50 years ago this year, Bruce Springsteen released his debut album, the famous western “Bonanza” finished after 440 episodes, Russia began a radio controlled exploration of the moon, George Foreman beat Joe Frazier to win the WBC and WBA heavyweight titles and the Vietnam War ended. In the same year Pink Floyd released “Dark Side […]

ERRA National Road Relays – Sutton Park The 6 stage relays is one of the most anticipated road running events in the calendar.  The quality of competition is excellent, each year “names” from the athletics world take part wearing their club vests.  This year was no different with Stewart McSweyn, Philip Sesemann, Omar Ahmed and […]

The road and trail race season is gathering pace with events seemingly happening every week. This week, the two that LPS members mostly attended were the Mawdesley 10k trail and the Knutsford 10K. Co Cross Country Captain Andrew Foster came home 4th on the day and 1st in his age group with a time 39:43 […]

We had a good turn out at the North West Road Relays last week with our Senior Men Team and U13 boys team both winning silver medals.   It’s rare that we have entered junior teams in the relays but was great to be able to enter U11 boys , U13 girls , U13 Boys, […]

Report by Anna Peers It was touch and go for a few days whether the weather was going to be dry or throwing it down. Luckily the sun won and the day was far nicer than previously predicted. The LPS team was one of the largest in attendance at the medal meeting and all athletes […]

Fab 4 at Trafford The road and trail races have started to stack up as we move into Autumn.  Here’s what’s been going on outside of our league events.  If you haven’t seen the reports from Nicola and Anna for the final track and field events of the season click on their names and you […]

LPS report by Nicola Swift   The sun joined us for the last Northern League fixture of the season in Wrexham. LPS started the day in joint 2nd position with SWAC, only 2 points behind the leaders, Liverpool Harriers. With everything to play for we fielded a team of 9 male and 6 female athletes. […]

Great to see LPS represented at the World Championships in Budapest – No prizes for guessing who is behind the flag!

LPS has a great history of supporting local Park Runs and so it was fitting that as Ormskirk celebrated its 400th event that we helped make the day special with over 20 athletes and a number of volunteers. I may be biased but it was also great to see LPS finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]

In the blink of an eye the summer season is nearing its end with only a handful of track and field events remaining.  Saturday 19th August sees our final Northern League fixture at Wrexham. The club will pay for your petrol for the trip (£20.80) but, if you can, please share car spaces. Please let […]