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STOP….It’s Hammer time

Marbel Casey at just 13 years old has thrown 41:26 in the county qualifying event for English Schools. This is an amazing 4 metres more than the qualification standard. This is only the 2nd time a LPS lady has thrown over 40m. The 1st being Marbel again 10 days ago. Another person on fire is […]

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The over the Harrock Hill mob

The Harrock Hill race series started again on wednesday with a good turn out from LP&S.  Running 5.3 miles across mainly trail is an extreme way to address the cost of living crisis to get a free box of vegetables but at least 5 of our team of 8 got more cabbages than a Crackerjack […]

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Northern League Match 1 – Macclesfield

Race day update to follow from Dave, but here’s a few videos from the day.  Ross Harrison in 800m, James Read in 400M and Se Loughlin in 1500m. James Read in 400M

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Ten hours on his feet leaves Tom feeling a little peaky

Tom Harkin continues with his one man pursuit of a million miles in a year with fabulous effort in the Pennine Barrier Ultra 50 mile race.  Tom finished the race in 23rd place in a time of 10:24.53 which saw him climb 2600m over 5 mountains, including the Yorkshire 3 Peaks. Whilst our bionic Maltese […]

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Lisa is on top of the world

The year gets better and better for Lisa Gawthorne who has become a world masters champion.  It’s a reward for a huge amount of effort and dedication and follows her European award only 6 weeks ago.  Here are Lisa’s own words telling the story : World Champion I honestly cannot believe it. A dream beyond […]

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LPS in the Community – Park Run Takeover

The sun was shining and we arranged for the wind to stop for our second Liverpool Pembroke and Sefton Harriers Park Run takeover. In fact, it was about this time last year when we did our first one. Hopefully, if Keith, Stelios and the rest of Ormskirk Park Run will have us, we will make […]

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TONY O’BRIEN- WORLD CHAMPION

The headline says it all. Congratulations to Tony O’Brien who became 3000m indoor masters world champion today in Poland. More photos to follow but in the meantime, here’s the finish 🏆👑🏆👑🏆🏅🏅🏅🥇🥇

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European Gold for Lisa!

What an amazing two weeks it has been for Lisa Gawthorne.  Two weeks she ran for England in the masters team in the Chester 10K running a solid 38.51. Lisa said that the course was quite challenging and hilly in parts but it was another special experience being part of the team for the third […]

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Independence day for young athletes

Last weekend we had three young athletes representing their districts in the national finals of the Independent schools cross country championships, which took place in Worksop. Anna and Sarah Yates ran in the year 10/11 girls, both finishing well with Sarah taking an impressive 5th place and Anna 19th. In the year 7 girls, Hattie […]

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National Cross Country Championships

Last weekend  The Saucony English Cross Country Championships were held at Bolesworth Castle, near Tattenhall, Chester. The full set of results can be found here where LPS had 3 of the 1473 athletes running, Thomas Harkin, Tom Mattack and Chris Pedder, all of whom completed the gruelling 12k race. Thomas Harkin was our 1st finisher in […]

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