Sent: 28 February 2008 23:37
Subject: VS Update - Training sessions, lunchtime 5 mile, Peco XC,
Wakefield and Rothwell 10k, Photos, Results and more
Déjà vu
You may get a sense of déjà vu reading some of the first few
paragraphs, but they are slightly different from last week, and the rest of
this VS Update is definitely different!
Up and Running special sale
Tony (the bar) Firth texted me and Carole Schofield emailed
me to say there is currently 30% off everything at Up & Running in the
center of
Training / Pie and peas / Lucozade
Some notes about the next three weeks
4 March – 3 by 10 mins at High Ashes, followed by pie and peas
(£2.50) and optional apple pie (£1.50). Please book, selecting meat pie
or veg pie, mushy peas or baked beans, whether you want apple pie – with cream
or ice cream. Email before Sunday 2 March 10pm or text 0777 5898 558
before Monday 3 March 2pm. If you don’t book, you aren’t guaranteed a
meal!
11
March – track
is closed, so 5 by 6 mins at High Ashes.
The
Lucozade session is still provisional but I have already had 12 Striders
emailing their interest so we hope it will go ahead. Will confirm (one
way or the other) next week.
The
arrangement will be that they arrive before our training session and weigh a
number of runners, and then weigh them again after the session, they would then
demonstrate about dehydration etc. They would also give a general
training talk for about 30/40 mins with a Q&A session after and provide
some Lucozade free samples. They are all full qualified specialists and not
there just to push Lucozade products. We need to give them rough numbers
so please let me know on or before next Tuesday if you are likely to come. Full
details in the next email. (Thanks to Patrick Barrett for setting
this up)
18 March – track session at
John Hallas lunchtime 5 mile, Wednesday 5 March
John emailed me
I am organizing another 5 mile handicap race on Wednesday
5th March. The course will be the same one as before, start from the
Please let me know if you are interested. Handicaps will be
based around the finishing times for the last handicap. Any new entrants please
provide an estimated 5 mile time. No prizes, no entry fee, just potential
glory and a good lunchtime workout on an accurate (5.02 miles), flat course
I hope to arrange a starter/timekeeper again but if not then
it will be self-managed (synchronizing watches before the start).
Please contact John Hallas [email protected] before
Wednesday if you want to run.
PECO Sport Direct Race
5, Sunday 9 March
Note that
the final race is 9 March at Thackley (go to the Olive Tree roundabout, turn on
the A657 towards Shipley and it’s only 2 miles along there).
http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/PECO/peco.html
for full details
Peco Presentation
Night
I have 12
tickets for the presentation night on Friday 4 April at the Faversham near the
University. If you want to go along and collect your trophy or cheer the
Striders who are collecting their trophies or jeer the Abbey Runners, let me
know and I will save ticket(s) for you.
Entering Races
Please note that our club name is just “Valley Striders”,
not “Valley Striders Leeds” nor “Meanwood Valley Striders” or any other
combination. If you enter with the wrong club name, the chances are that
you will not be included in the team calculations. And before anyone gets
clever, please do not enter as “Just Valley Striders”. Note to the two
who entered Rothwell 10k with the wrong club name, I contacted
Please enter as soon as possible. You can enter online
at www.ukresults.net, it only costs
£1 extra and it will save two postage stamps and an envelope.
We are planning a big group photo (Abbey and Valley) in the
Stadium at
And afterwards the suggestion is a picnic in Yorkshire
Sculpture park (can you take beer in?) or to book a room in a pub in
Rothwell 10k – 20 April
Last week there were 60 places. Now they’ve added
another 100 places, and yet again there are now about 60 places left (I
said we’d have déjà vu).
Grand Prix points are available at this race, so if you want
some, I recommend that you get your entry in this weekend at the very
latest. You can enter online at www.ukresults.net and there is
no extra charge for this
Photos on the website
There are now 48 new pictures from the Danefield Cross
Country on the website, thanks to a friend of Paul Hunter.
I’ve updated the page of individual photos and there are now
pictures of 147 Striders in alphabetical order of surname.
If you aren’t on this page, or the picture that’s there
doesn’t show your best side, then email me a pic (about 1Mb is ideal) and I’ll
update the page.
Blackpool (
Only 5
Striders claiming Grand Prix points
94
Dan Murray 1:05:00
127
Eric Green 1:06:43
158
Howard Jeffrey 1:08:12 2nd claim
430
Mike Brown 1:23:08
593
The Grand
Prix points table has been updated on the website and Dan Murray’s 100 here
puts him in the lead, closely followed by Patrick, Eric, Jonathan and John
Wallace. But it’s early days yet.
Next GP
races are Cross country at Thackley, Spen 20, Wakefield 10k, Baildon Boundary
Way (full), London Marathon (full) and Rothwell 10k (nearly full)
Presentations
We will be
presenting some Performance Certificates at the pie and peas night next
Tuesday. Some Striders got their 5th result in late last year and we
haven’t presented the certificate yet. Others managed 3 or 4 graded
performances last year and these have been carried forward to this year where
fast courses (and fast runs) at Brass Monkey and/or Dewsbury have meant they
have achieved their 5 graded performances early this year.
For those
who have no idea what I’m talking about, have a look at the website
“Performance Awards Scheme” or come along next Tuesday and Hutch or myself will
explain (NB thanks to Paul Hunter for maintaining the spreadsheet)