REMINDER - Club Handicap / Pie and Peas
/ Hutch's drinks on Tuesday 27 June
Club Handicap will start prompt at 7pm by the lodge
by the Reservoir. The route is approximately 5.4 miles, a circular route
(clockwise) out to Emmerdale and back round the Res.
Pie and peas must be ordered by Sunday evening by email or phone 289-2830 -
please state whether meat or vegetarian pie and whether mushy peas or baked
beans. 36 people partook last month - highly recommended.
Alan Hutchinson will be buying drinks in advance of his 50th
birthday. You don't have to order those now!
LEEDS COUNTRY WAY RELAY - Sunday 3 September
Following our success in the Bradford Millennium Way relay (see below), we
are now recruiting for the LCW Relay. For the last 2 years we have have 4
teams of 12 runners - that is about all the fully fit Striders and a few
half-fit ones as well. The scheme has been to enter a mens team, a womens
team, a vets team (M40/W35) and a 4th team consisting of those too slow for the
men or women and/or too young for the vets team. Providing we can fill 4
teams, the first 12 who put their names forward are, whatever speed, GUARANTEED
a place in a team.
NB it will be necessary to recce the route before the race, more details in
the next email
GOLDEN ACRE PARK RELAY - Wednesday 26 July
Get yourselves organised into teams of 3 for this event, you each run 2.5
miles on a circuit of Golden Acre Park, great practice for LCW and a really
friendly evening. Just register on the night £10 per team, look out on the
Abbey Runners website a week before the race and you will be able to download an
entry form so you can fill it in and save queueing on the night.
RESULTS
Otley 10 (quite warm, very hilly)
42 John Uttley 65:58
4th M45
74 Eric Green
70:25
121 Bill Murphy
74:33
180 Peter Lambert 82:18 1st
M70
248 Mike Brown
91:04
Wheldrake 10k (warm)
9 Sam Harris
38:01 1st W, CONGRATULATIONS
23 Eric Green
41:12 13th M40-49, there are a lot of them about
50 Paul Sanderson 45:03
BRADFORD MILLENNIUM WAY RELAY
CONGRATULATIONS TO US!!!
The Valley Striders team finished 4th in 6:18:30. This
beat the Striders previous best total time by 23 minutes, was only 6 mins
slower than previous course record for open teams, set a new vets
record by 8 minutes, now sits sixth
on the all-time open rankings.
I was presented with the Vets Shield by two runners from New
Zealand. Paul Hamblyn finished in 4th place in the final of the 1500m
(3:39:38) at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne this year. Dale
Summerville represented NZ in the world cross country championships in
France in 2005. They ran leg 4 for the "St Bedes and Friends" team,
knocking 7 minutes off the previous course record.
Also congrats to Chapel Allerton (including Alison and Jonny)
who won the mixed team trophy. Their time was the 4th fastest ever by a
mixed team, slower than our 2003 and 2004 times but faster than our 2002
and 2005.
Leg
Pos/Time On Leg
Pos/Time Cumulative
1 Drew
Taylor 5 1:20:14
Steve
Webb 5 1:20:14
- beat previous
record for vets time on leg by 4 minutes
- vets record today was set
by Martin Horbury now with Keighley
2 Bob
Jackson 11 1:22:04
Ian
Sanderson 7 2:42:18
- 2nd fastest ever Striders
time for leg
3 Jerry
Watson
2 0:56:17
Mick
Wrench 3 3:38:35
- fastest ever vets time
for leg and second fastest ever open time for leg
4 Andrew
Cutts 12
1:13:24
Alan
Hutchinson 7 4:51:59
- only two mins slower
than previous fastest ever open time for leg
5 Rob
Bumstead 11 1:26:31
Tim
Towler 4 6:18:30
- 2nd fastest ever Striders
time for leg