Sent: 29 January 2010 08:54
Subject: V S Update : Peco, Ali Rose, Brass Monkey, Leeds Half, Altitude
research
Peco XC – Sunday 31 January
The next race is at John Smeaton Sports Centre,
details are at http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/PECO/race4.html
Striders teams are currently placed as follows – Men
4th, Ladies 3rd, Men Vets 5th, Ladies Vets 4th.
A good team turnout is required in our quest for
leading places.
Note that the final race will be on Sunday 7 March,
venue yet to be decided. This is the same weekend as the Trollers Trot so
it may be that we remove the Trot from the Grand Prix.
Presentation by Ali Rose – Tuesday 2 February at Leos
Thanks to Tracey Morris, we are pleased to welcome Ali
Rose to Leos on Tuesday 2 February for a presentation and demonstration of
drills and injury prevention.
Ali is lead physiotherapist at Leeds Carnegie Sports
Centre. Her personal clients include Olympic athletes Kelly Holmes,
Jessica Ennis and Tracey Morris. Read more on http://www.alirose.net/
Tuesday 2 February will be our normal 3 by 10 minutes
at High Ashes (weather permitting) followed by pie and peas (book to [email protected]
stating whether meat pie or vegetarian bake, and whether mushy peas or baked
beans). NB no dessert this week.
If you are coming for the food and presentation,
please arrive for 8:15pm. If you are just coming for the presentation,
please arrive for 8:45pm.
We already have 17 bookings for food so it looks like
it’s going to be a popular do.
6-7 February
Brass Monkey results
A total of 45 Striders (including 2 second-claimers) ran
and we were only outnumbered by Quakers with 48 – you may have seen them with
white vests and a number of narrow black stripes of varying width at the bottom
of their vests. Harrogate Harriers (black with red and yellow) also has
43 first claim runners
If there had been a team prize for second team, it
would have easily been ours, as it was, the first team prize went to Andy May,
Jeremy Rogers and Duncan Calrk from Abbey who finished 8, 9, and 13.
Lots and lots of PB’s, so many of you must have kept your
training up during the icy conditions, well done!
Chip
Chip G.P. Gun Gun
Pos
Time
Pts Pos Time
12 Rob De'Giovanni
1:15:32 100 12
1:15:35
14 Gwil
Thomas 1:16:18
99 14 1:16:21
21 Dan
Fisher
1:17:00 98 23
1:17:06
61 Ian
Rosser
1:20:28 97 62
1:20:31
63 Jeremy Ladyman
1:20:31 96 63
1:20:34
73 Kevin McMullan
1:21:05 95 73 1:21:11
92 Matt
Allen
1:21:53 94 92
1:22:01
100 Ian Sanderson
1:22:34 93 100
1:22:44
112 Rob
Hamilton
1:23:35 92 112
1:23:44
150 Gary Sutherland
1:25:40 91 150
1:25:56
153 Chris Booker
1:25:53 90 152
1:25:59
179 Dan
Murray
1:26:57 89 175
1:27:04
185 Roy
Huggins
1:27:15 88 184
1:27:22
188 Eric
Green
1:27:20 87 190
1:27:28
246 Dave
Gillian 1:29:02
86 244 1:29:14 (2)
264 John Batchelor
1:29:37 86 262
1:29:46
266 John
Wallace
1:29:41 85 264
1:29:49
275
292 Simon Redshaw
1:30:38 83 295 1:30:55
298 Patrick Barrett
1:30:51 82 296
1:30:59
335 Alistair Smyth
1:32:17 81 333
1:32:24
374 Nick
Barnes
1:33:33 80 372
1:33:48
383 Jonathan Brownbill
1:33:44 79 391
1:34:20
403 Paul
White
1:34:28 78 396
1:34:37
427 Tom
Button
1:35:21 77 421
1:35:29
456 Keith Brewster
1:36:27 76 456
1:36:51
470 Sue
484 Bob Jackson
1:37:16 74 484
1:37:39
575 Paul
Gill
1:39:34 73 586
1:40:24
576 Paul Sanderson
1:39:35 72 609
1:40:54
594
606 Mick Tinker
1:40:21 70
610 1:41:00
618 Steve
652 Howard Jeffrey
1:41:49 68 667
1:42:50 (2)
656 Michaela McGarry
1:42:01 68 654
1:42:21
667
755 Chloe
803 Louise Allinson
1:46:15 65 774
1:46:27
812 Attila
Dezso
1:46:25 64 806
1:47:01
935 Geoff Webster
1:49:50 63 948
1:51:08
1000 Kay Duggleby
1:52:18 62 996
1:52:59
1067 Kirsty
1100 Mike
Brown
1:55:46 60 1126 1:57:12
1208 Sara
Goward
1:59:13 59 1214 2:00:27
1316 Meryll Cripps
2:04:24
58 1311 2:05:02
Results have been included in Grand Prix points table
on V S website www.valleystriders.org.uk
Leeds Half
Leeds Half Marathon will be on Sunday 9 May.
Full details at
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/Leisure_and_culture/Arts_and_entertainment/leeds_half_marathon_.aspx
If all you need is an entry form
Or enter online (£2 extra)
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/events/viewevent.asp?sp=&v=2&EN=51438
My information is that there are already over 1000
entries – most of whom have paid the £2 extra. The race limit is again
3,800 and although the closing date is 12 April, I expect it to fill sometime
during March.
Striders had 50 finishers last year, the most from any
club. Same again this year? Get filling in the form!
Research on effect of altitude
New
Strider, Amanda Seims, writes:
I am a PhD student at Leeds Met uni looking into the
effects of training the muscles involved in breathing on the body's responses
at high altitude (simulated 3000m in our lab). The requirements are
that you must be aged between 18-55, non-smoker with no medical
conditions, have previously been to an altitude over 2000m on at least 2
occasions, have never experienced altitude sickness and have regularly trained
for at least 2 years, exercising 3-4 times a week for at least an hour and a half
each time (Total training session time including warm-up and stretching).
You would be required to visit us on a total of 8 occasions over 8-9 weeks. It
is important that you are not planning on taking any trips to altitude during
this time (i.e. skiing, trekking the Inca trail, mountain race at
altitude). You would also need to keep your training fairly stable
during this time - if you suddenly increased your training then you may show an
improvement in our study due to fitness and not due to the respiratory
training.
You will be required to complete fairly strenuous exercise tests in the
laboratory, including an assessment of VO2max, however the actual training
sessions will be completed on your own at home using a respiratory training
device, twice a day for approximately 5 min each time.
You will be able to keep the training device at the end of the study and will
have the opportunity to learn how you body reacts in a controlled high altitude
environment.
If you would like further information please contact me at [email protected].
Amanda also
asked “Would I be able to borrow a small club vest as I won't have time to
get one before Rombalds next weekend?” Could someone bring one on
Tuesday?
Barefoot Running?
New fad? Someone trying to make a quick buck?
Maybe not, this is how they did it a few thousand years ago!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8483401.stm
http://www.enterprisenews.com/lifestyle/50_plus/x532574226/Runners-Corner-Run-with-an-open-mind-strong-body
http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/
Reminder –
if this isn’t for you and you want to buy some running shoes, the free jacket
offer is still on at Up and Running and the Complete Runner still have a sale
on.