Sent: 02 November 2008 23:30
Subject: VS Update - reminders, membership subs, results, more results
Reminders for Food
Pie and
peas night, Tuesday 4 November, please book (meat or veg pie) by text 0777 5898
558 by 2pm Monday
Lasagne
night and Annual General Meeting, Tuesday 18 November, still at least 3 more
committee members required, contact me or
Membership
Subscriptions and Cards
Check whether you’ve paid your membership fees at http://valleystriders.org.uk/reg2008.htm Fees for the year to 31 August 2009 are as follows - Adult Competitor £14 *
- Junior Competitor (11-18) £8 *
- Social £9
- Second Claim £9
- Junior (under 11) £3
- Volunteer (non runner) £3
* the first
two categories include the £5 we pay to England Athletics on your behalf.
If you want to run in any race (this includes road races, relays, fell races)
you must pay the inclusive rate.
Please send
a cheque, payable to “Valley Striders” to
I am hoping
that membership cards will be with you in the next 2 to 3 weeks. In July,
we paid £740 (for 148 members) to England Athletics, and the cheque was
cashed. When we looked on their website 2 weeks ago, the 148 people were
indicated as “awaiting payment”. All cross fingers please that it is now
sorted out.
Extra notes regarding
forthcoming races
Saturday
29 November –
Mark
Hetherington emailed : One more thing for your list of
upcoming events: the Leeds Relays take place on Bodington fields on Saturday 29th
November. Last year, we entered an Abbey men’s team and narrowly avoided
finishing last (although, to be fair, it wasn’t exactly our ‘A’ team!). Do you
fancy getting a Striders team or two together and challenging us? Your ladies
would do pretty well, I should think… Details here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/crosscountry/relays/current/index.html
Sunday 30 November – Thirsk 10
Closing date for postal entries is 7 November.
Entries will be taken on the day (up to entry limit) but are not eligible for
prizes.
Results
Great North Run
772 Steve
Tighe 01:31:08
2528 Richard
Adcock 01:39:47
2965 Mary
Egan 01:41:12
3444 Sue
Sunderland 01:42:37
3791 Mivvy Tekchandani 01:43:31
4183 Paul
Greaney 01:44:29
5370 Zoe
Ridgway 01:47:11
6293 Keith
West 01:49:05
6621 Michael
Ayres 01:49:46
9247 Paul
Sanderson 01:54:32
10768 Ruth
Cranidge 01:56:53
HPTT54
65 Erica
Hiorns 00:24:19
NVAC 10
Lytham
30 Eric
Green
01:06:41
HPTT55
15 Jerry
Watson 00:19:18
17 Eirik
Stangnes 00:19:24
38 James
Tarran 00:21:34
Bridlington Half
4 Panos
Aristotelous 01:13:55
88 Dan
Murray
01:29:15
101 Tim
Towler
01:30:41
161 Greg
Skerrett 01:36:05
285 Nick
Barnes
01:46:53
Leicester
38 Eric
Green
03:04:14
180 Xanthe
Hannah 03:40:24
w1 Tracey
Morris 01:18:00
209 Patrick
Barrett 01:36:37
260 Jonathan
Brownbill 01:38:31
335 Gary
Mann
01:41:25
HPTT56
22 John
Wallace 00:20:35
237 Lou
Gilchrist 00:53:53
Holmfirth 15
41 Eric
Green
01:43:09
Paul
Gill
3:43:58
Tim
Wilkinson 4:02:27
Paul Gill celebrated his 50th birthday just
a week before the race. He was featured in North Leeds weekly news saying
this would be his last marathon, I’m sure he’ll have changed his mind by the
time he gets off the plane!
Also running was
Tim
Crossland 2:35:43
Cross Country Results
Under 11 Boys
9 0:06:56 TAYLOR, Gavin
Senior Women
26 0:22:53 CLARK,
Laura
33 0:23:19 HALLORAN,
Jane
53 0:24:18 HANNAH,
Xanthe
73 0:25:42
80 0:26:09 HARRIS, Samantha
83 0:26:14 TANSLEY, Sharon
88 0:26:35 HARRIS, Mary
111 0:29:44 DYER,
Sara
114 0:30:15 WATSON, Madeleine
116 0:30:30 WATSON, Sylvia
Team 8th
Senior Men
17 0:32:43 ARISTOTELOUS, Panos
56 0:35:47 WEBB,
Steve
81 0:37:17 HARMAN,
Dan
84 0:37:32 TAYLOR,
Drew
87 0:37:36 KENNIS, Alastair
89 0:37:44 FISHER,
Dan
99 0:38:04 MURRAY,
Dan
111 0:38:34 BUTTON,
Tom
112 0:38:35 HUNTER,
Paul
114 0:38:36 ROSSER,
Ian
118 0:38:48 STANGNES, Eirik
129 0:39:27 CLAY, Jim
135 0:39:43 TIGHE,
Steve
136 0:39:47 WATSON,
Jerry
154 0:40:49 ALLEN,
Matt
177 0:43:01 JACKSON,
Bob
179 0:43:21 ADCOCK, Richard
182 0:43:33 HUNTER,
Mark
Team 8th
Under 11 Boys
5 0:07:40 TAYLOR, Gavin
Senior
Women
16 0:23:39 CLARK,
Laura
32 0:24:25 HALLORAN,
Jane
51 0:25:27 NANCOLAS, Hayley
73 0:27:35
101 0:31:44 WATSON, Madeleine
103 0:31:56 WATSON, Sylvia
Team 9th
Senior Men
48 0:48:44 ARISTOTELOUS, Panos
51 0:48:54 THOMAS,
Gwilym
59 0:49:27 WEBB,
Steve
93 0:52:31 FISHER,
Dan
94 0:52:34 BURNSTEAD, Robert
101 0:53:02 WATSON,
Jerry
110 0:53:33 STANGNES, Eirik
125 0:54:27 HUNTER,
Paul
133 0:54:55 CLAY,
Jim
150 0:56:32 HUTCHINSON, Alan
170 0:58:08 HILL,
Martin
175 0:59:22 HUNTER,
Mark
178 1:00:06 BUTTON,
Tom
182 1:00:22 GIDDINGS, Joel
183 1:00:26 HAYGARTH,
Tony
186 1:00:39 JACKSON,
Bob
200 1:02:02 ADCOCK, Richard
209 1:03:40 TINKER,
Mick
210 1:03:56 FALE,
Alistair
217 1:06:45 WALLACE,
John
220 1:08:45 WILKES,
Bob
222 1:10:01 WEBSTER,
Geoff
Team 9th
A couple of little stories here. The men were
supposed to be doing “one small lap, three large laps”. We set off, and
having done one very large lap, assumed that the little loop we did at the
start was a small lap, so looked forward to just 2 more laps. No such
luck! As we came to what we thought was the finish, we could see the
leaders going round again. I had made my 2 laps without being lapped by
the leaders, but within half a mile of the third lap, I had been lapped, and a
further 12 or 13 came past me (fortunately the course was fairly wide and there
was space for overtaking). I set off on my 4th lap and a
minute later Panos came past. “You should have finished”, I said, “go under the
tapes and straight to the finish!”. His extra loop cost him nearly 2
minutes and 20 places. (I’m sure he just wanted the extra
training). Geoff was at the back, yes right at the pack, but had a race
plan and was biding his time. At the end of the third lap he caught the
guy in front of him … who promptly stopped and dropped out of the race!
No time to catch any more, Geoff did finish last.
National XC Relays at
This was the first time for several years that we’d
“sent” a team to this event, and our representatives acquitted themselves well!
Women’s Team 43rd out of 93 teams started,
76 complete teams
Jules Barltrop 11:43
Xanthe Hannah
12:33
Jane Halloran
12:12
Total
36:28
Men’s team 94th out of 188 teams started,
151 complete teams
Anthony Fryer
19:06
Gwil
Thomas 18:12
Panos Aristotelous 17:29
Total 1:14:16