Sent: 12 July 2014 17:42

 

DIARY

 

Tuesday 15 July – training at Leos followed by lasagne – final reminder

 

Usual sessions at 6pm and 7pm - details of the sessions are on the website.  Food:

·         Lasagne at 7:15pm - book at earlyfood@valleystriders.org.uk before 10pm Sunday 13 July, choosing meat or veggie lasagne (£3 per portion, half portions can be booked), and whether you want apple pie (£1.50 per portion = half a pie, quarter pies can’t be booked).

·         Lasagne at 8:30pm - book at food@valleystriders.org.uk before 10pm Sunday 13 July, choosing meat or veggie lasagne (£3), and whether you want apple pie (£1.50)

·         Please note that if you book and don’t turn up, you still need to pay for the food

 

Wednesday 16 July – Thorner Fox Trail

 

Third in the Yorkshire Evening Trail series, organised by 2^nd-claim Strider Jason Praill, Valley Striders had the most runners in both races, see www.racebest.com and www.countrytrailraces.co.uk

 

Tuesday 22 July

 

Usual sessions at 6pm and 7pm - details of the sessions are on the website. 

 

Wednesday 23 July – Golden Acre Relay

 

Teams of 3, each runner runs about 2½ miles, enter on the night, see http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/our-races/golden-acre-relay/ for full details.

 

Valley Striders members should make up their own teams, anyone looking for a friend or two to make up a team can do via facebook or just turn up on the night where you will be sure to find other runners looking to make up teams..

 

I believe that 3 or 4 teams have already been organised.  You can use any name when you enter a team, but it would be nice if you put “Valley” and/or “Striders” somewhere in the title.

 

Tuesday 29 July – Valley Striders Junior Mile and Valley Striders Club Handicap

 

These are for V S club members, but friends and family also welcome to run.

 

Both races are from the footpath by Eccup Reservoir.  Meet here http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=429750&Y=441300&A=Y&Z=3

 

Juniors please meet 6:10pm.  The race will start at 6:20pm prompt, and is half a mile on the footpath, a U-turn and half a mile back.  Parents and members of Kathy’s beginners group may also run (and will be timed).

 

Seniors please meet at 6:40pm.  There will be a set of handicap start marks pinned to the fence, if you have not run as a Valley Strider before you will need to let us know (on the night) your best recent 5k or 10k time (or guess!), and we will calculate a start mark for you (*).  The first runner will start at 6:50pm prompt for an off-road route via Eccup Village to Emmerdale.  The return route will depend on whether or not the dam is open. Runners will set off slowest first and the handicap cup is presented to the first runner across the line.  * Note that the cup can only be won by someone with a pre-calculated start mark.  Grand Prix points are awarded on run time.

 

There will be food afterwards at Leos, more details to follow. 

 

Sunday 31 August – Leeds Country Way Relay – now we need some reserves!

 

All the details were in the last couple of emails and are also on the VS website and also at http://www.kippaxharriers.org.uk/lcwv2.htm.

 

We now have 72 runners which is exactly enough for 6 teams, so we now need some RESERVES.  On previous experience, we will need at least 6, so if you’re available on 31 August, please email teams@valleystriders.org.uk.

 

If you have signed up, please check www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm to see if your name is there!  If you’d like to be paired with someone, or if you have a preference for an early (finish before 11:00) leg or late (start after 13:00) leg, please email the “teams” account ASAP.

 

The Men’s, Ladies and Vets teams will be announced the middle of next week, the other 3 teams next weekend.

 

RESULTS

 

Bradford Millennium Way

 

Men                           Leg       Total

                          Time   Pos  Time   Pos

    1  Andy Bell         1:31:48  10

       Gary Mann                     1:31:48  10

    2  Sean Fitzgerald   1:23:08  20

       Ian Sanderson                 2:54:56  13

    3  Tahir Akhtar      1:04:06   6

       Paul Smith                    3:59:02  10

    4  Ross Bibby        1:15:22   9

       Mark Woodhead                 5:14:24   9

    5  Tom Button        1:40:18  25

       Graham Pawley                 6:54:42   9

 

Ladies       

    1  Julie McGurk      2:03:14  38

       Liz Reddington                2:03:14  38

    2  Chloe Hudson      1:36:58  34

       Sarah Wood                    3:40:13  35

    3  Sarah Howell      1:29:26  37

       Steph Gledhill                5:09:39  34

    4  Sarah Harper      1:32:40  26

       Alex Watson-Usher             6:42:19  34

    5  Hannah Corne      1:36:02  16

       Holly Williams                8:18:21  30

      

       43 teams finished

 

Danefield Relay – from Ross Bibby

 

A few of us did the Danefield relay last week on Otley Chevin, teams of 3, 3 miles each

 

1^st placed team - 52.46

11^th - Valley Striders 65.28 - Andy Bell (21.17), Kim Spence (23.07), Ross Bibby (21.04) - 1^st mixed team (although no prize!)

A few other Striders attended too in random teams

20^th - “Roundhay Park Veterans” included Joe Steele (22.11) and Graham Pawley (24.21)

24^th - “Tour De Roundhay” included Hannah Corne (23.33) and they picked up the fastest female team prize in 70.10

There were 84 teams

 

English Sprint Triathlon Championships – from Howard Jeffrey

 

I went down Milton Keynes way on Sunday to mix it with the nation’s best at the English sprint triathlon championships hosted at the Big Cow event at Emberton. Made the start in good shape and had a solid performance in near perfect conditions to come 6^th out of 10 in my age group and 227^th out of 327 finishers.

 

100 metres at the junior session at GSAL

 

There were 51 juniors at our training session at GSAL last Tuesday and all ran a timed 100 metres after practice sessions over shorter distances.  There were also 5 adults who had a go (indicated as “>21” in the results).  And 8 Striders had two attempts - I would normally have removed these, but it is interesting to see how consistent their two runs were so I have left them in.

 

Thanks to Janet Tynan, Komal Hans, Emma Rosser, Paul Fotherby, Tony Vine and Max Vine for their support.

 

Pos Name                Time    Race   Pos     Age    Dup? 

  1  Jonah Thorpe         13.9      12     1    13       

  -  Jonah Thorpe         14.0       8     1    13     Dup 

  2  Rebecca Frankland    14.7      12     2    16       

  3  Pascale Fotherby     15.0      12     3   >21       

  4  Gareth Chambers      15.1      13     1   >21       

  -  Gareth Chambers      15.3      11     1   >21     Dup 

  5  Simon Webster        15.3      12     4   >21       

  6  Alex Irvine          15.5      12     5    13       

  6  Eleanor Ford         15.5      14     1    14       

  8  Joanna Chambers      15.6      13     2   >21       

  -  Alex Irvine          15.7       8     2    13     Dup 

  -  Eleanor Ford         15.7      11     2    14     Dup 

  9  Joe Irvine           16.0       9     1    11       

 10  Max Partington       16.2       8     3    14       

 10  Isabelle Carter      16.2      14     2    12       

 12  Finlay Chambers      16.5       5     1    10       

 13  Callum Chambers      16.6      10     1    12       

 14  Jordan Diamond       16.8       9     2    14       

 15  Carina Font          17.0      14     3    14       

  -  Carina Font          17.1      11     3    14     Dup 

 16  Callum Blythe        17.4      10     2    13       

  -  Callum Blythe        17.4      13     3    13     Dup 

 17  Ella Hollis          17.5       3     1     8       

 17  Sam Hollis           17.5       6     1    10       

 19  Sam Chambers         17.7       1     1     7       

 19  Laurie O'Brien       17.7       8     4    11       

 21  Cleo Vine            17.8       5     2     9       

 21  Ceara Sexton         17.8      14     4     9       

 23  Ella Blythe          17.9       6     2    10       

 24  Jasmine Webster      18.0      11     4    13       

 25  Emma Blythe          18.1      13     4   >21      

  -  Jasmine Webster      18.2      14     5    13     Dup 

 26  Tally Diamond        18.3       8     5     9       

  -  Ceara Sexton         18.3      11     5     9     Dup 

 27  Noah Philpott        18.4       9     3    12       

 27  Ben Hollis           18.4      10     3    12       

 29  Rhiannon Rosser      18.5       5     3     ?       

 29  Nick Tynan           18.5       6     3     9       

 31  Isaac Carver         18.7       1     2     7       

 32  Lucas Walsh          19.0       7     1    10       

 33  Esben Rost           19.3       6     4    10       

 34  Fahd Hans            19.5       2     1     8       

 35  Alvie O'Brien        19.6       7     2     9       

 36  Robert Collins       19.8      10     4     ?       

 37  Eve Mason            20.0       4     1     7       

 37  Joe Robb             20.0       5     4     8       

 37  Thomas Collins       20.0       7     3     ?       

 40  Charlotte Clark      20.3       2     2     8       

 40  Amari                20.3       5     5     ?       

 42  Asmi Shembekar       20.5       7     4     9       

 43  Daniel Fotherby      21.4       4     2     6       

 44  Nathan Ellis         21.5       2     3     7       

 45  Isabella Young       21.7       4     3     8       

 46  Lennart Rost         21.9       4     4     5       

 46  Sami Tahir           21.9      10     5    11       

 48  Husna Tahir          22.6       9     4    13       

 49  Eleanor Robb         22.7       2     4     6       

 50  Lilly Egan           24.0       1     3     ?       

 50  Lewis Rosser         24.0       3     2     ?       

 52  Nelly Mason          24.5       1     4     6       

 52  Isla Wynne           24.5       3     3     7       

 54  Seb Furniss-Graham   24.8       2     5     6       

 55  Alexander Boyes      25.4       1     5     6       

 56  Rebecca Noad         25.6       7     5    10       

 

Hyde Park Mile

 

     5 Gwil Thomas        4:56.6  100  Wave 10   5

    18 John Shanks        5:20.5   99  Wave 9    5

    20 Ross Bibby         5:20.9   98  Wave 9    7

    22 Kevin Mcmullan     5:23.3   97  Wave 9    8

    29 Sean Fitzgerald    5:32.2   96  Wave 8    4

    40 David Merritt      5:46.8   94  Wave 8    9

   43 Graham Jones       5:49.5   93  Wave 8   11

   47 Mike Furby         5:51.3   92  Wave 8   13

    48 Andy Pagdin        5:53.5   91  Wave 8   14

    59 Stephen Diamond    6:10.4   90  Wave 6    1

    75 Louise Cazan       6:26.7   89  Wave 4    1

    77 Alex Watson-Usher  6:28.4   88  Wave 6    7

    82 Sarah Harper       6:33.2   87  Wave 5    6

    90 Steph Gledhill     6:42.1   86  Wave 4    3

    96 Gemma Midwood      6:48.1   84  Wave 4    4

    99 Sarah Pagdin       6:50.2   83  Wave 3    4

   100 Steve Dixon        6:54.2   82  Wave 7   15

   102 Chris Sawyer       6:57.1   81  Wave 5   14

   106 Liz Reddington     7:00.0   80  Wave 4    6

 

Hyde Park Junior Half Mile

 

Results to follow

 

OTHER ITEMS / NEWS

 

Tour De France – message from Valley Striders founder Stuart StJohn

 

Hi Bob & hope all is well. This is just a brief note to say I was down for the Tour de France weekend in Leeds & Harrogate on Saturday and out at Blubberhouses on Sunday on the bike where I managed to see several of the Club cyclists on the A59 road so if any of them remember seeing a chap on a Mountain Bike saying 'Come on Striders' then that was me. I was stationary at the time near Menwith Hill. Also down on the Fewston reservoir head later on seeing this bloke running towards me with a noticeable style & I'd spotted who it was even before I was close enough to see his face; it was the beer man namely, Mr Briscoe, and still going strong and looking good. A fabulous weekend which I think will never be repeated. My regards to everybody and take care.

Stuart.

 

Personality, Stress and Activity Choice - Masters Research

 

A student from Leeds is hoping to discover how much influence personality type and ashtanga yoga, running or playing an instrument has on stress levels.

 

Sarah Barcham, a psychology masters student from Leeds Metropolitan University, is calling on people with a background in ashtanga yoga, running or playing a musical instrument to participate in her online survey.

 

Research shows the importance of managing and reducing stress in our daily lives to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Studies have also shown that personality type can also greatly influence the effect of stress.

 

The results will be available in October. To take part in the survey, go to http://tinyurl.com/nkwygwm