{"id":197,"date":"2024-02-17T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/?p=197"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:49:55","slug":"17th-february-alexs-newpaper-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/17th-february-alexs-newpaper-report\/","title":{"rendered":"17th February – Alex’s Newpaper Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Adam Wilding and Tom Bamber to the fore in the Mid Lancs Cross Country in Towneley Park<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a busier week for Fylde athletes as there are signs of spring in the air and there were several events on locally. Wesham put out a good team for the fifth fixture in the Mid Lancs Cross Country League in Towneley Park in Burnley. Five ladies ran in the 5.8km race of a small, medium, and large lap over wet ground with otherwise dry and bright conditions. Sue Coulthurst finished 2nd<\/sup> W55 and 50th<\/sup> overall to led the Wesham women in a time of in 26:44. Kay Twist was next in 59th<\/sup> position for 9th<\/sup> W50 in 27:50 with Lisa Minns 74th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> W55 with 29:27. Kirsty Holland ran well for 80th<\/sup> in 30:16 and Alona Versinina was 9th<\/sup> W35 and 84th<\/sup> overall in 30:49. The Wesham ladies team were 6th<\/sup> in Division 2 and they look set for relegation at the end of the season unfortunately. The W35 team are currently 15th<\/sup> overall with the 12th<\/sup>. The Senior men ran over three large laps for 9.8km distance. Adam Wilding came through on the last lap to take 14th<\/sup> place in 34:56 with Tom Bamber close behind in 20th<\/sup> place for 2nd<\/sup> M40 with his time of 35:52. David Taylor finished 62nd<\/sup> in 39:56 and Tom Crabtree was 79th<\/sup> in 41:18. Will Parkinson is improving quickly and he finished 80th<\/sup> in 41:22. Carl Groome ran a double with an earlier parkrun and he came in 83rd<\/sup> for 9th<\/sup> M50 in 41:32. Chris Haines placed 86th<\/sup> in 41:38; Steve Myerscough finished 113th<\/sup> for 12th<\/sup> M45 in 44:26.  Nigel Shepherd was 3rd<\/sup> M65 and 133rd<\/sup> overall in 47:52; and John Collier was 4th<\/sup> M65 and 137th<\/sup> with 50:19.  James Danson finished 19th<\/sup> M55 and 148th<\/sup> overall in 55:52.  The Wesham third team in Division 2 and are also 3rd<\/sup> for the season, tantalisingly close to promotion, and overall having only fielded a team once the \u201cB\u201d team are bottom on Division 3. The M40 team is facing a much better future next season as they won Division 2 on Saturday and are now in top slot, but they must turn out their best team at the final fixture on 2nd<\/sup> March. The M50 team were 7th<\/sup> and also this place overall, with the M60 team in 4th<\/sup> place overall with no complete team on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were three Wesham members at the Run Aintree 10k on Sunday with Dan Eyre finishing 25th<\/sup> in 42:13 for 4th<\/sup> M45 place. Stuart Mulrooney ran a time of 42:41 for 31st<\/sup> place with Natalie Mulrooney finishing 12th<\/sup> woman and 2nd<\/sup> W40 in 47:37, for 80th<\/sup> place overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alek Walker finished 2nd<\/sup> in the Muddy Shoes 11 Mile trail race on Sunday in 1:28:08 to place 2nd<\/sup> M40 in a cross-country course starting and finishing in Caldervale in the hills near Garstang.  Jonny Allsop was in 18th<\/sup> place with a time of 2:02:09.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jo McCaffery ran the Silverdale Circuit multi-terrain race from Milnthorpe over an undulating 19-mile course through Arnside and up and over the Knott. She finished 57th<\/sup> overall in 4:08:00. Former Wesham members Chas and Angela Colby were 91st<\/sup> in 4:43:00 running as a pair. Anne Berry finished 118th<\/sup> in a time of 5:08:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 19 Wesham members running a parkrun on Saturday after a controversial week when in an act of inclusiveness all ranking and comparative performance statistics were removed from the historical results. In the Preston parkrun Steve Abbott ran the 7th<\/sup> fastest time of the morning with 18:45 for an M45 age grade performance of 76.80%. Ian Nichols Hogg clocked 23:47 for 54.66%. Vicky Gore ran the Southport run in Hesketh Park in 24:09 for a W45 grade of 67.77%. At Wolverhampton parkrun in West Park Steven Gore had the second fastest time with 18:35 for an M40 percentage of 74.53%. In the Riverside run in Chester-Le-Street Emma Brook recorded 29:00 for W40 53.05%. There were six Wesham members at the Lytham Hall parkrun with Carl Groome coming in with the sixth fastest time of the day with 20:31 for M55 grade at 74.90%. Andy Moore ran 27:53 for an M60 percentage 58.52%, and Alona Versinina clocked 27:57 for W35 53.67%. Clare Belfield recorded 31:08 and a W40 graded 49.79%, both later to run the Mid Lancs cross country, with Sue Rigby on 38:43 for W50 43.31% and Michelle Pitt running 39:34 for W40 39.47%. Up the road in Stanley Park in Blackpool Chris Haines recorded 21:31 for M35 62.97%; Rob Wallace 25:35 with an age graded 50.55%; and Dave Young clocked 50:05 for M75 38.50%. On Fleetwood Promenade Alan Hudson recorded 25:24 for M70 73.36%, and there were three Wesham members in Birmingham for the Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun, where Mike Eyre ran 23:55 for M60 67.67%; Emma Wright a time of 29:24 and W45 54.54%; and Helen Eyre on 29:58 for W55 62.96%. On foreign soil for the Nidda parkrun in Niddapark on Am Ginnheimer W\u00e4ldchen in northern Frankfurt Dan Bolton ran the fastest time in 16:59 for 75.96%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a busier week for Fylde athletes as there are signs of spring in the air and there were several events on locally. Wesham put out a good team for the fifth fixture in the Mid Lancs Cross Country League in Towneley Park in Burnley. Five ladies ran in the 5.8km race of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}