IN what proved to be the final weekend before the shutdown of the race season, a 10-strong Lostock AC team headed to the Yorkshire Dales and Haworth for the Haworth Hobble ultra marathon, a highlight of the fell and ultra race season.
FRESH from the success of organising the Lostock 6 road race, a 15-strong Lostock team headed to Smithills.
DESPITE the worst of Bolton’s winter weather Lostock AC successfully hosted the 38th Lostock 6 road race on Sunday with a record 500 runners from all over the north west and beyond competing.
WITH Storm Dennis prompting the cancellation of numerous races over the weekend, Lostock AC’s Josie Greenhalgh, Tony Marlow and Albert Sunter headed to the northern Peak District and Dovestones Reservoir on Saddleworth Moor for the New Chew mountain marathon.
A NINE-STRONG group of Lostock AC members headed to Rivington on Saturday for the 43rd Anglezarke Amble, a 17 or 24-mile run or walk around the West Pennine Moors.
THE first of the four-race Kong Mini Mountain Marathon series kicked off in Aber in the Carneddau area of Snowdonia on Sunday with a second-place age-group finish for Lostock AC’s Josie Greenhalgh and her partner Paul Taylor.
PREPARATIONS for the annual Lostock 6 road race continued apace on Saturday when Lostock AC took over Haigh Woodland parkrun in Wigan.
A 19-STRONG Lostock AC team headed to Mytholmroyd on Saturday for The Hebden, the fell race that for many marks the start of the race season.
THE third and final Petzl Night Runner race of 2019/20 arrived in a very wet and windy Rivington on Saturday night, when Barry Wroe led home a five-strong Lostock AC contingent.
LOSTOCK AC’s Albert Sunter saw out 2019 with a storming run at the New Year’s Eve Trails and Ales fell race around Rivington.
