His biggest race win was the Pontefract half marathon in a time of 1:11:27. In the first ever Striders news, in 1985, he wrote about a trip to the Glasgow Marathon, where, supported by Stuart StJohn, Hilary ran 2:29:13, Angie Pain (Leeds City) won the women's race in 2:37:06 and John Anderson ran 2:37:50. Hilary was also runner-up in the Cardinal Heenan (his old school) 10k in 1989, this race, most local to the Striders, used to attract around 500 runners each year.

Will be on Tuesday May 23rd. The Handicap is over the 10k route from the side of Eccup Reservoir across the dam, to Eccup, a figure of 8 round the lines of Eccup and back the way you came. First runner will be off at 7pm prompt. All Striders and friends welcome.

Pie and peas afterwards, must be ordered in advance, please email me by Sunday May 21st at the latest with your choices (a) meat pie (b) vegetarian pie (c) mushy peas (d) baked beans

Stay for the food if you can, we will present the "John Umpleby Cup" to the handicap winner, we will also be awarding a new trophy, the Vadim Kuznetsov Cup, to the "Best Performance at the Leeds Half Marathon".

Esholt 5k series - final race

Best G.P Race 1 Race 2 Race 3

Time Pts Pos Time Pos Time Pos Time

Steve Webb          17.09 100   27 17.16   21 17.09   24 17.28
Vicky Whitehead     17.12 99    0   0.00   22 17.12    0   0.00
Julian Bhowmick     17.50 98   50 18.06   40 17.50    0   0.00
Ian Sanderson       18.12 97   54 18.12   52 18.14   58 18.58
Adam Parton         18.19 96   59 18.19   56 18.22   52 18.30
Andrew Cutts        18.40 95   77 18.50   65 18.46   54 18.40
Bob Jackson         19.33 94 105 19.33    0   0.00    0   0.00
Eric Green          19.48 93 117 19.48    0   0.00   98 20.06
Mark Hunter         19.48 93    0   0.00 125 20.09   86 19.48
Hayley Palmer       20.12 91 141 20.35 127 20.12    0   0.00
Paul Sanderson      20.38 90    0   0.00 141 20.38 149 21.35
Paul White          20.43 89    0   0.00    0   0.00 122 20.43
Laura Clark         20.46 88 149 20.46    0   0.00    0   0.00
Carole Schofield    20.52 87 154 20.56 154 20.52 130 20.54
Bob Wilkes          23.34 86 236 23.34    0   0.00    0   0.00
Sara Dyer           24.09 85 253 24.09 238 24.20 212 24.29
Michelle Smith      25.06 84 290 25.40 254 25.06 241 25.43

Carol Schofield was 2nd W45 in the series, not sure whether she won a prize. Everyone who ran all three races received an engraved pen ... and caught pneumonia after the final race.