V
S Update - 23 November 2017
- Adult membership fees due
- Peco XC - race day
- Training on 28 November NB amended 7pm session
- Training and food and junior presentations on 5 December
- Review of Tuesday 7pm sessions
- V S Buffs & Hoodies
- V S Grand Prix 2018
- Membership categories and rates
- Results from WYXC 3
Adult
membership fees due
The membership rates for 1 September 2017 to
31 August 2018 were unanimously agreed at the AGM.
Over 83% of adult Valley Striders are "competitive"
members, i.e. their membership includes affiliation to England Athletics. The
renewal fee is £30, payable to
Valley Striders AC Membership account
Sort Code: 53-70-00
A/c Number: 72143878
Reference to include your name
For other membership categories e.g.
non-competitive member, social member, second-claim member, cycling member,
life member, volunteer, please read the sections further down this email
Peco
XC - race day (from Bob)
We have 111 adults and 63 juniors pre-entered
- see www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm
Race 1, Sunday 26 November at Nostell Priory, see http://www.pecoxc.co.uk/pages/race1.html
Postcode for Satnav is WF4 1QE. See above instructions re parking, note that
this is £2 but free if you are a National Trust member.
If you are on the
pre-entry list
- please pick up your race number from the Valley Striders gazebo, numbers will
be in separate packets for male and female and groups of surnames e.g. A-D etc
- NB juniors, if you arrive before the gazebo, pick up your number from by the
Valley Striders flag, numbers will be in packets for each school year
- then go to registration, showing your race number
- adults pay the race fee (£3)
- juniors need not pay (but parents must sign in)
If you haven't pre-entered and intend to run
- adults may register as guests, this will cost £3 for a race number plus the
race entry fee. You will not count for
club points but will count for subsequent races.
- juniors please contact me [email protected]
before Saturday 6pm and I will buy your number, please find me on race morning
in the registration area.
- NB juniors who just turn up will need to pay the £2 fee for the race number
plus the £1 for race entry.
All Valley Striders should, if possible, wear
Valley Striders vests or T-shirts, see www.valleystriders.org.uk/justjoined.htm
for where to buy them. If you aren't
able to get a VS top in time for the first race, please wear a plain white top.
If anyone has a spare vest, please bring it!
All, please bring 4 safety pins, and remember
to keep your number for the other races in the series.
The race instructions say "not suitable
for spikes"; this applies to adults and the junior 2 mile race; the junior
1 mile is suitable for spikes but these definitely aren't essential as their
route forms part of the adult route.
Remaining dates/venues are 10 Dec at Golden
Acre, 7 Jan at Roundhay, 21 Jan at Middleton Park, 11
Feb at Templenewsam.
Training
on 28 November
6pm Juniors/beginners/improvers at Leos as
usual
7pm training will take place at High Ashes
next week rather than Church Lane as we did Hills this week. We've not finalised the exact session but it
will be a mixed reps session.
Training
and Food and Juniors Presentations on 5 December
All sessions meet at Leos, except maybe for
fell runners (see VS Fell and Trail FB group).
Food will be available to everyone. On the
menu is lasagne. To order, please email
- [email protected]
(for food after the 6pm session)
- [email protected]
(for food after the 7pm session)
before 10pm on Sunday 3rd, saying whether you want a full portion (£4) or a
half portion (£2) and whether you want meat or veggie lasagne.
There will be presentations of 3 new trophies
for juniors at 7pm immediately after the juniors
session, please could all parents and juniors stop for an extra 5 minutes to
see these awards being presented.
Review
of Tuesday 7pm sessions (from Myra)
Over the past few weeks we've been trying out
a range of different training sessions and are keen to hear what people think
of them. Please let us know what you've
enjoyed or haven't enjoyed and whether you've found the sessions sufficiently
challenging. The consensus seems to be that we would like to see a greater variety
of sessions going forward. If you have
any ideas of sessions you would like us to try or can suggest different
locations we can use, please let us know.
We're going to be developing a suite of session plans over the next few
weeks and it would be great to have your input.
Please email [email protected]
or have a chat with James Tarran, Simon
Vallance or Myra Jones.
Xmas
Party (from Joe Hanney and Becky Murray)
Only 3 weeks to go until the Valley Striders
Christmas Party on 15th December! The cost is £16 per head to include food (2
courses) and a live band, as well as the chance to celebrate the year's
achievements with a range of awards and prizes. There will also be the famous
Valley Striders raffle! Final details with timings will be posted the week
before the event.
To secure your place, please make your
payment of £16 per head to the VS Payments account - Sort code: 53-70-00, a/c
number: 72143851. Please reference with your full name and 'Xmas'. Bookings are
only confirmed once we have received your payment. Please let us know on this
post or at the email address below if you require vegetarian / vegan food. DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT - Monday 11th December at 10pm.
If you have any queries, please email [email protected] and someone will respond to you as soon as
possible. Looking forward to seeing you there!
V
S Buffs (from Bethany Lovell)
Valley Striders AC Buff order
It's getting chilly......maybe time to get a
VS buff?
They are £7 each. There is just one design
for the athletics club buffs and one size fits all (including kids from about 7
years old) , so nice and easy. All you need to do is:
1) Email your order to [email protected] - include
your name and the number of buffs you want to order.
2) Make correct payment to: Sort code: 53 70
00, Account: 72143851, Reference: "Buff" and your name
The deadline is midnight on Thursday 7th
December. The lead time is usually 5 weeks from the point we submit the order
so I'm afraid they are unlikely to arrive before Christmas.
Just one disclaimer: there is a minimum order
of 25, hopefully this won't a problem.
For a picture, see the posts in the VSAC or
VSAC Juniors Facebook Groups or the 'kit' page on http://valleystriders.org.uk
VS
Hoodies (from Bethany Lovell)
A few people have mentioned they missed the
chance to order hoodies. If there are at least 5 additional people we can do a
follow up order – but there will be a surcharge of £3.50 per hoodie.
Email [email protected] by 7th December if interested and they should
come before Christmas. Hoodie details are in the 'kit' page on http://valleystriders.org.uk . If there
are not enough additional hoodies to make an order then then you'll be first on
the list for the next regular order which will probably be in late Spring.
If you have already ordered a hoodie and
still need to collect it then email [email protected]
to arrange.
V
S Grand Prix 2018 (from Alan Hutchinson)
We have decided to implement a number of
changes to the Grand Prix competition in 2018 which we hope will increase the
participation in the selected races and increase the age categories to provide
more competition in the older age groups.
Male categories: there will now be senior
men, Male vet. 35-44, 45-54 and 55+. (One additional group).
Female categories: there will now be senior
women, Female vet. 35-44, and 45+. (One
additional group).
The differences in male and female categories
have taken account of the numbers in each group and falling within each
sub-group.
Groups: There are presently 6 groups based on
runners pace (groups A-F). The F group is based on running at an average of
over 8 minutes per mile and there will now be an additional group G for 9+
minutes per mile runners.
Race categories: to increase by one - There
are presently 6 (short, medium and long road), fell and trail, club handicap
races, cross country. A parkrun category will be introduced taking in 4
specific parkruns over the four seasons. This reflects the popularity of the parkruns
and provides more opportunities to achieve 8 races across 5 categories during
the year.
I am starting to review races for 2018 and
would welcome thoughts for inclusion, particularly in the new Park Run
category. Please email me at [email protected]
with your thoughts.
Membership
Categories and Rates
The adult £30 competitive membership includes
£15 for V S club funds (same as last year) and £15 for E A
affiliation (up £1). Note that the E A
year is from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, we collect now so as not to have to
send reminders twice a year. But if you pay the E A
component now you can change any time up to 31 March 2018 by notifying us.
To check your current category and status,
see www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm
For most adult competitive members, their V S
membership expired August 2017 and their England Athletics membership will expire
March 2018. When you pay, you will see these updated to August 2018 and March
2019 respectively.
If you are not a competitive member, you'll
see a blank for your EA membership details. It is Valley Striders policy that
any member running any races during the year should be a competitive
member. This includes all the big local
races (Leeds half, Run for All 10k, Abbey Dash), also Peco XC, but does not
include parkrun i.e. if you only run parkrun you may be a social member.
These are the other membership options
available
- Competitive member, but main sport cycling
£20
- Competitive member, life member of V S £15
- Social (non-competitive) member, whether or not training with us £15
- Social (non-competitive) member, but main sport cycling £5
- Social (non-competitive) member, living outside Yorkshire £5
- Volunteer (non-competitive) member, assisting at training sessions and/or
events but not training £3
- Second claim member (i.e. a member of another club and paying E A affiliation
fee via that other) same rates as social membership above
- Social or volunteer, life member of V S - nil
Junior membership see
details in previous V S Update www.valleystriders.org.uk/up171115.htm
Yorkshire
XC & Northern XC Championships
See details in previous V S Update www.valleystriders.org.uk/up171115.htm
RESULTS
West Yorkshire Cross Country Event 3 at Spenborough
|
Under
11 Girls |
||
|
15 |
Flo Pell |
5:58 |
|
60 |
Finished |
|
|
|
Under
11 Boys |
|
|
5 |
Leon Jones |
5:10 |
|
38 |
Toby Walker |
5:50 |
|
42 |
Felix Linley |
5:52 |
|
57 |
Gus Cawcutt |
6:08 |
|
81 |
Finished (VS team 7th) |
|
|
|
Under
13 Boys |
|
|
18 |
Jamie Walker |
12:25 |
|
34 |
Tom Mackreth |
13:21 |
|
38 |
Jack Woodeson |
13:37 |
|
51 |
Alfie Jones |
14:16 |
|
69 |
Finished (VS team 7th) |
|
|
|
Ladies |
|
|
22 |
Myra Jones |
22:01 |
|
44 |
Rachel Mackie |
23:11 |
|
56 |
Sue Sunderland |
24:28 |
|
69 |
Claudia Stanton |
25:11 |
|
70 |
Liz Wood |
25:14 |
|
72 |
Amanda Spencer |
25:32 |
|
83 |
Sarah Woodeson |
26:53 |
|
120 |
Sara Dyer |
33:21 |
|
126 |
Finished (VS team 9th) |
|
|
|
Men |
|
|
11 |
Matt Hallam |
31:08 |
|
34 |
Jeremy Ladyman |
33:12 |
|
74 |
Gwil Thomas |
35:46 |
|
79 |
Paul Kaiser |
35:55 |
|
83 |
Jerry Watson |
36:15 |
|
95 |
Steve Webb |
36:50 |
|
96 |
James Tarran |
36:54 |
|
189 |
Finished (VS team 7th) |
|
For the league tables so far, see http://www.westyorkshireathletics.org.uk/LT2017.htm
but these are a little misleading as all individual categories and most team
categories are best 3 to count, so some of those who have missed 1 race may
well overtake some that have run all three.
REPORTS
None this week