Sent: 15 July 2011 08:33
Subject: V S Update - Lots of Events, Eccup Results (1 Yorks Vets
champ), Club handicap result, North Devon marathon report
EVENTS
Ian
Sanderson emailed
“This
21 mile trail race, which didn't happen last November, has re-appeared on
the LDWA challenge event list for Saturday 16th July. As in previous years,
registration opens at 7am at Ghyll Royd School, Burley in Wharfedale (LS29
7HW), the race starts at 8am and, after a varied trot around Rombald's Moor
and a bit of the Leeds - Liverpool canal, you get a certificate
and a two-course lunch. Unlike previous years, the rain
should be warm and the bogs only ankle deep. What with this and the Calderdale
Way Relay becoming summer events, are modern runners becoming too soft? -
Discuss.”
Holme
Moss Fell Race this Sunday
This is 17
miles and category “A” (steep) so not for newbie off-road runners. But if
you have trail and/or fell running experience and intend to go, check the
website forum re sharing transport. http://valley-striders-forum.4881654.n2.nabble.com/user/Register.jtp?nextUrl=http://valley-striders-forum.4881654.n2.nabble.com/
John
Lunn Hyde Park 5k next Wednesday
This is a
Grand Prix race. See http://www.ukresults.net/11jul.html#lunn
for details.
Jeremy
Ladyman has offered to hand out our Harewood entry forms after he’s finished
the race. Please, is there anyone going to spectate who can hand out
forms until Jeremy finishes? I can’t as I have a prior engagement – my
wife’s birthday!
Pudsey
10k Sunday 24 July
Please, is
there anyone going to spectate that can hand out our Harewood 10 entry forms at
this race, and also at their junior race that takes place beforehand. I
can’t as I have a prior engagement – my wife’s birthday!
Golden
Teams of 3,
each run 2.7 miles on paths and tracks in
Round
Hill Fell Race Sunday 7 August
This is a
Grand Prix race and a Fell Championship race. See http://otleyac.org.uk/round-hill-fell-race/
Advertised
as “A Tour of
Blubberhouses Moor…visiting Round Hill and a Couple of ‘Bogs’. Come on Fell
Guys & Gals – How Can You Resist”.
It’s a category “C” (undulating) and
if the weather stays as it is you won’t get your socks damp, so well worth a
try for a newbie fell or trail runner, and double points too!
Hyde
Park 1 mile Wednesday 24 August
Organised
by Hyde Park Harriers, see http://www.hydeparkharriers.co.uk/p/summer-mile.html
for details. And tell me if you’re able to download an entry form!
We’re now
over half way to achieving our objective of 5 teams (60 runners). With so
many people away for holidays during August, we need names by the end of July
so that we can pick teams, and allocate pairs to “legs” so that the pairs can
take whatever opportunity is available to recce the route.
There are
still places available on our first-come first-served system, and this really
is open to runners of all paces. One of our pairs last year was the
slowest team on their leg – so do not be shy to come forward. Note that
one of our Run Leeds members has volunteered so needs a partner!. Email [email protected]
Just
advanced notice of this event. We had a men’s team (of 6) and a ladies’
team (of 4) last year.
Ditto
advanced notice. Last year we had a M40 team, two M50, a F45 and a
F55. Can we cover all the age categories by getting a M60 and a
F35? Unfortunately it clashes with the Wetherby 10 and Yorkshireman
marathon.
RESULTS
Baildon
Carnival (from Steve Webb)
1 Tom Adams Ilkley 17.32
6 Steve Webb
20.19
10
Eirik Stangnes 21.45
11
Mark Woodhead 21.57
About 50
ran.
Eirik won
an impressive spot prize consisting of a Petzl mini headtorch. Mark
thought there might have been confusion on the part of the organisers - with
the.person despatched to buy some pretzels to hand out as spot prizes
mistakenly blowing the event budget on Petzls....
Eccup
10 Results
3 Andy May
0:56:39 100
6
28 Steve Webb
1:02:22 98
32 Dave Penman
1:03:10 97
43 Joel Giddings 1:04:51 96
60 Roy Huggins
1:06:31 95
61 Jeremy Ladyman
1:06:35 94
62 David Vidal
1:06:49 93
71
76 Andy Thorpe
1:08:09 91
86 Eric Green
1:08:48 90
104
119 Gary Mann
1:11:47 88
121 Alistair Smyth
1:11:53 87
143 Joe Hanney
1:13:37 86
144 Adam Parton
1:13:38 85
160
167 Malcolm Coles
1:15:26 83
168 John Wallace
1:15:32 82
170
186 Andreas Mayer
1:16:38 80
198 Chloe
210
219 Ged Coll
1:18:38 77
227 Richard
230 Nick Wallhead
1:19:06 75
242 Rob Marsh
1:19:54 74
247 Leroy Sutton
1:20:09 73
272 Pam Lomoro
1:22:05 72
396 Paul Holloway
1:29:33 71
Andy May
was 3rd overall and also won the gold (although it was actually a
small trophy) in the M35 Yorkshire Vets Championships.
Malcolm
Coles won the M70 prize but not the Yorkshire Championship as he’d entered on
the day.
The men’s
team was runners-up to Barnsley A C and the women’s team runners-up to
Kirkstall Harriers. There was one team prize.
Handicap
Results
A
particular thank you to all the marshals – the usual star billing of Mike &
Eileen and John & Pat plus also (in order of appearance) Sarah Smith,
Congratulations
to John Shanks on winning the race. His handicap was clearly not
representative of his current form, being based on 46:41 at last year’s Abbey
Dash and 1:49 at Leeds Half! If anyone would like to review the
handicapping system, I can explain on a Tuesday night how they are currently
calculated.
And
congratulations to Rob De’Giovanni on the fastest time of the night. I’ve
been through the stats and we have to go back to 1998 to find a faster time,
when Steve Webb ran 26:24 and Paul Webster 27:06. This year was much
busier than 1998 when there were only 12 runners!
Race
Race Hand- Run Pts
Pos
Time icap Time
1 John
Shanks
41.45 8.00
0:33:45 85
2 Chloe
3 Joe
Hanney
44.54 10.30 0:34:24 81
4 Nick
Wallhead 45.21 8.45
0:36:36 75
5 Richard
6
7 Ged
Coll
45.46 7.45 0:38:01 69
8
9 David
Vidal 46.10
14.00 0:32:10 92
10 Paul
Kaiser 46.11
16.00 0:30:11 98
11 Andy
Thorpe 46.14
13.30 0:32:44 90
12
13 Gary
Mann 46.29
13.00 0:33:29 86
14 Andy
Stoneman 46.33
12.15 0:34:18 82
15 Dave
Penman 46.53
15.45 0:31:08 95
16 Rob
De'giovanni 46.56
19.15 0:27:41 100
17 Roy
Huggins 47.03
15.00 0:32:03 93
18 John
Wallace 47.06
13.15 0:33:51 84
19 Ronan
Loftus 47.10
6.45 0:40:25 64
20 Jeremy
Ladyman 47.12
16.45 0:30:27 96
21 Joanna
Rianga 47.19
6.45 0:40:34 63
22 Steve Webb
47.22 17.15 0:30:07 99
23
24 Keith
Brewster 47.37
9.30 0:38:07 68
25 Joel
Giddings 47.39
16.00 0:31:39 94
26 Pam
Lomoro
47.43 9.00 0:38:43 67
27 Alistair
Smyth 47.47
13.15 0:34:32 80
28
29 Richard
Balshaw 48.02 18.45
0:29:17 99 2nd claim
30 Dusan
Svoboda 48.21
16.00 0:32:21 91
31 Sara
Dyer
48.45 2.45 0:46:00 62
32 Hayley
Nancolas 48.48
12.30 0:36:18 77
33 Mick
Loftus 48.56
15.30 0:33:26 87
34 Laura
Clark 49.02
12.30 0:36:32 76
35 Bob Jackson
49.44 10.45 0:38:59 66
36 Leroy
Sutton 49.45
13.00 0:36:45 74
37
38 Ian
Sanderson 50.09
17.15 0:32:54 89
39 Andy
Settle 50.44
12.45 0:37:59 70
40 Eirik
Stangnes 51.00
17.45 0:33:15 88
Grovelands parkrun #48 (
2nd - Ian Sanderson - 19:33
73 ran.
Ian says “Headline - Northern bandit steals 2nd place
off unsuspecting Southerners. It would have only got me 15th place at Hyde
Park,
RACE REPORT
Race Report - North Devon AONB
Off to Woolacombe for our summer hols this year,
which happened to coincide with the North Devon AONB marathon on 26th
June. A chance to see the local area and burn off a few calories before embarking
on the ice-creams and cream teas! We arrived at our holiday cottage
on Saturday to enjoy the extensive sea views, or we would have done were it not
for the fog - which was worrying. Visibility was good enough to see that the
cliff-top path was quite up and down, however - also worrying. I settled down
to fret for the rest of the evening.
I needn't have worried about the fog, Sunday dawned
bright and sunny as 'Flaming June' had finally arrived. We deposited the
rest of our party on the beach at Woolacombe, and made our way to
the adjacent race registration. This was the second running of the race,
in aid of North Devon Hospice, with about 150 in the full marathon and maybe
250 in the half marathon, which sets off 15 minutes later. The races are centred
on Woolacombe village; they both head south down the coast (not on the three
mile long beach, thankfully), round Baggy Point to Croyde and Saunton, then up
and over farmland to double back on the last few miles to Woolacombe where the
half finishes. The more foolhardy then continue north on the South West Coastal
footpath, around the worryingly named Morte Point, past the lighthouse at Bull
Point and continue on towards Ilfracombe - miles 14 to 20 are quite tough.
Fortunately the last six miles are much easier, 4 miles down a tarmaced former
railway line, then the last two miles drop down the side of the valley (coombe,
in local parlance) to Woolacombe beach and the finish. Whether you do the half
or the full marathon, the views are absolutely stunning and well worth
the effort involved.
I set off at a relaxed pace, and then slowed down a
bit. The heat wasn't as bad as I had feared, with a nice cooling sea breeze on
the more exposed paths. The organisers had done a grand job with water stations
every 2 miles or so (more frequent on the second half of the course) - water,
squash, sponges, jelly babies and bananas (but no cake, Amanda). I was slightly
startled when a runner came flying past me around the six mile mark - I'd
forgotten about the half marathon - but the front runners in that race all
seemed to squeeze by us plodders with good humour and patience. I got back to
the half-way point in around 2:05 and stopped to chat with my bikini clad
support team and have a bit of lunch (malt loaf - I brought my own cake).
One advantage of a figure of eight course is that you have the option of
switching to the half and finishing at this point, which a lot of people
sensibly did given the conditions (28 degrees). I, however, plodded on.
The second half is tougher, following the up and down
coastal path I'd seen the evening before, but everyone in the middle of the
pack gave up the pretence of racing and started jogging / shuffling /
walking as best they could. I noticed that they don't seem to do the 'hands
on knees' fell-runner power walking up hills down south - I overtook a few
people while walking up-hill. But they do eventually start chatting,
in extreme conditions. I even found a Hyde Park Harrier running incognito
(he'd just graduated from
I finished 47th / 120-ish finishers in 04:46:47 and
was definitely the first strider home. The race was won by a Mr. Divine-Wright
(what chance did the rest of us have?) in 03:26, and all finishers got a medal,
a cream tea and a sunburnt nose. http://www.northdevonmarathon.co.uk/
Adiós and ¡Que tengas suerte!
To David Vidal who returns to Spain this weekend after
being on a 6 month English language teaching course in Leeds. He expects
to be back in the