The Tour of Tameside is a series of four events held on successive days over demanding courses. It consists of a Trail 10K, a `Hell on the Fell’ 6 miles, a `Hero Half Marathon’ and culminates in the Hyde 7 mile Road Race. Over 40 miles of tough competition, originally an idea of the legendary […]
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Double victories for Kirsty and fast times all round at Chrisleton
Kirsty Longley had a busy but rewarding weekend picking up two first places on the roads in Cheshire. On Friday 17th May she won the Chrislton 5k in an impressive 17.16, our women packed well with Helen Sahgal (L/35) coming 7th in 18.09 followed by Lisa Gawthorne (L/35) running as well as ever just failing […]
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Tiffany’s fast 5k at Halewodd
LPS athletes turned out in numbers for the monthly 5k race at Halewood on the 3rd November. Halewood has a history of good times so it was a perfect opportunity for young Tiffany Penfold to see how her winter training was progressing as she lined up with nine other club members in perfect conditions. Tiff […]
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Northern Road Relays
Glorious sunshine greeted runners at the northern road relay championships in Manchester, a far cry from the dismal conditions at Delamere two weeks earlier. This time the course was truly road relays, meandering around the perimeter of the Etihad stadium and the campus of Sports City. The younger age groups all ran a distance of […]
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Lisa goes below 19 minutes for a new PB, Helen wins in Spain.
Running in the very popular Sale Sizzler 5k on 16th august Lisa Gawthorne claimed a new pb with a time of 18.49. This was enough to see her finish 5th female and second V/35. Over in Spain whilst on a family holiday Helen Sahgal won the 7.4k XIV Cursa Nocturna Ronda Murada Alcúdia which was […]
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World duathlon champs
Helen Sahgal and Lisa Gawthorne flew the GB flag the world duathlon championships held at Odense in Denmark on 8th July. Both of them have previous international experience over this event and it paid dividends as Helen finished 5th and Lisa 12th in their age group. The run was largely in the town centre across […]
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Kirsty wins Tour of Tameside
The ‘Tour of Tameside’ series of races is the brain child of Dr. Ron Hill and involves 4 races over 4 consecutive days, over different distances & different terrains. It began with a 10K Multi-terrain race over woodland steps in Oldham on Thursday, before a 6 mile ‘hell on the fell’ race in Staleybridge on […]
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LPS clinch third place
The second fixture in the Northern League division 2W took place at sun drenched Leigh Sports village on Sunday. Despite fielding a depleted team LPS(356) clinched third place, behind Leigh Harriers (405) and Team Isle of Man(368). Liverpool Harriers were 4th (322), Manchester Harriers were 5th, with Blackpool in 6th place (301). The hot conditions […]
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Sun shines on LPS as Kirsty tops ranking and Hillary wins marathon
On a weekend of beautiful spring sunshine LPS athletes hit the roads picking up titles and PBs. It was an early start to the weekend as on Friday night five of our runners made the journey to Cheshire for the very fast and popular Christlelton 5k. First LPS runner home was Mark Wynne in 43rd […]
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LPS Ladies first and second at Tunnel 10k
The annual Mersey Tunnel Run took place on Sunday with over 2,500 entries. The race started on the Liverpool side of the Mersey before entering the tunnel after 1Km. It was a steady ascent for the next 2K before the athletes saw daylight on the Wirral side. The final 5K from the Wallasey ferry terminal […]
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