Sent: 24 April 2008 00:05
Subject:VS Update: Dates (Handicap, P&P, MVT, etc), Membership
Cards, London Marathon, Results etc
Dates for your Diary
Saturday 26 April – 8 Striders running in the World
Fell Running Championships – the 3 Peaks Race. Good luck to Caz Farrow,
Anthony Fryer, Mick Loftus, Eirik Stangnes (Norway), Simon Vallance, Geoff
Webster, Mick Wrench and Ingo Zoller (Germany).
Sunday 27 April – at least 9 Striders running in
Blackpool Marathon or Half – come on the Striders!
Tuesday 29 April – Club Handicap 10k, meet by
lodge by Res for 6:55pm for first runner to start at 7pm. Afterwards, pie
and peas at Leos, please email your order, stating whether meat or veg pie
(£2.50), whether peas or beans and whether apple pie (£1.50) by Sunday 10pm. If
you forget, you have till 2pm Monday to text to 0777 5898 558.
Tuesday 6 May – Meanwood Trail route recce run,
meet Leos at 6:45pm as usual. Possibly pie and peas afterwards, see VS
Update next week.
Wednesdays 7/14/21 May – Esholt 5k (Grand Prix), maybe
entries still available but definitely no entries on the night
Tuesday 13 May – Training session, meet at Leos,
session will be down by Res (session to be decided) – no track training this
month
Tuesday 13 May – Jack Bloor Fell Races at Ilkley
(Grand Prix)
Friday 16 May – beer labelling at Leo’s in advance of
Trail Race – 4 volunteers required
Saturday 17 May – Meanwood Trail Race, we have
25 marshals but we need 65, and this year we need to put on a drinks station
because we are later in the year than usual
Tuesday 3 June – Abbey & Valley team
competition round Res, barbecue afterwards, put this date in your diaries, more
information to follow but these will be combined Abbey and Valley teams, not
Abbey versus Valley
Sunday 8 June – Valley Striders providing start/finish
support to Pulse Race in Roundhay
Park, about 12 marshals
required
Tuesday 10 June – Track training at Leeds Met
Tuesday 17 June – Valley Striders hosting Yorkshire vets race at Leos – some marshals
required, details to follow
Sunday 20 July – Valley Striders 26th Anniversary,
Sunday morning run down the Meanwood Trail to Woodhouse Moor and back followed
by lunchtime barbecue, details to follow
Sunday 28 September – according to Abbey Runners, I
have suggested the Horsforth 10k for the Abbey Valley
rematch. I guess this is a little more challenging than Wakefield, and another good thing is that
there aren’t any other local races that weekend, but if anyone has any other
suggestions, let me know
Sunday 5 October – Harewood Trail Race
Membership Cards
All Striders who joined before 31 August 2007
should have received a letter and a plastic card “England Athletics Competition
Licence 2007/08” in the last week.
This replaces your “Membership 2006/07” from North of
England Athletic Association, and your new 7 digit number replaces your VLS
number. You should use this on race entry forms.
Please note that receipt of this card does NOT mean
that you are up to date with your Valley Striders membership – we registered
everyone that had paid the year before!
Please go to the UK Athletics website address on the letter
and check your personal details including inputting your email address.
To check whether you have paid your V S membership, go
to http://valleystriders.org.uk/reg2007.htm
and if it says “07” or “08” you’re OK.
If it says “06” or, even worse, you’re not listed,
send a cheque for £12, payable to “Valley Striders”, to Paul
White, 17 Whinmoor Court, Leeds, LS14 1NX
Striders who joined after 1 September 2007
will have a VLS number 307 and above. You need not do anything, except
that you’ll need to continue to use your VLS number on race entry forms.
England Athletics 2008/09
Note that the new Athletics year started at the
beginning of this month so your Competition Licences (if you have them) are
already out of date. We are expecting some new instructions for this
year’s registration shortly. As soon as they arrive, we’ll register
everyone who has paid for this Striders year (“07” on our website) so that
everyone will get their “England Athletics Competition Licence 2008/09” as
early as possible.
Note that there are three classes of membership
- First claim
- Second claim
- Volunteer
If you do not intend to run competitively in the next
year, we can register you as a “Volunteer” which is free of charge.
Therefore we will also offer you a (very) reduced rate of Valley Striders
membership. Please email back if you wish to be in that category.
London Marathon
208 Rawand Tayeb 2:41:15 100
1234 Eric Green 3:01:56 99
W71 Alison Bogie 3:02:53 98 2 (Champ start)
2131 Roy Flesher 3:12:30 98
2553 Mark Greaves 3:15:42 97
3973 David Cusack 3:26:24 96
4295 Hayley Nancolas 3:28:09 95 W368
7487 Xanthe Hannah 3:45:05 94 W954
8388 Eric Cusack 3:49:07 93
13126 Richard Adcock 4:06:18 92
24018 Susie Nicholas 4:48:38 91
30361 Louise Robinson 5:31:41 90
Report from Eric Cusack
David & myself both tried the Lucozade steady
drinking over 5 mile idea. we both think it worked really well .I had enough
energy to pick up my pace over the last 3 miles & after the race my legs
felt much easer than they normally do after 26 miles. I will try it again
next time !
Report from Hayley Nancolas
The
spectators were great – I even managed to see Jules cheering me at Cutty Sark
and mile 23 (really needed that push at 23). I had quite a few friends
and family watching me too – I usually heard them even shouting if I didn’t see
them. They were even able to track my progress around the course using WAP on
their phones (not sure if this is a new thing but they found it really useful
to track where I was and how I was doing).
The last 3
miles were hard, as my calves started to become quite painful but as you all
know when it’s the last part of a race and you’ve done the hard work you
mentally push yourself to finish, thinking that it was only like running to
Eccup for a Tuesday session ….and a little bit further. Looking at my watch
3.30 was still achievable so I knew to push myself and my family watching also
kept me going. The finish was just amazing and I even managed a little
sprint effort (it felt like a sprint but may have been more like a shuffle at
that point) and finished in 3 hours 28 minutes. Well done to all the
runners and thanks to all the spectators shouting for Valley Striders
I have also
raised around £700 for Yorkshire Cancer Research
Report
from Alison Bogie
This was my
favourite London
marathon ever as I didn't die at the end - very different being comfy in the
last 10k - check out the splits!! oh, and a new PB - yipee!
5km 0:21:53 21:53
10km
0:43:28 21:35
15km
1:05:01 21:33
20km
1:26:42 21:41
Half
1:31:19
25km
1:48:01 21:19
30km
2:09:39 21:38
35km
2:31:35 21:56
40km
2:53:16 21:41
Finish
3:02:53
(Alison
sent the split times, I calculated the 5km splits, that is fantastic pacing –
ed)
I went
back to the mass start in 2007 after running the elite start in 2006
and never again!! it is too busy on the mass start I think. The disadvantage is
that you can have a lonely run as there are less than 200 women altogether on
the elite one so it can turn into a bit of a time trial but the advantages are
the warm tent/ nicer loos/ more space when running etc.
Guisborough Moors Fell Race – congrats
to Laura for finishing 1st W.
45 Laura
Clark 1:44:57
141 Sharon
Tansley 2:14:46
200 ran.
Grand Prix – Any Other Marathon
Dan Harman ran 3:09 at Boston, this takes him to the top of the
leaderboard.
Jonathan and John pointed out that one of the splits on
their Two Oceans ultramarathon was the 42.2km point i.e. a full marathon, so
I’ve included these split times in the A.O.M. points
1 Dan
Harman
3:09:38 100 Boston
2 Carmel
Barker 3:32:40
99 Paris
3 Bernadette Clayton
3:45:06 98 Paris
4 Jonathan Brownbill
3:57:05 97 2 Oceans
5 John
Wallace
4:09:49 96 2 Oceans
Rothwell 10k (fast course
and Grand Prix points too)
There have been 13 Grand Prix races so far and Drew
becomes the 11th person to score 100 Grand Prix points. Grand Prix
tables are updated on the website.
45 Alastair Kennis
0:36:38 100 2
48 Drew
Taylor
0:36:47 100
81 Howard Jeffrey
0:38:20 99 2
84 Ian
Sanderson
0:38:24 99
87 Jeremy Ladyman
0:38:36 98 pb
88 Eric
Green
0:38:40 97 pb
92 Dan
Murray
0:38:45 96 pb
95 Paul
Hunter
0:38:52 95 pb
108 Graham Needham 0:39:24
94
164 John Wallace
0:41:45 93
175 Paul Sanderson
0:42:02 92 pb
176 Carole Schofield
0:42:02 91
177 Paul White
0:42:04 90
182 Simon Redshaw
0:42:12 89 pb
215 Sandra Sutton
0:43:48 88
257 Sue Sunderland
0:45:17 87
278 John Bucktrout
0:46:07 86
291 Chloe Hudson
0:46:24 85
325 Peter Stevenson
0:47:24 84
327 Christine Bradb’ne
0:47:28 83
350 Bob
Wilkes
0:48:16 82
456 Sarah
Gordon
0:52:43 81
498 Tracy Stewart
0:53:59 80
Mum on the Run (from Zoe Ridgway)
I am now back running after a few months
off and have just bought a 'Baby Jogger' 20inch wheel running pram to aid
solo daytime sessions. I am keen to find someone who may be interested in
some relatively 'slow' daytime running sessions from Alwoodley with me,
Charlotte and the pram whilst I am on maternity leave. Short distances only (5
miles-ish) as I think trying to run with the pram up hills may be a little more
tiring and slower than usual. [email protected]
Running Over 75
“75 year old runner Louise Gilchrist
has just broken a marathon world record”
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1184834029/bctid1504447702
Look out for the piano playing too!