V
S Update - 8 March 2019
- Food on Tuesday 12 March
- Peco Relays and Junior Relays
- Peco junior presentations
- Peco presentation night
- Yorkshire Vets
- Track & Field for Juniors (updated information)
- Training at GSAL for juniors and beginners/improvers
Food for Tuesday 12
March after 6pm training sessions
By popular demand,
we will have food again next week, with the same menu as this week
Food will be available around 7:15pm. Choices are
- Sausage and chips
- Beef lasagne
- Jacket potatoes with veggie cheese and/or baked beans and/or coleslaw (V)
Cost is £3 per portion. It is not possible to order half portions for
juniors, but two small juniors could share a portion (extra plate and cutlery
will be provided), or a junior could share a part of their full portion with a
hungry adult.
Please order to [email protected]
by 9:30a.m. Monday 11
March stating how many portions of sausage & chips you require, how many
portions of beef lasagne and how many portions of jacket potatoes.
Pay on the night, but if you order and then
don't turn up, if we're not able to re-sell your portion(s), you will be liable
to pay.
There won't be food after the 7pm session as
this will be at Beckett Park.
Next food for everyone will be Tuesday 26
March.
Peco
Relays and Peco Junior Relays
The annual end-of-season relays will take
place on Sunday 31st March. They are being hosted this year by the West
Yorkshire Winter League and will be based at John Charles Stadium.
Full details will be posted on the PECO
League web site as soon as they are available, but the Race HQ will be the
Phoenix Bar at John Charles and the route will be 3 miles approx. for Seniors and 1 mile approx. for Juniors. Registration will
open at 9.00am; the Junior Relay will start at 10.00am and the Senior Relay at
11.00am
All teams are 3 runners each doing a lap of
the route in turn.
For juniors there are six team categories
- younger (all runners must be school year 6 or younger) - girls, boys and
mixed (2 girls 1 boy or 1 girl 2 boys)
- older (team contains at least one school year 7 or older) (team may contain
any number of year 7+) - girls, boys and mixed
For adults there are six team categories
- club team - must contain at least one man at least one woman and at least one
vet
- mens and womens teams
- mens and womens vets
teams
- mixed team
Juniors, if you'd like to run, please email [email protected] . The entry fee will be paid by V S.
Seniors, if you'd like to run, please email [email protected] . The entry fee is £10 for a team of 3.
Juniors and seniors, if you know who you'd
like to run with please include this in your email, but if you do this, first
make sure that they are available and want to run with you (it's a long
story...)
Peco Junior
Presentations
Will
be immediately after the junior relays, approximately 10:45am in the Phoenix
Bar.
There are trophies
for the first six girls and boys in years 2-4, years 5-6 and years 7-9. There are trophies for the first three in
years 10-12.
Click last week's vsupdate www.valleystriders.org.uk/up190228.htm
to see if you are one of the 9 V S juniors to receive trophies.
On Tuesday, one of
the girls was very excited, asking how big the trophies would be!
Official results at
http://www.pecoxc.co.uk/pages/junior_results.html
to see if y
Peco Presentation
Evening
The PECO
Presentation Evening will take place at The Wardrobe (Leeds city centre) on
Friday 29th March (starting at 7.30pm). There will be a DJ and a decent buffet
provided. Tickets will be £5 per head, and will be available to buy on RaceBest
from this Thursday. They will be available until March 22nd. All Senior Individual and Team prizes will be
presented on this evening.
Yorkshire Vets
We have affiliated
to the Yorkshire Veterans' Athletic Association (YVAA) and would like to
encourage members to compete in their events. Over 35s are eligible for prizes
but those 33 and above can take part as 'non-scorers'.
The registration
process is described on the website and the dates and locations for most of the
races are now available. Races tend to be a similar terrain and distance to the
PECOs.
Track
and Field for Juniors
Last year a number of our
juniors went to track & field meetings organised by City of York AC at York
University athletics track and by West Yorkshire League at Cleckheaton
and Wakefield. These meetings are taking
place again this year and there are also some "open" meetings
organised by local clubs.
For all of the following, age
groups are at 31 August 2019 so under-11s are school years 4 & 5, under-13s
are years 6 & 7, etc. See notes
below for eligibility for years 2 and 3.
City of York Summer League
- dates are Mon 22 April, Mon 6 May, Sat 25 May, Sun 1 September
- year 3 are allowed to compete in the under-11 category but experience is
advisable
- juniors can take part in a maximum of 3 events
- under 11's compete at 75m, 600m, shot and long jump (shot is not available at
every meeting)
- older juniors also have high jump, discus and javelin available and their
distances are 100m and 800m
- last year the entry for the series was £20
- last year you could enter individual meetings (£7.50 in advance, £12 on the
day)
- there are prizes for points scored across the 4 meetings.
- details at www.cityofyorkathleticclub.net and click on "Summer League"
West Yorkshire League
- dates are Sun 14 April (Cleckeaton),
Wed 1 May (Halifax), Wed 29 May (Clk), Wed 19 June (Hfx), Wed 10 July (Hfx), Sun 28
July (Clk) and Sun 9 September (Clk).
- the first 6 meetings are a series / league and the
cost is £15 for juniors for the series.
- the cost for the final event is likely to be around £9, this is only open to
those who entered the series
- for all Sunday meetings, juniors can compete part in a maximum of 3 events
. under 11's compete at 75m, 600m, short putt and long
jump, older juniors also have high jump and discus available and their
distances are 80m and 800m.
- for the Sunday meetings there is usually a choice of 3 or 4 events, but for
the Wednesday meetings there are usually only 2 available (one track and one
field).
- even if you can only go to the Sunday meetings, £15 is reasonable value
- you need to pay V S for the series by Monday 1 April so we can get the entry
forms in by the closing date
- details at http://www.westyorkshireathletics.org.uk
Other
meetings
There are also a number of track and field open meetings at
other venues
- Sun 24 March - Spenborough (school year 4 and
above) Details at http://www.spenac.co.uk
- Sun 7 April - Wakefield. There should be info at http://www.wakefield-harriers.co.uk
but the website says the webmaster has retired!
- Sat 20 April - Doncaster
(minimum age 8 on day). Details at http://www.doncasterathleticclub.com/spring-open-meeting-2017
(NB this is definitely the 2019 meeting even though the URL says 2017)
- Sun 9 June - York junior meeting for under-9 (years 2 & 3),
under-11 and under-13 age groups.
- Sun 22 September - York open, Details at www.cityofyorkathleticclub.net and click on "York Open"
Valley Striders will manage
entries for the York Summer League series and the West Yorkshire series. Members wanting to enter other meetings
should do this themselves.
There is a post on in the VS Juniors Facebook
group for this, please comment. If
you're not on Facebook, please email [email protected]
with your comments.
Training
Sessions at Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL)
During the summer our juniors
(and beginners and improvers) will be training at Leos half of the weeks and at
Grammar School at Leeds the other half.
All sessions will be 6pm to 7pm
as normal.
Generally we will be at GSAL on
the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in the month and at Leos on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays
(and also the 5th if there is one).
But in April we have booked an
extra session at GSAL - we will be at GSAL on 2nd, 9th and 23rd of April.
And we have booked extra time
at GSAL on 2nd and 9th of April for additional training for those taking part
in one or more of the track and field events mentioned above,
On 2nd April, we have booked
extra time from 7pm to 8pm and on 9th April we have booked extra time from
5:15pm to 6pm and from 7pm to 7:45pm.
Last week's V S
Update
If you are
interested in other junior races and adult team competitions, please refer to
last week's V S Update www.valleystriders.org.uk/up190228.htm