The July instalment of the Media city 5k took place on Wednesday.
The race series organised by Runthrough, takes place in the evening from April to September and competitors are encouraged to chase the sun as they complete two laps around media city. I was a beautiful evening for the run and Lostock AC members had some fantastic results.
Jo was first across the finish line in 23:51 achieving first in age category. She was followed by Dave in 24:48 who was second in age category and Rachel in 26:48.
Lostockers were on tour at Parkrun this weekend: Katie Edern ran 31:33 at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh to finish third in her age category, while Rachel Stevens produced an excellent run at Oosterplas Parkrun in the Netherlands, finishing in 26:45 to place eighth overall, second female and first in her age category.
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