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Lostock road championship
August 18, 2011Yet another large turn out for Lostock with 14 runners all competing
With 9 different faces from the last race making the Lostock team the largest on the night
A fantastic warm sunny evening
Saw us all off on the usual two lap route
With Rob Smith leading the way I would like to say closely followed By Mark Checkers, but it was’nt although I had a very good race
he’s just too fast
There was a bit of race toward the finish between Allan Jones and Mark Smith with Mark coming out in front
A little bit of entertainment there for us supporters
Kate Evans was our last runnner in
Rob Smith 25 31:42
Mark Checkley 37 34:18
Geof Sale 53 36:28
Kev Elliott 72 39:38
John Smith 78 40:50
Gillian Caldwell 84 42:29
Paul Speed 85 42:50
Mark Smith 88 44:07
Allan Jones 89 44:11
Joanne Higham 90 44:31
Gwen Franklin 92 46:02
Emma Davies 95 47:30
Fiona Salt 96 48:16
Kate Evans 97 50:05
Grisedale Horseshoe fell race
August 15, 2011The next race in the Lostock fell championship is Grisedale Sat 3rd Sep 2011 at 11:30
Category: AM
Distance: 10m / 16.1km
Climb: 5000ft / 1524m
Venue: Glenridding Village Hall, Glenridding.
Latest Fell Championship Positions
August 12, 2011Its all hotting up in the fell championship with Hopey back from his knee injury and running like a gazelle at Pilgrims Cross. Anyone care to have a guess at his next injury?, well back?, shoulder?, nah we’ve not had an ankle injury for a while, my moneys on that!
In the overall championship (and also for the kiddies section) it is nip and tuck with Hopey and Rob neck and neck at 2 wins each, both however have to run the next 3 races to get there 6 race quota in.
The V40 section has already been won by Fast Mike who already has 5 wins to his name leaving Mark S and Checkers to fight it out for 2nd place.
Pete Noble also has to complete the final 3 races if he is to win the V50 section.
Pilgrims Cross fell race 2011
August 12, 2011Pilgrims cross fell race was my first race of my twelve enjoyable months so far as a fellrunner, so question is would i get a better result this time?
Six runners turned up on a wet and windy night representing lostock ac.so after registration a short walk up the lane to the start.this is allways a nerveous time for me and i was thinking the thirty five mile bike ride the day before could affect my performance.
After we had all shared our excuses and injurys which could affect performances we set off as a group we where all quite near the front and Adrian set off like he meant business and was soon away. I didnt see mark the bullet start, but could see Mark S just infront so i thought push on, at what felt like a fast pace and see how it goes.
The start is tricky as your running over slippy york stone flags and cobbles,you soon hit open moorland and the conditions were wet and boggy nice just how we like it. I was heading in the direction of peel tower and it felt just as hard as last year if not harder as i was trying to catch Adrian who seemed to be having a good run, then Tom passed me so i tryied to keep up with both them, so i just hung on hoping that they might tire.
Tom went over on his ankle but was able to limp on, so after checking he was ok i pushed on looking to steal our fell captains crown, however (here come the excuses) my legs are really starting to feel it now and could see Adrian just starting to pull away on the last climb so time to dig deep. A fast desent over those slippy flag stones again and down the lane to the finish.
I didnt catch adrian but i did have a good fast run and managed to beat last year time by nine mins.
Mike
49 Adrian Hope 00:50:17
55 Michael Ernill 00:51:17
67 Tom Smith 00:53:18
76 Mark Checkley 00:54:44
88 Mark Shuttleworth 00:57:17
111 Sam Ernill 01:02:28
130 Vikki Hughes 01:11:38
Lostock AC news
August 9, 2011Old publications of the Lostock AC news have been uncovered by John Smith, read all about the goings on in the late 1990s on the Club History page.
Crow Hill Reverse
August 4, 2011
I’ve been mostly injured since April, but the beginning of July saw me make a steady start back at getting some miles in. Thought it was time to test how mended I am. So I took the legs racing on Tuesday night. The Crow Hills Reverse fell race in Mytholmroyd, organised by Mills Physio with all proceeds to an Ovarian Cancer charity.
The legs made it through without injury, but, did not thank me for the experience. There are normal hills and then Calderdale hills. Straight up a wall of almost death. And straight back down. Almost 5 miles in 54 minutes 16 seconds. 64/71. Quite possibly the hardest, short race I’ve ever done. Fun though! Full results here. A very friendly race, well organised and marshalled and a good turnout in the pub afterwards. One to add to the list of races worth doing.
I reckon I’m sufficiently fit to start making it out again on Wednesday nights for club training.
Vikki
Photo credit: Richard Butterwick
Iron Man Ray
August 2, 2011
My intention this year was to do the Bob Graham but after having my worse ever year of injuries I decided, after receiving a lot of advice from experienced runners (you know who you are), to leave it for another year. In May, I was forced to take a four week break from running because of a bad foot injury and so went back to cycling with Dave and John, who were preparing for the 2011 UK Iron Man. (more…)
Lakeland 50
July 31, 2011
Well done to Sarah Hope who has just completed the Lakeland 50 in 18:29:43 finishing 316th out of 469 finishers and around a further 100 DNFs.
A big thank you to everyone who sponsored Sarah.
Pilgrims Cross
July 26, 2011The next race in the Lostock championship is Pilgrims Cross, Wed 10th Aug 2011 at 19:15 from Sunnybank Social Club, Helmshore, Rossendale, BB4 4LQ. The race is 6miles 1,100ft of climbing.
We had 9 Lostock runners at the last championship race Bull Hill, lets see if we can beat this and maybe have a few female runners? The race is no harder than the a Wednesday Lostock training night run, so come on give it a go!
If you’d like more information please email Adrian.
Coniston Country Fair – Sunday 24th July
July 26, 2011
Checkers had told me about this race which is held as part of the Coniston Country Fair a traditional Cumberland summer fair whith lots to do for the family. £6 to enter the summer fair – fell race is free. Lots of stalls selling toffee, cake, juice and home made Cider! beautiful. Kids games Potato on a spoon race, space hopper, sack race, then tug-o-war, wrestling, lots of dog shows / displays and a fell race. Just before the start i saw Mike who had brought his family up for a day out and then Checkers – so 3 amigos from Lostock again! so much for a casual jaunt up to the Old Man and back.