Sent: 10 May 2010 23:12
Subject: V S Update - MVT marshals, Pecolympics, LHM results, Lou's 91%,
Pendle Clough report
Meanwood Valley Trail
Marshals – Saturday 16 May
Thanks to
the 8 that emailed me at the weekend, just 4 more needed now, please email me
as soon as possible. I’ll send out an update on Wednesday evening
and you can also find a link on the front page of the Striders website.
Pecolympics –
Sunday 16 May
Last call
for the Pecolympics barbecue, names needed by Tuesday evening. You can
still turn up on the day (2pm), but no food unless there have been
cancellations. So far, 97 have booked including 7 Striders
Leeds Half
45 Striders
finished, Grand Prix points based on Chip Time
The Vadim
Kuznetsov trophy for best age-graded performance goes to Bernadette Clayton
with 79.68% (that’s nearly a grade 7). Congratulations!!
Bernie was
our only age-group winner, but also on the age-group podiums were Sue
Sunderland,
Chip
Chip GP Gun
Gun
Pos
Time Pts Pos Time
24 Dan Fisher
1:18:07 100 24
1:18:10 75.81%
27 Gwil Thomas
1:18:56 99 27
1:19:00 75.32%
37 Jeremy Ladyman
1:21:23 98 37
1:21:26 72.78%
70
74
79 Dan Murray
1:25:44 95 78
1:25:49 69.18%
86 Ian Sanderson
1:26:13 94 83
1:26:20 70.99%
90 Andrew Thompson
1:26:39 93 92
1:27:01 71.76%
118 Tony Mills 1:28:05
92 119 1:28:31 68.95%
147 Alistair Smyth
1:29:33 91 139
1:29:39 75.41%
156 Eric Green
1:29:44 90 150
1:29:57 76.57%
160
181 Tim Towler
1:31:10 88
171 1:31:16 73.44%
299 John Wallace
1:35:11 87 277
1:35:32 66.38%
305 Liz Wood
1:35:23 86 278
1:35:37 69.87% F35/2
306 Greg Skerrett
1:35:26 85 284
1:35:48 62.15%
325
363 Gary Mann
1:37:14 83 355
1:38:11 60.90%
377 Leroy Sutton
1:37:37 82 363
1:38:23 69.78%
388 Sue
392 Nick Wallhead
1:37:47 80 359
1:38:14 60.57%
430 Bernadette Clayton 1:38:43
79 384 1:38:59 79.68% F50/1
460 Keith Brewster
1:39:30 78 414
1:39:56 70.92%
477 Jonathan Brownbill 1:39:44
77 431 1:40:23 64.92%
481 Mick Tinker
1:39:49 76 421
1:40:11 70.70%
589
623
635 David Barton
1:42:52 73 590
1:43:37 69.22%
672 Paul Sanderson
1:43:27 72 685
1:45:46 60.58%
725 Chloe
847 Gareth Payne
1:46:16 70 729
1:46:37 55.72%
879 Mike Midgley
1:46:54 69 845
1:48:29 71.83%
1127
Carole Towler
1:50:57 68 1065
1:52:00 67.38%
1131
Lisa Hodgson
1:51:04 67 1149
1:53:33 59.78%
1136
Sarah Oldroyd
1:51:11 66 1084
1:52:21 60.21%
1240
1291
1326
Keith West
1:54:05 62 1221 1:54:49
59.19%
1427
John Bucktrout
1:55:37 61 1418
1:57:57 59.96%
1461
Kay Duggleby
1:56:17 60 1466
1:58:47 62.74%
1501
Sara Goward
1:56:46 59 1551
2:00:25 56.55%
1711
Mike Brown
2:00:34 58 1724
2:03:39 59.06%
1973
Jane Sanders
2:06:22 57 1882
2:07:06 57.73%
2542
Paul Holloway
2:25:19 56 2549
2:29:02 40.76%
Special
thanks to the 10 Striders marshals – Steve O, Joel, Joe, Peter, Dave
& Rachel, Ceri & her mum, Lou, Elika, and special thanks to Hutch for
being team leader and co-ordinator.
Lou Gilchrist in the
lead for the Max Jones trophy
Lou
Gilchrist’s comeback race after over 3 months lay-off was the parkrun at
Heaton Park Manchester just over a week ago.
Lou
emailed “It was my first attempt at 3 plus miles and I managed to keep
going most of the way and finished in officially 27.54 and given an age related
time of 91.4%.”
She also
said “Hopefully coming over on Max's birthday to take part in the run -
Eric who came to the funeral with me will probably come and also another friend
Tom Kasprowicz (who also knew Max) will be coming to run.”
The
parkrun weekly news email said “One superstar
danced with the elites with an incredible age grade % - Lou Gilchrist
91.4”
Race Report - Pendle
Cloughs Race – from Xanthe Hannah
A good Striders turnout for the
Pendle Cloughs fell race on Saturday, quite a surprise given how far away it
was. This was my first AL category race; 14 miles, 4,000 ft ascent, 9
checkpoints with only the very first and last parts flagged, the route making a
drunken figure 8 on Pendle Hill. A quick look at last year's results showed
less than 90 people finishing and chatter on the FRA forum pointed out how
numerous people had missed checkpoints so I thought that this could be it, my
holy grail - a fell race where I actually had to use a map and compass. I spent
Friday night scouring the internet to refresh my memory on how to take a
bearing (thank you Scouts website), marking up my map with said bearings,
looking up what all the squiggly lines on the map meant and, finally, preparing
my kit. Never one to miss a trick from fellow Striders I tied my map to my bag
with string (thanks Aled) and wore my compass as a necklace (thanks Alun -
although I'm pretty sure you didn't tuck yours into a bra).
Of the 85 or so runners that
entered there were just 2 of us foolhardy enough to wear only a vest up top.
This did garner us some odd looks but also made us look pretty hard core (if
you ignored the goose bumps). We set off along a stretch of road before
reaching the first hill. It's actually one hill that we had to run up and down
several times but on difference faces. The field soon diverged and I chose to
adopt my usual strategy of following anyone in a Clayton vest. It's never let
me down yet and I highly recommend it (Calder Valley are also a good bet). We
crossed over the top of the moor through CP1 & 2 until we reached the
mother of all hills down to CP3. All I can say is that it was scary. Really.
Suffice to say I was overtaken by lots of old people on that section. CP3 to 4
involved contouring around the hill, through a section of scree - something I
hope never to have to do again, before climbing back up to CP4. The route to
CP5 was ok; up, across and down. We were about half way at that point and I
could just about still see the Clayton men I was following. Getting to CP6 was
horrible - a massive uphill then across the moor to a clough (look it up - I
had to). I could see runners snaking back up the clough coming from CP6 but to
get to it we had to get down to the bottom to cross the stream before climbing
to the CP. Despite it being a dry day I managed to find the only patch of bog
on the entire moor and lost my shoe. Literally. I blame the Lock Laces I forgot
to change prior to the race so had to rummage round in the bog to pull my shoe
out.
By the time I left CP6 I was
losing sight of my trusty Clayton runners but luckily a Clayton lady overtook
me at that point so I stuck to her on the way to CP7 and on to CP8. From then
on it was a sharp downhill to CP9 and from my vantage point on the hill I could
see lots of runners wending their way down the hill. This left the choice of
route open but because I was such a chicken on the descent I had lost sight of
everyone by the time I reached the bottom. At this point I actually cracked
open my map but before I could make sense of it a runner caught me up and
pointed me in the right direction.
This was a very hard race made
harder by the incredible wind on the top of the moor. I walked far too much of
it and on reflection I think this was the peer influence of having everyone
else around me walk too, even on bits that weren't particularly steep.
|
Position |
Name |
Time |
|
1 |
Andrew Orr (Clayton) |
02:14:18 |
|
16 |
Steve Webb |
02:34:00 |
|
53 |
Malcolm Coles |
03:09:55 |
|
68 |
Xanthe Hannah |
03:22:45 |
|
78 |
Sarah Dyer |
04:25:38 |
|
|
Dave Jones |
DNF |