Subject: V S Weekly Update - next
week's training, Leeds Country Way final call
Sent: 10 August 2012 09:06
Training
next week
Tue
14 Aug - Kathy's Run Leeds beginners/improvers/juniors group meet Leos 6:00pm
for training session (new starters welcome!).
Tue
14 Aug - Holly's Run Leeds improvers group meet Bodington
Hall sports pavilion 7:00pm – directions as follows, from Ring Road, go on Otley Road towards Otley, just
before end of dual carriageway turn right into Bodington
Hall grounds, go downhill till you get to one way system, sports pavilion is on
your right but you need to turn left and go nearly the full circuit of the one
way system.
Tue
14 Aug - Valley Striders meet Leeds Met Indoor Sports Centre 7:00pm for track
session (maps on website).
Thu
16 Aug - meet Scott Hall 6:45pm for steady 7 miles at 8 to 9 minute mile pace
(with stops).
Thu
16 Aug - Kathy's Thursday group meet Roundhay Park
Lakeside Cafe 6:40pm http://www.kenkaiser.co.uk/thursday/
Leeds
Country Way
We
now have 45 runners, so just 27 more needed
Please
check if you’re on this list –
·
if
you aren’t on but you are not available, let me know email [email protected]
·
in
particular if you are one of our faster runners, please reply as soon as
possible – we need to select the men’s A and women’s A teams before we can
select the other teams
·
if
you are on but you’re not available, let me know email [email protected]
·
the
list will be updated at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm
Men
: Alan Walsh , Alex Nancolas , Alistair Smyth , Alun Davies , Andy
Stoneman , Bob Jackson , Dan Murray , Graham Ford , Ian Sanderson , James
Tarran , Jerry Watson , Joel Giddings , Kevin McMullan , Mick Tinker ,
Mike Higgins , Patrick Barrett , Paul Kaiser , Paul Sanderson , Paul White ,
Richard Balshaw , Richard Irvine , Rob Hamilton , Simon Midwood ,
Simon Vallance , Tim Towler , Tom Button , Tony Mills , Tosh Akhtar
Women
: Anne Jones , Hayley Nancolas , Kim Knowles , Kim Threadgall
, Laura Clark , Laura Goodson , Liz Wood , Lou Allinson
, Louise Purdy , Michaela McGarry , Myra Jones , Pam
Lomoro , Ruth Warren , Sarah Howell , Sarah Smith ,
Sharon Tansley , Sue Sunderland
Not
available : Andy Thorpe , Jenni Kerr ,
Joe Hanney , Jon Parker , Julia Leventon , Mel
Murray , Mick Loftus , Sarah Clark
More
Events
Wed 15 August – Hyde Park 1 mile – note entry limit of
150. Entry information on www.ukresults.net
(V S Grand Prix & Leeds Race Series)
Also Wed 15 August – Sports first aid course at Leos,
probably 7pm to 10pm. This course normally costs £30 but Leeds Athletics
Network are funding half of this and Valley Striders will fund the rest
(providing you are or will be a frequent volunteer for at least two of our
three races each year) – email me [email protected]
to “book”. So it’s free but if you book and then don’t turn up, you
will have to pay as someone else could have had the place. Book early, filling fast.
Sat
25 August - Burnsall Fell Race (AS) (V S Fell
Championship)
Mon 27 August – Spofforth 10k –
easy trail route & little village gala (near Wetherby). On the Forum,
Sarah Smith is inviting you to make a cycling day trip to the race and back.
See
last week’s V S Update for events in Septmeber
Results
Round
Hill Fell Race
VSGP Pts
3 Richard Balshaw
1:00:27 100 2nd
M40
6 Steve
Webb
1:02:17 97 1st
M50
18 Joel Giddings
1:11:03
93
40 Martin
Oddy
1:18:19
90
44 Alistair Smyth
1:18:34
87
69 Graham
Ford
1:26:39
83
89 Sara
Dyer
1:46:45
80
Points
will be updated soon for V S Grand Prix, V S Fell Championship and Leeds Race
Series
Hayton Heller – race report
– from Tom Button
A
holiday's not really a holiday without a race so I decided to do the Haytor Heller on Dartmoor whilst away a couple of weeks
ago. It's an off-road 6 mile course with about 1100 feet of climbing:
basically 4 steep uphills and 4 steep downhills. I looked up a couple of times and the
views were fantastic (you could see the sea) but this was a bit dangerous given
the footing. The highlight was the narrow downhill path through head-high
ferns with a few conveniently placed boulders to hurdle. As this was my
first race as a vet (and given my non-running injury forced 3 months off
earlier this year) I was fairly happy with my time. I was also first
Strider! I was last Strider too. The race is highly recommended if
you find yourself down that way this time next year.
1 Adam Tockwell
Torbay AC 42:04
55
Tom Button Valley Striders 54:42
257 finishers