Subject: V S Weekly Update - race
win for Holly, 30th anniversary, LCW, dates, results
Sent: 13 July 2012 13:38
Holly first at Roundhay
parkrun
We don’t usually have
race results as the first item, and especially not parkrun results as I’m sure at least 10 different Striders
have come first at parkrun over the last 4 years.
So what’s special
about this result? Well what is special is that Holly was first – she
beat all the blokes too!
So big
congratulations to Holly and to see all the rest of last weekend’s parkrun results, see lower down this email.
The next two items
are a repeat from last week, please get your bbq meal and relay place booked as soon as possible!
Striders 30th Anniversary Barbecue –
Tuesday 24 July
Just as the Queen has
two birthdays, so does Valley Striders. 23 July 1982 was the date of the
founding of Valley Striders at Mick Dewhirst’s house on Woodhouse Ridge (click http://valleystriders.org.uk/resolution.htm)
. And 10 December 1982
was the date of our affiliation with England Athletics
(or whatever it was called at the time).
We’ll celebrate the
first of our 30th birthdays with our Summer Handicap (7pm from Eccup Res, a just-over-5 mile circular route as far as Emmerdale village), also a Junior 1 mile race at 6:30pm,
followed by a barbecue back at Leo’s clubhouse.
As usual, you need to
book in advance for the barbecue. Email our usual address [email protected] by Sunday 22 July
10pm, just saying whether you want veggie or carnivore. Cost is £6.
Don’t worry if it rains on the night, the food will be cooked outside but we
can eat inside.
If you are likely to
come but aren’t 100% sure, then please book anyway,
you have until Sunday 22 July to cancel (at no cost).
Tosh Akhtar has just
given me some videos from 1992 of the Cardinal Heenan
10k (2½ laps up Stonegate Road) and the Valley
Striders 10k in Roundhay Park. Hopefully these
will look OK on the big screen at Leos.
We also have a large
number of photos on the website from 1997 to 2009 and a folder of newspaper
cuttings from 1982 to 1992. Is there anyone who would to create a “slide
show” from these? Can I tempt you to step forward with the offer of 2
free barbecue meals? Please!
Leeds Country Way – Sunday 2 September
This is a 60 mile route, run in pairs, so each pair runs 10 miles.
Last year we had 5 teams of 12 runners! Can we get 6 teams this
year? Maybe one from Kathy’s 6pm group and one from
Holly’s 7pm group?!
Email [email protected] if you’d like to run. You can check you are on the list – there
is a link on the “home page” of the V S website. Please email as soon as
you can saying whether you are
·
Definite
(barring injury)
·
Probable
·
Possible
·
Unavailable
Proposed teams are “A”, Ladies, Vets (over 40), “D”,
“H” (Holly’s group), “K” (Kathy’s group).
Caution: The route uses country footpaths. It is irregularly
signposted and not marshaled. It is strongly advised that you do (at
least) one recce run a week or so before the race so you know the route.
It is not sufficient to rely on your partner to know the route (they might get injured the week before the race and you’d have to
navigate with your new partner)
Please email [email protected] as soon as possible. Organising 5 teams
/ 60 runners last year involved a huge amount of work (thanks John), so 6 teams
will be even harder. We need to get some provisional teams created as
soon as possible.
Link to Kippax Harriers website http://www.kippaxharriers.org.uk/ has more
details including maps of all the legs. NB the route follows the
old Leeds Country Way which, on legs 1 and 2, crosses the border into
Wakefield. This is different from the route maps that are currently on
sale.
Dates
Sun 15 July – Eccup 10 mile – V S Grand Prix –
also junior races (3 different distances depending on age) http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/ . Can anyone help at the finish by handing out Harewood
Trail entry forms?
Sun 15 July – Holme Moss Fell Race – V S Fell
Championship
Tue 17 July – Kathy’s group at 6pm, Holly’s group at 7pm, Club session
7pm, all at Leos
Sat 21 July – Ingleborough Fell Race – V S
Fell Championship
Sun 22 July – Pudsey 10k – V S Grand Prix –
also junior races (2 different distances
depending on age) http://www.pudseypacers.com/ . Can anyone help at the finish by handing out Harewood Trail entry forms?
Sun 22 July – Harrogate 10k - Can anyone help at the finish by handing
out Harewood Trail entry forms?
Tue 24 July – VS 30th anniversary – see above
Wed 25 July – Golden Acre Relay - teams of 3 – make up your own teams –
details will be on http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/ . Can anyone help at the finish by handing out Harewood
Trail entry forms? Mark Hetherington of Abbey Runners has emailed “Following a record entry of 91 teams last year, we have
increased the race limit to 120 teams for 2012. Entry is ‘on the night’ only:
the race starts at 7.00pm, so it would be worth turning up before 6.30pm to be
on the safe side! It is important that everyone parks legally and
considerately, as we don’t want any complaints from the police or other
motorists.”
Sat 4 August – Round Hill Fell Race (more a trail race) approx. 7 miles
– VSGP AND VSFC. http://otleyac.org.uk/round-hill-fell-race/ and yes it is a Saturday (it always used to be a Sunday)
Wed 15 August – Hyde Park 1 mile – V S Grand Prix – note entry limit of
150. Entry information on www.ukresults.net
Sat 8 Sep – Leeds Golden Mile – Mark Hetherington has emailed “I am organising a track mile event at Leeds Met Carnegie
(in conjunction with the guys from the Marathon Talk podcast) on the afternoon
of Sat 8th September. There will be a series of up to 25 heats
(heats will be based on predicted times) between 3.00pm and 7.00pm, with a
total maximum entry of 300 runners (and race walkers). The entry fee will be £6
for club runners, and we are hoping to finish with heats for ‘elite’ men and
ladies. We will be using electronic timing and a stadium PA, and hope to
generate a great atmosphere over the course of the afternoon. Event details,
and online entry, will be available here very shortly: www.evensplits.co.uk”
Sun 9 Sep – Yorkshire Vets relays at Saltaire
“Jane Tomlinson” 5k Canal Run at Methley
This is an annual
race organised by Jane’s club Rothwell
Harriers. On the website it mentions the cakes afterwards – wonder
whether it should be in our Grand Prix next year?!
7 Jeremy Ladyman 00:17:52
49 Louise Allinson 00:21:26
95 Chloe Hudson
00:25:11
Hyde Park 5k
I suspect many people
stayed at home saying “why pay for a race when you can run the route for free
any Saturday?”, but this race was in memory of a very colourful character at
Leeds City and I’m pleased to report that Striders made up over 20% of the
field,
9 Dan
Fisher
00:16:45 100
11 Gwil Thomas
00:16:54 99
20 Richard Balshaw
00:17:50 98
23 Dave
Penman
00:18:13 96
25 Joel Giddings
00:18:29 95
28 James Tarran
00:18:50 94
31 Andy Stoneman 00:19:00
93
34 Gary
Mann
00:19:16 91
35 Roy
Huggins
00:19:20 90
40 Alan
Walsh
00:20:17 89
42 Paul Sanderson
00:20:34 88
44 Nick
Barnes
00:20:46 86
48 Leroy Sutton
00:21:18 85
52 Martin
Oddy
00:21:37 84
57 Alun
Davies
00:23:00 83
67 Sarah Howell
00:24:28 81
70 Chloe Hudson
00:24:47 80
also
22 Jerry Watson 00:18:00
96
Parkrun
Results
Apart from Holly’s
success (did I mention that earlier), good to see several of our junior members
running, and doing the tough one (Roundhay) too!
Results for Bradford parkrun, event number 113, 07/07/2012.
166 participants completed
the run today.
The following club members
participated:
20 Alan
WALSH
21:35
Results for Leeds parkrun, event number 248, 07/07/2012.
217 participants completed
the run today.
The following club members
participated:
3
Joel GIDDINGS 18:35
8
Roy
HUGGINS
19:09
9
James TARRAN
19:10
32 Nick
BARNES
21:27
49 Sue
SUNDERLAND 22:39
56
Christopher A SAWYER 22:57
142 Meryll
CRIPPS 29:47
Results for Roundhay parkrun, event number
61, 07/07/2012.
118 participants completed
the run today.
The following club members
participated:
1
Holly WILLIAMS 19:23
9
Adam
PARTON
20:45
13 Dan
MURRAY
20:56
21 Julia Leventon
22:25
25 Gerard
COLL
23:48
27 Alex
IRVINE
24:02 j
28 Richard
IRVINE 24:06
37 Pascale
FOTHERBY 24:56
50
Alistair SMYTH 25:53
64 Ben Dyal
26:57 j
74 Sue
CARR
28:51
81
Jacqueline HUNT 29:34
82 Natalie
ROSS 29:34
102 Abigail
STONEMAN 35:20 j
105 Laura
VOGLER 35:53
j
106 Justin
VOGLER 35:53
116 Emily
STONEMAN 42:38 j
117 Andy
STONEMAN 45:35
NB Holly’s winning
margin was 11 seconds
Lyke
Wake Results
Great runs by
Madeleine Watson who finished 3rd W in 9hr
37min and Ian Sanderson who finished 10th in 8hr 45min.
Sadly our team, reduced
by injury and other activities before the race was further reduced during the
race as John Wallace and Richard Adcock recorded DNFs. John stopped just
short of halfway at the Lion Inn and Richard went another 6 or 7 miles to the
next checkpoint in the middle of nowhere.
Full race
results
http://race-calendar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lyke-wake-race-results-2012.pdf
Race report
http://news.race-calendar.com/race-report-48th-annual-lyke-wake-2012/
For the first time
the race was won by a pair of ladies, Shelli Gordon and Kay Neesam.
They won the overall trophy and so the first men to finish won the “opposite
sex” trophy.
There’s a picture of
the team and captain Sarah on facebook and a few good
comments.
Run For All Results
Here are the names I
found (or those that emailed their results to me). In chip time sequence
7 Gwil
Thomas 35:51
22 Abdoulaye Kodokod 37:31
35 Jeremy Ladyman 38:39
46 Richard Smith
39:38
80 John
Shanks 41:12
379
Iain Currie 46:22
1029
Sarah Howell 51:39
1040
Chloe Hudson 51:43
1193
Liz Reddington 52:43
1418
Sarah Harper 53:59
2452
Alexa Hannant 59:18
2497
Sarah Clark 59:31
2999
Jenna Rymer 1:02:30
3034
Georgina Abbott 1:02:42
4062
Mel Murray 1:09:35
4104
Melissa Dexter 1:09:57
5400
FINISHED
Any more Striders?