Sent: 12 December 2008 00:28
Subject: VS Update - Tuesdays, Xmas, Peco, Grand Prix, London, Subs, XC
entries, Road relays, Results
Tuesday Training
Tuesday 2nd
was cancelled due to snow, please could anyone who booked pie and peas give me
£1.50 as soon as possible to compensate Tony. Thanks
Tuesday 9th
we were not allowed on the track by Leeds Carnegie so we did the hill session
at
Next
Tuesday (16th) normal session for third Tuesday of the month, so
meet at Leos 6:45 ready to run then 5 by 6 minutes at High Ashes
Tuesday 23rd
the Tuesday before Xmas, instead of hills, I have managed to book the track
at
Tuesday 30th
from Leos, your choice, anyone want to do hills?
Valley
Striders Christmas Bash 2008
Many Thanks
to the 55 of you who have booked places for the Striders Christmas
Bash. For those of you who haven’t already reserved your place, please book
by Wednesday 17 December and as a reminder, here are the details again:
Event: Valley Striders Christmas Bash
Venue: Old Leos Club
Date: Friday, 19 December 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Cost: £9.50 per person
Email me at
[email protected] to book your
place & make cheques payable to Valley Striders - send to
Paul Furness, 15 Talbot Fold, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 1LU.
P.S. from
Bob: maximum numbers are 80, so book quickly to avoid disappointment. If
we get to 80 I’m afraid we’ll have to turn away our celebrities (even Kylie) so
that as many Striders as possible can attend.
PECO Cross Country –
Saturday 20 December
Take your
camp bed to Leo’s on the Friday night and you’ll be quite close to
Race
Date & Time:
Saturday 20th December 2008, start time 11.00am. The Junior Cross Country
Challenge will start at 10.00am
Race
Location: The race
will take place entirely within the grounds of
Registration: The race HQ will be beside the
Arthington Road Car Park. Registration will open from 9.30am for juniors, and
from 10.00 – 10.30am for seniors. See map:
Entry
Fee: Seniors £2.50,
Juniors £1.00 (food provided).
Car
Parking: The
The
Course: The course
for the senior race will be approximately 5 miles long and will consist of one
small lap and two large laps. It is suitable for spikes (unless it is frozen),
studs or trail shoes (unless it is very muddy). The course is undulating, with
several short ascents and descents. There are some tight turns, some narrow
sections and the main hazard underfoot is tree roots. The junior race will be
run over a single, slightly shortened, ‘large lap’: it will be just under 2
miles in length.
After
The Race: Changing
and showering facilities, race results and food will all be located at Adel
Sports & Social Club, Church Lane, Adel. This is about one mile from the
race HQ, just back down
Current
Positions:
Women 3rd, Men 5th, Men Vets 5th, Women Vets 8th
Club Championship /
“Grand Prix”
The last
races in the 2008 series were at Thirsk and at
The
following races will be in the 2009 Grand Prix
-
Chevin
Chase (26 December, entries closed)
-
Xmas
Handicap (28 December, meet by Res 11:00, afterwards at Leos, Bob J buying
drinks)
-
Brass
Monkey half (entries closed)
-
Snake
Lane (entries closed)
-
-
London
Marathon (entries closed)
There will
be a meeting at Leo’s next Tuesday 16 December to discuss the
rest of the programme for 2009, so come along and vote for your favourite
race(s) to be included.
Baildon
Boundary Way -
Just an extra reminder that the Baildon Boundary Way off-road half marathon on
5 April usually closes off entries very early in January (in 2008 it was 13
January), so if you want to get an entry in, do it very soon. Forms at www.ukresults.net
Striders
have three places for the 2009 London Marathon, of which one has already been
allocated to Dan Murray.
If you
entered
So far, Liz
Wood and Richard Adcock will be in the ballot, so if no-one else emails, the
places are theirs.
If you
didn’t enter
Membership Fees
Thank you
to 111 of you who have already paid for the V S year September 2008 to August
2009. You are now in the majority …
… but 103
of you who were members last year, haven’t yet paid this year
Standard
rate is £14. If you are second claim or still in full time education or a
non-runner, please contact me for alternative rates.
Please make
out a cheque to Valley Striders and send to
P.S. I know
you still haven’t got membership cards, we did pay 5 months ago and most clubs
have received them, I am sending emails to England Athletics in larger and
larger print.
Cross Country Races
Drew Taylor
is looking after the entries for these, which are listed in official closing
date sequence. All forms need to be posted so we’re setting a closing
date 4 days before the official date, please email Drew [email protected]
if you want to be entered
- Northern XC Champs –
- Yorkshire XC Champs –
- National XC Champs –
- Yorkshire Vets XC Champs –
Bob says: “Can I particularly recommend (for older
people) the Yorks Vets championships, there are some age groups where we could
raise quite a competitive team (e.g. W45).”
Road Relays
After the
relative success (our teams finished almost exactly half way in the teams
entered) at the English Cross Country Relays, we are considering entering teams
for
- Northern
6 & 12 Stage Road Relays. 5th April 2009 –
- National
6 & 12 Stage Road Relays 18th April 2009 – not sure where
- National
4 & 6 Stage Road Relays 17th October 2009 – not sure where
Who’s
interested in running? Please email Paul Hunter [email protected]
if you are interested
So far, we
have three teams of 5. If you want to run (or if you want more details)
email me. Last year we had 5 teams, can we get 6 teams this year?
Thirsk 10 Results
Lots of
PBs, AGBs and ABs at Thirsk, where it was very cold, but no wind so nearly
ideal for running.
The start
was extremely narrow and even for those of us reasonably near the front, it was
a minute or so till we progressed from weaving to running. But once we
were running, it was a good route, a few very gentle undulations, and an
interesting part with a U turn where, like Abbey Dash, you could look out for
fellow Striders on the opposite side of the road. On that section there
was also a sharp bend which was icy; we had to watch for runners out of control
in both directions.
The race
was won by Stephen Hepples of Loftus in 50:31 with Matthew Pierson of Holmfirth
15 seconds behind; they were a minute clear of recent Harewood winners Ian
Fisher and Darran Bilton.
Tracey was
well clear in the women’s race, but she had entered on the day, so no
prize! What you could have won, Tracey, was : a gold medal as Northern 10
mile champion but incorrectly inscribed so they would have sent it on, a Mizuno
kit bag also for Northern champion, the women’s 1st prize and also a
further £14 for 1st W40 (for some reason any women who were in the
top 10 in the race and also in the top 3 in their vets category got two
prizes).
In the
Northern team Championships, Otley AC were 1st mens team (Ian
Fisher, Zack Whitehead of Headingley Up&Running, and Julian Mawson), and
Holmfirth 1st women. Second mens team were Hormsfirth Harriers
i.e. one guy from Holmfirth and two from Horsforth. They withheld this
for further investigation. Maybe other teams could get together e.g.
Vlabbey Striders (that’s us after too many pie and peas nights). Any
other suggestions??
There was
carrot and spicy parsnip soup and this kept me warm until the time came to
collect my prize for 2nd M55. It was cash and was just
sufficient to pay for my entry fee, petrol money and the carrot and spicy
parsnip soup.
11 Panos Aristotelous 0:55:45
100
21 Tracey Morris
0:57:45
99
33 Gwilym Thomas
0:59:00
98
54 Dan Fisher
1:00:59
97
94 Jim Clay
1:03:03
96
101 Ian Sanderson
1:03:22
95
111 Matt Allen
1:03:41
94
126 Dan Murray
1:04:35
93
130 Paul Hunter
1:04:42
92
134 Eric Green
1:04:57
91
145 Ian Rosser
1:05:54
90
164 Alan Hutchinson
1:06:37 89
168 Tim Towler
1:06:42
88
183 Martin Hill
1:07:18
87
200 Bob Jackson
1:08:00
86
201 Gary Sutherland
1:08:00
85
214 Patrick Barrett 1:09:06
84
245 Gary Mann
1:10:04
83
256 Nick Barnes
1:10:33
82
260
305 Xanthe Hannah
1:12:28
80
416 Sue
550 Peter Stevenson
1:22:23
78
607 Mike Brown
1:25:32
77
657 Carole Towler
1:28:16
76
Abbey
Dash
A couple of
reports on the YEP website
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Abbey-Dash-Thousands-cut-a.4723187.jp
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/Janes-dashes-to-Abbey-triumph.4723013.jp
Race
result (and Grand Prix points)
Boys
U11
9 Gavin
Women
21 Jane Halloran
0:21:40 93
43 Xanthe Hannah
0:23:22 91
67 Sue
73 Chloe
81 Madeleine Watson 0:28:46 84
85 Sylvia Watson
0:31:24 84
Men
53 Steve Webb
0:36:10 100
71 Gwilym Thomas
0:37:32 99
90 Drew Taylor
0:38:35 98
96 Dan Fisher
0:39:03 97
98 Simon Vallance
0:39:06 96
99 Kevin Mcmullan
0:39:07 95
110
Jerry Watson
0:39:22 94
133
Jeremy Ladyman
0:40:58 94
143
Joel Giddings
0:42:15 92
173
Tony Haygarth
0:46:19 90
180
186
Mick Tinker
0:48:28 88
199
Geoff Webster
0:54:49 85
Overall Results (from Paul Hunter)
(NB some of you will already have received this info)
J E Smith Challenge – Striders
2nd Club to
U11 Boys
Gavin Taylor 6th (medal)
Women
(team 6th overall)
U35 - Laura 10th
V35 - Jane 6th
V45 - Sue 7th
V60 - Sylvia 1st (trophy)
Men (team 9th
overall)
U35 - Panos 12th
Dan F 22nd
V35 Jim 24th
Joel 29th
V40 - Mark 16th
V45 - Steve 6th
Drew 11th
Jerry 14th
Paul 18th
V55 - Bob 4th
V65 - Geoff 2nd (trophy)
Dick Dale
To let you
know that Dick Dale was seriously injured when he came off his motorbike on an
icy road and slid in front of a car on the morning of Friday 28 November.
He has been in intensive care at LGI with many broken bones and some internal
organ damage, but is making a gradual recovery. I will keep you updated
or you can call Harry Bates 2622227 for more information or you can send Dick a
card to wish him well via 9 The Green, Tockwith,