Athletics

Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC’s young athletes were among the competitors for the first Mid Lancs Track and Field meeting at Blackburn’s Witton Park.

The first Fleetwood race of the year took place amid glorious spring weather conditions with 400 or so towing the line on the outer promenade.

The headline sponsor of Garstang’s inaugural Colour Dash is calling on all local businesses to put on their running shoes and do their bit for charity.

The club secretary of Garstang running club has given a huge thank you to all those that took part in the annual Garstang Gallop.

The staging of the final Mid Lancs Cross Country fixture of the season had been in doubt due to the atrocious weather last week.

The February weather was unusually mild for the 29th running of the Great North West Half-Marathon on the Blackpool sea front.

The sportshall athletics season has continued at a cracking pace and last week the Year 7 pupils from Wyre and Fylde schools competed for places in the county finals.

Kirkham Grammar Junior School returned with a magnificent medal haul from the Association of Junior Independent Schools Indoor Athletics Championships at Wigan Indoor Arena.

Parkrun celebrated its first birthday in Blackpool last  weekend.

Rob Danson (pictured) was a clear winner in the St Annes 10-Miler road race on Sunday.

Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC’s Katy Wyper is in a rich vein of form which continued with the Scottish Senior and Under-17 Championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Indoor Championships.

Rob Danson of Wesham Road Runners defied a buffeting crosswind to win the St Annes Ten-mile Race.

The Inskip Half Marathon was run on Sunday and the runners set off into half an hour of blizzards and driving snow.

For Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC athletes there was a break from cross country action with the main focus being the Inskip Half Marathon.

Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde AC continued their improvement in the second of three Lancashire Sportshall League fixtures at the Blackpool Sport Centre.

The weather may have wreaked havoc with outdoor sporting events over the past week and that’s when indoor athletics comes into its own

January swung into action for Wesham’s runners with more cross country and the first local road races of the year.

Last weekend was a busy one for the Blackpool Wyre and Fylde AC athletes with plenty of action in track and field, cross country and on the road.