Sent: 08 February 2010 08:04
Subject: V S Update - Training, National XC, Alison Rose, Training
Leaders, Northern XC, Peco XC, Dewsbury 10k, Parkrun
Track Training
On Tuesday 9 February the session will be at Carnegie
Track at Headingley. Meet at the Indoor Sports Centre, ready to run, at
7pm.
If you’ve not been before, follow the red dots on this
map http://valleystriders.org.uk/Carnegie%20parking.JPG
Please could all runners take care and be aware of
other runners on the track. Last time, one of our squad nearly came a
cropper, jogging back on lane 1 (!) they nearly had a head-on crash with a 400
metre runner whose rightful lane it was.
Next training
NB if the weather gets worse again, always check on
the website www.valleystriders.org.uk
for the status of training sessions.
National XC
Saturday 27 February at
11.00am Under 15 Boys Championship (4.5K)
11.20am Junior Women Championship
(6K)
11.45am Under 17 Women Championship (5K)
12.10pm Under 13 Girls Championship (3K)
12.25pm Under 17 Men Championship (6K) (Eddy
Robinson)
12.55pm Under 15 Girls Championship (4K)
1.15pm Junior Men Championship
(10K)
2.00pm Under 13 Boys Championship (3K) (Gavin
Taylor)
2.15pm Senior Women Championship (8K) (9
Striders)
3.00pm Senior Men Championship (12K)
(39 Striders)
We have a section to marshal which runs from the top
to the bottom of Soldiers Fields. The section will be taped both sides
but we will be marshalling 3 crossing points and need 8 marshals in place at
all times to stop spectators crossing while the races are taking place and to
allow spectators to cross when safe.
We need to marshal from 10:30 in the morning through
to 4:30 in the afternoon. If we split this into one hour periods, there
would be 6 periods each needing 8 marshals so if everyone who is running
volunteered for an hour we’ve got it all covered.
But there’s a small problem, that is between 2:30 and
3:30 the ladies and the men will be running. So we need 8 non-runners to
help at that time, please.
Please let me know if you can help – I will pass on
your names to Geoff and Sylvia.
Meanwood Valley Trail
This year, the Meanwood Valley Trail will be on
Saturday 15 May. Last year was our most successful event with nearly 400 runners,
raising over £2000 for Lineham Farm Children’s Centre, and no runners lost (!)
We need over 60 people to help on the day.
Please check your diaries and, if possible, book the morning of 15 May to come
and help.
Alison Rose’s Drills Session
Tracey said Alison would come along and just do some
demonstrations, maybe asking for some volunteers from the audience. But
when Alison arrived at Leos she was counting us and calculating if there were 4
lines, how many people would there be per line and could we fit everyone in the
room if we moved all the furniture.
And so it was that the demonstration became a cross
between line dancing and the ministry of silly walks. But hasn’t yet
appeared on U-Tube – everyone too busy getting their feet in the right place to
take any videos on their mobiles.
And we are now all aware that posture, breathing and
movement technique are just as important as mileage and speed in our training
regimes.
Alison has now sent me the information about the
drills http://valleystriders.org.uk/Alisons_Drills.htm
and if you want to know more about Carnegie Sports Injury Clinic go to http://www.alirose.net/
It would be great if you could give some feedback on
the session, which I could forward to Alison (I wouldn’t publish any names).
Also, Alison has written
“Many
thanks for inviting us to do the drills session on Tuesday. We all enjoyed
doing it and it was good to meet everyone and to see them all getting
involved. I have attached the handouts for you to pass on. We
are more than happy to return to do another educational session, we are happy
to cover anything from core work, stretching, injury prevention, question and
answer sessions or anything else the athletes would find useful.”
Finally, a big thank you to Carole Schofield for
bringing the cakes that sustained us for the evening.
More Training Leaders Required
We currently have 7 Striders qualified and insured to lead
training sessions. With the ever increasing number of runners at our
training sessions, we are looking for 2 or 3 more Striders to go on the
courses.
This will give us more options for arranging training,
e.g.
All these are potential solutions to being able to
have more runners at our training sessions without reducing the quality of the
sessions by overcrowding.
If you are interested in going on one of the
“Leadership in Running and Fitness” courses (the next one is at
Or, if you were interested by Alison’s session and
would like to follow a path of technical coaching, then there are Level 1 and
Level 2 Athletics Coaching Courses held locally. For general information
see http://www.englandathletics.org/page.asp?section=449§ionTitle=Coaching
Please email me if interested.
Report – North of
Valley Striders had two runners in the Northern
Cross-Country Champs at Witton Park Blackburn. It looked an excellent course
(although I felt the lap was perhaps a bit short as there was a fair bit of
lapping going on). Nice bits of sticky mud - I retrieved 4 shoes for one place
where I stood for one of the races. Very impressive run from Steve Vernon
(Stockport) who repeated the form seen on the televised cross-country from
Edinburgh - and if he does it again he will be difficult to beat at Roundhay
Park. Striders present were:
316 Andrew Thompson
54:27
481 Malcolm Coles
61:46
NB Steve Vernon’s winning time 39:04
Local news is that Leeds City cleaned up on the men’s
team front (eighth time in a row) - 6 runners in by 35th and they managed 12 in
under 100 and the second 6 runners if they were allowed to score as a team
would have come in 6th place just beating Bingley. Worse news for their rivals
is that this dominance could continue for some years as they dominated the
Men’s U20 race as well, winning both the individual and team races and getting
9 runners in by 31st place. And Leeds Senior Ladies got in on the act too
by coming
3rd.
Results – Peco XC Race 4 at John Smeaton (January 31)
Men (* = counter for vets
team)
4 Gwil Thomas
29 Joel Giddings
31 Andrew Thomspon *
36 Roy Huggins *
37 Matt Allen
41 Eirik Stangnes
43
64 Mark Hunter *
76 John Wallace
99 Tony Haygarth *
101 Bob Jackson *
137 Bob Wilkes *
Men’s team 3rd, Men’s Vets 7th
Women
18 Sue
22
Women’s team 6th, Women’s vets 10th
Series positions
Although the men and women are both 3rd in their divisions,
neither can achieve 2nd place, so the final race, on 7 March at Esholt, will
just be for the honour of the club.
Therefore the Trollers Trot on Saturday 6 March
remains IN the Grand Prix races (so Geoff can get some points).
Dewsbury 10k (February 7)
A little misty but a good day for running and well
done to all 28 of you, especially those with PB’s.
Grand Prix positions updated at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsclubch.htm
Chip
Chip G.P
Gun Gun
Pos
Time Pts
Pos Time
25 Gwil
Thomas
0:34:17 100 25
0:34:19
26 Dan
Fisher
0:34:21 99 26
0:34:25
76 Jeremy Ladyman
0:37:04 98 74
0:37:08
95 Ian
Rosser
0:37:54 97 93
0:38:01
101 Roy
Huggins
0:38:24 96 99
0:38:28
133
143 Eric
Green
0:39:45 94 137
0:39:50
146 James
Tarran
0:39:55 93 151
0:40:17
147 John Batchelor
0:39:56 92 147
0:40:07
170 Alistair Smyth
0:40:24 91 181
0:40:51
186 Nick
Barnes
0:40:43 90 180
0:40:50
195 Liz
Wood
0:40:57 89 188
0:41:02
205 Tim
Towler
0:41:16 88 201
0:41:25
214 John
Wallace
0:41:33 87 213
0:41:43
294 Bill McCaffrey
0:43:59 86 295
0:44:23
300 Leroy
Sutton
0:44:09 85 298
0:44:31
325 Sue
341 Rachael Nevins
0:45:14 83 339
0:45:38
401 Chloe
462 Louise Allinson
0:48:53 81 449
0:48:59
465 Rich
Clough
0:48:54 80 451
0:49:04
505 Carole Towler
0:49:57 79 487
0:50:08
510 Sara
Goward
0:50:21 78 511
0:50:55
562 Lucy
Nowlin 0:52:12
77 570 0:53:12
616 Meryll Cripps
0:54:20 76 612
0:54:45
702 Paul Holloway
0:58:13 75 699
0:58:43
713 Anne McCaffrey
0:58:53 74 713
0:59:28
If you’re looking to improve your 10k PB, book in for
the Rothwell 10k on Bank Holiday Monday 3 May. In previous years the
start was about ¼ mile from the finish and was much higher so you couldn’t
really count it for a PB. This year it will start and finish at Rothwell
Leisure Centre and should still be a fast course with potential for PB’s.
The Rothwell 10k is also on the Grand Prix list, and,
should you still need convincing, then also it is the Abbey-Valley Challenge
race for Spring 2010. (Valley currently hold the cup and lead 3 – 1 in
the series)
If you want a warm up for Rothwell, the
Two wins for Daniel Fitzhugh at Hyde Park Parkrun
There has been a good representation of Striders this
year at the Hyde Park Parkruns, but undoubtedly the star performer has been
Daniel Fitzhugh with two wins. Also featuring on the virtual podium have
been Rob Hamilton, Gwil Thomas and Roy Huggins. Full results on http://www.parkrun.org.uk/leeds/
Not too much notice should be taken of some of the times which have been
seriously affected by the underfoot conditions.
2 January - 2 Robert Hamilton 18:05, 4 Daniel Fitzhugh
18:53, 5 Ian Rosser 19:30, 9 Joel Giddings 20:04, 14 James Tarran 20:40, 16 Roy
Huggins 20:58
9 January - 3 Daniel Fitzhugh 19:38, 5 Ian Rosser
20:25, 6 Roy Huggins 20:31, 7 Ian Sanderson 20:49, 26 Nick Barnes 24:13, 37
16 January - cancelled
23 January - 1 Daniel Fitzhugh 17:55, 2 Robert
Hamilton 18:33, 4 Ian Rosser 18:44, 6 Roy Huggins 19:01, 8 Jerry Watson 19:09,
27 John Wallace 21:37, 31 Leroy Sutton 22:04, 88 Tavien Sutton 28:34
30 January - 2 Gwilym Thomas 17:09, 4 Daniel Fisher
17:26, 5 Daniel Fitzhugh 17:46, 7 Robert Hamilton 18:34, 13 Roy Huggins 19:24,
14 Ian Sanderson 19:39, 15 Joel Giddings 19:43, 26 James Tarran 20:53, 38 Leroy
Sutton 21:48, 67
6 February - 1 Daniel Fitzhugh 17:58, 2 Roy Huggins
19:01, 4 Joel Giddings 19:29, 7 Ian Rosser 19:55, 14 James Tarran 20:19, 27
Leroy Sutton 21:50, 61
Another milestone reached is that 50 different
Striders have run 1 or more race – only exceeded by Abbey (59) and Virgin
Active (56). Maybe a few more of you could give it a go and put the
Striders in the lead!
