Sent: 29 May 2009 00:45
Subject: V S Update - P&P / Performance Certs / Ilkley Trail /
Richard Adcock's win
Pie and Peas – Tuesday
2 June
Final
reminder for pie and peas next Tuesday. Please let me know whether you
want meat pie (£2.50) or vegetarian bake (£2.50), accompanied by mushy peas or
baked beans, and whether you want apple pie (£1.50). Please email before
10pm Sunday or text (not voicemail) to 0777 5898 558 before 2pm Monday
Good luck to
Eric Green,
Kirsty Everett and anyone else running Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday.
Performance Awards
Scheme
After a
lapse of 4 months, the Performance Lists are now up to date on the
website.
We have
been awarding certificates in the meantime, including a Grade 11 to Lou
Gilchrist which I presented at the Meanwood Trail Race. A VS Grade 11
performance beats the theoretical world record for that age for that
distance. Lou’s grade 11 performances were
Apr 2007 (age 74)
Mar 2008 (age 75) Wilmslow half 1:51:39 100.7%
Aug 2008 (age 75)
Sep 2008 (age 75) Trafford 10k
49:35 101.6%
Mar 2009 (age 76) Trafford 10k
51:08 100.3%
Since then
she has done 2 more – Rothwell 10k in 50:02 and
Expect a
new revised edition of the age-graded tables soon, so get racing now before the
targets get harder!
We have now
awarded 97 certificates (some awaiting collection), and these belong to 64
different Striders. Some of you are just one race off a certificate and
for some of you it is because you have only run two distances (5k and 10k),
whereas you need three different distances in your five qualifying races.
Opportunities coming up to run different distances are
Thu 4 June – Full Bronte 5 mile at Keighley
Wed 10 June – Otley 10 mile
Sun 12 July – Eccup 10 mile
These last
2 are V S Grand Prix races so another good reason to run them.
Results
Ilkley
Trail Race
The chance
for “double” points (i.e. Grand Prix points and Fell Championship points) and
the sunny weather brought out 20 Striders last Sunday to Ilkley Rugby Club and
Although
billed as uphill for the first half and downhill for the second, it proved to
be uphill for 1 mile, undulating for 5 and downhill for 1. And, although
it had a Fell Runners Association permit, it was far less technical than our
Meanwood Trail Race. A good introduction to off-road running and highly
recommended for next year. There was also a great selection of cakes on
sale after the race.
4 Panos Aristotelous
0:42:55 100
13 Gareth
Moules
0:46:01 99
16 Mick Loftus
0:46:42 98
20 Jim
Clay
0:47:01 97
25 Eirik Stangnes
0:48:27 96
31 Simon Vallance
0:49:01 95
38 Graham
46 Ian
Sanderson
0:50:49 93
50 Joel
Giddings
0:50:55 92
56 Andrew
Cutts
0:51:28 91
59 Aled Greenhalgh
0:51:45 89
66 Alistair Smyth
0:52:06 88
77 Eric
Green
0:53:36 87
83 Bob
Jackson 0:53:59
86
88 Nick
Barnes
0:54:09 85
102 John
Wallace
0:55:19 84
135 Xanthe Hannah
0:57:44 83
160 Sue
183 Geoff Webster
1:02:05 81
190 Alistair Fale
1:02:40 80
334 finished
Striders top 4 scored 53 points and were marginally
beaten for the team prize by the home team of Ilkley Harriers who scored 49.
All V S Grand Prix points and Fell Championship points
are now on our website with the exception of Joel whose finishing number was
wrongly recorded in the results – this will be corrected over the weekend.
More on the
Ilkley Harriers website www.ilkleyharriers.org.uk
also results on www.ukresults.net
also pictures at http://www.photos-dsb.co.uk/Ilkley%20Trail%202009/index.html
Next Fell Championship races
·
Wed
3 Jun - Otley Chevin (AS) 3.5m 900'
·
Sat
6 Jun - Wharfedale off road marathon (CL) 25.0m 2600'
Next Grand Prix races
Esholt
5k Series
Jim Clay
picked up his first ever prize - 3rd overall (cumulative time) for M35 cat.
Eddy
Robinson picked up the series prize for first junior – he was first in all 3
races.
Malhamdale Meander - report from Richard Adcock
I’m going to have to stop speaking to
Geoff because every time I do he persuades me to do another long off-road event
J
So, two weeks after the 3 Peaks race,
instead of resting I find myself getting up at 6am again to get to Kirkby
Malham to register for the Malhamdale Meander, a 23 mile offroad walking event
that attracts a number of runners.
Walkers set off at 8.30am leaving the
runners for a 9.30am start, but there seemed to be an unofficial staggered
start with runners deciding by their own abilities and sneaking off
early, so by just after 9.00am there were only four of us left! A quick
discussion with the organisers and we agree to set off 10 minutes early.
As I had no idea of the route (and no
map!) I stuck with the others for the first leg, and for the first three
quarters of an hour it was all uphill taking in Hanlith, up the Pennine
Way to Malham and across to Kirkby Fell.
As we'd started to catch up with
walkers by then, I figured between asking them, and at each
checkpoint for directions I'd be ok, so picked up the pace all the way downhill
to Langscar Gate and through Watlowes (Ings Scar) down to Gordale Scar - I
wasn't expecting to see this http://www.malhamdale.com/images/goredale5.jpg , also I wasn't expecting to have to
climb it! J
I lost about four minutes here waiting for
the queue of walkers to climb up and got rather cold and wet in the process of
hanging around and up the climb itself, but from the top it's nice
and easy across to Malham Tarn for a cup of tea and
flapjack before heading off again for the second half.
From here the route is the
reverse of The Wharfedale Marathon across to Dew Bottoms (so we get
to do it again next month), turning off to Parson’s Pulpit and then a nice easy
leg (apart from a short sharp uphill section to Weets Gate and a few other
hills) of about 7 miles, all the way to Calton.
Then with just over 2 miles to go, it’s
back through Airton and Hanlith along the riverside, to the finish.
I came home fourth [the three others set
off at 8.30am] so with time correction I finished in first place by a margin
of 14 minutes. (editor’s bold font – well done Richard)
The weather was perfect for a run, the
wind a bit blustery (read very at the top of the hills!) in places but the
majority of the rain stayed off until
just after I'd finished.
With a meal and shower available at the
end it made for a good day and some fantastic scenery.
According to GPS the route was 22.5miles
and 4830’ of ascent and a time of 4hrs 16mins.
Just got
Leeds Half Marathon [Sunday] report
- I’m tired..
Jack Bloor Fell Race [Tuesday] report -
I’m very tired... (but thank you Geoff for pushing me along the first half
and then letting me beat you, again J)
