Sent: 14 January 2010 23:51
Subject: V S Update - Peco XC, Training next week, B.Monkey, Borrowdale
recce, 2010 Fell Champs
Peco XC at Ilkley – Sunday 17 January
The race is on. http://ilkleyharriers.co.uk/index.php?page=10peco
for details. Hopefully lots of Striders there.
Training next week
20 runners turned up at Leos on Tuesday. Our
warm up comprised pushing cars round the car park so that they were in good
positions for getting out at the end of the night.
We then did various intervals, hills and sprints round
the 2nd team rugby pitch and cricket pitch, taking advantage of the
floodlights – almost as good as daylight!
Next Tuesday (19 January) meet at Leos at 6:45pm.
If the pavements are clear by then, we’ll do the scheduled 5 by 6 minutes at
High Ashes. If not, then we’ll do another session at Leos. At this
stage I recommend everyone meets at Leos rather than some meet at High
Ashes. Check the website.
Next Thursday (21 January) ALSO MEET AT LEOS AT
6:45pm. It’s the third Thursday so it’s curry night at the
Ruchee. But there are no showers at Scott Hall, so meet at Leos,
afterwards take advantage of the showers and then drive down to the Ruchee.
Brass Monkey
My number arrived in the post today so I expect
another 30+ Striders to have received theirs too.
Note that the race programme says “Do not exchange
numbers”. If you are considering exchanging numbers then please read the
17 rules www.valleystriders.org.uk/17rules.htm
. Contact me for further info.
Borrowdale Fell Race recce (from
I have
two or three spare seats in my car on 21 Feb going up to the Lakes to
recce the Borrowdale Fell Race. Let me know if you want to come along.
Alun 0793
278 6570 [email protected]
2010 Fell Championship
About 15 Striders met on Tuesday evening to
decide on the rules and races. Anthony has summarised the
decisions.
Few
changes to the fell championship from last year. The number of races to choose
from has increase but so too has the number of races you need to do to qualify.
You now need 5 races to qualify. You need at least 1 race at each distance,
short medium and long plus any other 2 races from the fell championship
calendar. We have also allowed any
The scoring still remains the same with your score calculated as a % of the
winner’s time and then the % is weighted according to the category of race.
Short
06th 13th 20th 27th April - Bunny Runs (CS)
11th May - Jack Bloor (BS)
2nd June - Otley Chevin (AS)
4th July - Kettlewell (AS)
21st Aug - Burnsall (AS)
Medium
14th Feb - Winter Hill (AM)
20th June - Settle Hill (AM)
01st Aug - Round Hill (BM)
24th Oct - Withins Skyline (BM)
06th Nov - Shepherds Skyline (BM)
Long
06th Feb -
24th April - 3 Peaks (
05th June - Wharfedale (CL)
12th Sept - Yorkshireman (CL)
Any other
Three races that need immediate action if you want to race them
Wadsworth Trog is a limit of 200 people and they close on 31st January http://www.cvfr.co.uk/Races/Trog/troghome.htm
Winter Hill is £5 pre-entry and £10 on the day if it doesn't fill up. http://www.horwichrmiharriers.co.uk/events
3 Peaks fell race is also filling up fast so get your entry in quick! http://www.threepeaksrace.org.uk/raceinfo2010.html
(as at Thursday 14
Jan 23:30, 705 entries have been received and only 145 left)
Anthony Fryer