Archive | 2022

Cross Country at Leigh – Mid Lancs League

It was a good day at Leigh for the cross country, where we had 13 runners competing across all the age ranges from U11 to Seniors. The day started particularly positively as the cafe was open early and served up a tremendous portion of pie and peas at  molten lava temperature, which stood us in […]

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51st Parbold Hill Race

Thanks to Mark Bleasdale for the summary from yesterday’s Parbold hill race. Some strong performances at the wet and windy 51st Parbold Hill race. Kevin Usher stormed to a 12th place winning the V55 cat and beating most of the other vet categories too. Pre race favourite Sam Carr had to settle for 18th place […]

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LPS Athletes – weekend action

Wow, what a busy weekend of events! Well considering there was no league races this weekend our athletes have had a really busy few days either representing their districts, taking part in 10k, 5 mile events, participating in the BUCS cross country for Edge Hill University, running in the welcome return of the Halewood 5k […]

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Charlie Kelly

Charlie Kelly

Sadly news reaches us of the death of Charlie Kelly at the age of 97. A talented Pembroke runner of the post war years he was the first Pembroke athlete to gain international status. I have published below an article from the Pembroke History written by Charlie Gains Charlie Kelly: The club`s first track international […]

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Athlete & Triathletes needed for research study at Edge Hill

Tom Faraday is looking for runners & Triathletes to participants in an Endurance Running Research Study Tom is investigating the use of a resistance exercise session to prime the day before for a 5 km TIME TRIAL RUN and need volunteers to take part! Study Title: The physiological and biomechaninical effects of a resistance priming session […]

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Lisa Gawthorne & Tony O’Brien

Lisa & Tony Take Gold, 3 LPS athletes in Lancashire Team

A welcome sight at Sheffield for the indoor championships where Tony O’Brien and Lisa Gawthorne both took home gold in the 3000m. Tony winning the British Masters in 9:01 and Lisa the V40 womens’ in 11:27.  It’s been a good weekend for the club   Three LPS in Lancashire Team Finally, Ive just seen the […]

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NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPS – PARLIAMENT HILL LONDON, SATURDAY 26TH FEB

We are looking into hiring a coach to take our athletes and spectators linked to the club to London on Sat 26 Feb, where we currently have a small number of athletes participating. If we can provide transport, albeit a very early start, it may enable others to compete or to come along and support […]

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Anna Peers

Northern indoor championships

LPS athletes travelled over to Sheffield over the weekend to compete in the North of England indoor championships, pride  of place must go to our only medallist Tom Kwissa who took bronze in the senior mens high jump. I think he’ll agree with me that he’s probably a little disappointed with his 1.85m but, nevertheless, […]

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Kirsty take Northern Master Half Marathon Title

Well done to Kirsty Longly, who won the Northern Masters Half Marathon championships held within the Helsby half marathon with a really solid 78:25. One of the most popular half marathons in the country and attracting over 1000 runners, Kirsty turned in yet another superb performance  and was the 2nd female overall.

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Pls under 15s at Blackpool

Under 15 Girls Excel at Blackpool

Another great set of results for our very talented u15 girls group at the Mid Lancs at Lawsons Ground in Blackpool today. The team finishing 1st overall. Erin Frost finished in 2nd place on 12:26whilst sisters Sarah and Anna Yates came in very strongly in 5th and 14th places to ensure the team took overall […]

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