Good luck to everyone running
Club Handicap –
Tuesday 29 April
Meet by the lodge by the Res at
6:55pm, first runner will start at 7pm prompt. This will be the 10k route,
along the reservoir path, across the dam, along the back road to Eccup and back
again.
Afterwards, PIE AND PEAS, please
book, stating whether meat or veg pie (£2.50), whether peas or beans and whether
you’d also like apple pie (£1.50) (with cream or ice cream).
Meanwood Trail
Recce Run – Tuesday 5 May
Instead of the scheduled 3 by 10
minute session, we’ll be on a steady run (probably in 3 groups) on the Meanwood
Trail race route, just over 7 miles. A nice training run if you’re doing
Esholt the next day …
Esholt 5k series
– 6/13/20 May
My information is that there are now
just under 100 places available
If you want to run some or all of
these races (and Grand Prix points are available), I advise you to enter this
weekend at the latest. Entry details on
www.ukresults.net
Meanwood Trail
Marshals – Saturday 17 May
We’ve got 140 entries, we’ve got
some race numbers ordered, we’ve got the beer ordered, we’ve got the portaloos
booked, so what else do we need?
MARSHALS!
Please email me as soon as possible
to let me know whether you’re available, not available or possibly
available.
We need 60 or 70 Striders (and
friends) to help out on the day. A bottle of beer for everyone who
marshals.
We expect about 500 runners in total
and hopefully will raise about £1,000 for Lineham Farm Children’s
Centre.
For teams of 10, run in pairs, 5
legs approximately 10 miles per leg
The good news is it’s nowhere near
We usually have two teams but could
possibly get three. Can we get a ladies team for the first time? Or
win back the mixed team trophy that we won the first 3
years?
Let me know if you want to run or
want more information
Badgerstone
Relay
A message from the organiser : the
Badger Stone Relay, which is in the BOFRA Calendar for April 12th is now
postponed to Saturday, May 24th at 12 noon. The White Wells Senior race on the
17th is now cancelled, but the junior races will run before the relay at 11am on
May 24th.
Maybe we could get team(s) for the
relay?
The photos taken by Liz Wood,
Patrick Barrett and Caz Felce, are now on our website. There are also some
photos of the final Sport Direct cross country taken by
These are low to medium resolution
images, if anyone would like the original version of any of the pics (or for
that matter, any pics on the website), let me know.
I’ve also updated the A-Z Striders
photos, so have a look there too
We’re talking about two
events
A team competition where the teams
comprise a mixture of Abbeys and Valleys. The run/race will be from the
Res on the footpaths out to Emmerdale and then back across the dam, approx 5
miles. Afterwards a barbecue at Leos. Possibly the first Tuesday in
June?
A rematch for the
Your comments
appreciated.
Valley Striders
Jackets
A reminder from Paul Hunter that V S
Jackets (black with Valley Striders in white on front and back) are still
available at the same great price of £19.
All things being equal I should be
down on Tuesday to take any orders – cash in advance
preferred.
A triumph for the ladies here, Caz
first, Laura second, and Sue Sunderland making up the winning
team.
Caz has now won Guiseley and Baildon
so providing we have sufficient marshals for Meanwood, we’d better let her run
that race and hope that she can win the Airedale Triple Trail
Trophy.
21 Caz Farrow 1:33:29 100 25 Richard King 1:33:57 99 27 Laura Clark 1:34:24 98 41 Howard Jeffrey 1:37:29 97 2 61 Andy Duffield 1:41:27 97 2 63 Paul Hunter 1:41:32 97 84 Eric Green 1:44:55 96 86 Bob Jackson 1:45:06 95 106 Andrew Cutts 1:47:55 94 121 John Wallace 1:50:20 93 143 Sue Sunderland 1:53:50 92 149 Steve Dixon 175 Sharon 177 Mick Tinker 1:58:21 89 205 Geoff Webster 2:02:24 88 217 Bob Wilkes 2:05:16 87 273 Sara Dyer 2:14:12 86 330 Lyn Eden 331 Jim Towers Paris Marathon –
message from Carmel Barker
Just back from Paris and Colin’s got
some really good action shots of me and Bernadette, I'll forward a couple to put
on the website.
I feel remarkably fresh for the day
after, maybe it will kick in tomorrow!
We're both really pleased with how
race went. My aim was to stick with 3.30 pacers and managed to keep
with them up to 22miles but the old legs just wouldn't turn over quick enough in
the last few miles and my chip time recorded 3.32, outside my PB by 7mins
but best even paced marathon I've ever done and great not to 'die' in last
10k!
Bernadette came out of retirement to run on her 50th birthday
and recorded a PB of 3.45, I think she's going back into retirement though and
had forgotton just how hard those last 6 miles are.
Make sure you
record our GP points before anyone else races and knocks us off top of the
podium!
Editor’s note –
Grand
Prix
All Grand Prix points are now on the
website
Next races are London, Rothwell
(full), Club Handicap (see above), Esholt 5k series (see above), Jack Bloor fell
race (13 May), Wharfedale Off Road Marathon (7 June)
I must ask Geoff for an update of
the Fell Championship points
From Ian
Sanderson
I don’t know if you’ve ever been in
an Aldi supermarket (I’m a Waitrose man myself, honest) but as well as selling
German baked beans and tins of sauerkraut they flog a changing and apparently
random selection of ‘lifestyle’ products. These can range from flat screen TVs
to cement mixers to wet-suits. Well too bad if you wanted a wet-suit because
this week (from Thursday 3rd) they will have running stuff. You’d
want to give the “jogging shoes” a miss, but the £13 heart rate monitor might
interest a few people and the Crane Sports clothing (aka Aldi own label) is
often worth a look. I picked up a couple decent technical tops last year for £7
each and I can vouch for the socks (as worn at
It tends to be a bit like a jumble
sale and it’s pot-luck as to whether you find what you are looking for in any
given store. But it may be of interest to anyone running on a budget or just
‘careful with their money’.
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/offers_week14thursday08.htm
Editor’s note -
Ian emailed me last Tuesday. The offers are still on the website, but may
not be available by the weekend, for which I apologise for not letting you
know.
From Adela
Reperecki
I wondered if you would be able to
add this to your next circulation on e mail as I am plugging for
sponsorship.
I am doing a tandem parachute jump
on 27 April in aid of Candlelighters Trust and donations can be made on the
following link.
http://www.justgiving.com/adelareperecki
About my charity
: 
Candlelighters
Trust
Candlelighters supports the work of
the Regional Children and Adolescent Cancer and Leukaemia Unit at St. James's
Hospital Leeds and funds research into childhood
cancer.
Editor’s note, a
few other Striders could be in need of a parachute the same day as they descend
from Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough in the 3 Peaks
Race