Sent: 03 March 2011 13:56
Subject: V S Update - 15 future events including parkrun, peco and
palma, 7 race results/reports, 2 research studies
Biggest ever edition (thanks to the contributors), so
make yourself a drink of tea / coffee / beer / complan, sit yourself down and
have a steady read.
FUTURE EVENTS
Visually Impaired Parkrun this Saturday - 5
March
I mentioned this in the V S Update on 4 February.
Runs from
9am to 2pm and is organized by
Here are
some links with more information:
http://olympics.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/113/NOEL-THATCHER--amp--VISUALLY-IMPAIRED-AWARENESS-DAY/
Peco XC this Sunday - 6 March
I may have mentioned this once or twice or more in
previous emails!
We still need a few more marshals. We do have the minimum but we have a good
weather forecast so are expecting lots of other “users” in the Danefield so it
would be good to have 2 marshals on the key junctions. Please email me if
you can help
For those
running, the men’s team needs to finish 3rd or higher to guarantee
runners-up spot, and the women’s team must finish 1st to be div 1
champions. So best possible teams required.
As an added
incentive, Grand Prix points are available for this race!
Northern 12 stage and 6 stage relays at
Catterick - Sunday 20 March
Following our success at the National, this is the
next major team event on the Race Calendar.
We have a few interested but are a long way short of a
full team. Email me before Sunday night (6th) to register your
interest. If we can get half a team then our captains can chase for a
full team next week. Entries close 11 March so we need to react
fast!
Heptonstall Fell Race – Sunday 20 March
This is the next fell race in the V S Fell
Championship
Yorkshire Vets XC at
Drew Taylor is taking entries for this – which need to
be in by 16 March – email [email protected]
Thirsk 10 miles – Sunday 27 March
This is the 2010
Beginners / Improvers Group – Tuesdays 29 March
to 21 June
First session Tuesday 29 March, 6pm at Leos, details
in next V S Update or see www.leedsathletics.net/runinleeds.htm
This is how the scoring works. We simply rank
the Abbeys and Valleys according to their finishing position. The first
runner scores 150 points, the last runner scores 50 points and everyone else is
spread evenly in between. Say there are 38 Valleys and 43 Abbeys.
There are 81 runners, which means the points difference per runner is 1.25, so
the first scores 150 (I’ve already said that), the next 148.75, the next 147.5
etc etc down to 52.5, 51.25, 50. Then we add all the scores.
Everyone scores points!
So please get your entry in – entry details at www.ukresults.net – you can enter by post
or online (£1.25 extra).
Let’s try to get the series score to Valley 5 Abbey 1
rather than Valley 4 Abbey 2. (Unless you feel sorry for the Abbeys).
For coaches and athletes. I hesitate to
advertise this because it may take away some of our runners at
We advertise this series and the Y Vets website www.yvaa.org but obviously we’d prefer you to
run at the
Leeds Half
Entries close at beginning of April, see www.leeds.gov.uk/runleeds for
details
Calderdale Way Relay – Sunday 8 May
We’ve currently got 18 people wanting to run, so we
either need 6 extra runners or will have 6 disappointed runner. Email [email protected] if you want
to run.
Meanwood Valley Trail – Saturday 28 May
We’re launching this on Sunday, handing out entry
forms to all the Peco competitors.
Thank you to the 12 who have already volunteered to
marshal, so we just need another 50 of you. Please email me if you can help!
Not available to help on the 28th?
You can help in another way. I have 400 entry forms from last year most
of which have email addresses on. I’d like to email everyone to tell them
about this year’s race, but I need the email addresses keying in.
If this was split into 4, it wouldn’t take long to key in 100 email
addresses, would it? Please email me if you can help!
After winning the mixed team for 3 years and the vets
team once, we’ve had less interest recently. But this is a great event,
teams of 10 run in pairs for 5 legs, each leg approximately 10 miles, very
scenic, and nowhere near Bradford (although entirely within the Bradford
boundary) – the route is on footpaths around Shipley, Haworth, Silsden, Ilkley
etc. Hopefully we can get 2 or 3 teams this year. Email [email protected] to
register your interest.
To
This
year’s overseas tour is to the delightful town
30
Striders went to
The
plan is to fly out Saturday 15 Oct 2011 at 7:00am from Leeds/Bradford with Jet2
and return on either Mon 17th Oct at 11:25am, or Tues 18th
Oct at 11:25am, both return flights arrive back in
The
race entry, before 16 May 2011 is: Marathon Euro 51, half Euro 31 and 10k Euro
17. Check all the race details out at: www.tui-marathon.com.
It’s
bound to be a fantastic time, if you have any doubts, just ask anybody who went
to
If
you want to join us, please confirm to me by email by Fri 11th March
2011, stating your preference for either 2 or 3 nights stay and your bedding
requirements (steady now!), ie double, twin, triple or beach (cheapest option).
Once confirmed, I will require a £100 per person non refundable deposit to be
paid by the end of March 2011 with the balance paid approx Sept 2011. If
you decide to come after the 11th March 2011, you are still welcome,
but will need to do your own bookings.
So,
what better incentive to train hard over the summer, let’s get 50 Striders on
the start line and 60 in the after run party bar
If
anybody needs anymore information or clarification, just let me know.
Cheers
Patrick
Barrett
0788
760 6644
Just to repeat the last V S Update to ask you to email
[email protected]
if you’re running a Spring marathon
So far we have 1 at Brighton, 1 at
New parkruns in Leeds
The two new
parkruns are picking up momentum but neither is yet advertising the date of the
first race, To keep informed of what is happening, visit their Facebook
pages
Roundhay : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roundhay-parkrun/127584317310477
Danefield :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chevin-Forest-parkrun/162912570423160
NB Valley
Striders positively encourage you to run these races and/or volunteer to help
at these races, but we can’t do without your help in the 6 races we organise or
support (Peco, Meanwood, Leeds Half, Harewood Trail and Harewood Cancer
Research )
RESULTS AND REPORTS
Welsh National Cross Country
Congratulations to Katie Parry, 10th in the Welsh
National XC
English National Cross Country
V.S.Men's team 29th/95 at National XC (best men’s
position for many years)
Sylvia
emailed that the highest position ever by a Valley Striders team at the
National: was the women's team of 1998 who finished 11th out of 56 teams (
Report from
I participated in my first ever ‘National’ last
Saturday. I had always wanted to run at least one - just to be able to
say I had run it. I had opportunities over the years to do so, but something
always prevented it – usually an injury.
Anyway, upon opening the curtains on Saturday, I was
mildly bemused to note that there had been a considerable falling of snow so I
immediately thought I was going to be scuppered once again. Not a bit of it.
Gwil and Rob were waiting for me at the allotted time and place and we made our
way to
10 minutes from arriving, Simon rang to comment that
“there is not a blade of grass here”. I imagined this was slight exaggeration.
In fact, it was actually understating the true nature of the course. I had
previously thought I knew what a ‘muddy course’ would be like.
I had no illusions of running fast, or for that
matter, running. I waded. gamefully and to the point of complete exhaustion for
48 odd painful minutes. Even the end of the race held a sting. We were directed
via a ‘this way to the finish’ sign that I hoped would be a last couple of
hundred metres. In fact, it seemed to endure for another half a mile or so,
through peat bogs and marshes.
I had read a book by Cliff Temple (older runners will
remember him) from 1980 where Dave Moorcroft had been quoted as saying “you
need to be prepared to run the first mile of the national in 4 minutes
20”. He was presumably not referring to, or imagining a course of the ilk
of
I was pleased that the team had a great result and I
can only wonder at how quick the other Striders managed to run this. Well done
guys. I did enjoy at – having finished!
Wombwell 5 (report from Bob)
I joined the Towler family for a Sunday morning in
Wombwell – down the M1, just past Barnsley, get on the Dearne Valley Parkway (a
fascinating dual carriageway with roundabouts every third of a mile, most of
which don’t go anywhere), turn off at the 6th roundabout and you’re
just about there.
The HQ was Wombwell Sporting A C – a football pitch, a
go-kart track and a puddly car park. The football changing rooms were
closed due to a burst pipe so the race HQ was the kart control building
overlooking the start & finish.
We started on the kart track and did a lap and a half
(nearly half a mile) on probably the smoothest tarmac in
On my 60th birthday I had been given race
number 60 and I managed to finish 60th overall. I ran my
fastest 5 miles since Dec 2007 but was just over a minute behind the 1st
M60.
51
60 Bob Jackson
33:46 2nd M60
152
172 Jake Towler 44:04
218 finished
Noonstone (with very brief report from Richard
Adcock)
It
was very muddy, steep and wet.
Position
Age Cat Gen Time
Pos Pos
39
44 Eirik Stangnes
M (25/69) 43 1.28.10
49 Matthew Allen
M (29/69) 48 1.29.00
61
88 Oliver Cheyne
M (41/69) 84 1.36.38
104 Gareth Payne
M (45/69) 99 1.38.00
135 Richard Adcock MV40 (54/83)
128 1.43.21
168 Aled Greenhalgh M (57/69)
154 1.47.26
197 Malcolm Coles MV70
(1/1) 175 1.52.06
200 Amanda Seims
L (14/23) 25 1.52.26
209
First
finished in 1:12:05
Last
finished in 2:32:28
241 ran
Full
results at http://www.todharriers.co.uk/noonstone/2011/noonstone_11_results.htm
VS Fell Championship points will be on the website at
the weekend, but I can let you know now that Holly scored 103%. You’ll
have to go to the Grand Prix / Fell Championship section of the website to find
out how she could score more than 100%. As Steve said at the 2009 AGM,
more computer power is used to calculate the Fell Championship scores than was
used to launch the first man onto the moon.
Perfect racing conditions at Pocklington yesterday for
the Snake lane 10, cool weather, light breeze and an excellent course. The
usual bedlam ensued at the start as the organizers tried to get us behind the
unmarked start line, but the unsophisticated feel lent to the occasion. I found
myself wondering what was the last road race I’d run without chip timing!
Marshalling on the course was excellent and the crowds
in the villages we passed through enthusiastic - I use the term crowds with a
pinch of salt since 10 people probably represented entire populations in most
places. Lots of people, including Joyce the Voice and her apprentice, at the
finish to cheer us around the final bend and down the finish straight.
Everyone agreed it was a real fun race and a raft of
PB’s from Striders Paul (sub 1 hr), Nobby (7th woman – well done), Liz and Lou
(by 3 minutes after a year injured).
13 Andy May
56:21
23
28 Paul Kaiser 59:24
116
127 Eric Green 67:52
135
136 John Wallace 68:32
145 Nick Barnes 69:19
257 Lou Allinson 75:05
Winner finished in 48.03, 662 finishers
I ran the
Somewhat
confusing start, the general information point/shop/food/toilets were in front
of the start line, which meant pushing past the entire pack to get into
position once the time was called. It didn't help that the exit for Fitness
First was just there too, which meant cars pushing through the crowd with
minutes to go. As you might expect from
But an
enjoyable one overall (and not just because of the bacon rolls at the end!)...
103
Parkrun vest
Remember if you want your parkrun races to count
towards V S Performance Certificates, you must run in your V S vest and claim
to [email protected]
Another big birthday
It was
RESEARCH STUDIES
Performance enhancement study
Amanda Seims has emailed whether anyone will help Lisa
Whitaker, a PhD student in her department, with her research project
I’m in the process of starting data collection and
have a target sample size of 1000. I'm looking for people over the age of 18
who currently participate in competitive sport or have participated in
competitive sport in the last 12 months. This study provides people with a
great opportunity to voice their opinions and attitudes towards performance
enhancement. It will also help to inform education programmes and help them to
become more athlete centred, particularly in relation to anti-doping. The link
to the questionnaire is below.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/performance_enhancement
If you know anyone who does participate in any sport
at any competitive level (club to international) or anyone that knows people
who do, please pass it on to them and ask them to forward it on. If you want to
complete the questionnaire as well, feel free to do so!
Study - Endurance Performance at Altitude
Rob De’Giovanni has emailed “A colleague of mine is
currently looking for male 18-40 year olds to take part in a study looking at
the effects of training at altitude on carbohydrate utilisation. I've attached
a participant info sheet with regards to the protocol etc. If
anyone is interested please contact Charlotte Woolf ([email protected])
Also if you know anyone that might be interested that has experience with
running training please do let them know about this”
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
TITLE OF STUDY
What carbohydrate
supplementation is best for enhancing endurance performance at altitude?
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
You are being invited
to take part in a research study, but before you decide whether you will take
part, it is important for you to understand why the research is being carried
out and what it will involve. Please take time to read the following
information carefully and discuss it with friends and relatives if you wish.
Ask us if there is anything that is not clear, or if you would like more
information (a contact number and address are at the end of this information
sheet). Take time to decide whether or not you wish to take part.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY?
Activities performed at altitude
(hiking, climbing, cross country skiing, mining, military activities and
rescues) often require prolonged moderate intensity exercise. Ingestion
of carbohydrate during exercise of 45 minutes or longer enhances endurance
performance at sea level. High altitude exposure has been shown to result
in changes in carbohydrate and fat utilisation at rest and during exercise with
the possible result of increasing demands for carbohydrate utilisation.
This research aims to understand fuel use at altitude in order to investigate
the optimum feeding strategy that should be taken.
The duration of the study is
approximately 5 weeks, with a total of 5 visits to the laboratory at
WHY HAVE I BEEN CHOSEN?
We are seeking approximately 8 well-trained male runners or
triathletes, aged between 18 and 40 years to participate in this study. To
participate you must confirm that you are fit and healthy, a non-diabetic and
that you are not currently taking, or have recently taken any medication, which
may interfere with this study. To be suitable as a well-trained athlete you
must have trained regularly for at least 5 years and be training for
approximately 10 hours per week.
DO I HAVE TO TAKE PART?
It is your decision whether or not
to take part. If you decide to take part, you will be given this information
sheet to keep and be asked to sign a consent form at your appointment, before
any assessments. You will be able to ask any questions at that time. If you
decide to take part you are still free to withdraw at any time and without
giving reason. If you decide to withdraw from the study prior to participating
in all parts of data collection, your data will be removed from the study.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I TAKE PART?
You will be asked to make five
visits to the laboratory at
q
A
Maximal Oxygen Uptake Test (aerobic capacity test)
q
Four
Running Tests (consisting of 90 minutes plus a time trial test)
The initial visit will involve a pre screening assessment,
as well as assessing your susceptibility to acute mountain sickness. This will
be achieved by placing you in the Environmental Chamber situated within the
Carnegie Research Institute at
For the 4 experimental trials you
will be required to run at 60- 70% VO2max for 90 minutes followed by a time
trial. On these days you will be exposed to either sea level, 2000m,
3000m or 4000m simulated altitude. The exposure to sea level or the
simulated altitude will be randomised and kept blind from you. Procedures
are in place to ensure your safety at all time, however there some possible
risks of taking part in the trials. These mainly are associated with the
effects of altitude which can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea and fatigue.
You will be screened prior to the trials and monitored at all times to ensure
your safety.
On arrival at the laboratory you
will be fitted with a cannula which is used for taking blood samples. You
will have resting blood samples taken. You will then enter the
Environmental Chamber to begin the run. You will run with a face mask
fitted for gas analysis, you will be familiarised with this prior to the
trials. You will then run continuously for the duration of the trial,
stopping only 3 times for approximately 30 seconds each, once at 30 minutes,
once at 60 minutes and once at 90 minutes to have blood samples taken. On
completion of the run you will have final blood samples taken and the cannula
removed.
What do I have to do?
This study will require you to refrain from alcohol for 24
hours and exercise and food for 12 hours prior to each of the experimental
trials. Outside of these constraints there are no restrictions placed upon you
to refrain from your normal lifestyle and/or training.
WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE BENEFITS OF
TAKING PART IN THE STUDY?
The study is being undertaken for research
purposes rather than to attempt to find the causes of disease, or a cure for a
disease. You may benefit from participating in the study if you are interested
to learn more about how your body responds to high altitude and the effects of
this on your fuel utilisation.
WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMETHING GOES
WRONG?
All of the experimental procedures
that will be used in this study have been rigorously tested to ensure that they
meet health and safety standards. These tests are all routine and are performed
regularly on patients and healthy volunteers. The technicians who perform the
tests are all trained and skilled to do so.
In the unlikely event of you
experiencing any problems that may be caused by this study, you must tell us
immediately and we will do our utmost to address these.
Should you be harmed in any way
whilst participating in this study, the University maintains Professional
Indemnity insurance, which will respond in the event that the University is
deemed to be legally liable for incidents that occur, as a direct result of the
study.
WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE RISKS OF TAKING PART IN THE STUDY?
As previously mentioned, the risks for this study are few and
have been assessed. The primary risks revolve around developing acute altitude
illnesses such as AMS, however specific protocols are in place to ensure
maximum safety for the participant and researchers.
WILL MY TAKING PART IN THE STUDY BE
KEPT CONFIDENTIAL?
All information collected will be
kept strictly confidential, other than to those of us who are directly involved
with the study. Any information that leaves the
DATA PROTECTION AND OWNERSHIP
Your personal data will be coded at
the start of the study by the Principle Investigator who will be the only
person able to trace data back to any participant. The Principle Investigator’s
computer will be in a locked room and password protected. The real names of the
individuals will not be used in reports. The data from the study will be kept
for 10 years following the completion of the study, thereafter it will be
destroyed.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE RESULTS OF
THE STUDY?
Once the study has been completed
we will write the study up as a research paper to submit to a journal for
possible publication. The study findings will be made available to interested
participants. The data from this study will also be used by undergraduate and
post graduate students as part of their major Independent Studies and other
learning modules, as well as being used in a PhD being undertaken by Nicola
Reeve.
CONTACTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
If you require further advice about
this study, at anytime during participation, you may contact Miss Nicola Reeve,
Miss Charlotte Woolf, Professor Rod King or Dr John O’Hara at
Nicola Reeve
E-mail: [email protected]
Charlotte Woolf
Email: [email protected]
Professor Rod King
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 0113 8121707
Address: Carnegie
Research Institute – Sport & Exercise Science,
Dr John O’Hara
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 0113 8125239
Address: Carnegie
Faculty, Room 107, Carnegie Research Institute – Sport & Exercise Science,
If you would like independent
advice on the project or participation, or to make a complaint please contact
Dr Lee Ingle.
Telephone: 0113 8123246
E-mail: [email protected]