Sent: 26 June 2008 00:40
Subject: FW: VS Update - VS events, GP races, Club gear, Race results
and reports
Thanks to
everyone who has contributed race reports and messages to this week’s V S
Update! Happy reading to everyone else!
Pie and Peas – Tuesday
1 July
Final
reminder for pie and peas next Tuesday.
Please book
by email before Sunday 10pm, stating whether meat pie or vegetarian bake,
whether mushy peas or baked beans, and whether you also want apple pie.
Late orders
will be taken by text to 0777 5898 558 before 2pm Monday
NB the
session is 3 by 10 minutes, meet at Leos at 6:45, or by the Res at 7:00
Track Training at
We had 20
for the session in June so we’ve booked for the second Tuesday in July,
too. Meet at the Leeds Met / Carnegie / Headingley indoor sports centre
(off
Anniversary Barbecue –
Sunday 20 July
We are
planning to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the first meeting to
invent Valley Striders by running the Meanwood Valley Trail from Leos to
Woodhouse Moor and back on the morning of 20 July, followed by a lunchtime
barbecue at Leos. Friends and family welcome for the run and/or the
barbecue.
We need 50
people to make the barbecue viable, so let me know if you are definitely
or probably going to come to the barbecue. Please let me know by a
week on Sunday (5 July) and then we’ll decide if we have sufficient numbers.
Thanks!
… to the 40
of you who helped at the vets race last Tuesday. There were 143 runners
and almost as many complimentary comments. Thanks to Pat, Tony and Carole
for the food. And I’m sure Leo’s bar takings were a record for a Tuesday
night in recent years!
V S Grand Prix Race
Information
Hyde
Park 5k series – first Wednesdays in July, August, September
Just a
reminder that the Hyde Park 5k races organised by
Round
Hill Fell Race – Sunday 27 July
More a
short trail race with a “couple of bogs” http://www.otleyac.co.uk/Round%20Hill%20Fell/RoundHill.htm
entry on the day only.
Summer
Handicap – Tuesday 29 July
The 5 and a
bit mile off-road route to Emmerdale that we used for the AbbeyValley
Run. Lasagne night afterwards!
Leeds
Half
My
information is that they have 2100 entries so far and the race limit is
3800. If you want to run, I suggest you enter in the next 2 weeks.
Yorkshireman
marathon – Sunday 14 September
I’ve had an email from the race organiser that there will be
a recce of the Full Yorkshireman this Saturday 28th June 2008. Meet at Penistone
Hill Car Park at 12-00. Anybody and everybody welcome. More
details from Charlie - 01535-648017 - [email protected]
Valley Striders club gear
Tshirts – Valley Striders summer sale has
just 2 V S Anniversary T shirts at half price short sleeve at £2.15 long sleeve
at £2.75 first come first served contact Paul Hunter [email protected]
Jackets – Paul is also the contact for V S
jackets – black windproof with embroidered Valley Striders on front and Valley
Striders letters on the back, £19 each.
Car
stickers
- Paul has emailed You may recall if you
attended last years AGM that we looked at a car sticker to go in the rear
window of your car.
We
are still thinking of this, and if we have enough people who are interested
then we shall get them, we need 100 takers. (21 interested so far)
The cost is going to be £1ish.
Example
below, could you please let Paul know if you are interested. [email protected]
You
are following a Valley Strider
Nb
this may not show very well if you are on a text-only mail server, but you can
also find this email on the v s website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsupdate.htm
in the next day or two.
Vets team finished 13th overall and 3rd vets team in
6:48:01. We were 15½ mins behind Keighley & Craven vets and 2min 6secs
behind
B team finished 20th overall in 7:22:29.
Both teams got the “baton” round therefore did not have to suffer the indignity
of a mass start! 42 teams finished so both our teams were in the top
half.
Overall winners were Pudsey & Bramley in 5:31:22
(they were fastest on every leg!) First vets team Keighley & Craven
6:33:27. First mixed team were Ilkley 6:41:41. First ladies
team Keighley & Craven 7:25:42.
Results show time for leg, position within leg, team
time at end of leg, team position to date. E.g. Bob and John were 23rd
fastest on their leg and handed over in 11th place.
V.S. Vets
Bob Jackson
Eric Green
Andrew Cutts Paul
Hunter 1:18:31 (14) 5:18:24 (12)
V.S. “B”
Dan Murray
Mick Tinker Paul
Sanderson 1:36:40 (28) 3:14:49 (25)
David Cusack
Geoff Webster Tim Towler
1:38:38 (28) 7:22:29 (20)
We had 8 newbies to BMW and 3 more on different legs
from previous years, so with more Striders knowing “the Way”, maybe we can get
3 teams next year!
We now have
27 runners so we need another 21 to make up 4 teams (or another 33 to make 5
teams)
Please let
me know as soon as possible, also let me know your holiday arrangements because
if you’re going to be away on holiday during August you may need to recce your
leg before you go
Jane Tomlinson’s Leeds
10k Run For All – report from Ian Rosser
I did the
I have
included a race report below. The results can be found at http://www.raceahead.net/SearchEvents.aspx
With one of
the world’s best young runners in this race, there was only ever going to be
one winner. Ethiopian Ayele Mergessa won the second
His country
(wo)man Roman Gesse was first woman in 36.45. She’s also a top athlete but to
put that into perspective, Tracey Morris finished the course in 34.43 last year.
This year,
Tracey cantered round in 48.27, running with her sister, I believe.
The club’s
best result was Gwilym Thomas, who came a pretty good 12th out of
11,000 runners in 37.27. Not far behind were Jeremy Ladyman (39.51),
Steve Tighe (41.57) and Carole Schofield (44.39).
I was only
a minute behind Carole, although I was running the corporate challenge for the
Yorkshire Evening Post, rather than as a Valley Strider. You may have seen me
somewhere along the route: I was dressed as the Hulk, running with my fellow
newsroom superhero Spiderman. It was bloody hot under that rubber mask.
The race
organisation was, similar to last year, pretty much top notch, considering this
is only the second year it has taken place and there are so many runners.
The
threatened gales did not arrive and it was generally a good morning to be
running.
My major
complaint, again like last year, was the bottle-necking around the city centre.
It didn’t help that my lot had to start behind the “green zone” runners, so
there were roughly 5,000 people between me and the start line.
Once
outside the twisty city centre part of the course, it’s a pretty
straightforward over the flyover and up and down part of
As you
headed back into the city centre, it was great to hear the cheers of the crowd
in the distance, which kind of sucked you in a bit quicker.
Turning
back onto the Headrow, I think that’s where I passed Tracey. Don’t think I’ll
ever do that again. Especially dressed in green lycra.
Thanks,
Ian, good to have a proper athletics report for this race, unlike the guy in
the Y.E.P. who wrote that the men’s race winner was “closely followed” by the
runner-up. My calculation says that the runner-up still had a kilometre to go
when Mergessa was crossing the line, which is probably one of the biggest
winning margins for a race anywhere!
Full Striders Results
Chip
Chip Gun Gun
Pos
Time Pos Time
12 Gwilym Thomas
0:37:27 12 0:37:30
32 Jeremy Ladyman
0:39:51 31 0:39:55
70 Steve
Tighe 0:41:57
69 0:42:13
112 Rhiannon Silson
0:43:08 99 0:43:09 3rd W under 40
181 Carole Schofield 0:44:39
178 0:45:07 3rd W40-49
213 Mary
Egan
0:45:10 195 0:45:25 1st W50-59
227 Ian
Rosser
0:45:42 404 0:48:17
296 Sandra Sutton
0:46:16 242 0:46:20 6th W40-49
298
421
521 Tracey Morris
0:48:27 424 0:48:29
543 Chloe
838 Keith
West 0:50:51
797 0:51:59
1070 Sara
Byrne 0:52:16 1157
0:54:20
1229 Sarah Spruytenburg 0:53:10 1079 0:53:59
1305
1786 Lucy Carey
0:55:47 1844 0:58:16
1731 Sarah Gordon
0:55:34 2116 0:59:41
2111 Liz
Wood
0:57:31 1977 0:58:58
2474 Jane Sanders
0:59:05 2212 1:00:14
3891 Anne McCaffrey 1:05:07
4021 1:09:17
4457 John Sutcliffe 1:07:45
4139 1:09:56
5607 Becky Scurr
1:13:42 5705 1:18:54
Big
congratulations to Mary Egan who finished 1st W50. Mary
positioned herself well at the start and was only 15 secs to cross the
line. She was not actually the fastest W50, someone else had a slightly
faster chip time but in the race for prizes it is gun time that counts (if
anyone wants an explanation of the reason for this, then email me!), so her
tactics paid off. This was recompense for a race last year where she was
fastest but started too far back and therefore missed out on a prize.
You will
notice from the results that there were a few more Striders slightly out of
position on the start line. Ian mentioned starting behind 5000 runners,
maybe not that many but he was 2½ minutes through the start. Sarah G, you
should have been a bit nearer the front at the start, don’t be shy next
time. However a certain T Morris should have been a bit further back
instead of posing on the start line!
Settle Hills Race –
report from
Eschewing the prospect of an easy 10k around the centre of
Leeds in the Jane Tomlinson event, 4 brave (and foolish) Striders pitched up at
A cracking event and
top marks to the marshals who must have been very wet and cold stood out there
waiting for us. Steve Webb was top Strider in 57 minutes something in 5th
place,
Who was the Strider?
(part 1)
In
the Edinburgh Marathon it was Rawand Tayeb
Rawand
emailed “About a runner who spotted in the street on Edinburgh running and wore
a Valley Striders vest it was me and I had to agree with John it was really bad
day particularly for me because I had not slept at all at the before the
race. Anyway I finished in 02:48:15 and it did put me in 40th place,
sorry I should have done better but nonetheless I will try next time
harder and by the way I will run Leeds Half Marathon so good luck and all the
best and I hope to see you soon.
And
also Brendan Kitson
Brendan emailed “The other Strider present at
Who was the Strider?
(part 2)
In
the Vets race
it was Bob Wilkes.
Bob emailed
“My thanks to all the club members who filled all the duties so that I was the
spare part that was able to run. I 'enjoyed' the testing intricate
course.”
Bob is a
regular in this series and in our race he out-sprinted another M65, Malcolm
Coles, but there were still 2 more M65’s ahead
Oldbury Race – report from Jules Barltrop
I
hope all is well! Just thought I'd let you know about the 1st race I've managed
since moving to
I
plan to properly test my fitness level at a 10k in 2 weeks.
Send
my best wishes to all Striders!
Jules is understating the race –
there were 674 finishers and she was 27th http://www.simondunn.me.uk/funrun/Revisedresults08.xls
Ennerdale Horseshoe – report from Anthony Fryer
I did the
Ennerdale Horseshoe fell race on Saturday. My second of the Lakeland Classics
Series fell races. 23 miles and 7500ft of ascent (the equivalent of 21 times up
and down
Perfect
weather for running, with a slight breeze, cloud cover and the occasional
shower meant a fast race. Women’s record beaten by 4 minutes by Janet Mckiver
from dark peak. This being her second course record out of two races in the
classics series. Overheard she is going for the welsh 3000's record soon
as well.
Wasdale
next on 12th July and I have then qualified for the
Other Recent Results
Otley
10
37 Jon
Uttley
1:06:36
56 Eric
Green
1:08:28
85 David Cusack
1:11:47
126 Jonathan Brownbill
1:15:44
10
60 Lyn
66 Paul Holloway
0:27:34
Freckleton
half marathon
31 Eric
Green
1:28:54
Fancy a Saturday
afternoon watching athletics not in front of the TV?