Subject: V S Update - handicap, pie/peas, new group, mobrun, Paris,
London, Sue Ryder, CROP, 5k a day
Sent: 26 April 2012 16:37
Subject: V S Update - handicap, pie/peas, new group, mobrun, Paris,
London, Sue Ryder, CROP, 5k a day
Pies, Peas, Handicaps and Training
Tuesday 1 May
·
Club Handicap night
followed by “pie and peas” served at 8:30pm (see below for menu and ordering)
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For the Club Handicap
(5 miles) arrive 6:45pm for 7pm prompt start
·
Junior 1 mile race
arrive 6:15pm for 6:25pm start (adults may run 1 mile if they want, whether or
not their children are running)
·
Both starts are by
Reservoir at bottom of hill from Alwoodley Lane Click http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=429750&Y=441300&A=Y&Z=3 for map
·
Menu - choose meat pie (£2.50) or veg bake (£2.50), mushy peas
or baked beans, and whether you want apple pie (£1.50), email your order to
[email protected] by 10pm Sunday
Tuesday 8 May
·
Kathy’s group meet
6pm at Leos – usual session adults and juniors. If you have friends
running Leeds Run For All 10k for the first or second time, send them along.
·
Holly & Kathy’s new
group for adult improvers meet 7pm at Leos from Leos, run to Eccup reservoir
for short speed session and back. Open to new members. If you have
friends who have run 5k, 10k or even half marathons and want to improve, send
them along. Must be capable of 35mins for 5k or 75mins for 10k
minimum. email [email protected] for more information.
·
“Club” session –
track at Leeds Met, meet 7pm at the Indoor Sports Centre
Hyde Park parkrun mobrun
As mentioned in the last V S Update, on Saturday 5 May the parkrun on
Woodhouse Moor will be a “mob run” for clubs. We’ve had a team meeting
and decided to aim for being the club with the most runners. What
do you need to do
·
Make sure you
register on the parkrun website www.parkrun.com and put your club as Valley Striders
·
If you’re registered
already but have joined from another club, please amend your details
·
Turn up at Woodhouse
Moor (not Roundhay nor any other parkrun) at 8:50am next Saturday
·
Wear your club vest
(we will have a supply to lend people that have only just joined)
·
Run!
PS could anyone who has a spare vest (either not running or, like me,
has one that has shrunk in the wash!?) bring it along next Tuesday or to the
race on Saturday.
And Emma
MacKenzie-Hogg from Leeds parkrun has just emailed “I just wanted to send a
reminder for all of your club members who are intending to run. Runner's
parkrun registration details must be up to date to reflect their current club
(1st claim). We can then work out the results accurately as we will be using
the results from parkrun to work out the number of runners for each club and
the average time per club. Also remember to wear your club vest! Looking
forward to seeing you all on the 5th May at 9am”
Race Reports
Paris Marathon – 15 April 2012 – Race report (from John Wallace)
The two John’s (W & B) ventured to Paris and we’re both pretty
pleased we did. Fuelled by a very fine pasta meal on the Saturday (well
done John on booking the restaurant) and a good night’s kip (well done John on
choice of hotel) we walked the short distance to the race start on Sunday
morning where we lined up in the 3.15 pen. The weather was a rather cool
10 degrees, overcast with a light wind and the plastic bin liners were well
appreciated – a far cry from the weather last year, when Simon and Dave had to
put up with 30 degrees of sun!
I lined up at the start with trepidation – last year at Rotterdam I’d felt
confident 3.15 was doable but the appalling start organization put paid to that
– I was fearful that the start at Paris would be equally chaotic. No
worries there, this was the best organized start I’ve come across. The sub 3
runners were set off but the 3.00hr group weren’t walked to the line until the
last few sub 3’s were crossing the start line, and only when the last of the
3.00’s were crossing the start line were the 3.15’s led to it and released, and
so on. Result – a nice ordered start without overcrowding, no mingling with a
load of slower runners that had pushed their way up the groups, and the chance
to get into a steady pace without weaving straight away – in other words, nigh
on perfect.
Each pen had 4 pacemakers and I decided to follow the one furthest
forward on the basis that if I lost him I’d be able to pick up one of those
following. Last year I’d lost sight of the pacers within about 100 yards – no
problems on that score this year either, the big flag tied to Dimitri’s back
(all the pacers were named in the race programme – nice touch) being easy to
see even from distance.
We sped off down the Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde, going
past the Louvre and on out to the Place de Bastille. Our grand tour of Paris
was on! And it was a grand tour, along a flat course, apart from a series
of 4 underpasses to run down and back up between 25-30km, with views of Notre
Dame and the Eiffel Tower and other sights before the finish in view of
the Arc de Triomphe. I have to confess I didn’t see as much of the sights as
I’d expected, keeping focused on the pace maker in front of me and pleasingly
noticing how, despite my usual walking/lunging breaks after each drinks station
I was gradually closing on him. At half way we were well inside 3.15 pace
although a fair bit of this had been lost by 30km, partly due to those
underpasses, and I began to feel the first effects of the pace.
Fortunately as we approached the Eiffel Tower I was boosted by a loud shout of
‘allez, allez, allez’ from girlfriend, Emma, and the realization that my 3.15
target was on properly took hold.
Having been monitoring my pace every 5km, with 7km to go I changed tack
and just started asking myself whether I could run the remaining 7km in the 34½
mins that would get me inside target. Definite yes was the answer and every km
thereafter I noticed that my pace was improving. My only moment of serious
concern was with just under 6km to go; I started getting cramp in my left
hamstring - I swore at it a lot and ran it off – it was the only bit of cramp I
got all day.
The last few km were hard but I still felt quite good. With less than
1km to go I overtook Dimitri who was busy exhorting the somewhat reduced crowd
around him to go past and push on to the finish – it would have been rude not
to. As I ran over the line I still couldn’t quite believe that I’d broken
3.15 (3.13.56 to be precise, a pb by nearly 8 minutes).
John B came in a few minutes later in 3.17 (a pb by 14 minutes).
Turned out Tracey Morris had passed me somewhere before half way before slowing
down and crossing the line 15 seconds in front of me, albeit a time of 3.07
(not a pb – letting the side down really!!).
I know it helps when you run a good time but I really enjoyed this
marathon; the course was good, the weather conditions ideal, the start perfect
and, much to the contrary of all I’d been told about Parisians, the support
very enthusiastic. The post run beer was exceedingly expensive but you can’t
have everything. I would recommend this marathon to anyone.
London Marathon
We had 18 finishers
at the London marathon which is the most for 9 years. We were very well
represented in the top 1000 and sub 3 hours. A little lower down there
were 3 of Kathy’s group, sandwiching Tracey Morris.
Tracey had not had
the ideal preparation for the race. She had run Paris the week before and
then, with Mike and Rebecca Tomlinson and others from Run For All, had cycled
from Paris to Zeebrugge, caught the ferry to Hull, cycled to Leeds, then cycled
(by not the most direct route) to London, to get there in time for the
expo. She ran the London Marathon with Rebecca.
Watching the ladies
race on TV, in particular the battle for the first female Brit to cross the
line, took me back 8 years. This year it was a battle between Louise
Damen, Freya Murray and Claire Hallissey. Claire took the lead (of the
group) with a few miles to go and continued to the finish with metronomic style
and face pure concentration. But just 20 metres from the finish her face
almost burst with a huge smile as she realised she had qualified for the 3rd
GB place at the London Olympic marathon, where she will take the start line
with Paula Radcliffe and Mara Yamauchi. Here’s a pic from the Sun (other
daily newspapers are available) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/olympics/4274792/Claire-Hallissey-saves-her-vest-for-last-with-Olympic-spot.html
As I said, it took me
back to London 2004 when an unknown athlete (unknown outside Yorkshire anyway)
gradually, over the last 7 miles, overtook all the other British women to be
first Brit and qualify for the 3rd GB place for the Athens Olympic
marathon (alongside Paula Radcliffe and Liz Yelling). The difference was that
she had no idea that she was the first until told a few minutes
later! See www.valleystriders.org.uk/tracey.htm for this and the
start of her story in which she ran in the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth
Games, the European Championships and the World Championships in a period of 3
years.
Striders Results
GP points
226 Simon Midwood
2:41:55 100
274 Gwil Thomas
2:43:03 99
461 Paul Kaiser
2:48:31 98
779 Clive Bandy
2:55:14 96
1132 Dusan Svoboda
2:59:16 95
1365 Kevin McMullan
3:01:59 94
2152 Gary
Mann
3:11:02 93
2257 Alan Hutchinson
3:12:08 92
2563 Dan Murray
3:14:28 91
3489 Greg Skerrett
3:22:49 89
4421 Joe Hanney
3:29:09 88
5313 Sharon Tansley
3:34:26 87
5554 Richard Adcock
3:35:58 86
15933
Alan Walsh
4:23:32 85
17737
Alexa Hannant
4:26:43 84
18576
Tracey Morris
4:29:43 82
26082
Asheila Narang
5:00:34 81
29725
Victoria Pace 5:22:45
80
also
1005 Jerry Watson
2:58:02 95
We had two DNF’s,
Eric Green who had muscle pains in his side but is OK now and running this
weekend, and Liz Wood …
(two-thirds of a)
race report! – from Liz Wood
Anything can happen in the build-up to a marathon, and it probably will.
Training had gone well. The sessions, races & long runs with the
Striders through all weathers were in the bag. Even my calf niggle had
settled down after making its customary appearance 5 weeks before race
day. Then, with a week to go, I caught The Cold.
Should I have deferred? With hindsight, probably yes. However, for some
reason I still thought I'd wake up on marathon morning feeling right as rain,
and I wanted to give it a go. I decided to set off at race pace, take it
mile by mile, and drop out if I was struggling to maintain it. I got as
far as mile 16. It felt like harder work than it should have.
Rather than drag myself to the end and get a time I wouldn't be happy with, I
chose to maximise my chances of recovering well for the Leeds Half & summer
races. It goes against all your instincts to step off a race course,
especially as I could see Canary Wharf ahead and I was dying to get stuck into
the juicy part of the race. Marathon weekend brings out the best in
people, and I had lots of lovely chats with people on the tube who helped me
plan my route back to the finish. I met two other 'drop outs' and we made
our way back together, already planning our comeback races by the time we reached
the Mall.
It was still a great weekend, even if it wasn't quite the one I had in
mind. Fantastic to meet the other Striders at the end, congratulations on
some very classy and inspiring racing. Thank you to all of you who sent
messages of support & words of wisdom, they were much appreciated.
I'm looking forward to training with you all over the summer. Bring on
Eindhoven!
Sue Ryder Challenge
Events – from Georgina Abbott
NB Georgie is a new
VS member who trains with Kathy’s group. Look out for some familiar faces
towards the end of the first video!
Hi Everyone,
I thought you might like to watch these fun videos about the exciting Sue Ryder
Running and Challenge Events in 2012.
You can view the videos at the links below - Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV-HEf9sAGM&feature=plcp&context=C43f228dVDvjVQa1PpcFNRg0gjD9rYgubsM0VQj1u7AMPJwGZ4H70%3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWcTmXhBxwY&feature=plcp&context=C4c38fbbVDvjVQa1PpcFNRg0gjD9rYggt0tskxiaoAALalBaVOzAI%3D
Please feel free to pass the links on to your friends and contacts to help us
spread the word about all the active events we are doing this year.
Support CROP by
running Run For All 10k – from Jenny Dixon
Hi Bob,
You can blame Steve
Dixon (my other half) for this – he suggested I write to local running clubs,
so I am starting close to home…
I do volunteer work
for CROP, and I am contacting the club on their behalf – CROP is a national
charity working with parents to end child sexual exploitation and is based on
Leeds (do have a look at our website below). We have a number of places
available for the Jane Tomlinson 10K.
We can offer these
free to club runners, if they can commit to get £100 of sponsorship to help us
in our work and are prepared to wear an attractive green T-shirt to do the
race! We had a great team last year, and hope to have just as much fun this
year.
Please could you
circulate this offer around your members, and ask them to get in contact with
me at the email address below if they are interested. They can also reply
to [email protected].
Very many thanks,
Jenny Dixon
Fundraiser
CROP
34 York Road, Leeds, LS9
8TA
W: www.cropuk.org.uk
E: [email protected]
Company limited by guarantee 4249272 Registered
Charity 1092560
5k or 10k every day
in May?
Dear Club,
I imagine you must be inundated with emails, thank you for your time in advance!
Why am I emailing you? A competitive
challenge for the club.
What is it? A challenge to run 5k or
10k every day in May.
I work for an amazing lady called Sally
Pinnegar, who owns fitnaturally; she has launched a new running event which
takes place over the whole of May and involves running every single day!
Entrants have two distance options, 5k every day or 10k every day. The total
distances run are 96.2 miles and 192.5 miles respectively, that’s
approximately three and a half or seven and a half marathons in a month.
It has been set to be an achievable
challenge, the distances are not difficult in themselves, the challenge is to
run them every single day of the month. That takes mental toughness.
Runners can do the distance at whatever time
of day and wherever they choose, this makes it a global event, people all over
the world can take part but still work as a fund raising team for the event’s
chosen charities. There is a team JustGiving page for sponsorship from
family and friends. This isn’t a race, although runners can log their
times on the website, along with a link to data from GarminConnect, RunKeeper
or similar run logging software. The rules also say the distance can be walked
and the 10k can be split over two sessions a day if required.
The event starts on Tuesday May 1 at 12:01am
and finishes on Thursday May 31 at 11:59pm
Wouldn't it be fun to see if some of your
members would like to take the challenge?! This year we are testing the
market so to speak, but next year we plan to make this global and with big
sponsors behind us we could have this as a club event, and have different clubs
around the country hosting a particular day. Great exposure for you, some wins
for your members such as goody bags and free advice.
Take a look at the site, are you
inspired? Are there a couple of people in the club who you think might
enjoy a healthy challenge!?
http://10keverydayinmay.com/event-details/5k-every-day.
We are using Twitter as one of our sources of
marketing this event and many people are signing up and talking about the
challenge.
The really special bit about it for me is
that athletes run for a charity and are encouraged to raise money for the
chosen charities depending on whether they decide to take the 5k or 10k
challenge, it's about raising some money for others and fitnaturally is making
no money from it.
I would love to hear your thoughts as to
whether the club or an individual might want to get involved and would be
delighted if you could cascade this down via your mailing list, or load it onto
your website or facebook page?
Warm regards,
Juliet Jacobs
Virtual Assistant to
Sally Pinnegar, Owner of fitnaturally.co.uk
virtuallyjules.com
07903
121746