Sent: 28 May 2010 10:14
Subject: V S Update - Events, EA Membership Cards, UR Sale, Photos,
Forum, Results
Forthcoming events – social, races, relays and VS promotions
Sun 30 May – Ilkley Trail Race
Sun 30 May –
Tue 1 June – pie and peas night – email [email protected] before
10pm Sunday evening – meat pie or veg bake, mushy peas or baked beans, and
apple pie for afters (optional). NB If you marshalled the Meanwood Trail,
come and collect your beer! PS in the last email, I missed “thanks
to Carole Schofield’s sister and 2 kids.”
Tue 1 June - Yorkshire Vets race at Kirkstall www.yvaa.org .
Wed 2 June – Otley Chevin Fell Race starts
7:30pm. Steve Webb says “An ‘A Short’ so lots of fell points available.”
(VSFC)
Thu 3 June – Thursday training 6:45 from Oakwood Clock
for a run of Max’s lap and then round
Sat 5 June – Wharfedale marathon (VSGP & VSFC) and
half marathon (VSFC) www.ukresults.net
(entries still appear to be open for both events).
Sun 6 June – Harewood 10k organised by Bingley
Harriers www.ukresults.net .
Wed 9 June – Otley 10 – a Striders favourite but
hilly!
Sun 13 June – Bradford Millennium Way – eventually we
had 18 wanting to run – two short for two teams so we have entered just one
team - a mixed team (5 men 5 women to run as pairs).
Wed 16 June -
Sun 20 June - Settle Hills Race (VSFC).
Tue 22 June – Yorkshire Vets race hosted by Valley
Striders – we need 30 marshals and have 12 www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmarshals.htm
. Please email me if you can help.
Sun 5 Sep –
Sun ? October – Harewood 10 mile Trail Race.
We’ve just had information on dates of West Yorks XC League and one is on 3
October, our original planned date for Harewood Trail. I am therefore
thinking of moving this to 10 October. If anyone knows of any big events
on this weekend, please let me know. Otherwise I will get some entry
forms out in the next 7-10 days. Harewood 10 on 10/10/10!!!
More V S events at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
and lots more races at www.ukresults.net
(other race websites are available (but not as good)).
By now you should have all received England Athletics
Membership Cards. A little flimsier than in previous years but perhaps
that is a good idea in view of likely reductions of funding.
If you haven’t received a card it could be because
Let me know if you’ve not received a card and were
expecting one.
Note that when we’ve registered you we’ve not input
email details for any of you, therefore the only correspondence you’ll receive
from EA is by post.
If you want to receive emails from EA, then you can
update your own personal details (instructions came with the card) or we can do
it for you. If we do it, note that there are two boxes, one regarding
receipt of information from EA, the other from associated companies – we will
assume you want the first but not the second.
Any other queries on EA membership, email me!
Up & Running
I’ve had an email telling me about a sale at Up and
Running Leeds Central and Headingley – some items on offer at 3 for £20 and
others at 3 for £30.
Note that you can use your EA membership card to get
discount at Up & Running but only on full price items.
Photos
I now have a large collection of photos - National XC
from Chris Leggatt, Leeds Half Marathon from Carmel Barker, and Meanwood Trail
race from Tracey Almond – but need some technical skill to upload them to the
website. Basically we need something to reduce the photos to a more
manageable size and then create a set of thumbnails. Anyone with any
tips, please email me.
Forum
While we’re on the techie stuff, the number of Forum
members went up by 40% last week – from 5 to 7. There is the potential to
share lots of requests and information on the forum – one Strider was looking
for a lift to a race, another had found a relay event and needed 2 more to make
a team. And there is also a discussion of ankle injuries – 42% of forum
members are currently indisposed due to an ankle injury. Click on the link on
the new VS website and see what’s going on. Joining the Forum will only
take you a minute or two. But watch out for your ankles!
Results
Pendle Cloughs (from Steve Webb)
Pendle Cloughs is an excellent race and deserves to be
more popular. It was staged by Wharfedale Harriers at the attractive
FC pts
Steve
Webb
2:34:00 95.9
Malcolm
Coles 3:09:55 77.8
Sarah
Dyer
4:25:38 72.0
Jack Bloor (from Steve Webb)
A good turnout at the Jack Bloor on a cold and wet
evening in Ilkley. But you need somebody else to report on this
one. I shuddered to a halt with a badly twisted ankle just after
overtaking Jeremy between checkpoints 1 and 2. Then got very cold hobbling
back to the finish.
GP Pts FC Pts
45 Jeremy Ladyman
0:48:27 100 81.9
49 Eirik Stangnes
0:49:57 99 79.5
60 John
Marsham
0:50:43 97 78.3
74 Rob
Bumstead 0:52:25
96 75.7
86 Nick
Barnes
0:53:49 94 73.8
96 Joel
Giddings
0:54:37 93 72.7
110 Ian Sanderson
0:55:48 91 71.1
118
121 John
Wallace
0:56:13 89 70.6
139 Malcolm Coles
0:58:47 87 67.5
143 Keith Brewster
0:59:18 86 66.9
187
191 Chloe
202 Sara
Dyer
1:14:45 81 60.8
203 Dave
Jones
1:16:12 80 52.1
Latest fell champs table including Pendle Cloughs and
Jack Bloor will be on the website soon. We now have 28 men and 5 ladies
in the league. Malcolm is the first to get 5 qualifying races on the
board so he is the early leader. Steve and Eirik have notched up 4 races,
with Aled and Dave on 3. In the ladies Xanthe leads from Sara and they
have both got 3 races.
Esholt Series
Best time GP pts Race 1 Race
2 Race 3
Gwil Thomas
0:16:41 100 15
16.43
14 16.41
Jeremy Ladyman
0:17:02 98 23
17.02
Steve
Webb 0:17:17
97 29
17.17
Eddy Robinson
0:17:33 95 40
17.47 32 17.34 36 17.33
Dan
Murray
0:18:00
94
45 18.08 47 18.00
Nick
Barnes
0:18:38 92 63
18.46
62 18.38
John Wallace
0:19:12
91
102 20.19 79 19.12
Paul Sanderson
0:20:09 89 112 20.10
103 20.21 103 20.09
Eric
Green
0:20:10
88
104 20.10
Tony Haygarth
0:22:03 85
151 22.03
Chloe Hudson
0:22:05 83 166
22.05
Sara
Dyer
0:24:12 82 226 24.25 196
24.12 206 24.59
Meryll Cripps
0:27:28 80 262 27.45
235 27.28 238 27.49
VS Grand Prix points updated on the website and the
groups have now been calculated – take a look and see how you are getting on
versus the other Striders in your group.