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Joined Sefton Harriers in October 1969. Current website editor
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Andrew Foster

LPS pick up series winners prizes at Harrock Hill

Andrew Foster V/45 and John Dickinson V/50 both won their respective age group categories in the 2017 Harrock  Hill race series and Mark Hudson collected 3rd in the V/55. The Harrock Hill race is run over 5 miles off road through the Lancashire countryside near Parbold and the series is decided by best of three […]

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Notice of 22nd Annual General Meeting

The 22nd Annual General Meeting of Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton H&AC will take place at SPORTING EDGE, Ormskirk on Friday September 15th, commencing at 7.30pm. All members are invited to attend. If you have any resolutions you wish to propose or any nominations for positions within the club, then they must be sent in writing […]

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Lisa Gawthorne Helen Saghal at ITU World Multi Sport championships in Canada

LPS Ladies shine at ITU World Multi Sport championships

Penticton is a stunning Canadian lakeside resort surrounded by mountains with forests (full of deer, bears and rattle snakes). It was a great choice to have the ITU World Multi Sport championships for sure though given the beautiful lakeside/ beach combination setting that any sports orientated individual would just love. Atheltes were being flown in […]

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Clare Constable

Clare flys LPS flag at European Masters

Clare Constable represented the UK in the European Masters at Aarhous, Denmark earlier this month. Competing in the V/45 age group she successfully negotiated the 400 m heats in 62.51 and reached the final. A niggling achilles injury reoccurred in the final and she wisely pulled up so as not to spoil her chances in the […]

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Edge Hill Aerial Photo

Aerial photos of Edge Hill University

John Dickinson had the good fortune of being a passenger in a light aircraft which flew over Edge Hill University on route to Blackpool airport on the 10th August, he has kindly provided us with a couple of aerial photos which I am sure will be of interest to members as the show not only the […]

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Captain Noel Chavasse in army uniform

Noel Chavasse,100 years since his death.

Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton are a club with a long and distinguished history, we are rightly proud of our many outstanding athletes over the last 128 years, so I won’t let today pass without recording one of our most illustrious members. The 4th August 2017 marks the 100 year anniversary of the death of Captain Noel […]

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Debbie Campbell

Debbie makes a winning start

On a wet and difficult evening  Debbie Campbell made a winning start to her LPS career with victory at the Harrock Hill race on 28th June, twenty fours hours of constant rain prior to the event made this already challenging course ‘tricky’ to say the least but this did not deter a field of almost […]

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Helen Sahgal Lisa Gawthorne

Helen wins and Lisa takes 3rd place at Port Sunlight 5k

Helen Sahgal (18.25) and Lisa Gawthorne (19.36) took first and third places in the baking heat at the Port Sunlight 5k on the 18th June. It was good training for the girls as the prepare for the world duathalon world champs later this year.  

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Kirsty on route to victory

Kirsty wins tour of Tamside

Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton club captain, Kirsty Longley, is the year’s winner of the Tour of Tamseide. The event is a four day running challenge with a different event each day, including, an off-road10K, a fell race, a half marathon and a 7 mile road race. The variety of running routes and terrains is challenge […]

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Lisa Gawthorne

Lisa wins in Nevada

Lisa Gawthorne doesn’t go anywhere without her running shoes. While on holiday in Vegas recently, she ran a 5K race near Red Rock canyon in Nevada. With temperatures at 87 degrees when the race started at 7.00 am, Lisa described it as ‘running in an oven’. Not only was Lisa the first woman home but […]

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