V
S Update - 27 April 2018
- Junior Races at Leos Tuesday 15 May help
required (and entries open)
- Key dates
- Training and food
- London Marathon 2019
- Peco relays 6 May - last chance
- Club Junior Mile and Club Handicap 5 miles
- VS Fell Runners weekend in the Lakes
- Bradford Millennium Way
- Grand Prix and Fell Championship
- Report and results from London
Meanwood
Trail Junior Races - Tuesday 15 May - Help Required!
Help required please from adult club members
as well as parents of juniors! We need 5
on car parking, 5 on registration and results, 6 first aiders, 16 marshals, and
8 on the finish line.
If you can help, please email [email protected]
For more information, a course map and how to
enter the races, click on www.valleystriders.org.uk/mvjr.htm
Key
dates
Sunday 6th May - Peco XC Relays -
let us know by 30 April (see below)
Tuesday 15th May - Meanwood Trail Junior Races organised by VS -
help needed
Tuesday 22nd May - Club handicap and junior 1 mile races - help
needed
Weekend 1st-3rd June - weekend in the Lakes
Sunday 24th June - Bradford Millennium Way Relay - let us know by 3
May
Sunday 24th June - Pontefract Open at Wakefield (see www.valleystriders.org.uk/up180420.htm)
Sunday 2nd September - Leeds Country Way Relay
Saturday 15th September - Meanwood Valley Trail Races
Training
and food
Tuesday 1 May - all groups from Leos,
followed by chilli. To order, please email
- [email protected] (for food at 7:15pm
after the 6pm session)
- [email protected] (for food at 8:30pm after the 7pm session)
before 10pm on Sunday 29 April, saying whether you want a full portion (£4) or
a half portion (£2), whether you want beef or veggie
Note that the 6pm groups will start by
running the Junior Race routes but please do not warm up on the rugby pitches.
Tuesday 8 May - 6pm groups at GSAL, 7pm at
Beckett Park
London
Marathon 2019 - why you should enter the ballot next week
If you've been inspired by watching the
London Marathon and you want to run next year, then unless you've run under
2:45 for men or 3:15 for women you must enter via the ballot which opens
next Monday (30 April) and closes 5pm on Friday 4 May.
Website is http://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com
Note that the rules for Good-For-Age
qualification have changed, the website recommends that you apply for the
ballot in case your Good-For-Age qualification is rejected.
Note that Valley Striders will get 2 or 3
club places in the 2019 Marathon - we will only consider people for these
places if they have applied via the ballot and been rejected.
Entry fees are £35 for club members
affiliated to England Athletics and £39 if not.
To check your affiliation status, please see www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm
. Note that we will not consider
non-affiliated (i.e. social) members for the club places because it is the
count of affiliated members that determines how many club places we get.
Peco
Relays - Sunday 6 May - last chance to be in an organised team
Event website http://www.pecoxc.co.uk/pages/relay.html , includes course
maps.
The event is based on Beckett Park and the
surrounding woods (see postcode LS6 3PW for approximate location).
The Peco Relays are for teams of three and
there are various age categories for juniors and seniors.
Junior
Relays at 10:00
- teams of Younger Juniors, Older Juniors and Ad-hoc Junior Teams
Valley
Striders Junior Teams,
Note that entry fees for junior teams are
paid by Valley Striders club.
Please email [email protected] if interested; and
if you have a team of 3 in mind, then please let us
know.
Please email before Monday 30 April as we
will sit down on Tuesday 1 May to put all the teams together.
See www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm for lists of teams
and names so far (if you have emailed already, please check you are on the
list!)
Senior
(i.e. over-18) Relays at 11:00 - Club
Representative Teams, other team awards for M & F Open, M & F Vet 40+,
M & F Vet 50+, also Ad Hoc teams
Valley
StridersSenior Teams
Please email [email protected] if interested; and if you have a team of 3 in
mind, then please let us know.
Or, better still, join the event that Myra
has set up in the VSAC Members Facebook group and arrange teams amongst
yourselves this way.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/291402584033/permalink/10156177120094034/
Please email or post in FB before Monday 30
April as we will sit down on Tuesday 1 May to put all the teams together.
See www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsteams.htm for lists of teams
and names so far (if you have emailed already, please check you are on the
list!)
Club
Junior Mile and Club Handicap 5 miles - Tuesday 22 May
Help required, we
need about 10 to marshal and on finish line, please email Sue Sunderland [email protected] if you can help.
Race details to follow, NB juniors on waiting
list are welcome to take part.
Valley
Striders Fell Runners weekend in the Lakes (from Simon Vallance)
Valley Striders AC have booked the Leeds Uni outdoor centre for the Duddon
Valley fell race weekend for two nights (Friday 1st June and
Saturday 2nd June)
On the Saturday, there is a long race of 18
miles or a short one of 10.
It sleeps 36 maximum in 3 dorms.
Self-catering but near to one of the best pubs in the Lakes.
See https://sport.leeds.ac.uk/facilities/outdoors/#tab-id-9
for full details.
Invite open to all VS members - you may want
to run the race, just run, spectate or do something else like climb or cycle -
the more the merrier. It's a lovely spot, one of the quieter parts of the
Lakes, and if it's raining you have a roof over your head.
Cost is approximately £15 per night. We have
dedicated one dorm to people with young children.
If you are interested, email me [email protected] or join the event in the VS fell page.
Bradford
Millennium Way Relay - Sunday 24 June (from Myra Jones)
This year's Bradford Millennium Way Relay is
taking place on Sunday 24th June. We would like to enter a couple of teams.
For anyone who hasn't done it before, it's 5 undulating legs of between 8 and 11 miles and each
leg is run as a pair. It's a lovely, scenic route that doesn't go anywhere near
Bradford and instead visits Haworth, Silsden and
Ilkley Moor.
If you have any questions or would like to
run, please email [email protected]
We would like to sort teams out fairly soon
in order to allow plenty of time for recces so please can you let us know by
3rd May.
There are detailed route descriptions
available on the website
http://saltairestriders.org.uk/site/bradford-millennium-way-relay/
Grand
Prix and Fell Championship
See www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
for all dates
RESULTS
London Marathon - Report from Steph Gledhill
A Guinness world record, Mermaid, lost
number, hottest event ever, running, walking and lots of water
The London Marathon was rather eventful this
year. With it being tipped to being the hottest on record there were plenty of
warnings not to run fast, drink but not too much and enjoy the run.
The start of the weekend occurred when one of
our runners left his number on the train. Thankfully after a social media plea
he was reunited with it Saturday morning.
We all lined up from different starts on the
Sunday morning, some having just warmed up whilst watching Mo Farah. The Queen
pressed a button and with determination in our hearts 21 of us set off.
Sue Sunderland had been injured so, on two
weeks training, planned to run 11 miles which she ran superbly.
One Strider race walked the last few miles
whilst a few of us (including myself) ran/walked due to the overbearing heat.
At least one of us achieved a personal best, well done Huw.
The support was amazing, noise all the way
round with offerings of oranges, bananas, blueberries, sweets and ice pops
which definitely helped me get round.
There was also a little YMCA dance half way
round.
We had lots of supporters from our own club
who gave plenty of encouragement and joined us after for a post marathon drink
or two at a pub where our chief supporter and tour organiser reserved tables to
save our legs.
Money was raised for charities including
Alzheimer's UK and Mini Mermaids and one of our runners broke the world record
for running as a rugby player, well done Terry.
All in all it was a very successful weekend
and a good taster of the Marathon tour in October.
|
215 |
100 |
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|
341 |
Simon Midwood |
2:47:52 |
99 |
|
418 |
Jonathan Ball |
2:49:36 |
98 |
|
1145 |
Daryl Hibberd |
3:00:28 |
97 |
|
2795 |
James Tarran |
3:18:38 |
96 |
|
3006 |
Terry Midgley |
3:20:01 |
95 |
|
3053 |
Kevin Mcmullan |
3:20:42 |
94 |
|
3939 |
Richard Irvine |
3:27:30 |
93 |
|
3997 |
Ian Sanderson |
3:27:53 |
92 |
|
4188 |
Myra Jones |
3:29:00 |
91 |
|
5234 |
Joe Hanney |
3:36:07 |
89 |
|
9525 |
Alan Hutchinson |
3:59:12 |
88 |
|
10080 |
Sean Cook |
4:02:14 |
87 |
|
12075 |
Holly Button |
4:12:43 |
86 |
|
12980 |
Kate Mcintyre |
4:16:57 |
85 |
|
13039 |
Steph Gledhill |
4:17:14 |
84 |
|
13423 |
Sarah Smith |
4:18:57 |
83 |
|
17232 |
Suzie Shenderey |
4:35:55 |
82 |
|
28459 |
Rachel Waters |
5:25:14 |
81 |
|
35713 |
Jonathan Macnay |
6:11:24 |
80 |