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English National Cross Country Championships and Great NW Half Marathon

On Saturday 27^th February twelve Lancaster and Morecambe athletes travelled to Roundhay Park in Leeds to compete in the annual ‘English National Cross Country Championships. In the first race, the U15 boys, James Whitaker finished 211^th out of a field of 329 completing the 4.5k course in a time of 16:30.

The second race produced Lancaster and Morecambe AC’s best results of the day. Hannah Bateson finish 11^th in a time of 23.35. She was well backed up by Annika Jarman finishing in 18^th place. Annika should be particularly pleased with this position as she will be young enough to run in this category again for the next two years.

Three Lancaster and Morecambe AC runners toed the line for the U17 men’s race. First home, in an impressive 58^th place was Callum Mason. He was joined by Adam Bateson (84^th) and Beau Smith (140^th). In the U17 women’s race Charlotte Rickards completed the course in 130^th position.

First home for Lancaster and Morecambe AC in the U15girls’ race was Sarah Hodgson in 66^th position. Also running well was Hannah Fleet who completed the 4k course in 287^th position.

In the final three races of the day Junior man, Paul Hodgson, completed his 10k course in 162^nd position; Helen Booth crossed the line in the Senior Women’s race in 258^th and Steve Perry completed the gruelling Senior Men’s 12k in 1095^th position.

Athletes looking for firmer ground beneath their feet competed in the 20^th Great North West Half Marathon took place on Sunday 21^st February 2010. The race organisers had clearly worked hard to grit the more treacherous parts of the course, and by the time the runners reached the second lap, the snow which initially lay on the course had mostly cleared. Aside from the cold, the running conditions were mainly good although a stiff southerly wind picked up in the last half of the race and made the final three miles hard going.

First home from Lancaster and Morecambe AC was John Knapp in an excellent time of 1.28.22 closely followed by Nick Higham in 1.30.56. The first lady to finish from the club was Becky Butterfield in 1.35.16.

In spite of the initially poor conditions under foot, several of the runners from Lancaster and Morecambe AC achieved personal bests. Laura Morris had a fantastic run finishing strongly in 1.38.24, a massive 14 minutes inside her previous personal best. Also running well was Nigel Beeson, who finished in 1.52.52, knocking 2mins 30secs off his PB. Tracey Bruce also enjoyed an excellent run and narrowly missed out on achieving a personal best after unfortunately falling within 100m of the finishing line.

Other Lancaster and Morecambe AC Finishers: P Smith 1.38.22, A Lebson 1.39.12, L Goddard 1.39.44, D Bradshaw 1.41.55, V O’Donnell 1.43.38, G Pennington 1.45.38, C Hewitt 1.45.47, G Lambert 1.46.15, A Shanley 1.47.11, G Jones 1.57.26, J Hylton 1.58.01, S Elliott 1.58.01, C Flynn 2.07.31, L Clarke 2.16.18.