{"id":390,"date":"2024-03-30T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/?p=390"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:18:45","slug":"30th-march-alexs-newspaper-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/30th-march-alexs-newspaper-report\/","title":{"rendered":"30th March – Alex’s Newspaper Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carmel Sullivan digs in on the Northern Athletics Road relays<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The big event of the week was the Northern Athletics Men\u2019s 12-Stage and Women\u2019s 6-Stage Road Relays in Wythenshawe Park on a wet Saturday, with a start and finish on the track. Wesham fielded a women\u2019s and two men\u2019s teams, the only club in the Fylde to have teams competing. The Women\u2019s 6-Stage was held over 4 short stages of 4.5km and two long stages at 8km. Natalie Mulrooney was first off on the opening 8km and finished 43rd<\/sup> in 35:53. Becky Ingham took over on Stage two to run 22:08 for a short stage, with Sue Coulthurst then running 19:52 to take the team to 39th<\/sup>. Carmel Sullivan ran the second long stage in 35:52, Kirsty Holland took n Stage 5 and clocked 21:22, leaving Kay Twist on the anchor leg to bring the team home in 2:36:08 for 37th<\/sup> place, Kay running 20:59. The winners were Sale Harriers in 1:57:12 for the 34km. The Senior Men\u2019s 12-Stage was over 4 laps of 8m of 8km and 8 laps of 4.5km. It was a long stage to kick off, and Alek Walker ran 29:46 to start the Wesham team off in 48th<\/sup> place. Mick Edge took over on the first short stage, running 19:25, with Jamie Houghton coming in on the second long stage 50th<\/sup> in 28:53. Lee Barlow ran 18:24 to hold the team steady, and Tom Bamber took Stage 5 in 27:05 to come in 47th<\/sup>. Stuart Mulrooney was next on with 18:28 followed by David Taylor on the final long stage to record 28:34 holding on to 48th<\/sup> place. Dan Eyre ran Stage 8 in 18:00 to take the team back up to 47th<\/sup> followed by Rob Wallace on 18:33, then Chris Haines with a storming 16:24 to hold 48th<\/sup>, Dan Bolton 15:57 to regain 47th<\/sup>, and then Steve Myersough on the anchor leg to run 20:11 and take 2 more places to bring the team home in 4:19:01 in 45th<\/sup> for the 68km. The Wesham \u201cB\u201d team were six short but Ryan Azzopardi ran 38:32 for 58th<\/sup> place, Stephen Twist 22:44, Jonny Alsop ran 37:47 to hold the team in 57th<\/sup> place, James Danson clocked 25:06, John Naylor 34:55 to take the team up to 55th<\/sup> place, and John Collier taking Stage 6 in 22:45 to hold the teams steady with a cumulative time of 3:01:25 for the 37.5km. The winners were Leeds City in 3:24:46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesham had four runners in the Coniston 14 road race in its 41st<\/sup> year also taking place on Saturday. Finlay McCalman and Andrew Wilkinson finished 668th<\/sup> and 669th <\/sup>and 64th<\/sup> and 65th<\/sup> M55s in 2:10:42 with Martin Bates coming in 671st<\/sup> in 2:10:49 for 10th<\/sup> M65. Jo McCaffery was 212th<\/sup> woman and 29th<\/sup> W45 in 2:18:33, in 791st<\/sup> place overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mick Edge kicked started his triathlon season in the Ribby Hall Sprint Triathlon on Sunday as he prepares for this year\u2019s GB representation. He finished 24th<\/sup> in a cumulative time of 1:05:04, with 7:52 for the pool swim, 30:54 for the 10-mile bike stage and 23:06 for the 5km run. Lisa Mins was 74th<\/sup> in 1:14:54 with 8:26 for the swim, 35:36 for the bike stage and 27:55 for the run. Colin Smy placed 128th<\/sup> with 8:23 for his swim, 43:57 on the bike and 27:47 for his run, giving him 1:25:19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 23 Wesham members running a parkrun on Saturday morning at 9am. At the Lytham Hall parkrun Dan Eyre ran 22:56 for an M45 age graded performance of 62.28% just outing Mark Holton who clocked 23:06 for M45 61.40%. Jonathan Lawson recorded 24:50 for an M55 grade of 62.42%. Liz Sharrocks ran 30:38 for a W60 65.18%; Anne Berry 33:12 for W60 59.29%; and Kerry Eccles 33:20 with a W60 59.05%. Tony Sharrocks returned 41:48 for M60 38.72%; and Phil Leaver was on 46:50 for M70 37.65%. In the Preston parkrun in Avenham Park Carl Groome ran 20:17 for a M55 graded 75.76% with Nigel Shepherd on 21:55 for M65 76.50%. Andy Moore clocked 28:37 with an M60 57.02%. Sue Rigby recorded 37:32 for W50 44.57% and Michelle Pitt ran 39:44 and a W40 39.30%. Tom Nicholson ran along Fleetwood Promenade in 27:02 to record an age graded 47.97% while in the Kew Woods parkrun in Southport Steven Gore was the second fastest time of the day with 19:35 for an M40 70.72%. Vicky Gore was third fastest female in 24:33 for a W45 66.67%. Adam Wilding was the fastest runner of the day at the Clitheroe Castle parkrun with his time of 17:48 for an age grade of 73.03% with Will Parkinson 7th<\/sup> fastest in 21:46 for M35 60.57%. Tracey Hulme ran the Stretford parkrun in 25:37 for W60 75.73% and Alona Versinina was in Dublin for the run in Fairview Park as a First Timer where she clocked 28:40 for W35 52.50%. In Trentham Gardens near Stoke Tracy Clare and Elliot Costello ran 38:18 and 38:19 for age grades of 38.82% and 33.84% respectively, and on home ground Emma Brook completed the Riverside parkrun in 27:46 for W40 55.40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big event of the week was the Northern Athletics Men\u2019s 12-Stage and Women\u2019s 6-Stage Road Relays in Wythenshawe Park on a wet Saturday, with a start and finish on the track. Wesham fielded a women\u2019s and two men\u2019s teams, the only club in the Fylde to have teams competing. The Women\u2019s 6-Stage was held […]<\/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-390","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\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odin.nw-net.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}