Sent: 31 December 2009 00:32
Subject: V S Update - dates, cut-off dates, subs, results and reports
(including wins for Gwil & Vicky)
Hope you all had a good Christmas …
Dates for the first quarter of 2010
Sun 3 Jan - Harrogate Ringway social run
Sun 3 Jan – Pennine 10k at Brighouse (RACE FULL)
Tue 5 Jan – Pie and peas book to [email protected] by Mon
4 Jan 12:00
* State meat or veg pie, beans or peas, apple pie (optional)
Sat 9 Jan -
Sun 17 Jan - PECO XC race 3 at Nell Bank Ilkley (VSGP)
Sat 23 Jan - Northern XC at
Sun 24 Jan - Brass Monkey half (RACE FULL) (VSGP)
Sun 31 Jan - PECO XC race 4 at John Smeaton
Tue 2 Feb – Lasagne book to [email protected] by Sun
31 Jan 22:00
Sat 6 Feb - Yorks Vets XC at
Sat 6 Feb – Rombalds Stride
Sun 7 Feb - Dewsbury 10k (VSGP)
Sun 14 Feb - Liversedge half (enter early)
Sat 27 Feb - National XC at Leeds (VSGP) – names to
Drew – see details below
Sun 28 Feb -
Sat 6 Mar - Trollers Trot (VSGP)
Sun 7 Mar - PECO XC race 5 at Emmanuel College
Thackley
Sun 14 Mar – Spen 20
Sun 14 Mar – Trimpell 20 at Morecambe
Sun 28 Mar -
Sun 28 Mar –
Sun 28 Mar – East Hull 20
Other races are available, a good website with lots of
local races is www.ukresults.net
This Sunday, meet Conyngham Hall car park (by the
P.S. There’s a map and a bit more information at http://www.walkingenglishman.com/leedsharrogate25.htm
but note that we’re starting from the picnic table sign in Knaresborough, not
where it says “start” on the map. (The advantage is that the last 2 miles
is all down hill)
Peco Cross Country
Two races gone and three to go. The men are
comfortably mid-table, 5th out of 7, but if more of the Striders fast men run,
we might just challenge for the runners-up position that we finished last
year. On the other hand, if none of the fast men run, then we risk being
relegated. The women are equal 2nd in the second division, not sure whether
2 or 3 will get promoted. We will need a strong team in the last 3 races
to guarantee 2nd place; with our strongest team we could still win the
division.
National Cross Country
We already have 35 runners entered – check http://www.valleystriders.org.uk/vslists.htm
. Drew needs to send off our entry on the evening of Wednesday 6 January,
so email him [email protected]
before then.
Email Drew [email protected]
before Monday 25 January.
Valley Striders Membership Fees
We’re now a third of the way through the Valley Striders
year and exactly two-thirds of you have paid, which leaves 78 of the 234 who
haven’t
Please check http://www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm
and if your entry says “08”, please send a cheque for £15 to
RESULTS & REPORTS
Peco XC Race 2 at Horsforth
A fantastic result by Gwil Thomas who finished first
in the race.
Men
1 Gwil Thomas
26 Matt Allen
38 Joel Giddings
39 Lewis Balfour
40 Ian Rosser
65
92 Bob Jackson
97
98 Gary Mann
100 John Wallace
130 Bob Wilkes
Men’s team 5th, Men’s Vets 14th
Women
18 Sue
20
28 Mary Harris
41 Sara Dyer
Women’s team 2nd (div 2), Women’s
vets 2nd
For dates and locations of the final 3 races, see the top of
this email.
West Yorks XC race 4 at Guiseley
Women
41 Hayley Nancolas 23:08
59
68 Sue
72 Chloe
90 Sara Dyer
29:06
Women’s team 10th
Men
49 Steve
Webb 39:44
54 Dan
Fisher 40:16
58 Rob Hamilton 40:34
72 Alex Nancolas 41:30
91 Jerry Watson 42:49
98 Richard King 43:32
103 Joel Giddings 43:54
104 Lewis Balfour 43:56
106 Roy Huggins 44:02
116 Drew Taylor 45:06
124 Alan Hutchinson 46:09
152 Tony Haygarth 51:33
165 Richard Clough 60:26
Men’s team 7th
A special mention to Sharon and Sue who ran and counted in
both races at the weekend. Also to Joel and Sara, who ran both races and
counted in one of them.
Series Positions
Women 7th, Men 7th, Combined team 7th and winners of the
John Smith Challenge as all the teams above us had won medals in the League in
the last 2 seasons or current season.
We were given 10 medals and these will be awarded to the 6
men and 4 women scoring the most points in the series.
Alex Nancolas 694, Panos Aristotelous 683, Steve Webb 608,
Gwil Thomas 402, Dan Fisher 394, Jeremy Ladyman 345.
Hayley Nancolas 623, Sue Sunderland 560, Sharon Tansley 385,
Madeleine Watson 367.
Just missing out on the medals but making a significant
contribution to the team scores were Chloe Hudson 356, Rob Hamilton 343 and
Jerry Watson 329.
Also winning medals were Malcolm Coles 1st M65 and Tony
Haygarth 2nd M60. Steve Webb was just out of the medals as 4th M45.
Well done the Striders, a very successful series for us this
year!
Well done to the Vets team who got the baton as far as leg 4
before troubling the mass start organisers, and went on to finish in a very
good 76th position. Last year the Vets were 89th so we are definitely
moving in the right direction. Thanks to relatively late substitutes
Alistair and Alun and I hope you enjoyed your first CWR. Provisional
results are:
Rob Hamilton Patrick
Barrett Sara Dyer Alan
Hutchinson Malcolm Coles Mark Hunter
Jerry Watson John
Wallace Paul Sanderson Alistair
Smyth
01:30:18 44
01:19:36 70 00:58:11
91 01:29:59 67
01:17:05 71 01:44:47 101
01:30:18 44
02:49:54 54 03:48:05
69 05:18:04 68
06:35:09 69 08:19:56 76
The A team ran very well indeed and our aggregate running
times should have looked like this (shades of Jim Bowen and "let's see
what you would have won"):
Jim
Clay
Joel Giddings Anthony Fryer Matt
Allen Tom Button
Jeremy Ladyman Steve
Webb Aled Greenhalgh Simon
Vallance Eirik Stangnes Dan Murray
01:24:30 25
01:06:22 21 00:50:59
66 01:19:57 38
01:02:20 18 01:18:52 35
01:24:30 25
02:30:52
03:21:51
04:41:48 05:44:08
07:03:00 26
Unfortunately Panos had his car breakdown en route to the
start of leg 2. I had to wait for the leg 2 mass start and then run
solo. I don't know if in the final results we will simply be disqualified
or whether they will concoct some sort of time penalty. The first draft
of the results showed the leg 1 time bumped up to 2.5 hours - rather tough on
Jim and Jeremy I feel!
As you can see the A team would have comfortably beaten all
the mass starts and achieved our best finish this century, and the changeover
times would have been incredibly close to my forecasts. So well done to
everybody bar Panos's motor mechanic. Next year we aim for the 7 hour
barrier, the equivalent of the four minute mile for suburban fellrunning
teams.
Chevin Chase (2010 GP)
A fantastic result by Vicky Whitehead to finish first
woman in the race.
The race was won by world triathlon champion Alistair
Brownlee, who was a minute ahead of his brother; the two of them were 2½
minutes clear of the rest of the field. I just put it down to the fact
that they had fresh snow to run on, whereas down in 300th place, there had been
299 runners before me packing down the snow onto ice, making skates preferable
to fell shoes in places.
NB 2010 Christmas Quiz question: what did Alistair Brownlee
and Vicky Whitehead both win, but Vicky’s was bigger. Answer – a cup at
the Chevin Chase. The women’s trophy was twice the size of the men’s!!
Thanks to Zoe Ridgway for handing out Meanwood Valley Trail
entry forms to all the runners at the end of the race. I already have
received one entry!
Than
13 Gwil
Thomas 0:45:10
26 Vicky Whitehead
0:46:57
29 Steve
Webb 0:47:03
78 Rob
Bumstead 0:50:38
107 Ian
Sanderson 0:52:04
123 Dan
Murray 0:52:44
171 Mark
Hunter 0:54:27
177 Simon
Redshaw 0:54:46
184 Patrick Barrett
0:55:09
194 John
Wallace 0:55:32
200 Alistair Smyth
0:55:39
257 Tony
Haygarth 0:58:00
270 Jonathan Brownbill 0:58:28
283 Bob
Jackson 0:59:10
289 Steve
322 Mick
Tinker 1:00:30
335 Sue
367 Liz
Wood 1:01:52
410 Xanthe
Hannah 1:03:40
423 Adela Reperecki 1:04:17
494 Erica
Hiorns 1:07:25
623 Tom
Ridgway 1:13:33
642 Paul
Holloway 1:15:06
655 Sara
Dyer 1:15:26
Old Striders spotted were
500 Martin Cockerham 1:07:33
506 Mike
Midgley 1:07:46
Christmas Handicap (2010 GP)
A great run by Ian Rosser to win the handicap by a clear
minute and also run the second fastest time on the day.
The fastest time was by Gwil who now has 200 Grand Prix
points from 2 races.
Fancy address awards went to 3rd
Thanks to timekeepers Ken Kaiser & Aled Greenhalgh,
keykeeper Joyce Lambert and marshals Peter Lambert, John Umpleby and Pat
Umpleby. While waiting the 30 minutes between setting the last runner off
and the first runner returning, Ken, Aled, Joyce, Geoff and Sylvia also built a
rather fine snowman.
Gun Hand- Net
G.P.
Time icap Time
Pts
1 Ian Rosser
47:00 14:15 32:45
99
2 Gwil
Thomas 47:58
17:15 30:43 100
3 Mike
Brown
48:19 4:30
43:49 81
4 Paul
Sanderson 48:27
9:45 38:42 87
5 John
Wallace 48:38
12:45 35:53 93
6 Eddy
Robinson 48:42
13:30 35:12 94
7 Joel
Giddings 48:50
14:15 34:35 96
8 Alan
Hutchinson 49:00 12:45
36:15 92
9 Tim
Towler
49:22 11:45 37:37
89
10 Steve
Webb
49:24 16:30 32:54
98
11 Dan
Murray
49:32 14:30 35:02
95
12 Malcolm
Coles 49:42
12:15 37:27 90
13
14 Patrick Barrett
50:22 11:45 38:37
88
15 Neil
Kaiser 50:30
10:30 40:00 85
16 Lisa
Wilyman 50:36
10:45 39:51 86
17 Vicky
Whitehead 50:37 16:30
34:07 97
18 Graham
19 Bob
Jackson 51:46
11:30 40:16 85
20 Dave
Jones
53:01 8:00
45:01 80
21 Xanthe
Hannah 53:15
10:45 42:30 82
22 Alistair
Smyth 53:58 12:15
41:43 83
23 Sara Dyer
55:32
6:45 48:47 79
Christmas Message from
Chris Leggatt
Bob,
Just back
from my annual Christmas Day run in magical conditions. It’s very rare to
actually have snow covered fields at this time, but this morning with sunshine
and deep snow, it was probably the very best.
This
despite the fact that other than reffing, it was my 1st run since Portsea Oval
(home of Percy Ceruty and rep training field of Herb Elliottt).
What a
contrast to last year when a 6am trot around Sydney Harbour and the Botanical
Gardens was my venue.
For the
older Striders, I went along the railway to Bramhope Tunnel and over the top to
Give my
regards to those that remember the Leggo Tours and success to you all in 2010.
Chris
Leggatt
Ladies Saucony shoes size 4½
Found at Leos about 3 weeks ago, email me if they are
yours.
And Finally
… wishing
all Striders all the best for 2010.
Bob