Sent: 18 January 2007 07:51
Subject: V S Update - Membership, Various Cross Country
Membership and Subscriptions
To the 130 Striders who have already paid their
membership subs for the current Striders year Sep 2006 – Aug 2007, thank you!
This includes the following who have joined since the
October Newsletter :
To the 13 Striders who are Honorary members, thank you
for your support to the club!
To the 36 Striders who paid for the last Striders year
ending Aug 2006 but have not paid for the current year, we will be sending out
a gentle reminder in the next few days, please pay as soon as possible.
There are a few Striders who are now 16 months in
arrears but have not resigned, we will be sending out the bailiffs to reclaim
their Striders vest in lieu of arrears!!!
Membership fees from September 2007
We have recently received notification from North of
England A A regarding registration fees to them for 2007 and 2008.
For 2007 this will be £3 per member, up from £2 in 2006, but the one-off club
fee has been reduced and the overall effect is only a slight increase.
For 2008, this will go up to £5 per member. Because this will be payable
to NoEAA in May 2008, we will need to increase subs in September 2007 to cover
this increase. My suggestion, all other things being equal, will be to
put up the subs from £12p.a. to £15p.a., for prompt payment this will go up
from £10p.a. to £12.50p.a. When I joined the club in 1985, subs were
£2p.a. plus 20p per night, i.e. £12.40 p.a. if you ran every week. I
think an increase of 10p in 22 years is a reasonable level of inflation!
Thanks to
Women
1 Aine Hoban (Wkfld) 23:06
49
68
104 Lyn Eden (Nidd V) 41:00 (VS 2n claim)
104 ran
Men
1 David Webb (LeedsC) 40:13
87
193
209 ran
U13 Boys
60 Oliver Watson (Carnegie)
74 ran
Valley Striders spectators (Geoff, Jerry, Sara, Jerry
and Sylvia) just outnumbered Valley Striders runners
Sport Direct Cross Country
Greg Skerrett made his first appearance in a Striders
vest (which was less bright white when it finished). Several other
Striders made their first cross-country appearances. Jim and Lyn, our
second claim members from
Ladies
10
12
24 Mary
Egan (first XC run for VS)
72 Lyn
82 ran
Ladies Team were 1st place in B division on the day
and have moved up to 2nd place in the series in B division.
A special word of thanks to Caz who had been on a 2 hour
training run, came to watch Steve and was persuaded to run the race at 8
minutes notice. Without her we would have been 95 points and a couple of
positions worse off.
Lady Vets were 4th place on the day and have now moved
up to 7th place in the series in the Vets category.
Men
11 Dave Middlemas
28
38
48
59
68 Bob Jackson
76 Alan Hutchinson
87 Eric Green
96 Patrick Barrett (first XC run for
VS)
101 Greg Skerrett (first run
for VS)
114
131 Paul Sanderson
133 Geoff Webster
135 Peter Lambert
Mens Team were 2nd place in B division on the day and
have moved up to 3rd place in the series in B division.
Men Vets were 7th on the day and now stand 9th in the
series in the Vets category.
The next race will be Sunday 28 January 11:00 on
Otley Chevin, probably from Danefield on
Women’s Race approx 5km
18
28 Madeleine Watson 24:20
54
62 Lyn
Eden 31:34
Nidd Valley 4th W60
68 ran
Men’s Race Over 50 approx 10km
42 Bob
Jackson 46:48
61
70 Geoff Webster
53:49
76
80 ran
Men’s Race 35-49 approx 10km
38
49 Drew
Taylor 42:18
51 Martin Horbury
42:27 Keighley & Craven
84 ran
Other Results
Lou Gilchrist came 135th out of 209 at the Pennine
10k. Of course she was first W70, but also she was 16th of 39 women and beat
the W55 and W60 who had entered.
Eric Green came 33rd out of 67 at the Aire Valley
Challenge from Bramley Falls Woods, just beating Veronique Marot.
National Cross Country, 10 March
20 Striders have volunteered or been press-ganged into
appearing at this event
NB Please pay £3.50 (cheque to Valley Striders) to