Wesham Road Runners

The Inter-Club series concluded on Wednesday this week in Worden Park in Leyland hosted by Red Rose over a measured 4-mile course. Wesham had a good team with 11 ladies and 30 men running. Adam Wilding finished 4^th with a great run over the circuit in 22:03. The Wesham team had good packing with Dan Bolton 13^th in 22:59, Tom Bamber 14^th in 23:02, Mark Belfield 15^th in 23:11, and David Taylor 20^th with 23:53. Jamie Houghton was then 22^nd in 24:16 with Chris Haines 29^th in 24:39. Steve Myerscough finished 37^th in 24:51, Alex Walker was 40^th with 24:58, and Will Parkinson closed in the team in 58^th place with a time of 25:56. For the Wesham ladies Sue Coulthurst was 16^th in 28:35, in 102^nd place overall. Becky Ingham had a great run to finish 27^th in 30:32, 139^th overall. Emma Lund was 32^nd with 31:02, 145^th overall, Bev Wilding 40^th in 32:52, in 173^rd place, and Lisa Minns was 51^st in 34:15, 197^th with Kirsty Holland 61^st and 215^th in 35:48. Overall the Wesham team finished 2^nd, another good results for the season, with the Ladies 6^th team. The Veterans were third team with Tom Bamber 3^rd, Mark Belfield 4^th, Steve Myerscough 16^th, Alek Walker 18^th, Lee Barlow 33^rd in 26:09 (63^rd overall), and Dan Eyre 36^th with 26:42, 71^st overall. The Lady Vets team were 5^th, with Sue Coulthurst 4^th, Emma Lund 14^th, Bev Wilding 21^st, Lisa Minns 30^th, 197^th overall, and Dawn Biggs 47^th and 71^st woman, 232^nd overall in 37:06. The Vet-50s were 3^rd team with Myerscough 5^th, Barlow 12^th, Nigel Shepherd 13^th in 27:37, 84^th overall, and Carl Groome 14^th in 27:52, 7^th overall. The Vet-60s team were also 3^rd with Shepherd 4^th, Mick Edge 7^th in 28:49, 105^th overall, and George Kennedy 14^th with 31:09, 147^th overall. Over the season, Wesham finished 2^nd team, having come second in 6 of the 7 events, just 8 points behind Preston. The Ladies were 5^th team with the Veterans 3^rd, the Lady Vets 4^th, the Vet-50s 3^rd and the Vet-60s in 4^th place.

Chris Haines finished 777^th in 1:25:56 in this year’s Great North Run, with a 19:47 5k and 39:57 for 10k. Natalie Mulrooney was 6927^th, 926^th woman in 1:46:27 running with Jamie Houghton in a gallant gesture who officially was 6933^rd. The pair clocked 25:08 for the first 5k and 50:32 for 10k. Olivia Cooper finished 21493^rd in 2:10:17, 5851^st woman, with 32:07 for 5k and 64:54 for 10k.

Becky Ingham ran the new Crazy Cow 10k Trail race from the Great Eccleston Show Ground across the fields alongside the River Wyre. She crossed the finish line 19^th and 5^th female in 54:54, with a chip time of 54:51 having had a good start. The race was won in 42:09 with the first woman 5^th overall in 46:53. There were 92 runners in this revised race. Ian Nichols Hogg won the inaugural Canicross 10k at the Great Eccleston Show on Saturday, running in his English Springer Spaniel Teko to complete the 3-lap circuit on the banks of the River Wyre in 50:28.

Finlay McCalman completed the Budapest Half Marathon in 1:56:03 for 1683^rd place and 33^rd M60, in his bid to run an international half marathon every month. His gun time in the race was 1 hour 59 minutes 36 seconds.  Alek Walker ran the Garstang Half Marathon in 1:31:36 on the hilly course for 13^th place and 3^rd M40. Chris Banks ran in the Wigan 10k to clock 37:00 for 29^th place

Martin Bates ran the Derwentwater Trail 10k Race from the sports centre in Keswick up around the flank of Lonsdale Fell and back, finishing 40^th and 4^th M60 in 1:13:04. He had run the Keswick parkrun earlier that morning. Jen Salt was in the Trail Challenge 15k and she finished 187^th 47^th woman 19^th female Over-40 in a time of 2:06:21.

George Kennedy ran the Yarrow Valley River Splash 10k, a multi-terrain run though the woods with a river crossing. He finished 81^st in 1:11:41 (chip time 1:11:37) for 4^th M65. There were 153 runners in this event that in past years has attracted several Wesham runners.