Two of Liverpool Pembroke Sefton`s endurance athletes are setting the early pace for the coming winter programme. After taking the first female award at the Grand 10K at Aintree Kirsty Longley lined up for the DW Sports Fitness Southport 10K. This is a rugged mixture of mud, hard and soft sand plus a run in […]
Track Fees and Membership
TRACK FEES As of Tuesday October 1st the payment of track fees is to change. Sporting Edge is now charging the club an annual fee for use of the track which means the club now has to recoup that fee from athletes, rather than athletes buy a ticket from reception. It was agreed at the […]
Grand National winner!
The new Grand 10K at Aintree starts and finishes at the Main Grandstand and is run entirely on the inner tarmac road of the race course. An attractive proposition for the dedicated road runner and Liverpool Pembroke Sefton star Kirsty Longley received a special invitation. She did not let the organisers down as she sped […]
Bronze medals in the Lancs Road Relays
Atrocious weather greeted runners at the traditional start of the winter season, the North West Relays at Lancaster that incorporate both the Merseyside and Lancashire Championships. Liverpool Pembroke Sefton straddle boundaries so have interests either way. First up for Lancashire was the club’s Under 15 Girls led by Charlotte Mawdsley who gave her usual fighting […]
Jumps and Throws Meeting
In the twilight of the Track and Field season there were some good performances at the Liverpool Harriers Open Jumps and Throws meeting. Evelyn Smalley(U15) continues to improve finishing a healthy second overall and beatingĀ her personal best twice in the Long Jump. She is now at 4.76m, the longest jump of the season by […]
Kirsty at Salford and other road race performances
While it`s been a successful year for our track and field athletes those who took to the road have also enjoyed themselves. The highly rated Salford 10K attracted some 2500 runners. This was a race Kirsty Longley won last year but had to yield to Rachel Burns of the Harriers on this occasion. Nevertheless second […]
End of season `opens’
Some 20 medals were collected at the Mid-Lancs meeting at Wigan. At Under 13 Lauren Lewis was again in form with a sparkling 13.4 100m win and other golds were collected by the talented High Jumpers Jade Murphy(1.45m) and Kai Finch(1.43m) Silvers went to Owen Southern who tied with Kai on 1.43m but lost out […]
Annual General Meeting
The AGM of LPS will take place at St.Mary’s Millennium Centre in West Derby village on Friday 20th September, commencing at 7.30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend although only fully paid up members will be eligible to vote. There are some important issues to be discussed which will impact on the future of the club, […]
A superb season for Joe Milton
Three members of Liverpool Pembroke Sefton duly made the long trip to Bedford for the England Athletic Championships for Under 15 and Under 17`s with the trio all having realistic medal prospects. Joe Milton has already had a truly outstanding season and has never been headed in his favourite 300m event. With controlled heat times […]