Sent: 20 June 2010 23:43
Subject: V S Update - Events including Vets race, Thurs 1 July,
Kettlewell, LCW. Results including BMW, Settle Hills and parkrun wins for Elika
& Myra. And more.
Striders Events
Vets race marshals – Tuesday 22 June
We’re just about OK for marshals, but if a few more of
you volunteer then a few more Striders can run in the race. Please arrive
for 6:45 and make yourselves known to Geoff and Sylvia (they’ll be in front of
the clubhouse). NB if you want to run, bring your Striders vest!
Thursday training – Thursday 1 July
The first Thursday in the month has been designated a
session to specially cater for newcomers and slower runners, but will also be
suitable for our regular runners.
The session on 1 July will start as normal from Scott
Hall Sports Centre at 6:45, and from there we’ll run just under a mile down to
Potternewton Park.
Xanthe says that the full lap round the Park is
three-quarters of a mile so there are plenty of opportunities for a varied
session within the park e.g.
- faster runners could run a large lap while slower runners run a
shorter lap, or
- faster runners could run a slow lap alongside the slower runners
(who’d actually be running a fast lap for them), then faster runners run a
fast lap while slower runners recover
- etc
Before you complain about running laps of a park, I’d
like to point out that several Striders have already run more than 50 laps of a
park this year (Hyde Park, Saturday mornings!)
If you’re a regular Thursday runner, look out for John
or Sharon’s email nearer the date. If you’re new to Thursday running,
look on the front page of the website or email John [email protected]
Kettlewell Fell Race – Sunday 4 July
(information from Steve Webb)
The next
scoring race in the Fell Champs is an "A Short" at Kettlewell on
Sunday 4 July. This is the final race in the Wharfedale Triple T, a 3
day festival of running in the Dales.
Friday
night is an uphill only road race of 3 miles (950').
Saturday is
an "A Medium" fell race around and over Great Whernside 12.5 miles
(3,000') and is heartily recommended.
This is a
great event with a really good atmosphere; all races start in Kettlewell,
you can camp for the weekend in the parking field and they have a barbecue on
the go. Prizes in usual categories for individual races, but mainly for
the weekend series. A few years ago Valley Striders won the series team
prize ahead of Bingley Harriers; would be nice if we could get a man, a lady,
and a vet to run all 3 races and challenge for the title again.
Pie & Peas Tuesday 6 July AND Leeds Hyde Park 5k Wednesday 7 July
Advanced warning of pie and peas night, or is it
lasagne – check the website later this week.
Then the following evening is the Hyde
Park 5k, Grand Prix points at stake.
Summer Handicap Tuesday 20 July AND Golden
Acre Relay Wednesday 21 July
Advanced warning of Summer Handicap which will be our
trail route of 5¼ miles from the Reservoir, across the fields to Eccup, along
footpaths to Emmerdale, along footpaths to the water treatment works, and
across the dam and along footpaths back to the start.
Then the following evening it is the Golden Acre Park
Relay, teams of three, each run one lap of 2½ miles. See http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/Races/golden.html
for details. Make up a team with 2 friends or use the Valley Striders
Forum to find team members for the night.
Leeds
Country Way – Sunday 5
September
There are now 40 of you wanting to run so we’ve set a
new target to get 5 teams i.e. 60 runners. If we achieve it, we will be
the first club to have done so.
We’ll enter a men's team, a women's team and a veterans' team which will be selected on the basis of ability.
We will also enter a 4th team (and hopefully a 5th team, too) which will be selected on the basis of first come first served. The first 12 (or 24) who apply and who are not selected for the other teams will become the 4th (and 5th) team. If members of the "first 12 (or 24)" are selected for a team, these teams will be completed by the next in order of application (like taking a ticket at the supermarket delicatessen).
NB for political correctness we will call our 4th and 5th teams "B" and "C".
I know it’s over 2 months away and things can change a
lot in that time, but with 5 teams we will need a considerable amount of
preparation.
So please reply in the next week so we
can get a view of the likely teams. Please reply “Yes”, “Probably”,
“Possibly” or “No”. Even if you’ve never run 10 miles before, it
shouldn’t stop you from signing up!
Click for more
details about the race and click for team lists.
Other Events
Beamsley Beacon Race – Thursday 24 June
Was Wednesday 23rd, now Thursday 24th June. Start
7:30pm. Date changed due to England
world cup game ! Registration and afterwards in the Swan Inn,
Addingham.
Holmfirth Urban Orienteering – Sunday 4 July
From Guy Goodair, East Pennine Orienteering Club
We were wondering if any of your members would like to try
an urban orienteering race. This is a new race round the streets of Holmfirth
on July 4th. Each competitor gets a dibber to record his progress than after
'dibbing' at the start (which records their start time) they then pick up a map
showing where they are and they have to visit a number of controls around
the town - each runner is free to choose their own route round the
streets and ginnels of Holmfirth. It's not always the fastest runner who win
but the one choosing the quickest route I'm enclosing further details of
the event which I'd be grateful if you would pass the information onto your
members or they can access the information from our club's website at http://www.eastpennineoc.org.uk/2010events/100604Holmfirth/100604_Holmfirth.html
English and Northern 5k Championships – Sunday 11
July
This is being held at Blackburn.
Entries close on 4 July. Are you tempted by the winner’s prize of £400 or
the £200 for breaking the course record (14:08 for men, 15:50 for women).
Entries via www.ukresults.net
Results
Busy week for Malcolm Coles
Jerry
Watson emailed me
You had a
line reporting on Malcolm Coles's efforts in the Chevin fell race. His efforts
over the days prior to that should be recorded (even if the first event was not
in Valley colours)
- Sat / Sun May 29th/30th - The
Heart of Scotland 100 miles (actually 104 miles) - 30 hours 29 minutes
(finishing 6.30 pm Sunday night)
- Tuesday June 1st - Yorkshire Vets Grand Prix @ Kirkstall - 124th
in 51.55
- Wednesday June 2nd - Chevin
Fell Race @ Otley 66th - 27.04
Do you
award anything at the end of the year for this kind of ********* effort?
(insert your own appropriate adjective!)
Otley 10
15 Gwilym Thomas
01:01:27
46 Kevin McMullan 01:07:12
51 Alan
Walsh 01:07:32
67 Roy Huggins
01:09:49
72 Paul
Kaiser 01:10:28
115 Leroy Sutton 01:14:51
145 Joe
Hanney 01:17:41
186 Chloe Hudson
01:22:05
323 Meryll Cripps 01:48:19
Parkrun
A week ago Elika won her second race in a row,
and Saturday just gone Myra
was the first woman across the line. Congratulations to both.
For full results see www.parkrun.com
Bradford
Millennium Way
Relay
Leg
1. Ian Sanderson & Sue
Sunderland 1:37:23 (32) 1:37:23 (32)
2. Bob Jackson & Chloe
Hudson 1:37:11 (33) 3:14:34 (30)
3. Dan Murray & Lisa
Wilyman 1:07:07 (15) 4:21:41 (26)
4. John Wallace & Amanda
Seims 1:23:36 (21) 5:45:17 (25)
5. Tim Towler
& Liz Wood
1:37:30 (30) 7:22:47 (24)
Final position 24th (out of 48), finished
4th mixed team (out of 8).
Dan and Lisa were spotted by the race organiser
cutting straight across two fields rather than using the path round the
edges. The short cut was judged to be worth 1 to 2 minutes and they were
penalised a total of 3 minutes. Despite this, they still managed to beat
the previous mixed team record for leg 3 by over 2 minutes. This record
was set in the first race in 2002 by our own Paul
Furness and Kathy Kaiser.
Lisa still holds (with Steve Webb) the course record
for a Mixed team on leg 1 of 1:18:55. Who wants to run with Lisa next
year?
The other records still held by Valley Striders are
Leg 2 (mixed) Brian Hanley & Sam
Harris 1:18:59 and Overall Vets team 6:18:30.
Our best mixed team time of 6:57:19 in 2003 has now
been relegated to 4th place in the all time rankings.
The club positions included
1. Pudsey & Bramley 5:38:05
2.
Bingley
5:38:49
3.
Keighley 5:40:27
9.
Horsforth 6:25:04
1st vets
14. Accrington
6:49:20 1st mixed
20. Keighley ladies 7:04:31
1st ladies
Thanks to everyone who ran, also to our reserves who
stood by patiently but were not required.
Settle Hills (from Steve Webb)
A very hot
and sunny day for the Settle Hills race. Another strong run for Holly who
was second lady behind Jo Waites of the inaccurately-named (in the results)
Calder Valley Striders and 19th overall.
With
an initial steep drag out of Settle and the ascent of Attermire
Scar onto the grassland plateau I spent a lot of the race in a very tidy
2nd place overall. But on the return journey through lanes and
fields I faded slightly and was duly caught by a small pack, ending
up 8th.
Other
Striders scoring points for both Fell Champs and VSGP were John Marsham 25th,
John Wallace 51st and Steve Dixon 56th.
With the
results of Settle we have two changes of leader in the Fell Champs:
Steve now leads the Mens' table and Holly has taken a clear lead in the Ladies'
category.
Updated
league for VSFC and VSGP will be on the website later in the week.
Ennerdale
Fell Race (from Steve Webb)
Steve Dixon
flew the flag for Valley Striders in the very tough Ennerdale race so has
scored in the "Any A Long" category. You know it was a tough
race when Rob Jebb of Bingley Harriers won in 3 hours 34 minutes!
General News
Why
Amanda Seims is running the Mont Blanc Marathon
Amanda is
running the Mont Blanc mountain marathon (http://www.montblancmarathon.net/index.php?rub=&langue=an) this year for the local mountain
rescue team, the Upper Wharfdale Fell Rescue Association.
She says
“If you, your friends or family enjoy the outdoors, these volunteers are your
first emergency service in many cases so please sponsor me if you can. http://www.justgiving.com/Amanda-Seims”
Why Paula Radcliffe is running the Jane
Tomlinson Run for All 10k in Leeds
Read http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Paula-Radcliffe-on-why-she39s.6364043.jp
How Hilary Wharam of Horsforth Harriers became
the first woman to run the Bradford
Millennium Way in a day
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/archive/2010/06/17/Otley+%26+Aireborough+News+%28news_otleyaire%29/8224189.Runner__68__challenges_younger_athletes/
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/district/district_ilkley/district_ilkley_rawdon/8219206.Hilary__68__conquers_route_to_set_record/
Lucozade shop big birthday discounts
Log on to the Lucozade shop website www.LucozadeShop.com/Birthday
and automatically get a discount but until you check out, you don’t know
whether it will be 25%, 50% or 75%.
Ged Coll
emailed “Keep trying
and you will get 75% off. I got 12 lite drinks, 24 carbo bars and 24 packs of sports beans for
£13.”