Here’s Dave Brown’s update from the Northerns and English schools. Let us begin with the English Schools Championships at the all new super-duper Alexander Stadium. To be fair it is a grand setting and, much as I dislike the throws being held in the back yard, at least they’ve now tidied it up a little. […]
England vest for Chloe
Congratulations to Chloe Leather who has been selected for the England U23 team in the mountain running home international. The event is at Snowdon in Wales on July 15th. It’s great recognition for Chloe and coach Mark Bleasdale. https://www.englandathletics.org/news/team-selected-for-snowdon-mountain-running-home-international/
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You can’t tie a Kangaroo down …. sport
OK all, there has been a LOT of athletics going on this weekend so, as usual, I’ll apologise up front but I am going to have to distill it down a bit from my usual weighty tome. Generally I will try to mention everyone but there really are just too many this time; but I […]
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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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Top Gun Harrison feeling the need for speed
Last weekend saw the Northern area outdoor championships at Sport City, Manchester. With spectacular lack of forethought and planning Coldplay and Elton John both decided to put gigs on that clashed with ours. To complete the travel and parking carnage Man City and Man Utd were playing the FA Cup final at Wembley; at least […]
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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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Return of the Macc. Northern League – Match 1 Report
Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears, get a few biccies and a mug of tea and settle in for the long haul. This has been one very busy weekend. Saturday kicked off with our first Northern League match at Macclesfield with a few new teams and lots of new faces. Of course our […]
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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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