Archive | 2022

“Hark” the herald, 3 kings & a rising star

Hitting the V50 mark hasn’t slowed Thomas Harkin at all as he continues to churn out impressive results. On 4th December he competed in the Mytholmroyd fell race, which is a 6 miles / 9.7km run with 500m rather than a medical condition, and finished in a time of 54:57. This was 17th overall and […]

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Tony masters Cross Country with an Elle of a performance, whilst Se smashes the course record.

Winter is definitely here! The mud, rain, frost and big coats are out in force. Of course this also means it’s cross country season, so get out the Daz stain removal kits or extra strength aerial automatic because those lovely white vests with a black and red stripe are going to be mud splattered very […]

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Fireworks at Barrowford & Fair play to Tom in NY

October ended with a bang for Elle Anderson at Podium 5k in Barrowford where she smashed her PB with a 1st sub 17 time of 16:48. Elle was part of a three person LPS team with Nick Turner finishing in 17:34 and Andrew Foster 17:53. Over the same weekend Dan Brookfield achieved his PB in […]

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Fun in the mud and a dash across Leeds 

Witton Park – Mid Lancs  Cross Country season started with a lively event at Witton Park, Blackburn.  LPS was well represented and it was great to see a number of our younger athletes taking part for the first time.  In the under 11 girls, the diminutive Poppy Colothan finished superbly in 11th place, completing the […]

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2023 London Marathon

LPS are likely to have a single club entry for the 2023 TCS London Marathon which takes place on Sunday 23rd April. I should have final confirmation of how many places we have been allocated by Tuesday 29th November. If you would like to be considered for the place, then please let club secretary, Karen […]

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A Tale of Three Cities

Another busy few weeks for LPS as we had athletes pounding the tarmac in multiple road races.  Manchester Luke Edwards made his half marathon debut with a tremendous sub 70 finish in 69:49. This was not only a fabulous performance but also saw him finish 12th overall out of 8236 athletes, not bad for a […]

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Let’s ‘And it to Elle as Mark hits the wall in Malta

Another positive week for team LPS with our athletes competing across the world.  Lisa Gawthorne kept us all in suspense as she broke her PB … again for 10k.  Less than a week after running for England in the masters event, she popped over to USA and took part in the 45th Manhattan Beach Old […]

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National Recognition for LPS

PB for Lisa representing England masters During the week we saw Lisa Gawthorne don her England vest for the master’s team she ran 10k in the Great Bristol Run.  It couldn’t have gone better for her as she finished with a PB of 38:38.  This is yet another in a long line of PB performances […]

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LPS “Roll With It” in the relays whilst Kirsty is “Homeward Bound” in Park Run

The week started with Kirsty Longley smashing the all time V45 womens’ Park Run record.  A tremendous achievement as her time of 16:52 at Widnes  was 5 seconds faster than the previous record which had stood since 2020. On Sunday we had a number of athletes taking part in the Warrington Running Festival.  Al Grant, […]

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Chloe “Leathers” it!

Fantastic news coming from England Athletics today for Chloe Leather and coach Mark Bleasdale as she received confirmation of her selection for the England Women’s U23 mountain running team.   This is Chloe’s 1st England vest and she will represent her country in the Trofeo Vanoni Mountain international race in Morbegno, Italy on 22-23 October. The […]

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