Subject: V S Update - wedding
plans, mobrun, 8 May training, LHM, results (3 peaks, Manchester, VS junior
race, handicap)
Sent: 04 May 2012 07:57
Subject: V S Update - wedding plans, mobrun, 8 May training, LHM,
results (3 peaks, Manchester, VS junior race, handicap)
Ladies
and Gentlemen of Valley Striders, could I have your attention please for an
announcement from Mr Paul Kaiser:
Following the London Marathon,
Sharon and I indulged in a few days rest 'n' recuperation in Tenerife. I
finally managed to pluck up the courage - much tougher than the marathon - to
pop THE question. Much to my relief and enormous pleasure Sharon said yes (and
she didn't even hesitate!) and we are now both very happy and excited and very
much looking forward to getting married hopefully sometime next year. Possibly
after the London Marathon, but with enough of a gap between so that Sharon
isn't hobbling down the aisle, and the first dance isn't reduced to a shuffle!
Parkrun Mobrun – Saturday
5 May
Just to
remind you that this Saturday the Hyde Park parkrun (soon to be renamed
Woodhouse Moor parkrun) is the venue for the annual club mob run. Which
club will have most runners finishing? Hopefully it will be Valley
Striders (after being second last year).
If you’ve
not registered, then do so at www.parkrun.com and then
just turn up on Saturday morning for a 09:00 start. NB beware the parking
restrictions around the Moor.
Please
could all Striders wear their club vests! I will bring about 5 spare V S
vests, if anyone else coming has a spare vest could they bring it along.
Training – Tuesday 8 May
Just to
remind you, we have 3 sessions on Tuesday
·
Kathy’s 6pm group – beginners, improvers and juniors
·
Kathy’s 7pm group – improvers & intermediates (sub 35 min for
5k)
·
Track session, meet 7pm in the foyer of the Indoor Sports Centre
at Leeds Met (sub 50 min for 10k)
·
NB also Jack Bloor Fell Race (in VS Fell Championship)
Leeds Half Marathon –
Sunday 13 May
Thank you
to those who’ve volunteered to marshal, I think we now have enough, but one or
two more won’t be turned away.
Instead
of our usual location between Sheepscar and Meanwood, we have 6 marshals on the
Stonegate Road / King Lane roundabout – this is great because this is one of
the regular spectator spots for Striders – and 4 at Kirkstall Fire Station just
before the final uphill section starts.
So if
you’re just coming along to cheer, these will be two pretty good places to
be. And if you’re really cunning (park near David Lloyd) you can get from
one to the other to see your favoured runners at both places.
Drills Session – Wednesday
23 May
Click on www.leedsathletics.net and see
the information and recommendations!
London Marathon
Well, the
ballot opened and closed on the Monday, so if you forgot to sign in you can now
only get in via a charity place or good-for-age.
But why
go 200 miles for a marathon when you can go 40. The Manchester marathon
will be on again next year, and surely the weather can’t be as bad as this
year’s was.
Results
Three Peaks – from Steve Webb
It was an
extremely windy day which made for slower times than in recent years but
we had an excellent turnout of Striders. By the narrowest of margins we
lost Graham Ford (Ribblehead) and Sarah Smith (Hill Inn) to the
dreaded cut-off but the rest of us managed to battle round. Very
impressive effort from Mick Wrench who seems to save himself all year for this
race and the OMM.
77 Mick
Wrench
3:46:17
112
John Bottomley
3:53:50
150
Steve Webb
4:00:48
179
Simon Vallance
4:06:26
202
Eirik Stangnes
4:09:33
202
Mick Loftus
4:18:49
211
John Marsham
4:11:10
211
Ollie Cheyne
4:18:52
302
Andreas Mayer
4:25:42
316
Justin Vogler
4:28:30
320
Mark Woodhead
4:28:55
407
Steve Dixon
4:39:37
424
Amanda Seims
4:43:23
443
Richard Adcock
4:46:33
544
Alistair Smyth
5:00:32
583
Michaela McGarry 5:10:25
608
Alun Davies
5:16:38
The
updated Fell champ league is now on the website (look in “For Club Members” and
“Grand Prix / Fell Champ”)
Next Fell
Championship races – Jack Bloor (May 8), Chevin fell Race (June 6),
Manchester marathon
Great results for Jon
and Myra, and a first sub-3 for Jeremy
9 Jon
Parker
2:39:21
40
Jeremy Ladyman
2:55:30
220
Myra
Jones
3:13:25 (4th W)
285
Ian Sanderson
3:16:07
306
Joel Giddings
3:19:45
595
Henry Powell-Jones 3:30:20
957
Jonathan Brownbill 3:41:18
1098
Alan Brydon
3:41:41
1688
Simon Barker
3:57:25
There are a few
pictures and many comments on the Valley Striders facebook page
Ian Sanderson
commented “We need to get some VS branded bin-bags for wet races”
Joel said “I could
have done with a VS branded mobility scooter for the last 5 miles”
Alan emailed, “I ran 3 hr 41min 41sec for my first marathon. Great course
and support but seriously let down by lack of organisation by the race
organisers, especially the bag drop off point which took me 3 hours of
rummaging through hundreds of bags to eventually find mine “
Junior 1 mile and Club Handicap
In our second ever
junior 1 mile race, the winners were Nathan Brady and Eleanor Ford. Both
of them easily beat last time’s course records.
1 Nathan Brady 6:31
2 Alex Irvine 6:36
3 Ben
Dyal
7:20
4 Eleanor Ford 7:25
5 Ben Redshaw 7:27
6 Shaun Sexton 8:00
7 Ciara Sexton 8:37
8
Sarah Brady 9:14
9 William Elmsley 9:40
Congratulations to
Grace Thomas who won the Spring Handicap (though it felt like winter, standing
by the res.)
Judging from the
results, if you want to get a good place in the Club Handicap, you need to be
training in Kathy’s group – perhaps Kathy should be on commission!
At least 10, maybe 15
were newcomers to the Handicap, in fact two had not yet joined Striders and two
more had only joined Striders 2 weeks ago. One of the newcomers was Gary
Shaw who was second fastest and did really well as he was last to start,
alongside Dave Penman who overtook 41 runners and was fastest on the
night. Third fastest was new V50 Steve Webb, who bought us birthday all
drinks back at Leos – thanks, Steve!
Thanks to Mike &
Eileen for timekeeping, Pat, Joyce and Tosh for various finish line duties, and
Ken, Kathy, John and Peter for marshalling
Handicap Clock Actual Grand Prix
Time Time Points
1 Grace Thomas 0:09:00
0:53:52 0:44:52 59
2 Sue
Carr
0:05:00 0:54:20 0:49:20 53
3 Richard Hemsley 0:07:00 0:54:34
0:47:34 55
4 Maggie Horgan 0:09:00 0:54:35
0:45:35 57
5 Keith Sexton 0:20:30
0:54:40 0:34:10 87
6 Richard Irvine 0:20:45
0:54:59 0:34:14 85
7 Holly Williams 0:22:00
0:55:36 0:33:36 91
8 Laura Goodson 0:20:30
0:55:42 0:35:12 79
9 Simon Vallance 0:23:30
0:55:46 0:32:16 96
10
Mike Higgins 0:19:15
0:55:54 0:36:39 74
11
Dusan Svoboda 0:23:45 0:55:59
0:32:14 97
12
Dave Penman 0:26:00
0:56:02 0:30:02 100
13
Steve Webb 0:25:30
0:56:12 0:30:42 98
14
Sarah Howell 0:13:00
0:56:21 0:43:21 60
15
Laura Clark 0:19:00
0:56:24 0:37:24 72
16
Iain Currie 0:19:00
0:56:29 0:37:29 71
17
Emma Johnson 0:03:30
0:56:31 0:53:01 49
18
Gary Shaw
0:26:00 0:56:32 0:30:32 99
19
Ged Coll
0:19:00 0:56:35 0:37:35 70
20
Melanie Murray 0:02:15 0:56:45
0:54:30 48
21
Rob Bumstead 0:23:30
0:56:46 0:33:16 92
22
Gary Mann
0:23:45 0:56:50 0:33:05 93
23
Sue Sunderland 0:19:15 0:56:51 0:37:36
69
24
Dan Murray 0:23:15
0:56:52 0:33:37 90
25
Sarah Smith 0:16:00
0:56:55 0:40:55 62
26
Mal Smith
0:22:00 0:56:56 0:34:56 81
27
Hayley Nancolas 0:20:30 0:57:03
0:36:33 75
28
Malcolm Coles 0:19:00 0:57:13
0:38:13 67
29
John Hallas 0:18:15
0:57:33 0:39:18 65
30
Tony Mills 0:23:00
0:57:38 0:34:38 82
31
John Batchelor 0:24:45 0:57:43
0:32:58 95
32
Alan Hutchinson 0:23:15 0:57:45
0:34:30 83
33
Adam Parton 0:22:15
0:57:49 0:35:34 77
34
Brian Kenny 0:17:35
0:57:54 0:40:19 63
35
Richard Knell-Moore 0:25:00 0:58:03
0:33:03 94
36
Andy Thorpe 0:24:00
0:58:11 0:34:11 86
37
Becky Murray 0:09:00
0:58:12 0:49:12 54
38
Jeni Sword-Williams 0:08:00 0:58:17
0:50:17 52
39
Leroy Sutton 0:23:00
0:58:26 0:35:26 78
40
Bob Wilkes 0:13:00
0:58:28 0:45:28 58
41
Roy Huggins 0:24:45
0:58:40 0:33:55 89
42
Mick Loftus 0:24:15
0:58:41 0:34:26 84
43
Liz Wood
0:23:00 0:58:59 0:35:59 76
44
Elaine Craiggs 0:08:45 0:59:06
0:50:21 51
45
Tom Sykes
0:25:00 0:59:08
0:34:08 88
46
Alan Walsh 0:22:45
0:59:24 0:36:39 74
47
Tomas Mildorf 0:22:00 1:00:03
0:38:03 68
48 Nick
Barnes 0:21:45
1:00:10 0:38:25 66
49
John Shanks 0:25:15
1:00:24 0:35:09 80
50
Paul White 0:20:30
1:00:45 0:40:15 64
51
Graham Ford 0:19:00
1:01:06 0:42:06 61
52
Arun Manoharan 0:11:00 1:01:22
0:50:22 50
53
Sara Dyer
0:14:30 1:01:48 0:47:18 56
All the Grand Prix
points for Three Peaks (any other marathon), Manchester (any other marathon)
and Spring Handicap are now on the website.
Please treat the
“total” column with caution – when runners have run more than 8 races I need to
exclude their worst performances, but also I need to take into account that
runners need to score in at least 5 of the 6 categories. The new Excel
system doesn’t yet cater for this – development in progress.
Next Grand Prix races
– Leeds half (May 13), Sheffield Half Marathon (May 27), Apperley Bridge Canter
(May 31), Wharfedale Half Marathon (June 2).
Note that if you are
interested in the Leeds Race Series, the next races are Post Hill 5k (May 30)
and ABC (May 31). See www.leedsathletics.net for details.
Skipton to Leeds walk for British
Heart Foundation
Walk a marathon or
half marathon distance in one day!
Pull on your walking
gear and head out on Sunday 20 May to trek the towpath along a scenic stretch
of the famous Leeds to Liverpool Canal.
It may be a flat and
established path but do not underestimate the challenge - we want you to go the
distance for the British Heart Foundation. On both the full 26.2 or 13 mile
walk, you are guaranteed a heart pumping day out with plenty of opportunities
to see the local wildlife and glimpse Yorkshire’s industrial heritage as you
walk through the region’s rural and urban landscape.
Come and make every
footstep count as you help us raise life-saving funds for the nation’s heart
charity. We have a challenging £32,000 fundraising target for Leeds to Skipton
and we know with your support we can go the distance. Places are limited so
sign up now to have fun, get fit and save lives!
For more information
and to sign up Visit www.bhf.org.uk/canal (and then click on
the link “find out more”) or call the Events Team on 0800 169 3672
Up & Running Offers
On Saturday 12 May,
“Free last minute pre-race tips and advice for recovery from running expert
Mike Hendricks of Optimum Health – Lunchtime until 6pm” also “Free pre-race
yoga and stretch sessions with Sian of Optimum Health 6pm & 6:30pm booking
essential”.
Also 15% off
everything voucher click www.valleystriders.org.uk/UR_Leeds_Half.jpg to print the voucher
valid until 13 May.
Some light reading (possibly after you’ve run Leeds Half)
Amanda Seims sent
this link “A beginners guide to fell running” http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=4518 (some nice pictures
too!)
