Lostock AC member Johanna McManus travelled to Conwy, in North Wales, to take part in the annual half marathon and finished in a fine time.

This is a gruelling 13.1-mile race with an elevation gain of 850 feet.

Despite the horrendous weather, McManus finished in 1hr 51mins 6secs.

Elsewhere, Paul Lacey completed the Cumbrian Cracker - a 60-mile bike ride which starts and finishes in Grasmere village.

Over the course, cyclists cover an elevation gain of 4,450 feet and the autumnal weather had left the roads wet and covered in leaves. Lacey had an amazing ride, though, finishing in 4:26:21.

Lostockers headed to Haigh Woodland Park to stage a parkrun takeover where they marshalled, scanned bar codes, were timekeepers and tail walkers.

Due to a tree being down on route A, runners were required to complete the more challenging route B. This route starts in front of Haigh Hall and is a steady down hill towards Plantation Gates.

Greg Kilshaw dressed as a Lostock T-Rex when cheering on runners and everyone from the club had an amazing time on the day.

Rachel Hancock and Janet Rhodes completed the fourth week of the Sunnywood Project’s Stranger Trails series.

This week’s run started at Helmshore and runners discovered the story of the Mystery of the Man in the barn.

On Saturday, the penultimate race on the fell calendar was none other than the Tour of Pendle.

For a hill that covers a relatively small area, it manages to pack in a distance of 16.8 miles and 4,833 feet of climb, making it a tough category A long race.

Starting at the Barley village hall, the race begins with a mile of uphill road leading to the fell where it continues to climb steadily to the summit trig of Pendle Hill at 1,831 feet.

Not content with one summit of the hill, the route crosses the plateau to descend and climb a total of six times from different areas of the hill, each time becoming longer, steeper and more arduous.

Josie Greenhalgh and Rob Sharkey were the Lostock AC representation. Sharkley was the first Lostocker to cross the finish line in a fantastic time of 3:31:45, followed by Greenhalgh in 3:34.08, who was third in her age category.

Not content with just racing on Saturday, the following day Greenhalgh travelled to North Wales with fellow member, Tony Marlow, to compete in the Kong Mini Mountain Marathon.

This is a competition for both orienteers and fell runners to test their navigation and mountain skills.

Starting from Dolgellau, runners had four hours to visit as many control points as possible that were marked on the map.

The running area was the hills of the beautiful Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve. However, the poor weather on arrival meant a very wet, cold and windy outing.

Starting in full waterproof gear, Marlow headed out on a clockwise route with plenty of controls, points and elevation. Given the severity of the weather and terrain, the ability to move at any kind of pace was hampered massively. He was battered by strong gusts as reached the summit of Cadair Idris before making the treacherous rocky descent.

On planning his return route, Marlow was forced to cross a swollen river then descend some steep ground covered in tussocks, gorse and heather. The unforgiving terrain lost him some time and points, but his efforts still earned him sixth in his age category.

Greenhalgh was not so fortunate and was unable to complete my course when she came across a fast-flowing stream that was considered unsafe to cross while alone.

The crossing prevented Greenhalgh from accessing any further controls on her route so she was required to returned to race HQ.