Subject: V S Update - Harewood, Wedding
parkrun, Grand Prix, Fell Championships, Yorks XC, Cycling, Results, Round
Rotherham Report, and more
Sent: 03 November 2013 23:59
Most of this email
was written before the weekend. This weekend’s results from West Yorks
XC, Shepherd’s Skyline and Guy Fawkes will be in the next edition.
Just one result from
the weekend for you now – Simon Midwood ran 2:43:45 at New York.
Harewood Trail Races
Many many thanks to
everyone from Valley Striders who supported. We had 487 finishers in
total and made a profit of around £750 plus additional donations of around £250
– to be shared between Lineham Farm and Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Some feedback
from the runners later in this email.
Training – Tuesday 5
November
No pie’n’peas next
Tuesday as we suspect many will be at the Roundhay Park bonfire or at home.
But we still have 5
training sessions, all meeting at Leos. Juniors and beginners/improvers
are at 6pm. And at 7pm, intermediates, experienced runners and fell
running groups. Simon Vallance is leading the monthly fell running group
with a headtorch session in Adel Woods
Wedding day Roundhay
Parkrun – Saturday 16 November – message from Sarah & Gary
We've decided to
start our wedding day on November 16th with a Roundhay Parkrun. Gary, jealous
of the attention paid to the bride, will be wearing a wedding dress and
throwing a bouquet at the end. Sarah will be dressed as a groom (and taking it
very easy to avoid falling on her face again...) We'd love it if as many
Striders as possible could join us. If you've ever longed to be a bridesmaid,
this is your chance! Bridesmaid dresses (especially on boys) welcome but not
compulsory.
Pie’n’Peas – Tuesday
19 November
Next VS Food will be
19 November and will be lasagne, order meat or veggie version, whether or not
you want apple pie, and whether you want to eat at 7:15 or 8:30 to [email protected] before 10pm Sunday
17 November.
Grand Prix
4 races to go
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Sun
3 Nov - Guy Fawkes 10
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Sun
17 Nov - Abbey Dash 10k
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Sun
17 Nov - West Yorks XC race 3 (playing fields near Leeds Met Headingley) http://www.westyorkshireathletics.org.uk/
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Sun
24 Nov - Peco XC race 1 http://www.pecoxc.co.uk
Tables are on the
website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsgp2013.xls
184 Striders have run
at least one race and 34 have already run 8 or more, this qualifying for a VSGP
commemorative technical t-shirt.
Gary Mann leads from
Steve Webb and John Shanks. But Simon Midwood, Gwil Thomas and Paul
Kaiser are all poised to overtake Gary & co as they have each run 7
races. Myra leads the ladies ahead of Sue Sunderland and Sharon
Kaiser. I think only Kim Threadgall can overtake Myra and she must run 3
of the final 4 races to get 8. See www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsgp2013.xls
Reminder that if you
want to run in West Yorks XC race 3, you need to email [email protected] before 10pm Tuesday
5 November. The cost is £12, this will pay for race 3 and 4.
Reminder that if you
want to run any race in the Peco XC League you need to email [email protected] before 10pm Thursday
21 November. There is no charge to register, just pay on the day for each
race you run. You can check your name is listed at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm
Junior Grand Prix
There is a junior
race before the Abbey Dash. The junior dash is open to ages 8-15,
starting 9am at the same start line. The junior run costs £6.00 to enter,
please call 0800 169 87 87 to sign up!
Fell Championship
Latest Fell
Championship table is now on the website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsfc2013.xls
Steve Webb emailed
Just to
let you know that the Fell League is fully up to date with results from Withens
Skyline, Langdale, Rombalds Fell/Trail, Yorkshireman and Edale. Just 3
races to go now - Shepherds Skyline, Wadsworth Half Trog and Tour of
Pendle. Quite a few of the chaps still need one more scoring race, in
particular:
·
John Marsham & Steve Dixon need to bag a Short.
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Mick Loftus, Me, Simon Vallance, Eirik Stangnes, Dan Murray,
Alastair Smyth and Graham Ford need to bag a Medium.
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Becky Bibby needs a Long
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Ann Kristin Kohler needs a Short and a Medium,
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Sarah Smith needs a Short plus one other
·
Holly needs to finish all three remaining.
Can't say
you haven't been warned! Enjoy your running,
Yorks XC
Championships
We now have
information for this season’s Yorkshire XC Championships. They will be
held on Saturday 4 January at Lightwater Valley near Ripon. We need to
send off team entries on Wednesday 4 December.
Please email [email protected] before 9pm Tuesday 3
December. Cost is £6 all age groups. Note there is no Under-11
category. You can check your name is listed at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm
V S
Cycling Club
There is
a now a weekly cycling email sent out by Andy Stoneman. To be on the
distribution list email [email protected]
VSCC is now
affiliated to British Cycling, we are club no 299627. All members are encouraged to take out their own
membership with British Cycling or the CTC according to their individual needs.
Rides coming up over
the next few weeks include
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Women’s Wander, Saturday 2nd November - 10am Fortnightly Women’s Only Ride. Every other Saturday
social ride. Circa 30 miles. Led this week by Hannah Stoneman.
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Wednesday Wander (Rocky Roads) 6th November Our new monthly off-road/MTB ride. This week it’ll be to
Harewood via as many bridleways as possible. Meet at American Golf at 6.30pm.
The ride will be about 15-20. Lights compulsory – the brighter the better!
·
Wednesday Whoosh 6th November A fortnightly road-training ride based on repeated loops
of a local circuit under streetlamps. This week led by John Bucktrout on his
Alwoodley loop, suitable for all abilities. Meet at American Golf at 6.30pm.
Lights compulsory.
·
Morvelo City Cross, Saturday 9th November, Halifax Give cycle racing a go with this highly recommended Urban
Cyclo-cross race with junior, novice, vets and womens catergories. Fun urban
race with beer thrown in. Ideal for cross and MTB bikes. Please contact Andy
Stoneman if you need more info or would like to come along. [email protected]. Please note we need
to organise transport and book entries to this ASAP. It’ll be an early start
and I can carry 3 more people and 3 more bikes.
·
Wednesday Wander 13th November Our weekly training ride meeting at American Golf at
6.30pm. Rides are about 30miles while its dark and are at about 16mph. Lights
compulsory. Route TBA.
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Women’s Wander, Saturday 16th November - 9am Fortnightly Women’s Only Ride. Every other Saturday
social ride. Meet at American Golf at 9am. Circa 30 miles. Led this week by
Hannah Stoneman. Route TBA.
·
Saturday Saunter, 16th November John Bucktrout’s Saturday social ride. Meet at American
Golf at 9am. Circa 60 miles at a steady pace of about 14-15mph. Route TBA.
Little Stretton to
Stiperstones – information from Julia Leventon
Sunday 24th November
is the 26th running of the annual Little Stretton to Stiperstones timetrial in
Shropshire. It’s one of my favourite races though I may be biased as it
was founded and organised for the first 25 years by my Dad. The deal is
that you start at Little Stretton and you choose your route to the Stiperstones
- route choice is a source of heated discussion but every route takes you over
the Longmynd and the Stiperstones. Start times are staggered so that you
can't just run as a pack - you can run as a single or in pairs. Its
attracted quality competition over the years, partly as its on Mercia home
terrain.
Tomas and I will be
heading down there for the weekend. If you fancy coming down for an
introduction to the brilliance of the Shropshire hills, I would be very happy
to discuss route choices and logistics.
Harewood Trail
One or two problems,
not helped by the caravans for the Ladyboys of Bangkok being in the same field
as our race and them wanting to move the caravans off site half an hour before
our race started.
We re-routed our
junior race to avoid them but forgot to tell the marshals for the 5 mile race
that there was no change to this race, as a consequence the first 18
runners did 0.3 mile extra and at one point in time, runners were coming in to
the finish in opposite directions.
Lots of good feedback
on Twitter:
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Pretty
chuffed with my top 20 finish at yesterday's Harewood 10 trail race. Thanks @ValleyStriders for a
great race!
·
Had a fab
time at Harewood House with @ValleyStriders 10 mile
trail race
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@ValleyStriders thanks
for a great 5 mile run today in lovely surroundings
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Harewood
Trail done, now off to Akbars for lunch to send the prodigal son back to Uni
with a full belly. Might have to overindulge too!
·
Enjoyed
today's 5mile race at Harewood, I was happy to pick up the 1st man prize.
Slight shame I got beat by a 15yr old though #2ndreally
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Had a fab
time at Harewood House with @ValleyStriders 10 mile
trail race
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@ValleyStriders yes I had
a brilliant time @ harewood today,great course and super friendly marshals made
for a lovely run,thanku
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@ValleyStriders she did
great and such a lovely place to hold the runs!! Had a lovely morning. - thank
you
·
Amazing
run at Harewood 10mile trail race. Four seasons at once, lots of lovely, sticky
mud, beautiful scenery, and a massive PB.
·
Loved the
Harewood 10 race today organised by @ValleyStriders. Easily
one of my favourites - scenery, marshalls, organisation all excellent.
·
@ValleyStriders Great
event today! Thanks!! Enjoyed every puddle! Marshalls were great too! Their
smiles and cheers were much appreciated!
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@ValleyStriders Harewood
10 Thanks for another great race , well organised with great support from all
Marshall's - see you next year
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@ValleyStriders lots of
fun :-) Bit hillier than I anticipated though!! #fivemileroute
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Tough
sticky conditions at the #Harewood10 . Good course and rainbow chasing involved @ValleyStriders
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@ValleyStriders another
good race today. Thx to RO and organisers.
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@ValleyStriders I loved
it! My first real trail race & it was great fun! I got nice and muddy.
Thanks to all marshals for great support
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Fab 5 mile
trail run at Harewood. Well done @ValleyStriders team!
·
Last
minute decision to go and run the Harewood 10 mile trail run ahead of an
afternoon of watching sport. Looks like a sunny morning for it
And a Kirkstall
Harrier even wrote on her blog about it: http://stoprunningaway.com/2013/10/31/harewood-trail-race-review/
I had an interesting
email conversation (numbers and times removed)
·
Runner
- I ran the 10 mile Harewood rally trail today and I have looked at the results
and I am not on the results list. My number is (number) and I finished around
(time) mins. Please let me know if my result will be added as I
paid to get a time and if my result is not added I would like a refund.
·
Me
– That’s easily fixed. We have a number (number) in (position) position,
and this shows as an unattached M60. I think it very unlikely that an
unattached M60 would finish so high, and I think it a lot more likely that
there has been a transcription error (number1) instead of (number2). I’ll fix
it in the next issue of the results. By the way I’ve copied the race
organiser of the (race name) (race organised by runner’s club).
Next time you see him have a chat with him about the sort of things that can go
wrong with races, we just do our best to please!
·
Runner
- That's great thanks just wanted to make sure I get a time. Thanks for your
quick response.
Striders Results at
Harewood
2 mile
8 Callum
Parton 12.54 BSY9-10 4
16 Ben
Redshaw 14.10
BSY3-4 3
21 Sam
Hollis 14.44
BSY5-6 7
22 Tally
Diamond 14.53
GSY3-4 1 congratulations!
26 Liam
Townend 15.16
BSY7-8 4
28 Imogen
Idle 15.39
GSY3-4 2
29 Eleanor
Ford 15.41 GSY9-10
2
32 Ceara
Sexton 15.54
GSY3-4 3
48 Sarah
Brady 17.38
GSY5-6 5
60 Laura
Vogler 19.50
GSY3-4 5
61 Emily
Stoneman 19.55 GSY5-6 7
63 Ella
Hollis 20.02
GSY3-4 6
70 Jordan
Diamond 21.21 BSY9-10 8
71 Sarah
Ord 21.22
Fsen 3
72 Julian
Vogler 21.38 BSY1-2
2
92 finished
5 mile
33 Stephen
Diamond 44.26 BSY11-12 6
94 finished
10 mile
31 Ian Sampson
71.26
71 Howard
Jeffrey 78.12 (2nd claim)
108 Sean
Fitzgerald 82.58
111 Michael
Hall 83.10
301 finished
Race Results
Brussels – from Joe Hanney
Ladies Run (4k)
Holly
Williams 14.30 (1st)
Emma
Teece 24.54
Half marathon
Andy May
1.13.44 (7th)
Jeremy
Ladyman 1.22.39 (81st)
Dan
Murray 1.24.11
Roy
Huggins 1.28.36
Tim
Towler 1.29.17
Alan
Hutchinson 1.35.26
Greg
Skerrett 1.37.31
John Batchelor
1.37.31
Chloe
Hudson 1.52.14
Richard
Clough 1.52.27
Patrick
Barrett 1.56.40
Paul
Crabtree 1.57.45 (2nd claim VS)
Carole
Towler 2.04.15
Becky
Murray 2.21.44
Lorraine
Crabtree 2.22.59 (2nd claim VS)
Marathon
Gary
Mann 3.09.43 (82nd)
David
Thompson 3.15.58 (2nd claim VS)
Joe
Hanney 3.25.48
Tom
Button 3.38.29
Pam
Lomoro 3.42.51
Alistair
Smyth 3.42.58
Paul
Sanderson 3.51.05
Jonathan
Brownbill 4.05.16
John
Wallace 4.09.26
NB Pam travelled and stayed
separately but met in the bar after the race!
Bridlington Half Marathon
103 Adam
Parton 1:34:48
154 Andy
Pagdin
1:40:08
Fun Run
31 William
Emsley
93 finished
Worksop Half Marathon
6 Andy
May 1:15:30
195 Mike
Furby 1:31:47 PB
Chevin Chiller
10 Ross
Bibby 31:01
13 Julia Leventon
31:56 1st W
36 Tomas
Mildorf 35:23
54 Kim
Threadgall 37:54
55 Ian
Spence 37:54
65 Simon
Barker 39:26
68 John
Hussey 39:39 1st M60
Race Report –
Rowbotham's Round Rotherham trail race – from Ian Sanderson
A short report on a
long race, Rowbotham's Round Rotherham trail race. You wouldn't think there be
many people wanting to run 50 miles around Rotherham, but it's been going for
31 years so there must be something to be said for it. And if you are thinking of
dipping a toe into the strange world of ultra-marathons, this is actually a
very good introductory race. Why? Well, it's as flat as you are going to get
outside of Norfolk. It starts at dawn, so you've got a good chance of finishing
in daylight. It's only a short drive from Leeds, so you can spend a sleepless
night in your own bed before the race. It has a decent size field of runners
and walkers, so plenty of people to follow and you won't be last. It's a
way-marked route and the organisers have produced fantastic 'strip maps' for
navigation (GPS also allowed). It's good Yorkshire value at £13, including
t-shirt, cloth badge, certificate, refreshments at seven check-points (not
quite LDWA standard) and a two course meal at the finish. There are very few stiles
to climb over on the route (that becomes important in the last 20 miles!). And
it's not as grim as it sounds.
The scenery in the
first part of the event is a bit mixed, including a few industrial estates and
landscaped pit heaps, but there's some pleasant bits in-between. And it tends
to more rolling farmland (complete with sticky mud) and surprisingly pretty
villages in the second half. Some people struggle in the later stages because
the route is too flat - there are only a few hills and the whole circuit is
very runable with no obvious walking breaks. But I'm not proud and had no
problem walking on flat sections early on, taking my time at checkpoints,
slowing to chat to people, and did the first half in a restrained 4:20. I
really wasn't looking forward to the second half but I had obviously got my
pacing about right and I started feeling a bit more confident as the miles
rolled by and I began passing people. And then, just as I was really starting
to flag, finally, thankfully, we got a proper hill and a proper long walking
break (yes, ultra-runners look forward to hills - I told you it was a strange
world)! And a nice downhill jog to the last checkpoint, only 3 miles from the
finish. While not managing much more than a brisk shuffle at this stage, I was
still shuffling faster than many people at the end and I felt quite please with
myself as I arrived back at the start in 9:19 and 44th place. To put that in
perspective, the winning time was under 7 hours (!) and 236 finished, including
a bus-load of runners from Portsmouth?
So if you've done a
decent amount of mileage in training for a marathon next autumn, and find
yourself wondering if you could get away with doing a 'bonus' ultra-marathon
for no extra effort, you might want to consider this race. Or seek professional
counselling.