windmill_image.jpg Lytham St Annes Road Runners Club
Founded in 1998
'Fitness, Friendship and Fun'

Fylde Active Community Awards 2024 - Club of the Year - Highly Commended

Couch to 5k (c25k) Programme - Jan 2025

We love to support people who are new to running or returning to it after a break. As a club, we pride ourselves on being inclusive of all abilities. We are really proud when our faster runners produce amazing performances, but just as thrilled to see people achieving personal goals, distance or time personal bests and becoming part of the life of our club.

After having completed a successful programme for beginners multiple times over the last few years, we will be launching our next course, offering support for beginner runners, with a 9-week Couch to 5k programme. Led by a group of friendly, trained coaches, we'll help you reach that milestone following a tried and tested programme. We'll keep the group small so we can tweak it to support individual needs. And we'll celebrate with you as a club as you hopefully "graduate" at our local parkrun.

While the programme is free and there is no obligation to join the club afterwards, we hope you'll get the running bug, make some friends, and decide to stay with us.

We will start a new programme on 6th January 2025 (at 6:30pm), with weekly sessions at the same time throughout the programme. There will be runs for you to complete in between but if you want company, you may be able to arrange it with a fellow couch to 5k buddy or we'll help find one of our members to join you.

To book your place, please click here.

If you would like further information, please contact: Kirsten Burnett (07846 112332 / kburnett@live.com)

St Annes Carnival 5k and Junior 1500m

2024 Carnival 5k Date

Lytham St Annes Road Runners were proud to present the St Annes Carnival 5k and St Annes Carnival Junior 1500m races on Sunday 30th June 2024.

This year marked the 102nd St Annes Carnival. What better way that to enjoy your time in St Annes, than with a couple of runs - suitable for all ages and levels of ability!

Brought to you by the same team who organise the successful Green Drive Five races in October, keep an eye on our dedicated page.

Green Drive Five and Junior Green Drive Mile

2024 GD5 Date

Drawing on our experiences and feedback from previous years, we held the 24th event, which took place on 20th October 2024. Incorporating the Lancashire Athletics Association 5 Mile Championships, you can find out more on our dedicated event page.

We're already busy planning Green Drive 5 for 2025!


The results from the last few years can be found:

Green Drive 5 - 2024 | 2023 | 2022

Junior Green Drive Mile - 2024 | 2023 | 2022

Start of Junior Green Drive Mile

Upcoming activities

About Our Club

Lytham St Annes Road Runners Club is a friendly running club established in 1998. As well as road running we participate in athletics, cross country and fell running.

Each year we organise the renowned Green Drive Five (a 5 mile road race) and the St Annes Carnival 5k & Fun Run.

Whatever your standard of running, come along to Lytham YMCA, Mythop Road on a Tuesday or Thursday night at 6:30pm and find out how quickly your running improves.

The Junior Section of our club train on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You'll receive a warm welcome and will soon see how being a member of Lytham St Annes Road Runners will lead to many enjoyable competitive and social activities.

We have been awarded Clubmark accreditation by England Athletics. Read more on the England Athletics website.

We're pleased to announce that we were awarded Highly Commended following our nomination under 'Club of the Year' as part of Fylde Active Community Awards 2024 (PDF booklet). Furthermore, our long-term and dedicated junior coach Terry Hellings, received a 'Lifetime Achievement Award', recognising the significant contributions he has made over many years.

Strava

We've set up a Strava group for the club. It's just for fun and open to any member to join if you use Strava. Just search for LSARRC and follow the instructions - any problems see Greg.

This is what we've been up to so far this week.....

Press Reports

Our weekly press reports are available.

Monthly handicap

The 2022/2023 Club handicap started in April, with latest results from October now available (xls).

Results of the 2021/2022 Club handicap can be found in the final March update (xls).

Photos

Our eternal thanks go out to the late Dave Wood for providing many of the photos on this website (not to mention his unwaving support for the club, and athletics in general).

If you regularly take photos of our runners (or other local clubs) and are happy for everyone to see them let Greg know and he'll add a link in for you.

Welsh Castles Relay

Another great weekend was had at the Welsh Castles Relay in the baking heat of 2023. We were pleased to return to the Welsh Castles Relay weekend for 2023 and fielded a strong team. It is always a "challenge" running the Welsh hills, which can come as quite a shock are putting together a team for the weekend. Pease get in contact with Chris (Team Captain), or Lewis (Deputy) for more information, especially if you'd be interested in joining us in future years.

WCR 2018

For more photos...