To: Valley Striders (Bob Jackson)
Subject: V S Update - apology, clocks, dates, CWR, LHM, BMW, LWR,
Peco successes, More results, YMF
Sent: 26 March 2012 00:00
Subject: V S Update - apology, clocks, dates, CWR, LHM, BMW, LWR, Peco
successes, More results, YMF
Apologies!
It is 2 weeks since the last V S
Update on 8 March, I’ve not been away, just otherwise engaged. In fact,
due to an oversight with my email distribution, the last one that some of you
had was 1 March, you can find the 8 March edition at www.valleystriders.org.uk/up120308.htm (includes Dewsbury 10k results)
Clocks
The clocks went forward this morning,
hope you all remembered and weren’t an hour late for the Sunday run or the
Thirsk 10.
Normally when the clocks go forward,
we shift our Tuesday session from winter routes to summer routes. However
because we’re now starting 15 minutes later, we still won’t have quite enough
light at 8pm by Eccup Res, so we’ll have two more weeks of winter routes (so
this Tuesday is hills at Church Lane (yes, again!)).
Meanwood Valley Trail (Saturday 14 April)
Junior races (7-10yrs and 11-16yrs) at 10:00, senior race
at 10:30.
Organised by Valley Striders – 70 marshals needed.
Dan Murray is co-ordinating marshals, please email him [email protected] if you can help on
the day. Please do this as soon as possible so that he has plenty of time
to plan who’s where. So far we have 15 marshals, just another 55 needed.
Striders may run in the Senior race only if they can
provide a family member or friend to marshal in their place. We do hope
that all Striders marshal in at least one race a year.
Help needed at Baildon on 1 April – is anyone able to
stand at the end of the race and hand out our entry forms, please.
Baildon is the first race in the Airedale Triple Trail series, Meanwood is also
in the series, so anyone who runs Baildon is a likely candidate for
Meanwood. Please email me if you can help.
Also, we’d like a race-number-sending-out session on
Tuesday 3 April after pie and peas, hope a few of you can stay on for an extra
hour that evening.
More Dates
Saturday 30 March – Midgley Moor (VS Fell Championship)
Sunday 1 April – Baildon Boundary Way (entries closed,
but see note later in this email about an number available for legal transfer)
Sunday 1 April - You Muddy Fools races from John Smeaton
followed by Peco presentations – details at www.pecoxc.co.uk also
more details below including info of Peco League VS Winter league challenge.
Tuesday 3 April – (7pm) still winter sessions - meet Leos
Wednesday 4 April – injury prevention workshop at Leeds
Met – further information and booking details at www.leedsathletics.net This also has
reviews of the Drills Workshop that took place last week, and I’m sure the
injury prevention session will be just as good.
Sunday 8 April – Guiseley Gallop (2nd race in
Airedale Triple Trail)
Tuesday 10 April – 7pm session is
track at Leeds Met
Thursday 12 April – injury prevention workshop at Leeds
Met – repeat of 4 April
Tuesday 1 May – V S Club Handicap
Calderdale Way Relay (Sunday 13 May)
Sarah Smith is doing really well, she now has 22 runners
(24 needed for 2 teams) but if no-one comes forward from Striders in the next
few days, she’ll be contacting other local clubs e.g. Hyde Park Harriers to get
a joint team. As we are only 2 short, it would be a pity not to have a
full Striders team, so last minute volunteers required to [email protected] (newbies welcome!)
Leeds Half Marathon (Sunday 13 May)
Race entries appear to still be open.
But if you’re not running Leeds Half or Calderdale,
please consider coming along to marshal the Valley Striders “stretch” from
Sheepscar Interchange to Meanwood. Early start and early away (or plenty
of time to get back to the City Centre for the finish). Please email
Steve O’Callaghan [email protected] if you can
help.
Bradford Millennium Way Relay (Sunday 10
June)
We had 2 teams in this race last year and for the first 4
years won the mixed team prize, but no silverware recently, can we get 2 or 3
teams (of 10) out this year?
By the way, we also need a captain/organiser, it seems
that Sarah Smith may be busy on other races, any volunteers?
Lyke Wake Race (Saturday 7 July)
Another Sarah Smith
promotion, she has a full team i.e. 6 including one lady, but is keen to add a
few more for 42 miles across the
beautiful North York Moors! http://www.lykewakewalk.co.uk/
Two New Running
Leaders
There was a UK Athletics Leader in
Running Fitness course at John Charles last weekend and I’m pleased to announce
that Elaine Craiggs and Myra Jones have qualified. They’ll be helping at
our Tuesday and Thursday sessions but are also hoping to start a new
independent group at “the Kremlin” (and with a bit of luck, they’ll drop a few
hints and one or two may appear later at Valley Striders).
Peco XC Results – men
champions, women runners-up
We won both the men’s and women’s
sections of the final race in the Peco league. The men, led by Jon, Andy
and Gwil (in the top 10) won and therefore achieved a clean sweep by winning
all 5 races. The women, having finished 2nd behind Abbey in
all the previous races stopped Abbey’s clean sweep – the counters were
Holly, Lisa, Myra, Laura C and Jenni. CONGRATULATIONS to the winning
teams, and well done to all 27 seniors and 2 juniors who ran.
Junior Race
22 Callum Parton
23 Alex Irvine
Men
2 Jon
Parker 100
7 Andy May
99
10 Gwil
Thomas 98
23 Paul
Fotherby 97
30 Jeremy
Ladyman 96
31 Joel
Giddings 95
50 Roy
Huggins 94
51 John
Shanks 93
58 Gary
Mann 92
61 Justin
Vogler 91
67 Ian Sanderson
90
74 Richard Irvine
89
84 Adam
Parton 88
110 Leroy
Sutton 84
146 Tony
Haygarth 77
153 Graham
Ford 76
166 Bob
Wilkes 75
185 Malcolm
Coles 74
Women
8 Holly
Williams 87
9 Lisa
Wilyman 86
10 Myra
Jones 85
12 Laura
Clark 83
17 Jenni
Kerr 82
18 Hayley
Nancolas 81
22 Amanda
Seims 80
27 Sue
Sunderland 79
35 Chloe
Hudson 78
P.S. Thanks to Dawn Parton, John Marsham,
John Shanks, Michaela McGarry, Rob DeGiovanni and Sarah Smith for marshalling,
and thanks also to Sarah for some photos now on Valley Striders Facebook page.
Peco Series individual positions
Men under 40 – 2 Dan Fisher, 3 Andy
May, 4 Jon Parker (4th overall)
Men over 70 – 1 Malcolm Coles
Women under 35 – 4 Myra Jones (6th
overall)
Women over 50 – 1 Sue Sunderland
More Results
Snake Lane 10
17 Paul
Kaiser 57:57
45 Kevin McMullan 61:19
114 Liz
Wood 66:40
199 Louise Allinson 71:06
257 Sharon Tansley 74:00
Women 2nd team
prize
Spen 20
39 Eric
Green 2:26:18
131 Paul Smith
2:50:03
Trafford 10k
53 Dan
Fisher 33:21 33:18
70 Richard Balshaw 34:13
34:13
Trollers Trot
Results from Richard Adcock
(1 3.01.42
Andrew Dobby)
12 3.35.00
Dan Murray
15 3.36.20
Simon Vallance
20 3.43.50
Joel Giddings
21 3.44.15
Allan Hutchinson
22 3.45.00
Oliver Cheyne
23 3.45.14
Ian Sanderson
24 3.47.10
Alistair Smyth
28 3.51.00
Greg Skerrett
60 4.14.20
Richard Adcock
63 4.15.40
Stephen Dixon
317 ran
http://runalong.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TrollersTrotResults2012.pdf
South
Yorks Half Marathon
177 Chloe
Hudson 1:46:17
Heptonstall Fell Race
16 John Bottomley 2:17:17
19 Steve
Webb 2:18:01
31 Eirik Stangnes 2:26:14
40 Simon Vallance 2:31:02
51 Justin Vogler
2:35:22
53 Ollie Cheyne
2:35:37
56 Mark Woodhead
2:36:15
58 Andreas Mayer
2:36:24
59 Ian Sanderson
2:36:41
92 Alistair Smyth 2:46:49
(6th lady)
128 Amanda Seims
2:59:14
155 Malcolm Coles 3:20:45
(1st M70)
Men 3rd team prize
Rivock Edge Fell Race
49 Malcolm Coles
69:03 (1st M60)
Thirsk 10
6 Daniel
Fisher 55:35
7 Andy
May 55:46
33 Clive
Bandy 61:06
79 Roy
Huggins 64:35
193 Paul Sanderson 72:36
207 Leroy
Sutton 73:35
248 Ged
Coll 75:49
249 Iain
Currie 75:50)
You Muddy Fools (1
April)
More information from Mark
Hetherington
You Muddy Fools!
cross country race will take place at John Smeaton Leisure Centre at 11.00am on
Sunday April 1st . Although we will be taking entries on the day for
this race, it would make my life much easier if as many people as possible
entered in advance! Race information, and a map of the course, is available at www.pbevents.me
You Muddy Fools! will
include a ‘PECO XC League v West Yorkshire Winter League’ Challenge. The
winning League will be determined by adding up the finishing positions of the
first 30 Men (including at least 8 Vets) and the first 20 Ladies (including at
least 5 Vets) from clubs affiliated to each league. The WYWL includes such
clubs as Pudsey Pacers, Dewsbury Road Runners, Idle AC, Leeds & Bradford
Tri, Baildon Runners, Stainland Lions and Skipton AC, so the challenge is
serious! Come on PECO runners: stand up and be counted…
The ‘Little Fools
Relay’ will take place before You Muddy Fools! This will start at 10.00am, and
is for Junior runners aged from 8 – 16. There will be 3 categories: Boys, Girls
and Mixed (which must include at least 1 girl). Each team must include at least
one runner aged under 11, and at least one runner aged under 13 (a U11 can
count as a U13, so, for example, a team of two 10 year olds and a 14 year old
is allowed). Race Entry costs £5.00 per team, and entries will be ‘on
the day’ only. Registration will be open from 9.00am in the function room, upstairs
at John Smeaton Leisure Centre. Race information is available at www.pbevents.me
The PECO Cross
Country League Presentations will take place in the function room at John
Smeaton on Sunday April 1st, after the You Muddy Fools! race and
presentations. We will get started at about 1.30pm, beginning with the Junior
prizes, then the Senior Individual prizes and finishing with the Team prizes.
Please make every effort to attend the Presentations if you can (you don’t need
to have taken part in You Muddy Fools!, just come along to John Smeaton at
1.30pm). I am trying to arrange for some food to be provided (or at least some
nibbles) and the bar will be open until 3.00pm
Baildon Boundary Way
number (from Tom Button)
Does anyone
want a Baildon Boundary Way number? I'm still not running - 6 weeks now
:(
The website says "In particular
we need the new runner’s full name, their postal and email addresses, their
phone number, their age on race day and the name of their running club (if
any). We will email a swap form for the receiver of the race place to
complete."
If you want the number send me the
details and I'll email them to them. First-come first served. Tom
Button [email protected]