Sent: 15 April 2007 23:50
Subject: FW: VS Update - Meanwood Thank You, Club Handicap results,
Performance Awards, PBs and ABs, Fell Racing from Madeleine
Meanwood Valley Trail Race
A VERY
BIG THANK YOU to
everyone who helped, there were 75 of you which is just amazing.
In the old days 3 or 4 of us used to take alphabetic
sections of the membership list and phone everyone, this year all the marshals
were obtained by email and/or by bribery with pie and peas. Thank you!
In the junior race we had a record 84 finishers (previous
record 59) and in the senior race a record 356 finishers (previous record 338).
I had at least 12 people come up to me after the race and
thank Striders for the event, nearly all of them specifically mentioned the
marshals, a lot also commented on the terrain/scenery. I have also had 6
emails of thanks.
The Runner’s World website has been quite active with a forum
(63 posts) and 10 race reviews, if you have internet access then they are worth
a read. There is a link from the Striders Meanwood Trail page www.valleystriders.org.uk/trail.htm
There are 120 pictures at www.raycasse.co.uk (including 3 good pics
of Jonathan and his daughter doing some marshalling) (I haven’t yet had time to
put this link on our website). There will be more pics on our website
next weekend.
Special award to marshalling beyond the call of duty this
year went to
Because of the record number of competitors, the beer has
nearly run out. There is a bottle for every marshal, first come first
served this Tuesday but
And finally, we have raised at least £1,500 for Lineham Farm
(also a record).
Thank you!!!
Club Handicap 10k
Jonathan and Greg quoted their Abbey Dash times, obtained
before 3-4 months of serious training with the Striders. As you can see
from the results they had a close race, Greg was catching Jonathan all the way
round but needed another mile or two. Both of them had time for tea and a
sandwich before the third and fourth arrived, Elika almost catching Tom.
There were 39 runners – good to see so many Striders.
If Bill Murphy had stopped and run the handicap instead of training round the
Res, we’d have had 40. In the 18 years of handicaps in this format, we
have only
had over 40 runners on 5 occasions.
Thanks to
29 pie and peas were eaten.
Time icap Time Pts
1 Jonathan Brownbill
51.40 8.00 43.40 78
2
3 Ridgway
Tom
54.22 8.00 46.22 69
4 Elika
Tasker 54.23
14.00 40.23 90
5 Liz
Adams
55.24 9.45
45.39 70
6 Ford
Kates
55.36 8.15 47.21 68
7 Tim
Towler
55.39 15.45 39.54 94
8 Ian
Sanderson 55.48
17.45 38.03 97
9
10
11 Erica
Hiorns 56.07
10.45 45.22 73
12 Mary
Egan
56.16 10.45 45.31 72
13 Patrick
Barrett 56.23 13.30 42.53
81
14 Eric
Green
56.29 16.30 39.59 93
15 Anne
Worrall 56.35
4.45 51.50 64
16
17
18 Bob
Wilkes
56.41 8.00 48.41 67
19
20 Paul Sanderson
56.53 11.45 45.08 74
21 Bob
Jackson 57.01
15.45 41.16 87
22
23
24
25 Peter Lambert
57.42 8.15 49.27 66
26 Paul
Hunter 57.45
17.00 40.45 89
27 Steve
Trout 57.46
15.45 42.01 84
28 Kay
Duggleby
57.53 6.45 51.08 65
29 Adam
Parton 57.58
17.00 40.58 88
30 Hayley
Palmer 57.59 13.00
44.59 75
31
32
33
34 Alan
Hutchinson 58.52 16.30 42.22
82
35
36 Alistair
Fale 60.05 15.45
44.20 76
37 Brian
Hanley 60.43
22.45 37.58 98
38
39
Performance Awards
Eric Green became the first recipient of a Valley Striders
Performance Award. He scored his fifth grade 6 performance of the year
(Age Grade 70%-75%) at
More details of the Performance Awards are on the
website. (Thanks to Paul Hunter and Alan Hutchinson)
Personal Bests and Age Bests
We are now compiling a database of ALL Striders personal
bests and age bests and would like to get the data together in time for V S
25th anniversary in July. So get jotting down your PBs and ABs and email
them to me.
What we want is
We want PB’s i.e. your best ever, and also your age bests in
5 year bands 40-44, 45-49 etc, for the following distances - 5K, 5miles,
10k, 10miles, half marathon, 20miles, marathon.
Also if the race was on an assisted course e.g. Rothwell
which drops about 50ft from start to finish, we need to know this and also
ideally receive a non-assisted time too.
Please email your PBs and ABs to me. We have about 10
so far, so when we’ve 20 we’ll load them onto the website.
Fell running updates - by Madeleine Watson
1st English championship race - held at Edale on Sunday 18th
March.
Toughest 21 miles I've ever run! Very strong winds and
hail. I was the only Valley Strider, 279th in time of 4 hours 40 mins. (338
finished, 72 dnf'd)
1st British Championship race - in
Lovely race, although fairly hairy going from sea level to
850 metres almost straight up. Again the only Valley Strider. 183rd. 1h 37.
1st junior championship race - Sunday 1st April, Wrekin,
near
Oliver (running for Leeds Carnegie AC) ran the 2 miles in
17.24. 13th U12 boy.
Pendle fell race - Saturday 7th April.
Madeleine Watson - 46.30 (10 minutes quicker than last
year!)
Coming up
Bunny runs - Tuesday nights in April from
Relay on Tuesday 1st May. 1st leg 2.5 miles, 2nd & 3rd
leg 2 miles.
Jack Bloor Race - Tuesday 8th May,
7.30pm Ilkley. 5.2 miles.
Next English Championship race - Paddy's Pole. Sun April
22nd.
4.5 miles. Ladies start 12 noon, men 1pm.
Only £4. Need to pre-enter by 17th April. Call me (269 2526)
if you want a lift.
Next British Championship race - Sunday 6th May.
Llangynhafal Loop. Not too far into
LDWA event -
25 miles with tea, cakes etc en route. Not done this one
before but good long run.
Finally, good luck to everyone running
Bob