Subject: Valley Striders New Year Update - National XC enter today,
Training, Meanwood Trail, Events incl Peco, Chevin & Handicap Results,
Performance certificates, Junior pages
Sent: 02 January 2013 09:36
Hello and a Happy New
Year to you all!
National Cross Country and Northern
Cross Country
Online entry to the
“National” closes tonight at 10pm.
Closing date for the Northerns is Friday 11th.
For both events,
please email [email protected] and we will submit
club entries.
Northern
XC at Knowsley Safari Park on Saturday 26 January, details on Northern
Athletics website http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk
National
XC at Sunderland on Saturday 23 February, details on http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/
Training Summary
Now that Christmas
and New Year are over, we can now get back to some proper training and also be
relieved to know that it will be another 6 years before Christmas Day and New
Year’s Day both fall on a Tuesday!
Thursday 3 January –
Experienced runners 6:45pm from Scott Hall, Kathy’s group 6:45pm from Scott
Hall
Tuesday 8 January – Kathy
and Andy’s beginners/improvers/juniors 6pm from Leos, Holly & Grace’s
intermediates 7pm from Leos, Experienced runners 7pm from Leeds Met track
(recommend bring reflective bib for road session if track icy)
Thursday 10 January –
Experienced runners 6:45pm from Scott Hall, Kathy’s group 6:45pm from Roundhay
Park
Tuesday 15 January –
Kathy and Andy’s beginners/improvers/juniors 6pm from Leos, Holly & Grace’s
intermediates 7pm from Leos, Experienced runners 7pm from Leos for 6 by 5 mins.
Followed by pie and peas, book to [email protected] before 10pm Sunday
saying whether you want meat pie or veggie bake, whether you want mushy peas or
baked beans, whether you want apple pie
Thursday 17 January –
Experienced runners 6:45pm from Scott Hall, Kathy’s group 6:45pm from Scott
Hall
Check the website www.valleystriders.org.uk for any changes and
further information
Events
Saturday 5 January –
good luck to Striders running in the Yorks XC Championships at Lightwater
Valley.
Sunday 6 January –
Peco Handicap Race at Golden Acre – open to anyone who ran in either of the
first two races (Fitzwilliam and Middleton Park). See www.pecoxc.co.uk for details.
Sunday 13 January –
Peco Race 3 at Bramley Falls Woods – 1 mile race for school years 4-6 at 10:00,
2 mile race for school years 7-12 at 10:20, adult race at 11:00. See www.pecoxc.co.uk for details.
Third race in 2013 Valley Striders Grand Prix.
Sunday 20 January –
good luck to the 45 or so Striders running in Brass Monkey Half Marathon.
Note that name swaps are possible and currently I have one female entry
available. Laura Goodson emailed “Unfortunately, due to a second
bout of injury in recent months I have a spare Brass Monkey place available.
As far as I'm aware, it is only possible to swap within the same gender
so it would have to be a girl who replaces me. Please email me at [email protected] if you are
interested. I would have love to run it myself as I am slowly building
the miles back up at the minute, but I'd be at risk of doing too much too
quickly I think. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and wishing all the
striders a very Happy New Year!”
Meanwood Valley Trail Race and Junior
Race
Saturday 20 April –
Meanwood Valley Trail Race – Striders requested to marshal. We were
unable to have our first choice date (13 April) because of a wedding at Leos
and struggled to find a weekend without a local race so chose the Saturday of
the London Marathon because there are usually no other races that
weekend. We realise that 15 or so Striders will be running so need
everyone available to help. Now I’ve found out that there are two other
races on the same day (yes on the Saturday) - obviously race organisers had the
same idea – one at Spofforth the other at Baildon, so I also need help getting
publicity out as soon as possible – handing out entry forms at races including
parkruns and taking entry forms to local schools. I have 3,500 entry
forms printed (only 2,900 left after Chevin Chase). Email if you can
help!
Leeds Race Series
The 2012 race series
has finished and the provisional results show Joel Giddings 1st
M40-45 and 3rd overall and Gary Mann 1st M30-35.
Peter Hopson, son of Striders life member Martyn, was the overall series
winner. For details of the 2013 series, see www.leedsathletics.net
Junior
Results
Chevin Chase (1st
VS GP race of 2013)
16 Gwil Thomas
00:44:39 100
35 Paul Kaiser
00:47:20 99
44 Ian Sanderson
00:48:30 98
47 Simon Vallance
00:48:40 97
92 Dan Murray
00:50:32 96
97 Gary Mann
00:50:40 95
103 John Batchelor
00:50:53 94
112 James Tarran
00:51:27 93
133 Simon Redshaw
00:52:23 92
163 Ollie Cheyne
00:53:53 91
173 Andy Stoneman
00:54:14 90
199 Alistair Smyth
00:55:12 89
207 Steve Dixon
00:55:37 88
209 Tim Towler
00:55:45 87
235 Greg Skerrett
00:56:46 86
239 Richard Adcock
00:56:55 85
242 Mick Tinker
00:57:02 84
292 Sue Sunderland
00:58:59 83
304 Sharon Tansley
00:59:43 82
306 Liz Wood
01:00:01 81
333 Iain Currie
01:01:13 80
357 Ged Coll
01:02:13 79
421 Patrick Barrett
01:05:38 78
461 Tony Haygarth 01:07:55
77
488 Sarah Howell
01:09:03 76
647 Kay Duggleby
01:18:38 75
Some pictures on VS
Facebook page including Sarah Howell in elf costume with Jonny Brownlee.
John Hallas emailed
“I have uploaded 260 Chevin Chase photos at Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/91541861@N04/ There are
quite a few Striders in there. If anybody wants a full sized jpeg edited and
cropped appropriately let me know and I will send them one”. John’s email
is [email protected] or [email protected]
There are also
pictures from Andrew Thrippleton www.picasaweb.google.com/andrewthrip
If you’re looking for
pictures from local races then look for the Facebook page “Yorkshire Runner
Photos”
Club Junior Race
8 juniors and 2 adult
pacers ran
1 Joe
Sherman
0:06:27
2 Callum Chambers 0:06:40
3 Alex
Irvine
0:06:56
4 Eleanor
Ford 0:07:38
5 Joe
Irvine
0:08:41
6 Theo
Giddings 0:09:23
7 Sam
Chambers 0:09:52
8 Joanna Chambers 0:09:53
(adult)
9 Isla
Chambers 0:12:06
10 Louise Chambers
0:12:07 (adult)
Club Handicap (2nd
VS GP race of 2013)
Race
Race Hand-
Run GP
Pos
Time icap
Time Pts
1 Joe Hanney
0:53:45 0:20:45 0:33:00 96
2 Natalie Crossland 0:54:05 0:12:15
0:41:50 74
3 Deborah Fraites 0:55:27 0:03:45
0:51:42 68
4 Rob Marsh
0:55:39 0:21:15 0:34:24 92
5 John Hallas
0:55:44 0:14:45 0:40:59 75
6 Graham Ford
0:55:59 0:16:15 0:39:44 77
7 John Shanks
0:56:01 0:24:00 0:32:01 97
8 Sue
Carr
0:56:11 0:09:15 0:46:56 70
9 Steve Webb
0:56:12 0:25:45 0:30:27 99
10 Gwil Thomas
0:56:14 0:27:30 0:28:44 100
11 Sean Fitzgerald 0:56:21 0:18:00
0:38:21 81
12 Justin Vogler 0:56:25
0:23:00 0:33:25 95
13 Ian Sanderson 0:56:27
0:25:40 0:30:47 98
14 Gareth Chambers 0:56:28 0:12:15
0:44:13 72
15 Mick Tinker
0:56:29 0:19:35 0:36:54 86
16 Sue Sunderland 0:56:30
0:19:25 0:37:05 85
17 Simon Barker 0:56:43
0:18:00 0:38:43 80
18 Liz Reddington 0:56:45
0:14:45 0:42:00 73
19 Sarah Clark
0:56:56 0:12:00 0:44:56 71
20 Paul White
0:57:00 0:18:40 0:38:20 82
21 Myra Jones
0:57:41 0:22:30 0:35:11 90
22 Alistair Smyth 0:57:52
0:22:15 0:35:37 89
23 Mike Higgins 0:58:01 0:21:15
0:36:46 87
24 Melanie Murray 0:58:04
0:04:00 0:54:04 67
25 Ged
Coll
0:58:23 0:19:20 0:39:03 79
26 Richard Irvine 0:58:32
0:24:45 0:33:47 94
27 Iain Currie 0:58:54
0:19:20 0:39:34 78
28 Dave Penman
0:59:00 0:25:00 0:34:00 93
29 John Wallace 0:59:12
0:21:45 0:37:27 84
30 Sarah Harper 0:59:15
0:18:40 0:40:35 76
31 Dan Murray 0:59:21
0:24:30 0:34:51 91
32 Paul Sanderson 0:59:28
0:22:45 0:36:43 88
33 Ian Rosser
1:00:36 0:23:00 0:37:36 83
34 Sara Dyer
1:02:18 0:12:00 0:50:18 69
A great run by Joe
Hanney who beat his previous best age-graded time by over 1% - a worthy
winner. (More of age grading later in this email)
Thanks to our
timekeepers Mike, Eileen and Kathy, to ticket hand-outer Eleanor, and to
marshals Peter, Tom and Ken
Also thanks to
everyone who brought food back to the club - Sarah Harper’s pasta in chilli
sauce and Simon Barker’s African shortbread (courtesy of Joanna) were
particularly appreciated!
Parkruns
It’s been a busy two
weeks at parkrun with two races each week at each venue.
At Roundhay, Holly
was 1st W on 22 December and Sue was 1st W on 29
December. On Xmas Day, the whole Watson family travelled the half mile
from their house on Old Park Road to the race and achieved a remarkable result
– Jerry was 1st, son Ollie 2nd, wife Madeleine 2nd
W and daughters Helen and Anna, according to Jerry, made a rare appearance!
Performance Certificates and Age
Grading
Yes at last all the
2012 performances (up to 1 December) are on the website (click on the “For Club
Members” tab and select “Performance Awards”). Alan Hutchinson presented
about 15 certificates at the Xmas Do, but we still have at least 50 on file to
be presented, the next presentations will be at the pie and peas night on 15
January.
Certificates are
awarded for running 5 races at a particular “grade”. One of the rules in
the small print is that you need to run 3 different distances. If you’re
wondering why you haven’t got a certificate, you may be one of the people who only
run 10k’s and half marathons, or only run 5k’s and 10k’s. In 2013, look
out for a race at a different distance and you may complete your certificate.
I’ve now added the
official age grading standards for the 1 mile and 2 mile distance, and I’ve
also added gradings for ages 5 to 17 (previously I only had 18 and above) so
we’ve now been able to age-grade all the junior performances at our 1 mile
races, the Harewood 2 mile and the Eccup 1 and 2 miles. Two juniors have
qualified for certificates – Alex Irvine was presented with his at the Xmas
Handicap and Callum Parton’s is awaiting collection. Regarding
performance certificates for Juniors, the requirement is to run 5 races in
total and 3 different events.
Oh, and if you are
asking “What is Age Grading?”, there’s an explanation of that too! Not
bothered about age grading? But you want to know whether your time in a
10k race this year was “better” than your time in a half marathon? It
does that for you too!
Finally on this
subject, if you want to record your own races and calculate your own age-graded
percentages, I’ve added a new pro-forma. Input your name, sex and
date-of-birth, then input your race results (date, race, distance, time) and
the system will calculate your percentage for each race. It is an Excel
spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the “Performance Awards” page.
Junior Information on the Website
There is now a
separate section on the website for juniors – click on the “For Club Members”
tab and select “Juniors”. So far this just has race results, but Richard
Irvine has been putting together a Grand Prix Handbook for the Junior GP and
I’ll upload that soon. Note that parkrun results aren’t in this
section, but they are in the Performance Awards section.