Sent: 06 May 2007 23:38
Subject: FW: V S Update - dates, results, marathon experiences
Dates in May
There are 31 of them, but the interesting ones for Valley
Striders include
Tue 8 May – Jack Bloor Fell Race approx 6 miles, 7:15pm from
above Ilkley Town Centre, entry on night only, VS Grand Prix event
Tue 8 May – Striders training session from Leo’s 16 by 400
metres by the Res
Wed 9 May – John Carr 5k race 2 at Esholt, VS Grand Prix
event but race full
Sun 13 May – Leeds Half Marathon, VS Grand Prix event but
race full, good luck to all Striders running. Hopefully there will
also be a lot of Striders cheering. Contact me if you have a number
available or want to run, we’ll see what we can do
Tue 15 May – Striders training session from Leo’s 5 by 6
minutes by the Res
Wed 16 May – John Carr 5k race 3 at Esholt, VS Grand Prix
event but race full
Sun 20 May – Pulse Race in
Tue 22 May – Yorkshire Vets League Race hosted by Valley
Striders. Race starts at 7:30pm. We need four or five more
marshals, please.
Tue 22 May – There will be a “normal” training session that
night for those not marshalling, probably a steady run
Tue 29 May – Striders session will be hills because this
will have been missed on 22 May
And a few in June
Sat 2 June – Wharfedale off-road marathon from Threshfield,
VS Grand Prix event
Tue 4 June – Pie and peas night
Sun 24 June – Bradford Millennium Way Relay, we hope to have
a team to defend our vets trophy and/or to regain the mixed trophy that we lost
last year but had held for the first 4 years We have 10 runners so far,
but need 9 more women for a women’s team (or 4 more for a mixed team) and/or 3
more runners for a vets team etc etc http://stbedesac1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
for race website. Please let me know in the next few days whether you are
interested so that we can decide how many teams to enter (ideally 3).
And a few more in July
Wed 4 July – Hyde Park 5k, VS Grand Prix event
Sun 15 July – Eccup 10mile (VSGP)
Sun 22 July – Probable date for Striders anniversary Sunday
run followed by barbecue lunch?
Tue 24 July – Probable date for Striders handicap followed
by anniversary pie and peas?
Sun 29 July – Round Hill Fell Race (VSGP)
NB I’ve received a couple of suggestions about the
Anniversary celebrations, keep sending them in
More dates on www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
Results
24 Neil
Dutton
0:37:58 former Valley Strider
56 Eric Green
0:40:53
3rd M50, first race as M50
Rothwell 10k (VSGP)
68 Martin Horbury
0:36:23 100 2
85 Ian
Sanderson 0:37:14
100
107
114 Tim
Towler
0:38:38 98
116
117 Eric
Green
0:38:41 96
147 Bob
Jackson
0:39:37 95
194
217 Jonathan Brownbill
0:42:30 94
223
250
256 Paul Sanderson
0:43:52 91
308 Erica
Hiorns
0:45:20 90
343 John Bucktrout
0:46:33 89
349 Bob Wilkes
0:46:41
88
371 Peter
Lambert
0:47:26 87
393 Mike
Brown
0:48:03 86
400 Peter Stevenson
0:48:17 85
Esholt 5k race 1 (VSGP)
NB best time from all 3 races counts for G P points
78
79 Eric
Green
0:19:08 99
87 Steve
Trout
0:19:17 98
123
124 Paul Sanderson
0:20:27 96
132
Bluebell Trail Race – 10 miles near
17 Terry Bean
1:14:26 (local race
for Terry)
96 Eric
Green
1:27:10
112 Lou Gilchrist
0:24:35
More Marathon Experiences (
From
Just a short resume and a few thankyous from my London
Marathon experience!
Everything was going great for me, crowds brilliant (got few
cheers from valley striders along the way!) felt good even with the heat and
was running 3.20 pace comfortably until @ 19 mile then I think I went head
first into that dreaded wall!! Had to visit portaloos twice (and didn't
want to come back out!) and walk on & off. Hayley spotted me at 24 miles
walking and encouraged me to start running, was so nice to see a friendly face,
true club spirit, I've already e mailed her with big thankyou as I didn't see
her at finish. When I met my family at finish they said it was like I had been
on a "bender" all day! On a positive note I've raised £1000 for
guide dogs, people have even giving me extra money because they know how tough
it was for me to get to that finish line, true
From Ian
Sanderson
I'm on for the
I'll not be at Tuesday night training for a few weeks - just
the way work is going at the moment + holidays. Absolutely nothing to do with
my embarrassing first attempt at a marathon on Sunday, honest! I wasn't injured
or late getting to the start, I was just late getting to the finish....I
started going backwards from about 10 miles and have conservatively estimated
that I was overtaken by 3000 runners including 3 supermen, 2 fairies and most
of the Valley Striders running that day (at least Hayley said hello as she sped
past).
I think I'll stick to shorter runs for a while, starting
with Rothwell (unless it's raining, of course).
From
And I am
going to mess-up your calculations....I did a PW at
From
Michael Grant (ran at
Sadly I’m still struggling with plantar fasciitis in
both feet and ITB trouble. I should really have not tried to run
Coaching Tip from
The coincidence in your Friday e-mail of your publishing our
London results, with 10 PBs out of 15 First Claim Striders, and reminding
Striders that Tuesday is the “first opportunity this year of 3 by 10 minutes by
the Res” suggests to me that (a) we must be doing something right on Training
nights; (b) perhaps it could be because the training itself is getting more
competitive; and (c) the most competitive session we have is the
out-and-back-10-minute thing.
You may like to consider a variant on that, which is what
I’ve been doing since October, Kirsten for the last 4 months – her 3:01 was
also a PB and by 7 minutes – and Karen for the past month, i.e. winding up the
pace over the last kilometre of all of the session and then running flat out
for the last 300-400 metres, or the last 250m if it’s up a steep hill, so that
at the finish we’re literally gasping for breath.
The theory behind that is that “the speed of a marathon
runner is almost directly proportional to his ability to enhance his cardiac
output” – to quote from one of doctor daughter Sue’s textbooks – and heart
strength, capacity and output can best be increased if we put it under stress
to clear our blood of lactic acid, which we’ve generated by running flat out at
the end of a training session which has been hard enough already.
Considering the
Even if you’re not, I hope this will amuse you (it did
me). It was sent to me by Steve Morley, so now you know who to blame or
praise.
1. Go to http://google.co.uk
2. Click on “Maps” (underlined)
3. Click on “Get Directions” (underlined)
4. Input from "Leeds" to "
5. Look at the map! Look at the direction number 38!