A welcome sight at Sheffield for the indoor championships where Tony O’Brien and Lisa Gawthorne both took home gold in the 3000m. Tony winning the British Masters in 9:01 and Lisa the V40 womens’ in 11:27.  It’s been a good weekend for the club   Three LPS in Lancashire Team Finally, Ive just seen the […]

LPS athletes travelled over to Sheffield over the weekend to compete in the North of England indoor championships, pride  of place must go to our only medallist Tom Kwissa who took bronze in the senior mens high jump. I think he’ll agree with me that he’s probably a little disappointed with his 1.85m but, nevertheless, […]

Well done to Kirsty Longly, who won the Northern Masters Half Marathon championships held within the Helsby half marathon with a really solid 78:25. One of the most popular half marathons in the country and attracting over 1000 runners, Kirsty turned in yet another superb performance  and was the 2nd female overall.

Another great set of results for our very talented u15 girls group at the Mid Lancs at Lawsons Ground in Blackpool today. The team finishing 1st overall. Erin Frost finished in 2nd place on 12:26whilst sisters Sarah and Anna Yates came in very strongly in 5th and 14th places to ensure the team took overall […]

Lancashire Witton Park The anticipated traditional January mud fest in Blackburn didn’t disappoint as the heavens had opened at least 24 hours earlier to ensure athletes (or their parents!) needed to invest heavily in washing machine powder!  We had 13 athletes representing the club across the U15 (boys and girls), U17 men, U20 men plus […]

Ribble Valley 10k including North of England 10k Championships – 27 December 2021 It was a dark and early start to get to Clitheroe for the much anticipated Ribble Valley 10k. The entry field included at least 4 Olympians, runners who had run in the Diamond League, European and World cross country championships, a British […]

Based on results from the recent online survey Kit Loughlin has produced a ‘Strategic Development Plan’ for the future direction of our club. Kit presented this plan at a meeting at Ormskirk on Wednesday  8th December and it was overwhelmingly endowed by the meeting. We intend now to press on with this plan, I therefore […]

After an enforced one year absence caused by Covid the UKA cross challenge returned to Sefton Park on 27th November. There was however  concern in the hours leading up to this event as storm Arwen ran a mock across the UK uprooting trees and bringing down power lines. It was once again the selection event […]