Sent: 24 November 2008 00:14
Subject: V S Update - Subs, Cards, PnP, Abbey, Grand Prix, Pendle,
Harrogate, Charity, Committee
Membership Subs Due
The website
is up-to-date with membership status. http://valleystriders.org.uk/reg2008.htm
If your name is marked ‘07’ you are owing £14 for the Striders year September
2008 to August 2009.
Please send
a cheque payable to Valley Striders to Paul White,
NB if you
are second-claim or a junior or a social member or a volunteer or a life member
or your most recent payment was 2006 (or more than one of these categories),
then please contact me for the appropriate rate.
Membership Cards
I think 20
of you have received membership cards in the last 2 months and the other 150
are still waiting (you’d have received last year’s card in February 2008 but
this expired at the end of March 2008!). I’m told that the others should
arrive this week. Please let me know if you get your card.
Pie and Peas
Tuesday 2
December will be a pie and peas night. Please email me before 10pm Sunday
30 November or text 0777 5898 558 before 2pm Monday 1 December, stating whether
you want meat pie or vegetarian bake, whether mushy peas or bakes beans, and
(optional extra) whether you want apple pie.
Abbey Dash
Technology
at races is getting more and more impressive, within about 5 minutes of
crossing the line today, runners were getting a text message with their chip
time and gun time. But you knew these anyway, because you had your watch
to record your “run” time and saw the clock as you finished to give your
“traditional” time. OK so the text did give your position too. What
next – a voicemail half way round to give you your predicted time based on the
first 5k and whether you seemed to be slowing or getting faster? Soon you
won’t even need to run, just input your training times and what you ate for tea
last night and it will calculate your time for you!
There were
46 Striders today. Would have been more if one of our ladies hadn’t
looked out of the window at 7:30 and seeing the snow, decided to go back to
bed. She missed ideal running conditions, there were plenty of PBs among
the leading runners (six broke 30 minutes), and I guess plenty amongst the
Striders too.
The Valley
Striders banner and number one supporter Joyce the Voice should both have been
at the viaduct lights today but Joyce had an accident while walking yesterday
and has chipped a bone in her elbow so will be out of action for a while.
If you want to send a get well message, the address is 27 Baronsway LS15 7AW.
Chip
Chip G.P Gun Gun
Pos
Time Pts Pos Time
72 Tracey Morris
0:34:45 100 72 0:34:48
90 Gwilym Thomas
0:35:21 99 91 0:35:28
119 Dan Fisher 0:36:18
98 124 0:36:31
186 Steve Morley
0:37:39 97 187 0:37:51
207 Jim Clay
0:38:00 96 200 0:38:07
219 Ian Sanderson
0:38:09 95 221 0:38:24
230 Dan Murray
0:38:15 94 246 0:38:47
249 Matt Allen
0:38:38 93 243 0:38:45
252 Tom Button
0:38:41 92 252 0:38:55
264 Martin Hill
0:38:51 91 261 0:39:04
276 Ian Rosser
0:39:07 90 277 0:39:22
289 Elika Tasker
0:39:22 89 302 0:39:54
325 Steve Tighe 0:39:55
88 395 0:41:18
337 Eric Green
0:40:03 87 318 0:40:08
377 Patrick Barrett
0:40:32 86 381 0:41:05
400 Eirik Stangnes
0:40:50 85 382 0:41:05
438 John Wallace
0:41:17 84 413 0:41:38
467 Nick Barnes
0:41:34 83 457 0:42:16
475 Liz Wood
0:41:43 82 519 0:43:03
512 Tim Towler
0:42:04 81 484 0:42:37
580 James Tarran
0:42:38 80 512 0:42:58
609 Paul White
0:42:51 79 527 0:43:08
653 Xanthe Hannah
0:43:09 78 598 0:43:52
675 Jonathan Brownbill 0:43:21
77 667 0:44:28
907 Samantha Harris
0:44:46 76 770 0:45:23
1010
Chloe
1072
Mick Tinker
0:45:42
74 917 0:46:38
1142
Steve
1221
Bill Mccaffrey
0:46:33 72 1337 0:49:42
1233
Paul Sanderson
0:46:38 71 1846 0:53:02
1253
Erica Hiorns
0:46:45 70 1086 0:48:05
1295
Louise Allinson 0:46:59
69 1084 0:48:04
1338
Ben Coltman
0:47:09 68 1344 0:49:44
1421
Tom Ridgway
0:47:31 67 1152 0:48:28
1483
Lisa Hodgson 0:47:52
66 1352 0:49:50
1821
Caroline Jameson 0:49:26
65 1659 0:51:55
1843
Mike Brown
0:49:33 64 2055 0:54:37
1904
Beca
1999
Keith West
0:50:16 62 1690 0:52:07
2133
Bobby Ndawula
0:50:52 61 2574 0:58:13
2244
Elissa Bilton
0:51:29 60 1869 0:53:12
2658
Sarah Gordon
0:53:35 59 2472 0:57:26
2809
Tracy Stewart
0:54:27 58 2325 0:56:26
3761
Anne Mccaffrey
0:59:39 57 4025 1:08:36
3825
Becky Murray 1:00:03
56 3643 1:05:43
4140
John Whitehead
1:02:26 56 3953 1:07:53
4407
Paul Holloway
1:05:18 55 4464 1:13:56
Grand Prix Update
For 6
Striders, it was their first GP race of the year. 146 Striders have now
run at least one GP race.
And 32
Striders have now run 8 or more races in the Grand Prix. The 8 races is
the minimum to qualify for any of the GP category prizes and is also the
minimum to qualify for a GP T-shirt.
At the Xmas
Presentation Night there will be Grand Prix winners T-shirts for 1st
Man, 1st Woman, 1st M40, 1st M50, 1st
W35 and the 1st in each group B,C,D,E. i.e. 9 in total.
But any of the other Striders who have run 8 or more races may purchase their own
for £8.75. Please email Paul White [email protected] if you’d like
a T-shirt.
If you’ve
only run 6 or 7 races you have 2 chances to make this up to 8. This
coming Sunday (30th) is the Thirsk 10, almost certainly taking
entries on the day. The following Sunday (7 December) is the West Yorks
XC race at
Click http://valleystriders.org.uk/vsclubch.htm
for the menu page for Grand Prix information.
Tour Of Pendle –
report by Anthony Fryer
New report
on blog www.middlepack.co.uk about
tour of pendle. Managed 22nd out of 200 with a time of 2 hrs 51 mins, which
even if I do say so myself is a good time! After a bit of results jiggery
pokery I ended up being 13th? Won a £10 voucher.
Sunday 4
January, teams of 5, please make your own teams if you can (you must have one
lady and one person over-40 and one person over-45).
If you need
more to make a team, let me know and I’ll try to match up teams. The
usual arrangement is to try and get an “A” team and then some equally matched
teams for a bit of competition.
Longest leg
is 5 miles, so any leg can be recce’d out-and-back as a training run.
Details on http://valleystriders.org.uk/vsrelays.htm#Harrogate
Why do club runners
run for charity?
I don’t
know why, and nor does Leigh Sedgley of Wetherby Runners, but she does want to
know for a project she is working on.
If you’d
like to help her by filling in her questionnaire (and to help us, because she
says she’ll send us the results), then click on http://valleystriders.org.uk/leigh-sedgley-questionnaire.doc.
NB there are only 8 questions so it should only take 3 or 4 minutes.
New VS Committee
If you need
information about the club or have any suggestions then our new committee are
here to help.
They are
Laura Clark, Paul Hunter, Bob Jackson, Dan Murray, Hayley Nancolas, Tracy
Stewart, Sharon Tansley,
We may not
know the answers straight away but we are having a committee meeting before
Xmas and will be on the case.