Subject: V S Weekly Update -
Training, Events incl Handicap, Harewood Trail help, Membership fees, LCW
results (women's team 1st), Scottish news * 2
Sent: 07 September 2012 15:02
Training this coming week
NB double check on
the website in case of any change!
Tue 11 Sep - Kathy's
Run Leeds beginners/improvers/juniors group meet Leos 6:00pm for training
session (new starters welcome!).
Tue 11 Sep - 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. The one way system is anticlockwise. The
sports pavilion is on your right so you just need to go 50 yards on the one way
system and turn right again to the pavilion.
Tue 11 Sep - Valley
Striders meet Leeds Met Indoor Sports Centre 7:00pm for Track session.
Thu 13 Sep - meet
Scott Hall 6:45pm for steady 7 miles at 8 to 9 minute mile pace (with stops).
Thu 13 Sep - Kathy's
Thursday group. Meet on Alwoodley Lane top of Goodrick Lane (footpath down to
Res) 6:30pm NOTE EARLIER START TIME!
NB Tue 18 Sep is club
handicap night, this will be the only “session”, see “Events” section for more
details.
Events for September
Sat 8 Sep – Mile
races at Leeds Met Track from 3:30pm, ages 13 and above. See www.ukresults.net. Several
races, 12 runners per race, the slowest wave (9-10 minute pace) starts at 4pm
and the fastest wave (4:15 to 4:45) will start around 6pm. There is a
team prize for combined men/women for this and Hyde Park summer mile.
Mark Hetherington (race organiser) tells me that Striders have a good chance of
winning this but need 2 ladies to run. Entries on the day up till
4pm. At Leeds Met sports pavilion adjacent to the track.
Sun 9 Sep – Wetherby
10k www.wetherbyrunners.co.uk also www.ukresults.net (VSGP & Leeds Race
Series).
Also junior 1.8 miles
http://www.wetherbyrunnersac.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=51 .
The junior race is the
first race of the Leeds Junior Race Series which runs from September 2012 to
August 2013 www.leedsathletics.net .
Sat 15 Sep - Rombolds
Romp on Ilkley Moor (TRIPLE points – VSGP, VSFC & Leeds Race Series).
See www.ukresults.net . There are two
routes, choose the slightly longer trail route or the slightly more challenging
fell route.
Tue 18 Sep – V S
Junior 1 mile Race (also open to adults) meet 6:10pm, race starts at 6:20pm
V S Autumn Handicap 5
miles meet at 6:40pm, race starts at 6:50pm. On reservoir path and tarmac
to Eccup and back (no off-road)
Both from Eccup
Reservoir (Alwoodley Lane footpath). Note earlier start times than
usual.
Book food saying
whether you want carnivore or veggie lasagne and whether or not you want apple
pie to [email protected] by Sunday 16 Sep
10pm
Sun 23 Sep –
Kirkstall 7mile trail (Leeds Race Series) and Junior 2 mile Race (Leeds Junior
Race Series). See www.ukresults.net .
Tue 25 Sep - Harewood
10 Recce run. Meet 6:30pm Harewood Village Hall for 2 mile, 5 mile or 8
mile route. Note early start time. Not sure whether Kathy’s 6pm
session will take place.
Sun 30 Sep -
Horsforth 10k (VSGP & Leeds Race Series). See www.ukresults.net .
Tue 2 Oct – Training
session followed by Valley Striders Annual General Meeting. Food of
course!
West Yorkshire Cross Country League
Dates - Saturday 20
October at Wetherby, Saturday 20 November at Yeadon, 24 or 25 November at
Huddersfield, Saturday 8 December at Wakefield.
Distances - 9 to 10km
for men, 5 to 6 km for women, various distances for juniors, minimum age 9 on
19 October 2012.
Start times - junior
races in 2 year age groups start from 11:45a.m., women’s race at 1:30pm, men’s
at 2:15pm if I remember correctly.
Race entries needed
by Tuesday 2 October to [email protected] cost is £10 and that
is the total cost for all 4 races. NB it is £10 however many races you
enter/run – you keep your race number for the series. Entry fee for
juniors (under 17) is £5.
List of teams at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm
Harewood Trail Races – Sunday 28
October
Help required for
these races please – 2 mile at 10:00, 5 & 10 mile at 10:35. We need
about 80 volunteers for all aspects of race support.
Please note that
Striders are only allowed to run if they can provide someone to marshal in
their place.
Please email [email protected] if you can
help. Let us know your preferred location. So far 10 people have
emailed me (thanks) but we need 70 more.
If you have juniors
running then we can find an place for you to marshal on the juniors route.
Also help needed
handing out entry forms at various races in September and October, especially
the junior races at Wetherby and Kirkstall. Please email [email protected] . If you can’t
help on the day, maybe you can help with entry forms!
Membership and Other Payments
Paul White has
emailed
Just a reminder that Subs for 2012/13 are due from 1st September 2012.
Subject to confirmation at the AGM we are proposing to keep them the same as
last year:
1st Claim - £20
2nd Claim - £10
Social - £10
Volunteer - £3
Junior (11-18) - £8
Junior (under 11) - £3
If you ran in the Leeds Country Way – please pay £9:50 also.
If you are entering
the West Yorkshire Cross Country - please pay £10 also.
If paying by cash,
please pay at the Club any Tuesday.
If paying by cheque,
please make cheques payable to Valley Striders and pay at the Club or send to
Paul White, 17 Whinmoor Court, Redhall, Leeds LS14 1NX.
Alternatively payment can be made by bank transfer via the internet to
our account as follows:
Sort Code: xx-xx-xx
Account Number: aaaaaaaa
If doing so please include your name as reference on the transfer
details. If you are paying any amount other than a combination of £20,
£9.50, £10 (e.g. if you are paying £40 to include a friend), please also send
an email to [email protected] with an
explanation
Thanks,
Paul.
Leeds Country Way Results
Some great results by
the Striders teams. The Ladies won their category, 16 minutes ahead of
Abbey and a further 15 minutes ahead of Horsforth, thus regaining the trophy
that they had won in 2007/08/09/10. The Men finished 20 minutes behind Leeds
City but held onto second place until half way through leg 6 when they were
overtaken by Airedale Athletics (a Bradford composite team of Saltaire,
Baildon, Skyrac, Eccleshill and a couple more clubs). The vets would have
finished a clear first in their category and 8th overall but sadly
Patrick dropped out halfway through leg 1 with an Achilles injury and because
Paul Sanderson finished alone, they were awarded a default time of 3 hours for
the leg. NB the results below show with the penalty added at the end so
shows how they were positioned through the race. The “B” team finished a
stunning 10th overall, and the “C” team finished 30th,
thus 4 of our teams finished (or would have finished) in the top half of the 39
teams.
Fastest leg trophies
were won by Myra & Kim, by Louise & Sharon and by Gwil & Paul.
John Wallace says “Bob – can you
mention that I have the LCW memento jugs and will bring them along to Thursday
and Tuesday sessions for people to collect. I also still have BMW
t-shirts for various members of the team which are also in the back of my car
so will be with me at the Thursday and Tuesday sessions as well.”
Bob says “John, supported by with Myra and Gwil, has done a splendid job
organizing the 5 teams and getting everyone prepared and round the route (and
especially the 5 reserves drafted in in the last few days), so please make it
easy on him, pick up your memento as soon as possible and don’t let him have to
worry about this! He needs a good 40 weeks rest before starting to organize
the 6 teams for next year”.
Bob also says “I have a collection of mementoes from previous years in
my loft space, if anyone didn’t get one or has lost or broken one, please email
me with the year(s) you require”
Cumulative
“A”
team
Leg
time Pos Time Pos
1
Dan
Fisher Andy
May 01:12:42
2 01:12:42 2
2
Rob De'Giovanni Simon
Midwood 01:16:30 2
02:29:12 2
3 Jerry Watson
Steve Webb
01:12:54 4
03:42:06 2
4 Richard
Balshaw Jeremy
Ladyman 01:27:14 8
05:09:20 4
5
Paul Kaiser
Gwil Thomas
01:02:58 1 06:12:18 2
6
Joel Giddings
Alex Nancolas 01:08:25
7 07:20:43 3
“Women’s team”
1
Myra
Jones Kim
Threadgall 01:25:16 12 01:25:16 12
2 Laura
Clark Hayley
Nancolas 01:37:50 23 03:03:06 19
3 Louise
Allinson Sharon
Tansley 01:27:38 18 04:30:44 16
4 Amanda
Seims
Liz
Wood 01:38:31
17 06:09:15 17
5 Michaela
McGarry Lucy
Nowlin 01:30:17 24
07:39:32 17
6
Pam
Lomoro Sue
Sunderland 01:26:44 23 09:06:16 17
“Vets Team”
1 Patrick Barrett
* Paul Sanderson
01:35:00 01:35:00 25
2
Alan Hutchinson Ian
Sanderson 01:31:47 16 03:06:47 21
3
Tom
Button Tony
Mills 01:18:36
8 04:25:23 15
4 Tahir
Akhtar Roy
Huggins 01:32:27 12 05:57:50 14
5 Alistair
Smyth Mark
Woodhead 01:15:00 7
07:12:50 9
6 James
Tarran Simon
Vallance 01:06:58 6
08:19:48 8
*
LEG 1 PENALTY
01:25:00 09:44:48 26
“B” team
1
Paul Smith
Alan Walsh 01:29:57
19 01:29:57 19
2 Naomi
Wrigglesworth John Wallace
01:38:20 24 03:08:17 21
3 Richard
Irvine Tim
Towler 01:23:41 13
04:31:58 17
4
Andy Stoneman Dusan
Svoboda 01:34:44 13 06:06:42 16
5
Alun Davies
Paul White 01:32:18
26 07:39:00 16
6
Gary
Mann
Dan Murray
01:06:44 5 08:45:44 10
“C” team
1
Mike Higgins
Tomas Mildorf 01:37:21 26
01:37:21 26
2 Bob
Jackson Louise
Purdy 02:10:24 38
03:47:45 32
3 Graham
Ford
Ian Sanderson 01:34:08 24
05:21:53 29
4 Sarah
Smith Mick
Tinker 01:48:51 27
07:10:44 28
5
Rich Clough
Graham Jones 01:51:57
35 09:02:41 29
6 Sarah
Howell Liz
Reddington 01:37:16 29 10:39:57 30
PS your puzzle for
the day is to spot who ran two legs!
Scottish News from John Shanks
Sarah and I ran the
Glasgow Half Marathon yesterday, did anyone else take part? It was a really
well run race as always and both of us recorded PB’s with Sarah coming in at
1:57:43 and me finishing in 1:38:47 which would have been a wee bit less if I
hadn’t spent the last 200m high fiving people in the crowd and celebrating like
I’d scored the winner in a cup final. I was delighted not to get any injuries
thanks to Liz Wood for un-knotting my right calf problem.
Would recommend that
race to anyone, George Square is an ideal warm up area for the start, they do a
well organised pulse start with 4 different muster groups so sharp elbows
weren’t needed too much, the route is really well marshalled, the finish in
Glasgow Green is great fun and you get to see Ibrox Stadium!
More Scottish News from George Black
Hi Bob, I see from
the recent Newsletter than you have noticed that I have started running again.
I had not run or cycled since the Abbey Dash in November 2010 except for a
Christmas Day event in 2011 when I struggled to break 13 minute miling.
After the change to
my domestic circumstances I decided to start doing some local events.
It may encourage
some of the younger club runners (note from Bob – George is 72) to see
that you can still improve with a bit of effort. I have only shown certified
courses. The 5Ks are mainly park runs at St. Andrews over an 'interesting'
course.
1 mile - 7:43 on
24/4, 7:32 on 26/6, 7:03 on 10/7, 6:45 on 21/8
2 miles - 6:27 on
27/3
5Km - 25:51 on 20/4,
26:17 on 21/4, 26:38 on 16/6, 25:10 on 22/6, 26:08 on 23/6, 25:31 on 30/6,
23:56 on 14/7, 22:51 on 20/7, 23:15 on 18/8
5 Miles -
38:59 on 4/7, 36:49 on 25/7
10Km -
52:54 on 26/4, 44:17 on 26/8
As my dear friend
Max would have pointed out my weight loss from 12st 5lbs to 10st
12lbs has a lot to do with the improvement.
The bad news is
another "slippy stane" incident on 16th July. I fell and now find I
have a Scaphoid fracture of the left wrist after falling when running off
road. You just don't bounce the same as you get older.
Hope to see some of
the Striders at the Abbey Dash during my annual Christmas present trip to
Leeds. Warmest Regards to all. Geo.