Helen Sahgal continued her winning streak with success in the Southport 10K on Sunday 2nd July. Her winning time of 37.40 was good enough for 6th place overall as well as taking the women’s title. Andy Foster was 10th (38.54) & third over 40, with Mark Hudson (43.13) finishing in 31st place but third in […]
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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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Excellent Endurance Video, a must see
This film was made in 1979 and has interviews with athletes trained by the great coach, Arthur Lydiard. One of these is Jack Foster who gave up cycling in his 30`s and took up running. He was a member of Liverpool Pembroke AC before he left for New Zealand and went on to represent that […]
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NA Road Relay Championships
This season’s Northern Athletic relays were held in sun drenched Stanley Park, Blackpool on Saturday. The men were required to run 12 stages with four being long (9.2K) and eight short stages(5K). Mark Wynne led Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton off on stage one, finishing 37th (32.57) before Harry Doran (17.45) pulled back a few stages […]
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Mid-Lancs League & Parbold Hill
Mid-Lancs League The fifth Mid-lancs race of the season took place at the prestigious Rossall School on Lancashire’s Fylde Coast. With a bitterly cold wind blowing from the Irish Sea it was no race for the feint hearted. However, it also coincided with the half-term holidays and led to LPS teams being depleted. Best individual […]
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Welcome return for Kevin Usher
LPS were at Clarke Gardens for the annual Liverpool and District Cross country championships which date back to 1892. There was a good turn out of members but all eyes were on Kevin Usher who has not competed at this level for over 20 years. At 50 the former class act has certainly not lost […]
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Final L&D League Race Beacon Park
The mild weather was the only comfort for the hardy 114 athletes who turned out for the third of the Liverpool and District Cross Country fixtures at Beacon Park. On a tricky and muddy course Liverpool Pembroke and Sefton seniors battled hard but were a distant fifth in the team race as Liverpool Harriers, St […]
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Dan shows the way
Cuerden Valley Park was an ideal venue for the second Mid-Lancs’s race of the season, with its steep slopes providing a demanding cross country course. It made little difference to Dan Jones who put in a commanding performance to win the U17M race by 14 sec. Brother, Adam was 3rd and with Ross Harrison in […]
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News November 2008
Sefton Park Challenge 29 November Competing in the Sefton Park UK Cross Country Challenge meeting against some of the best in the country Toby Loveridge, turned in yet another excellent performance when he finished 16th overall in spite of being at the lower end of the Under 17 age group. Included in this was […]
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News July 2008
Rimmer back on course By his high standards Michael Rimmer has had an indifferent run up to the Olympics. Among other performances he has recorded a 1.47.2 800m in Berlin and a 1.47.10 in Ostrava, season`s best by a UK runner but some way off other international performers. However, this was turned around in Milan […]
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