Sent: 22 October 2007 00:07
Subject: AGM report, Harewood profit, Cross Country results and info,
Race results/reports, Sunday training
Annual General Meeting
The minutes should be available soon, but a few bullet
points in the meantime
Membership subscriptions
are due now – basic membership is £9 plus £3 to be registered with UK
Athletics, a total of £12. Second claim members pay £9. Non-running
members pay £3; they are classed as volunteers by UK Athletics and there is no
charge for them to be registered, so just £3 in total. Junior members pay
£3 plus £3 to be registered with UK Athletics, a total of £6. Please make
a cheque payable to “Valley Striders” and send to Paul White, 17 Whinmoor
Crescent, Red Hall, Leeds LS14 1NX
Committee - the
following volunteered and were appointed to the committee
Chairman – Bob Jackson
Assistant ladies captain – Hayley Nancolas (Palmer)
Assistant fell championship co-ordinator –
Assistant race director for Meanwood and Harewood
Races – Dan Murray
There is a vacancy for “Club archivist” – please
contact me for details if you’d like to do this
Training sessions
Tuesday – we are considering setting up one Tuesday in
four as a track session at Carnegie (
Thursday – we’ll try to set up a communication method
to see who’s running and maybe have two groups
Sunday – ditto – NB see information below from Tim
Towler
Pie and peas nights –
Tony will give us a quote for apple pie (cream or ice-cream!) for the next pie
and peas on 6 November.
Xmas meal will be
Friday 14 December - £9 to Steve O’Callaghan, please book [email protected]
Some subjects needed more detailed discussion and
we’ll continue on Tuesday nights
- number of races to organise (Tuesday 6
November)
- Grand Prix events for 2008 (Tuesday 20
November)
- club constitution (to be arranged)
Everyone welcome to come along and voice your
opinions!
Harewood Trail
Current estimate of money raised is £2,500, but there
are still a few minor bills to come in, and possibly some sponsorship
money. This brings the amount raised for Lineham Farm from this race to £10,000
in 3 years, so please congratulate yourselves if you’ve been involved in the
race in any way over these 3 years.
Every marshal is entitled to a bottle of “Harewood
Trail Ale” beer so if you haven’t had yours, please come to the club to collect
it soon. Any bottles not collected will be sold and the proceeds added to
the sum for Lineham Farm.
Next year the equivalent date (5 October) is the same
day as the Great North Run. Other races seem to try to avoid clashing
with GNR, but my theory is that we have a different clientele; there can’t be
many runners who want to run a scenic undulating 10 miles off-road that are
also interested in 13 miles of mainly flat and mainly straight dual
carriageway. Let me know your views.
Cross Country Results –
Boys Under 11
13 Gavin
Girls Under 11
Running for Wetherby was Paul Hunter’s daughter
6 Josephine Mather-Hunter 0:08:08
Boys Under 13
Running for Leeds Carnegie was Jerry’s son
13 Ollie Watson 0:12:31
Senior Ladies
30 Carole Schofield 0:22:18
32 Rhiannon Silson
0:22:19
56 Erica
Hiorns 0:23:51
91
Team Position (first 4 to count) – 12th
Senior Men
41
76 Dave Middlemas 0:40:32
83
127 Richard
King 0:43:06
132 Eirik
Stangnes 0:43:17
152 Drew
Taylor 0:44:28
167 Bob
Jackson 0:45:48
185 Eran
Gal-Or 0:47:43
191
204
208 Geoff
Webster 0:51:10
218 Bob
Wilkes 0:53:16
Team Position (first 6 to count) – 13th (we beat
Wetherby,
Next race is next Saturday (27th October) at
More Cross Country
The first Peco / Sport Direct league will be Sunday 11
November at Woodkirk (that’s about 2 miles south of the Tingley junction on the
M62). Teams are 5 women, 8 men, 3 women vets, 6 men vets, but the more
the merrier. This is a friendly event and an opportunity for those who’ve
not run cross country before to get their feet (and possibly other parts of
their body) muddy without embarrassment.
Grand Prix
I’ll update the website when I’ve got hold of the
Withins Skyline results.
The remaining Grand Prix races are
Sunday November 4 – Guy Fawkes 10 – from
Saturday November 10 – Burley Bridge Hike – approx 20
miles on and around Ilkley Moor - undulating
Saturday November 17 – West Yorks Cross Country 3 at
Sunday November 25 – Abbey Dash 10k – when I last
looked they were still taking entries – enter online at www.helptheaged.org.uk – they don’t
charge any extra
So there’s still plenty of opportunity to score
points. And I know that many of you have already run 4 or more races so it’s
still possible for you to get 8 races in and qualify for a Valley Striders 2007
Grand Prix T-Shirt (19 of you have already run 8 races and so have already
qualified)
Race Reports/Results
Mendip Muddle
Caz Farrow
emailed “I think
we were the only VS's running down in
At the
50
Tim Towler 42:02
From
our Spanish correspondent in Mallorca
Exciting
news from
Erica did a
PB of 1 second by completing the half marathon in 1:33:09; Jonathan did the
half in 1:33:01 and Patrick did a stupendous marathon PB of 3:19:29. E and
J did not run together but finished in a Valley Striders 1-2 with E edging out
J but the chip time later revealed that J had beaten E by 8 seconds! Erica's
sister-in-law also did a PB by finishing the half in 1:55:00.
We are all
going out tonight with Patrick and Jonathan intending to eat drink and
make merry until tomorrow morning. Erica thinks she will be in bed with a good
book and a cup of cocoa by 11.
Jonjo Leggatt 3:43:53 (PB – 1st marathon)
From the
split times on the race website, it appears they ran together for at least the
first 20 miles
Thanks to
14 of you who sponsored Chris and Jonjo, I’ll look after your money when I see
you!
Triplets
Congratulations to the Valley Striders triplets – Eric
Cusack, Tony Haygarth and Pat Umpleby – who all celebrate their 60th birthdays
on Tuesday 23 October. Pat has been taken on a cruise by John, but maybe
Eric or Tony will pass by Leo’s on Tuesday so that we can wish them well.
Joyce the Voice
Peter reports that Joyce is following her recovery /
recuperation programme and last week was starting with 5 minutes of walking
each day, increasing by 5 minutes each day.
Sunday Training – information from Tim Towler
The meeting
point for the Valley Striders long run has always been Smithy Mills at the
bottom of
A long run
still takes place, though somewhat spasmodically, depending on what races are
coming up, and indeed what races are taking place on the Sunday.
We meet at
9am. We run between an hour and a half and two hours, getting
off road as much as we can.
Routes tend
to take in Eccup Reservoir, the edge of the Harewood Estate, Lineham Farm,
Golden Acre Park etc. During the Spring when the training was geared towards
London, we often came back along Otley Road from Bramhope so there were options
to cut off through Adel or down the Ring Road, or alternatively head on down
towards Headingley, to extend the run, working our way back via Stonegate Road
or Meanwood Park.
Another
route took us out to Horsforth where we would join the canal and run back into
town, heading back to Smithy Mills along the Meanwood Valley Trail.
Some of
those who run are
To avoid a
situation of turning up at 9 am on a Sunday and finding nobody there I usually
email the "regulars" on a Thursday, so that everyone has an idea as
to whether the "Sunday Run" is on or not.