Sent: 03 November 2010 00:18
Subject: V S Update - subs due, Peco XC this Sunday, GP & Fell
Champs status, results from Ilkley, Huddersfield and Denver, messages from Pam
and Mat
AGM – earlier this
evening
We had two
vacancies on the committee and these places have been taken by (1) Holly
Williams and (2)
If you’ve
not already paid your subs, please send a cheque for £20, payable to “Valley
Striders” to
Minutes of
the rest of the proceedings to follow.
Peco XC Race 1 –
Sunday 7 November
The Peco
league is a league of about 15 clubs, mainly from the
Each race
is 4 to 5 miles, mainly off-road but not usually too challenging terrain.
Pay on the day!
The first
race in the series is hosted by Ackworth Road Runners but will be at
There are
usually 20 to 25 Striders running each race, come and run on Sunday (even if
you’ve never run XC before)
NB The
final race is to be hosted jointly by Valley Striders and Airecentre Pacers on
the Danefield Estate on Otley Chevin in March!
Here are
the race details from www.pecoxc.co.uk
website (there is a map on the website)
PECO Cross
Country League (2010-11) Race 1 (
Race Date:
Sunday 7th November
Race Times
& Distances:
Junior XC
Challenge (8 - 10 year old boys & girls*): 10.00am, 1 mile approx.
Junior XC
Challenge (11 - 16 year old boys & girls*): 10.20am, 2 miles approx.
Seniors
(men * women 17 and over'): 11.00am, 5 miles approx.
* Age
groups for all 5 races in the season are based on age on 8/11/10
Entry Fee:
Seniors £2.00 Juniors £1.00 ( Please note - No Food)
Race
Location: The race will take place within the grounds of
Registration:
The race HQ will be near the main Car Park area inside the Race Course.
Registration
will be from 9.15am - 9.45am for juniors, 10.00 - 10.45am for seniors. See map
below:
The
Course: The course is suitable for studs or trail shoes, even trainers if
ground still dry. The start may be on road for a few hundred yards then into
the country - this takes us across farmers fields , please keep on the paths.
Then back into the park and edge of race course. The junior races will be
entirely in the park - grass/tarmac - studs/flats.
After The
Race: There are no changing facility and unfortunately we cannot provide food.
Toilets will be available at the Golf pavilion.
Grand Prix Leaderboard
Is now
updated on the website. 141 Striders have run at least one race and 25
have already run 8 races, so qualifying for Grand Prix T-shirts.
There are 4
races to go
·
Sun
7 Nov – Peco XC race 1 at Ackworth
·
Sat
20 Nov - West Yorks XC race 3 at
·
Sun
21 Nov - Abbey Dash 10k (enter soon)
·
Sun
28 Nov - Thirsk 10
Fell Championship Leaderboard
Steve Webb
emailed
Latest
position in fell champs is attached (now on website). This includes the
results from Withens Skyline race. Excellent effort from Malcolm who was
first M70 and set a new M70 record in doing so.
Holly is
now hot on the heels of Xanthe but is in the last chance saloon as she has
to run the final race in the Fell Championship, the Shepherds Skyline on 6
November.
Hi Bob,
Just a quick message to let you know I won the Denver Rock n
Roll Marathon on Sunday. The race was at altitude (one mile high) and was held
on a beautiful crisp sunny clear day in
Thanks for including me in the VS Updates.
Best Regards,
Karen Barlow
On a 2.9 mile
route from Ilkley Lido
M40
John Wallace 20:29 38:12
5th
M50
(A)
5th
Jerry was 2nd fastest M50
M50
Tosh Akhtar 19:36
(B)
Mick Tinker 22:02 41:38
Bob Jackson 21:06 62:44
9th
F45
Sara Dyer 25:41
7th
F55
2nd out of 4 only 54 secs behind
Mary was 2nd fastest F55
Ruth was 3rd fastest F55
West Yorks Cross
Country League race 2 at Huddersfield
Under
17 Boys
12
28
finished
Women
19
Sam Harris 24:06
23
Katie Parry 24:28
27
42
47
Laura Clark 26:09
60
72
79
89
finished
Team finished THIRD behind Holmfirth & Bingley but ahead of
Men
69
Gwil Thomas 39:19
72
89
114
Paul Kaiser 42:24
138
144
152
Malcolm Coles 47:43
157
Bob Jackson 49:40
160
Tony Haygarth 52:09
168
Dave Jones 57:04
170
finished
Team finished 11th
From
Thanks for
the update and infor. As you may have noticed, I have not been to training for
a while. Finished my studies at Leeds and have now moved down to London
temporarily before relocating to Sudan later this year (BTW, that's where my
dad is from and I spent a year working there in 2008 - It is very hot, had to
get my run completed by 7 am to avoid ridiculous heat).
I just
wanted to say what a fantastic club the striders are. I have had a great time
training and socialising with you guys. You may not know but you have been an
inspiration and a great stress buster during a very stressful period of my
studies - and my life. You helped me to put the fun back into my running and
aim for greater things without getting overly obsessed with PBs, and they came
naturally - those PBs. Indeed, I ran a full marathon (
I don't
want to say bye because you can be sure to see me again even though not often.
I plan to start a running club in Juba,
I wish you
all well and let's all remember to keep the fun in running. I will probably pop
into training one of these days and hope to see some of you at Abbey Dash - BTW
I owe you ££ for the LCW and that LCW Ladies Trophy is probably mine.
On the Forum from
Just
thought I'd mention that last night I bumped into Sir Jimmy Savile OBE, KCSG,
DJ in my local Co-Op, on Street Lane.
He seemed
a bit disappointed that they had run out of milk, stating: "It's
like being in a war zone. You've no milk. I remember during the war there
wasn't any milk. We'd run out of cows."
(I can
only presume that we used to drop them out of aeroplanes whenever we'd used up
all our bombs.)
Anyway, I
just thought that you'd all like to know.
Bob says
“Mat, are you quite sure it wasn’t Geoff that you saw?”