]
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Double delight for Matt
There was double delight for Matt Ingram at the first Mid-Lancs track & field meeting held at Blackburn’s Witton Park. His leap of 13.89 metres in the triple jump not only broke the club’s junior record, but put him 3rd on the all time club rankings. Just for good measure he comfortably won the long […]
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Kirsty & Lisa Gawthorne take top two places at Hale 5, Hannah Doyle 10th at Rivington
Hale 5 mile Easter Sunday It was one two for LPS ladies at the Hale 5 mile road race on Easter Sunday as Kirsty Longley won this popular event and teammate Lisa Gawthorne taking second place. In a large field of 541 finishers, Kirsty was 7th overall and first lady in a new pb of […]
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Kirsty wins Liverpool ‘half’ marathon and gets call up from England
Kirsty Longley continued her recent good run of form by winning the Liverpool half marathon on 25th March, she completed the course in 76.29 which would have been an impressive pb at this distance. However due to the course being measured about 400m short along with many other athletes who ran well on the day […]
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Winning start for Hope.
Hope Kennedy travelled to Spenborough in Yorkshire to compete in her first track & field meeting of the season. The 14 year old from Ormskirk took part in the Sheila Bolland Memorial Meeting and it was well worth the journey. Hope won the under 15 girl’s javelin with a throw of 26.55 metres, slightly below her […]
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Northern 12 Stage Road Relay – Birkenhead Park
This year’s team of Dan Slater (25.17) , Luke Edwards (12.09), Greg Callaghan (28.57), James Metcalfe (13.09), Chris Pedder (31.28), Jonathon Bride (13.03), Mike Gall (29.12), Kevin Usher (12.55), John Halson (15.33), Bernie Murphy (14.16),Andrew Conway (15.44), Robbie Wood (17.08) took to the tree lined setting of Birkenhead Park which proved to be an ideal […]
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Jamie completes 25 Liverpool Half Marathons
Club chairman Jamie Doolan completed his consecutive 25th Liverpool half marathon on Sunday 25th March 2018. Jamie along with one other athlete are the only two who have competed in all the Liverpool half marathons going back to 1994. Jamie time this year was a very respectable 1.39 and along with a few athletes from […]
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