Tuesday Training & Curry

 

After this week’s summer mile and handicap races, Tuesday training returns to normal for the next few weeks.

 

So next week, 5 August, it will be training at Leos, followed by curry:

·         We have 2 sittings for curry, please book before 10pm Sunday 3 Aug, choosing meat or veggie curry, and whether you want apple pie.

·         For the 7:15pm sitting, book to earlyfood@valleystriders.org.uk.  For the 8:30pm sitting, book to food@valleystriders.org.uk. 

 

Tuesday 12 August will be track sessions, 6pm at GSAL and 7pm at Leeds Met

 

Tuesdays 19 & 26 August at Leos

 

Advanced notice that Tuesday 2 September will be the autumn mile and handicap races, followed by a barbecue (two sittings).  Save the date!

 

LCW

 

Recces are now being organised.  If you’re not in the team but would like to join in one or more recces, please email teams@valleystriders.org.uk

 

Fell Relays

 

Regarding the fell relays on 19 October (details in last week’s email), please email fell@valleystriders.org.uk (not the “teams” account as this is full of LCW recce emails) if you are interested.

 

Marathon des Sables

 

Richard Adcock completed this event earlier in the year, not just a marathon, but 6 days and nearly 150 miles across the Sahara.

 

He emailed “it is on TV if you want to see what it was like – Friday 1 August at 8:30pm on BBC World News http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csx8cg”

 

Wedding season

 

The Valley Striders wedding season is starting - best wishes and good luck to

·         Holly Williams and Tom Button getting married this weekend in Skipton

·         Julia Leventon and Tomas Mildorf getting married this weekend in Prague (Tomas’ home city)

·         Sarah Harper and John Shanks getting married next weekend in Penrith

Hoping to have some photos on the website after the weekend!

 

RESULTS

 

Golden Acre Relay

 

This is proving to be a very popular event. There were 141 teams in total, well up on last years’ record 113.  There were 27 Striders making up 9 teams, this was the most runners we’ve had.  Selected results:

 

  Pos  Team Name                       Category   Time

    1  Leeds City AC                   M.Open 1st 43:49

    3  The Right Holmes                M.Vets 1st 45:21

    4  York Juniors                    Boys   1st 46:59

   11  Wetherby Mixed Up!              Mixed  1st 49:08

   17  Valley Strollers                M.Open     50:53 

         Ross Bibby                  16:47   

         John Shanks                 16:57   

         Andy Bell                   17:09      

   23  Valley Fat Boys In Vests        M.Vets     52:29

         Paul Smith                  17:30   

         Sean Fitzgerald             18:20   

         Gary Mann                   16:39

   26  The Fast Girls                  L.Open 1st 53:00

   44  The Midwitt Striders            Mixed      55:35       

         Gemma Midwood               21:16   

         Simon Midwood               16:25   

         David Merritt               17:54

   45  Striders On The Storm           M.Open     55:45 

         Andy Pagdin                 18:32   

         Alex Irvine                 19:11   

         Richard Irvine              18:02

   47  City of York Girls              Girls 1st  56:11

   55  Two Tykes & A Taff Striders     Mixed      57:03       

         Jake Towler                 18:24   

         Tracey Morris               19:09   

         Tim Towler                  19:30

   56  Strider Stew                    Mixed      57:06       

         Sue Sunderland              21:23   

         James Tarran                17:38   

         Paul Kaiser                 18:05

   70  Seen Better Days                L.Vets 1st 60:15

   73  Happy Valleys                   L.Open     61:43

         Sarah Harper                20:41   

         Alex Watson-Usher           20:27   

         Louise Cazan                20:35

   76  Go Striders!                    Mixed      62:17       

         Pascale Fotherby            21:42   

         Rebecca Frankland           24:21   

         Paul Fotherby               16:14

   91  Senior Striders                 L.Vets     64:55 

         Claire Senior               20:06   

         Sarah Pagdin                23:13   

         Liz Reddington              21:36

   141 TJH                             (last)     86:53

 

Also, two second claim Striders, Jordan Mitchell (18:31) and Rob Daly (16:35), were in the Roundhay Runners team that finished 18^th.  

 

Leeds Express Triathlon

                                                 Swim  T1    Cycle T2    Run   T.Light Delay

    6 Neil Holloway       1:11:57  1st M40-44    07:56 00:26 43:08 00:26 21:04 -01:04

   23 Howard Jeffrey      1:20:21  1st M60-64    08:24 00:52 47:56 00:35 22:51 -00:18

   37 Michael Tinker      1:25:07  2nd M60-64    09:32 00:57 49:34 00:39 24:22  

   38 Anna Hobbs          1:25:17  3rd W         08:06 00:45 50:08 00:41 26:25 -00:51

   48 Joel Stead          1:28:18                10:33 02:17 48:32 01:23 25:32 

   67 Sophie Johnstone    1:32:34  2nd W35-39    08:27 01:13 56:16 01:18 25:29 -00:11

 

Mick Tinker posted “Just realised that my first triathlon was half a lifetime ago in 1984. It was a fairly new sport then and not regulated. Mine was at Aireborough sports centre and was a 1000m-ish swim, then a 9 mile run, then an 18 mile bike ride (which was 3 laps down through Esholt sewage works and up Rawdon Bank). we were given 10 minutes for each transition so time to change and have tea and biscuits. I came 35th of 70 in 1984 and 27th of 79 in 1985. a certain Steve O'Callaghan came 6th and Yvonne Bisset was 3rd lady”

 

Results – VS Summer mile

 

Juniors                                 School year

    1   Alex Irvine        06:12     M       9

    2   Stephen Diamond    06:20     M      12

    3   Callum Chambers    06:32     M       7

    4   Alvie O'Brien      06:34     M       4

    5   Tally Diamond      06:35     F       4

    6   Oliver Charlton    06:47     M       3

    7   Laurie O'Brien     06:51     M       6

    8   Sam Chambers       07:11     M       2

    9   Noah Philpott      07:12     M       7

   11   Joe Irvine         07:20     M       7

  12   Imogen Idle        07:22     F       4

   14   Finlay Chambers    07:25     M       5

   15   Sam Hollis         07:29     M       5

   16   Esben Rost         07:35     M       5

   17   Alessia Teoli      07:48     F       6

   18   Rhiannon Rosser    07:55     F       5

   19   Ella Hollis        07:59     F       3

   20   Ben Hollis         08:07     M       7

   21   Lewis Rosser       08:27     M       4

   22   Marco Teoli        09:03     M       1

   23   Alec Twigg         09:06     M       ?

   25   Jordan Diamond     09:47     M      10

   26   Chloe Schofield    09:52     F       4

Adults

   10   Gareth Chambers    07:11     M      37

   13   Jonathan Philpott  07:24     M      37

   23   Lisa Frankland     09:06     F      41

   27   Maike Paulsen      09:55     F      38

 

Thanks to the finish team of Richard Irvine, Richard Hollis and Jo Chambers and to Ken Kaiser and Mary Egan at the half mile turn round point.

 

Results – VS Summer Handicap

 

                             Gun time     Hcap  Act time   Act pos   GP Pts

    1  Esther Hollis          0:53:42   0:13:30  0:40:12     28       73

    2  Mike Sterry            0:53:42   0:12:30  0:41:12     29       72

    3  Jake Towler            0:54:52   0:19:30  0:35:22     16       85

    4  Stephanie Gledhill     0:55:41   0:16:30  0:39:11     26       75

    5  Myra Jones             0:56:07   0:24:00  0:32:07      6       95

    6  John Batchelor         0:56:12   0:23:45  0:32:27      7       94

    7  Chloe Hudson           0:56:18   0:17:45  0:38:33     23       78

    8  Louise Cazan           0:56:19   0:18:15  0:38:04     21       80

   9  Sarah Graham           0:56:22   0:22:30  0:33:52     11       90

   10  Joanna Chambers        0:56:29   0:14:45  0:41:44     30       71

   11  Rav Panesar            0:56:36   0:25:45  0:30:51      2       99

   12  Jason Praill           0:56:46   0:22:00  0:34:46     13       88

   13  Rob Marsh              0:56:56   0:23:30  0:33:26     10       91

   14  Richard Adcock         0:56:57   0:20:45  0:36:12     17       84

   15  Liz Reddington         0:56:58   0:17:15  0:39:43     27       74

   16  Graham Ford            0:57:21   0:14:45  0:42:36     33       68

   17  Richard Irvine         0:57:29   0:22:15  0:35:14     15       86

   18  Sean Fitzgerald        0:57:36   0:23:15  0:34:21     12       89

   19  Jonathan Smyth         0:57:45   0:26:00  0:31:45      4       97

   20  John Hobbs             0:57:46   0:29:15  0:28:31      1      100

   21  Mike Robins            0:57:48   0:20:00  0:37:48     20       81

   22  Louise Jennings        0:57:50   0:12:15  0:45:35     37       64

   23  Helen Stead            0:57:52   0:13:15  0:44:37     35       66

   24  Steve Webb             0:57:55   0:26:45  0:31:10      3       98

   25  Lucy Robins            0:58:07   0:16:15  0:41:52     31       70

   26  Gillian Felton         0:58:15   0:14:15  0:44:00     34       67

   27  Kim Threadgall         0:58:34   0:25:15  0:33:19      9       92

   28  James Tarran           0:58:39   0:26:00  0:32:39      8       93

   29  Sarah Wood             0:58:59   0:20:45  0:38:14     22       79

   30  Sarah Ord              0:59:06   0:11:30  0:47:36     40       61

   31  Bob Jackson            0:59:12   0:16:45  0:42:27     32       69

   32  Paul Sanderson         0:59:27   0:23:00  0:36:27     19       82

   33  Rich Clough            0:59:47   0:14:45  0:45:02     36       65

   34  Tim Towler             0:59:49   0:23:30  0:36:19     18       83

   35  Ian Sanderson          0:59:52   0:25:00  0:34:52     14       87

   36  Alistair Smyth         1:00:34   0:22:00  0:38:34     24       77

   37  Joe Hobbs              1:00:36   0:05:00  0:55:36     41       60

   38  Dan Fisher             1:01:25   0:29:30  0:31:55      5       96

   39  Ian Rosser             1:01:50   0:23:00  0:38:50     25       76

   40  Alex Irvine            1:07:08   0:21:30  0:45:38     38       63

   41  Stephen Diamond        1:07:10   0:20:00  0:47:10     39       62

 

Thanks to the start/finish team of Mike Crosfill, Eileen Crosfill and Pat Umpleby, and to our marshals - Peter Lambert, John Umpleby, Ken Kaiser and Kathy Kaiser.

 

Numbers were somewhat down on normal – I will consult the school holiday calendar next year before setting dates.

 

Sad news - former VS member Henry Lang killed in cycle accident

 

Former VS member Bill Murphy emailed me with a link to the BBC website

 

A cyclist who was killed after being hit by a dust cart in Richmond has been named as Henry Lang. The 40-year-old IT specialist died yesterday, July 22, a day after being hit by a dust cart in Kew Foot Road at the junction with St John’s Grove by the A316 in Richmond. Mr Lang suffered major head injuries and was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital but doctors could not save him. The business analyst, from Twickenham, was working at Photobox at the time of his death and previously worked for the Metropolitan Police as a business analyst. Mr Lang is the second cyclist to be killed this week after a 25-year-old man was hit by a car in Merton. Detective Sergeant John Hartfree, of the serious collision investigation unit based at Merton, said: “The road would have been very busy at the time of the collision and I believe that a number of people would have seen the incident. The driver of the dust cart stopped at the scene but was not arrested. The investigation continues

 

I’ve looked through the VS website and found that Henry joined us in July 2001 and very quickly improved such that in 2002 he ran 1:22:19 in the Leeds Half, 1:00:58 in the Otley 10 (11th overall), and was joint winner of the VS Grand Prix! He also ran in relays - was part of our inaugural Bradford Millennium Way team (we recced leg 2 together but he ran in the A team, I ran in the mixed), in a VS team that finished 4th in the Danefield Relay and in a VS team that finished 6th in the Leeds Country Way.  For more results from 2002, see http://valleystriders.org.uk/vsnews.htm

 

A couple of Striders have mentioned that they particularly remember Henry because he used to wear very long shorts (almost to his knee) when the prevailing fashion (for men) was very skimpy as can be seen on photos on the website.