Sent: 15 February 2007 00:15
Subject: V S Update - Cross-country, Pie and peas, Forthcoming races,
Thursday curry, PBs and Performance awards, Several
adverts
Sport Direct XC Sunday
18 February
Thanks to Mark Hetherington for supplying the
following details.
The penultimate race in the series is this Sunday at
The course is quite hilly, may well be fairly muddy,
and is suitable for spikes or studs (trail shoes should be OK unless it is
really muddy).
As it says on the Abbey Runners website, it isn’t just
the 4 women and 8 men ‘counters’ who are important on Sunday, runners are also
needed to push the opposition counters down the finishing order!
We need a good quality and quantity of Striders on
Sunday to maintain our challenge for promotion!
Extra Pie and Peas Night Tuesday 20 February
Final Reminder : Let me know whether meat pie or veg
pie, whether mushy peas or baked beans, by email by 11pm Sunday 18 February
or specially for those returning to work after half
term holidays, text me 0777 5898 558 by 12 noon Monday 19 February.
Two of your committee members have birthdays this
week, come and celebrate with them, there may be cake too!
Please note that if you book, you are committing to
pay £2.50, unless we are able to re-sell your meal on the night.
Your booking will be confirmed on our listings page www.valleystriders.org.uk/vslists.htm,
Forthcoming
Races
Please note
the following dates
(VSGP =
Grand Prix see website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsgp07c.htm
for more details)
(VSFC =
Fell Championship see website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsfc07c.htm
or Geoff for more details)
Sat 3 March
– Noonstone fell race – VSFC
Sun 4 March
– Sport Direct XC at
Sat 10
March – National Cross Country
Sun 11
March – Ian Roberts Fell Race –
Sun 18
March – Spen 20 and East Hull 20 – both VSGP
Sun 25
March – Ackworth Half Marathon – this race has just been added to the VS Grand
Prix
Sun 1 April
–
Sun 1 April
– Northern 12 stage and 6 stage – see below
Tue 10
April – Valley Striders Club Handicap, 10k by reservoir (good footpath and
tarmac) - VSGP
Sat 14
April – Meanwood Trail Race – marshals wanted
Sun 22
April – London Marathon – entries closed - VSGP
Sun 29
April – Rothwell 10k – fast course, the race is now over half full, entries
filling fast – VSGP
Sun 29
April –
Weds 2/9/16
May – Esholt 5k NB no entries on the day – VSGP
Tue 8 May –
Jack Bloor Fell Race - scores VSGP and VSFC points
Sun 13 May
– Leeds Half
There are
other races listed on the Dates page of the website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm,
other listings of races are available (e.g. www.ukresults.net
) !
Northern Relays - Mens
12 stage and Womens 6 stage
Thanks to
Sunday April
1st.at Silksworth Sports Centre,
Men's race
is 4 x 4 miles and 8 x 2 miles. Women's race is 6 x 2 miles.
The closing
date is 7th March and the cost is £30 per team for the Men's 12 stage and £15
per team for the Women's 6 stage.
We’ll
discuss this at the club next Tuesday, email me [email protected]
if you are interested in running but not coming to the club next Tuesday.
Thursday Curry
The
Thursday night running group have been a little remiss lately with organising
the curry nights - so this is to be rectified.
Next curry night will be Thursday 1st March (and 1st Thursday of the month
thereafter).
After the run, so about 9pm - all welcome of whatever eating capability
Probable venue Nazams in Woodhouse, and open to suggestions thereafter.
John Wallace [email protected]
Dewsbury 10k
Dave
Middlemas was another to get a PB
Liversedge Half
Most of
these Striders were using this tough half marathon as part of their
racing/training preparation for
20
Ian Sanderson 86:06
55
Eric Green 92:21
66
72
Steve Trout 95:57
85
Patrick Barrett 97:44
137
Simon Redshaw 102:54
173
Hayley Palmer 106:06
210
401
ran
Striders PBs and
Performance Awards
Just
before Christmas, Steve O’Callaghan brought along his best race times at
various ages and Alan Hutchinson brought along a proposal for an award scheme
for current Striders. We are going to go ahead with both of these, and
confirm the details in the next few weeks.
We
will be collecting ALL Striders PBs and ABs (age-bests, 5 year bands) in a
database to have available for the Striders 25 year celebrations in July.
Have a look on the website www.valleystriders.org.uk
and look in the yellow club section for “Runner Performances”, we
already have an Excel format to collect the data and sample reports for each
runner. Send your PBs and ABs to me in a format similar to that on the
website. NB I’m hoping someone will volunteer to input this data!
We
will be collecting ALL Striders race times for 2007 onwards for an awards
scheme. The scheme will work on the something like the following lines:
There will be gold, silver and bronze times set for each race distance for each
age group. Then say if you achieve bronze performances at 4 different
race distances you will receive a bronze medal. If we wanted more levels
we could have 7 levels and issue coloured certificates using the different
colours of judo belts. Ideas welcome! We’ll maybe have a big
discussion on 6 March when Hutch is back from Kilimanjaro.
Up & Running
Advert
Prices
Slashed on Winter Clothing in-store at the Headingley and City Centre
Shops! From Saturday 10th Feb for 2 weeks - 20% off!
NB
You won’t get your 10% club discount on sale items.
Women aged 18-40 required for research
From Mark Hetherington (Abbey Runners) Calling
Lady Marathon Runners: I am supervising a student project, looking at
metabolism, aerobic capacity and running economy in female distance runners. We
are looking for experienced female distance runners between the ages of 18 and
40, who have preferably completed at least one marathon (although we would also
be interested in you if you have runs lots of half marathons, long off-road
races etc.). It would involve 3 visits to our laboratory during the next
2 months: one short visit to undergo a brief medical, followed by 2 visits of 2
– 3 hours each to do a series of treadmill running tests (one of which will be
a ‘maximal’ exercise test). The benefit to you would be that you would get a
full ‘athlete testing’ report, similar to those that we do on a semi-commercial
basis for elite runners at a cost of £100 a throw! Such a report can be very
useful in helping you to plan your training. If you are interested, e-mail me [email protected]
For
Heart rate monitor and speed/distance system. Still with original box
and instruction books.
I
have never used the GPS part of this system and only used the heart rate
monitor a few times. The only thing that is marked is the outer rim of the
watch which has a small scratch on it from when I fell over in the woods!!!
Cost
new was £240, would like to sell for £100. If anyone is interested
or wants to have a look please give me a ring on 07961 830 502.
Thanks,
Addendum
from Bob, I’ve Googled for this and it is still a current product. http://www.adventureshop.co.uk/timex/body_link.htm
See you next Sunday and/or Tuesday!
Bob