Sent: 03 August 2010 00:19
Subject: V S Update - LCW teams and recces, Abbey-Valley team handicap,
Three more relays, More events, Results including wins for Myra, Vicky, Gwil
and Jon
Just less than 5 weeks to go so time to get recceing!
This Wednesday evening I will be sending out 6 emails,
one per LEG. If you’ve been selected for a team you will get contact
details for your partner and for the other 8 Striders running the same leg as
you. If your partner is away on holiday then contact someone on your leg
from another Striders team and recce with them.
I’ll also be sending a 7th email to those currently
nominated as reserves to check your status.
If you don’t receive an email before Thursday morning
and you asked to run the
I’m hoping that people will use the Valley Striders
Forum to publicise their recce runs, then reserves and other Striders have the
opportunity to join a recce run.
Abbey-Valley team handicap and barbecue – Tuesday 17 August
For the third year running we are hosting Abbey Runners for
a Team Handicap race over the 5 and a quarter mile route that we used for our
“summer monsoon” handicap two weeks ago.
The format will be the same as the last 2 years - all runners (from both clubs) will
be divided into 5 ‘pools’ (A – E) based on 10K race times. Each team of 5 will
consist of 1 runner from each pool (names drawn from a hat), and will therefore
comprise a mixture of Abbeys and Striders. Club rivalries will be
suspended for a few hours!
Pool E (the
slowest) sets off first, pool D 5 minutes later, then C, then B then A.
Each pool is its own mini race with the winner scoring 20 points, second 19
etc. Then we add the points for each team member to find the winning
team.
While the
points are being calculated, Tony and his team will be serving the barbecue
back at Leos.
Important
notes re food and race entry
The BBQ
will cost £6.50 per head (meat and vegetarian options available); book as usual
to [email protected]
by 10pm Sunday 15 August. If you book but don’t turn up you will be
liable to pay the £6.50. You can book food even if you don’t want to run.
You must
pre-enter to run, this really is the only way we can sort out teams for the
night. Use the same email address [email protected] , again
by 10pm Sunday 15 August, if you want to run and please let us know your
best guess for a 5k or 10k road race. If you are running but not stopping
for the barbecue there will be a charge of 50p on the night.
If you
haven’t pre-entered and turn up on the night, you’ll be able to run if someone
else hasn’t turned up and you are in the same pool. Otherwise you’ll be able to
run but not as part of a team.
Note that
the “odd” 50p’s will cover cost of prizes and partial subsidy of food for our
timekeepers and marshals. NB if you forget to pay the 50p on the night
and your team wins, I will drink your prize!!
FRA Relays – Sunday 17 October – from Steve Webb
Last year,
for only the second time ever, we had a team in the FRA Relay Champs. It
was a great event and we got a very pleasing result. See
We need 6
runners per team: two solo legs (AS category), one AM pairs and one
navigational pairs. Team categories are Open, Ladies, V40, F40, V50.
As this is
a National team Championship hopefully the club will pay entry fees.
So do I
detect the sound of volunteers stampeding towards me? BTW I cannot race
as already committed to run for Airienteers in the CompassSport Cup Final on
that day - another example of silo thinking from those who draw up fixture
lists.
Northern Road Relays
and Cross Country Relays
Leading Striders men and women – book these
dates in your diaries
Northern
The
6 & 4 stage relays plus the Young Athletes Road Relays will be held on
Saturday 2nd October at Wythenshawe Park Manchester. We had a good men’s result at
Carnegie last year and should try to enter a mens and womens team this year.
Northern Athletics Cross Country Relay Championships
Northern
Athletics Annual Cross Country Relays will be held at
More events
Note that
the next V S Grand Prix and V S Fell Championship races are at Burnsall on
Saturday 21 August – Burnsall 10 mile (VSGP) at 2:30 and Burnsall Classic Fell
Race (VSGP&VSFC) at 4:30 see http://www.burnsallsports.co.uk/
for more details
Next
Yorkshire Vets race is this Wednesday, 4 August at Knavesmire – see www.yvaa.org for details of this and future
Yorkshire Vets races
Look on www.ukresults.net and/or http://www.northeastraces.com/ for
lots of local races. September will be busy with
And
somewhere in there we also need to fit in a Club Handicap!
Fell Championship
report from Steve Webb
League now
updated to include the sterling efforts of Geoff and Malcolm at Holme Moss,
which counts as "Any A Long", plus Round Hill. (will be on
the website by Wednesday)
We had 5
men and 4 ladies at Round Hill. Malcolm would like it known that he wore
a very smart new VS vest. This obviously brought him good
fortune as he was first M60. First fell race for
In the
league Sara is the first lady to record 5 finishes and so is leading, but
Xanthe is just one race behind and Holly has much the highest average score
but still needs two more races.
Round Hill
12 Steve
Webb 1:00:38
29 Ian Sanderson
1:04:34
33
47 Nick
Barnes 1:10:01
71
90
91
110 Sara
Dyer 1:41:35
Parkruns
Last
week it was the
ladies’ turn for the honours this week with a 1-2-4 for recent recruits
Daniel
Fitzhugh finished 3rd and the Striders men packed the top 20 with 7-8-9-11-16,
including new member Alan Brydon (11th).
This week our men set
a club first by having winners at two different parkruns. Gwil took off
the orange jacket and won at
Lou Gilchrist again set the highest age graded
percentage for parkruns anywhere in the country that day with 94.8% at
We’re now up to 99 Striders at parkruns, 28th position
of all
Perhaps we should organise a Saturday trip to
I’ve noticed that not many Striders wear club vests at
parkruns. It is a club policy that club vests should be worn for all
races but if it is a cunning plan to engage potential new members without them
knowing we are from a club, then let me know.
3 Daniel Fitzhugh
17:16
7 Ian
Rosser 18:11
8
9 Dan
Murray 18:24
11 Alan
Brydon 18:40
16
24
26 Graham
Jones 20:02
57
60 Bob
Jackson 22:07
61 Alistair
Fale 22:14
73 Sarah
Wood 23:01 4th W
28 Paul
Holloway 24:17
89 Lou
Gilchrist 26:36
13 Nick
Barnes 19:37
1
4 Daniel Fitzhugh
18:07
8
23 Ian
Sanderson 19:44
26 Nick
Barnes 20:02
62 Sarah
Oldroyd 23:04
70 Chris Sawyer
23:40
1
100 Lou
Gilchrist 26:54
30 Paul
Holloway 23:59
Other Results
Congratulations to Vicky and the women’s
team – Vicky was 1st W and the women won the team prize.
14 Kevin Mcmullan
36:43
23 Vicky Whitehead
37:38
29
78 Eric
Green 42:09
107
194
279
384 Sara
Goward 54:17
532 Meryll
Cripps 63:44
Priory Five, Nostell Priory
9
24 Nick
Barnes 33:50
Pudsey 10k
23
121
Performance Awards
The website is now up-to-date with all race
performances for this year. Are you one of the 42 Striders who has earned
a Performance Certificate this year?
To find out, go to www.valleystriders.org.uk, click
on “Club Information” at the top, then click on “Performance Awards” on the
left.