24th Feb 2022 saw another day of success for our British Masters Athlete, Tony O’Brien. The race, which can be seen on the link below, finished with Tony O’Brien finishing 1st in 9:04.54 to become the new European champion. A fantastic achievement and full reward for all the dedication, planning and hard work. Congratulations Tony. […]
Tony O’Brien breaks another British record
Most people had a quiet night in on Wednesday waiting for storm Dudley or Eunice or whatever the next one is going to be called. Whilst that was going on Tony O’Brien had a trip to Lee Valley in London to take part in the Ayo Falola Dream Mile & BMC Indoor meet. You can […]
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LPS in the Community – Supporting our local Park Runs –
Hello, our community loves running but not everybody wants to or can join a club like LPS. We’ve seen a lot of runners in our club join us after 1st of all trying park runs – Adam Jones, Se Loughlin, Chris Melling, Laura Bardsley to name a few most recently. As part of our overall […]
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Cross Country at Leigh – Mid Lancs League
It was a good day at Leigh for the cross country, where we had 13 runners competing across all the age ranges from U11 to Seniors. The day started particularly positively as the cafe was open early and served up a tremendous portion of pie and peas at molten lava temperature, which stood us in […]
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51st Parbold Hill Race
Thanks to Mark Bleasdale for the summary from yesterday’s Parbold hill race. Some strong performances at the wet and windy 51st Parbold Hill race. Kevin Usher stormed to a 12th place winning the V55 cat and beating most of the other vet categories too. Pre race favourite Sam Carr had to settle for 18th place […]
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LPS Athletes – weekend action
Wow, what a busy weekend of events! Well considering there was no league races this weekend our athletes have had a really busy few days either representing their districts, taking part in 10k, 5 mile events, participating in the BUCS cross country for Edge Hill University, running in the welcome return of the Halewood 5k […]
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Charlie Kelly
Sadly news reaches us of the death of Charlie Kelly at the age of 97. A talented Pembroke runner of the post war years he was the first Pembroke athlete to gain international status. I have published below an article from the Pembroke History written by Charlie Gains Charlie Kelly: The club`s first track international […]
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Athlete & Triathletes needed for research study at Edge Hill
Tom Faraday is looking for runners & Triathletes to participants in an Endurance Running Research Study Tom is investigating the use of a resistance exercise session to prime the day before for a 5 km TIME TRIAL RUN and need volunteers to take part! Study Title: The physiological and biomechaninical effects of a resistance priming session […]
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Lisa & Tony Take Gold, 3 LPS athletes in Lancashire Team
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 […]
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NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPS – PARLIAMENT HILL LONDON, SATURDAY 26TH FEB
We are looking into hiring a coach to take our athletes and spectators linked to the club to London on Sat 26 Feb, where we currently have a small number of athletes participating. If we can provide transport, albeit a very early start, it may enable others to compete or to come along and support […]
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