Clubs split across multiple counties tend to struggle in the team competitions leaving focus on the individuals and this year it was Kirsty Longley and Joe Niven who stepped up to the collect the top accolades with each picking up Merseyside championship titles at Stadt Moers Park Knowsley on Saturday. Kirsty (29:39) whose performances having […]
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Trio Tackle Telford
Ranked as one of the fastest 10k races in the UK, Telford welcomed twelve hundred PB aspiring athletes to a bleak and blustery morning alongside some of the best runners our isles have to offer including 3 LPS athletes who are enjoying breaking the mold to set new levels, seemingly as each races passes. Tony […]
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LPS Flies the Flag at British Masters
Aintree’s famed racecourse grounds hosted a racing spectacle this weekend in the form of the British & Ireland Masters Cross Country, a selection only event bringing together the best veterans of the our isles for age-group racing over the hollowed turf which has previously created timeless sporting legends. Kirsty Longley continued her superior recent form […]
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Kirsty does England proud with a new pb
The amazing Kirsty Longley did herself proud yet again with another pb in her first senior international. Running for England at the Abbey Dash 10k in Leeds she was second home for England and won her age category in a very impressive 33.40 which helped England to the team silver. Running your first senior international […]
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Three get England call up for international masters cross country
Three LPS athletes Kirsty Longley V40, Debbie Campbell V35 and Tony O’Brien V45 have all been called up to represent England in the British and Irish Masters Cross Country International on the 16th November. This annual cross country masters international is contested each by teams from England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and […]
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International call up for Kirsty
The amazing and inspirational Kirsty Longley continues to defy all conventional logic regarding growing old and getting slower. After a record breaking season on the roads which has seem her turn in some excellent road performance from 5k to half marathon she was rightly award her first senior England international vest at the age of […]
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Senior men turn in solid performance at National 6 stage road relay
A group of LPS athletes took a coach to Sutton Park in Birmingham on Sunday to represent the club in the English National Relay Championships. First up were our U17 men and they produced an excellent performance, finishing 20th in the 3.88k three man relay. Fletcher Foster ran our fastest leg (32nd in 12:49) and […]
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Weather fails to dampen as LPS Storm at Seaside 10k
Sunday saw a contingent of LPS athletes aiming to battle with some of the North’s finest runners at the ever damp and breezy seaside town of Southport. Chris Maher lead the team home with an excellent 33:07 taking fourth spot closely followed by Kirsty Longley who enhanced her reputation with a dominant 34:51 to take […]
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Fantastic result for LPS men in the NW Relays while Kirsty Longley astounds at Salford
The North West Road Relays sponsored by Merseyside County and hosted by Liverpool Pembroke Sefton came to Edge Hill University. On a sunny day there was general appreciation of the facilities at the university, the course and the complex organisation that is required for this type of event. For the local club there was a […]
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Kirsty jumps to No 1 in National rankings, Mark Wynne takes age group record
At Capenhurst 5k on the 21st August Kirsty Longley set a new course and club record and also jumped to number 1 on the national rankings with a excellent run of 16.37. To put Kirsty’s excellent run in perspective not only is she number one in the country this year buts she now jumps to […]
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