Subject: V S Weekly Update - help!, Elika's do, entry dates, membership
fees, results including Eindhoven, Andy May's 2:34 and George's British M70
win, spring marathon discussion
Sent: 14 October 2012 23:26
Apologies again, I
promised you that the V S W U would be earlier this week and have more
content. I’ve failed on the former but hopefully succeeded on the latter.
Help Needed for Harewood Trail Race
Next Tuesday (16th),
after training, 3 or 4 people to help Paul Kaiser put race numbers and
information sheets into envelopes, from 8:30pm at Leos
Saturday 20th,
someone to hand out forms at Roundhay parkrun. NB I’ll hand out at West
Yorks XC at Wetherby
Saturday 27th,
at around 11am for just one hour, 4 or 5 people to put labels on beer bottles.
Sunday 28th
(race day)
·
a
few people to come early to put direction signs on A61, A659 and around the
Village Hall
·
sweepers
for the 2 mile, 5 mile and 10 mile races
·
about
20 more marshals please
Email [email protected] if you are free to
help
Please look out for
an email next weekend with a list of marshals and duties allocated.
Information will also be on www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmarshals.htm
Elika’s leaving do, also Sunday 28 October
I will be having
some boozy Chapel A drinks on Sunday 28th October. I think it's important to
set the tone now as 'boozy' but it would be good to see the regulars and the
not so regulars for my last week in the UK before moving to Hong Kong.
It's the same day as
the Harewood trail and the plan is to meet in Hummingbird around 1:30pm for
food &/or drinks. It's family friendly if people want to bring the
kids and it would be good if everyone can make it for a few. I'm also keen to
try the new local Chinese on Harrogate road so if anyone can stay out we can
make a day of it.
Hope to see you
then. x
Elika
Entries opening for Chevin Chase &
Auld Lang Syne & Brass Monkey
Thanks to Sue
Sunderland, Sarah Smith and Paul White for the following information
·
entries
to the Chevin Chase (26 December) opened today
·
entries
to the Auld Lang Syne race (31 December) open on 1 November www.woodentops.org.uk
·
entries
to the Brass Monkey half marathon (20 January) will be online at http://www.yorkknavesmireharriers.co.uk/ 7am Saturday 20th
October 2012 (suggest you log in before 7:30am to be sure of getting
in!!!)
Membership fees for 1 September 2012
to 31 August 2013
As mentioned in the
last V S Weekly Update, because of the rise in England Athletics fees in April
2013, at the AGM we voted to make one change to Valley Striders fees, that
being to set the rate for new members to £25.
Also, for the time
being we are registering all our junior members as junior social not junior
competitive. If any new senior members have paid less than £25 or new
junior members paid more than £3 we’ll contact you to make the
adjustment.
Any juniors wanting
to run in West Yorks XC will need to pay £5 extra, but I have confirmed that
entry (for juniors) to the Peco league does not require the registration fee.
So just to confirm
the rates
R - Adult
Competitor £25 (new
member)
} these all
R - Adult
Competitor £20
(renewal)
} include £5 for
LR - Life
member £5
(competing)
} England Athletics
J - Junior
(11-18) £8
(competing)
} competition licence
JS - Junior
Social £3 (under 18, not competing in major
races)
C - Child
(under 11) £3
V -
Volunteer £3 (non-runner)
LV - Life
member free (non-runner)
2 - Second
Claim £10
I forgot to say in
last week’s email where to send the money. Here’s the information from
Paul White
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.
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.
Results
Some great marathon
results (also showing points in Any Other Marathon category)
Berlin
473
Richard Balshaw
2:50:17 98
I’m going to stick my
neck out here and say that Andy’s time is the best by a UK-based male Strider
this century (Tracey ran 2:33 at London and Melbourne). I await
responses!
Chester
562 Sue Sunderland
3:36:50 79
Kielder
84 Simon Redshaw
3:30:02 86
95 James Tarran 3:35:06
82
James emailed “It was
a brilliant event that I can thoroughly recommend, though it is tough with some
big hills. I went through halfway in 1.38 so you can see that I struggled
somewhat towards the end.”
Bramham fun runs
10k
4
Clive Bandy 0:39:26
5
Dan Murray 0:39:30
7
Andy Stoneman 0:40:02
8
Gary Mann 0:40:25
5k
1
Franco Pardini 0:19:04
See http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/community/your-community/fun-running-day-with-a-serious-cause-1-5007369 for aeroplane
impressions by Valley Striders – Keith Cluderay will be impressed!
Blackpool to
Fleetwood 10
28 Eric
Green 1:10:01
Striders Autumn Tour
Eindhoven Marathon
Results have just
come online
GP Pts
243 Dan Murray 3:03:44
100
272 Andy Stoneman
3:07:24 98
278 Gary Mann
3:07:54 97
331 John Batchelor
3:13:31 95
354 Alan Hutchinson
3:14:20 93
356 Roy Huggins
3:14:31 92
384 Myra Jones
3:16:39 90
396 Greg Skerrett
3:18:19 88
405 Joe Hanney
3:18:42 87
616 Jonathan Brownbill 3:34:36
85
716 Alistair Smyth
3:43:13 83
768 Paul Sanderson
3:46:04 82
832 John Wallace
3:50:08 80
also non-counting
265 David Thompson
3:06:53 2nd claim Strider
I hope I haven’t
missed anyone, the website search engine didn’t seem to be working so I just
scanned the results looking for union jack symbols – most of the UK runners
were Striders! Even if the search engine had been working it wouldn’t
have found everyone – Gary was listed as from Kirkstall and John B from
Leds. http://www.marathoneindhoven.nl/
The race website
advertised this as a fast course, 9 men (all Kenyans or Ethiopians) broke
2:10. 210 of the 1285 finishers broke 3 hours. I suspect a few PB’s
in the Striders results, I’m awaiting a report from the tour manager.
Eindhoven Half
Marathon
Leading Striders –
hope to have full list next week but I didn’t fancy searching through 70 pages
(7000 runners) for union jacks.
7 Andy
May 1:14:04
76 Jeremy Ladyman 1:22:23
George Black reports from Scotland
29 September
- Camperdown 5k Mixed Terrain - 23:45 - over 70 Course Record
7 October - British
Masters Half Marathon Champs. Kirkinlloch - 1st Over 70, 1:43:27 (race
winning time was 1:11:24)
As I had not run,
never mind raced, this distance in over 2 years I did not know
how I would handle the trip. It was the British Masters Champs and I
was not sure who would travel up from down south. I tried obtain a list of
runners in my age group before the start without success. However all the
Vets(Masters) had an age group identification on their backs. This is useful
but it can be difficult to identify your competition when there is a
fairly large entry. In championship races times are less important and it is
really only finishing positions that matter. As the course was difficult the
choice of going for a time and just running for the win was an easy one. I
started in the second row and ran the first half mile quite briskly and then
settled down to see if any other 70 year old appeared. I had arranged for one
of my cycling friends to be at the 4 mile point and to advise me of the time
gaps between anyone in my age group who was ahead or behind me. I was pleased
to learn that I was leading with a 40 second advantage. Over the
years I have learned that when leading all you have to do is go at the
same speed as the person behind and you win. No point beating yourself. I
continued the rest of the race running at the same heart rate, as much as the
terrain allowed, and found that my lead gradually increased to 2m 33s at the
finish. My average H/R for the event was 132 BPM. After the race I found that
none the runners ranked above me over 10k had entered which had allowed me to
win in a slower time than I had thought would be necessary. My current 10K time
should have allowed me to run under 96 minutes but I was glad it did not
prove necessary to put it to the test. The conditions were the best I have
raced in for many years so no excuses because of the weather. The last occasion
I entered this event was exactly 20 years ago when I won the over 50 category
at Bridlington. How the years pass. It is also worth noting that I only beat
Louise Gilchrist's O/70 record by 14secs and John Keston managed 3:00:58 for
the full marathon as a 70 year old. Both of these are current British
Records. Wonderful that you have got to beat the British Record to be the
fastest Valley Strider. Keeps you grounded.
London Marathon places
I had an email from
Sarah Clark two weeks ago saying that the Bone Cancer Trust had bond places for
the London Marathon www.bcrt.org.uk/lm2013 but
unfortunately I missed it from last week’s email and their application date has
now expired.
I’m sure
there are other charities still with places if you look around.
Alternatively
if you’d prefer not to have the hassle of a 200 mile train journey, queuing for
hours at the Expo (when you should have your feet up), standing on a train to
the start (when you should have your feet up), walking a mile from the station
to the start (when you should have your feet up), having to put your kit on the
bus half an hour before the start, weaving through crowds of runners and
celebrities who have got places at the front (need I go on?)…
… why not
try a marathon closer to home e.g. Manchester or Blackpool or Windermere or
maybe Edinburgh? Anyone with experience of these please email me and I’ll
compile a list of spring marathons and their pros & cons.