Sent: 22 October 2011 17:56
Subject: V S Update - Races you need to enter this week, Palma results,
Vicky Y Vets Champ, and more results
Races you need to enter this week
All of the
following are V S Grand Prix races
Guy Fawkes 10 (Sunday 6 November). I talked to the race
organiser today and he said that there were less than 200 entries left out of
an original 1000 and they were currently selling at 150 per week. For
information see Nidd Valley Road Runners site http://sites.google.com/site/niddbeta2/home
. Enter at John Schofield’s online entry website http://www.ukforms.net/onlineforms/php/Applicant.php?EventID=1147
Abbey Dash 10k (Sunday 20 November) – enter at http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/events-and-challenges/leeds-abbey-dash/
Chevin Chase (Monday 26
December) – enter at http://www.runbritain.com/onlineentry/event/the-chevin-chase-1/
. I wouldn’t bet on entries still being left the first week in
November.
Brass Monkey Half
Also
this week you need to place your food orders for the Valley Striders
Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 1 November, 8:30pm at Leos (not
Monday as stated in my last email). Book at [email protected]
before 10pm Sunday, choosing meat pie or veg bake, mushy peas or baked
beans, NB no dessert
And take a look at the Grand Prix table to plan your
other races to the end of the year – 23 Striders have already qualified
for V S Grand Prix T-shirts by running 8 races. There are also 8 Striders
on 7 races and 5 Striders on 6 races so we may have a record year.
Valley Striders Autumn Tour -
Chip Gun G P Pts
47 Dan
Murray 3:09:44
3:09:56 100
88 Roy
Huggins 3:19:34
3:19:47 98
96 Gary
Mann 3:21:05
3:22:34 97
119 Greg
Skerrett 3:24:43
3:25:24 95
129 Alistair Smyth
3:25:38 3:26:19 93
W12
232 Joe
Hanney 3:34:13
3:36:41 90
289 Ian
Sanderson 3:40:44
3:41:26 88
294 John Wallace
3:41:18 3:41:56 87
416 Patrick Barrett
3:52:02 3:52:43 85
422 Andy
May
3:52:41 3:52:44 83
W51 Sarah
Smith 3:54:13
3:54:55 82
491 Jonathan Brownbill 3:57:20
3:59:28 80
Half
Chip Gun
12
47 Jeremy Ladyman
1:23:56 1:24:07
192 Tom
Button 1:31:34
1:32:14
210 Alan Hutchinson
1:32:21 1:32:57
244 Tim
Towler 1:33:27
1:33:39
W12
348 John Batchelor
1:36:42 1:37:21
490 Nick
Wallhead 1:40:37 1:41:16
W43 Sharon Tansley
1:41:48 1:42:23
W46
W67 Chloe
Hudson 1:45:21 1:45:56
994 Paul
Stead 1:50:08
1:52:29
W443 Lucy
Carey 2:08:27
2:10:26
10k (not GP)
Chip Gun
W8 Holly Williams
0:44:08 0:44:08
W51 Carole
Towler 0:51:08 0:51:50
500 Lewis
Balfour 0:55:17 0:57:38
603
710 Jake
Towler 1:00:25 1:02:59
Report awaited! (please!)
British Fell Relay Championships
Report from Steve Webb. Results from Sportident
website http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2011/BritishFellRelays/
Valley
Striders A
Matt
Allen
44.53 (102)
Eirik
Stangnes &
Steve
Webb &
John
Marsham
49.51 (66)
Overall
4.22.56 (64)
Valley
Striders Vets
Malcolm
Coles
50.25 (150)
Martin
Oddy & Mark Woodhead 1.39.00
(118)
Rob
Bumstead &
Geoff
Webster 1.08.15
(173)
Overall 4.59.22
(124)
182 teams
completed the relay. Top 3 were
First
ladies team was Bingley in 55th place overall with 4.18.22. Simon and I
overtook them on a tussocky part of the descent towards Hag Dyke where a lot of
involuntary falling down was taking place. But they then despatched Scary
Mary Wilkinson on leg 4....
Some
excellent high definition photos available here http://www.sportsunday.co.uk/gallery.html
Thanks for
running guys, what a great event. Thanks also for being
reliable volunteers: you said you would run when asked and were true to your
word, with no lame excuses for last minute withdrawals!
From
Think I
have found out how Steve and I were 7 and a half minutes quicker than Mick and
Rob. They were too busy laughing! http://www.sportsunday.co.uk/photo13255777.html
From
Mark Woodhead
And the
secret of
From
Bob –
leg details
Leg 1
(solo) 4.5 miles, 1100ft ascent, fully marked
Leg 2
(pairs) 9 miles, 2500ft ascent, partially marked
Leg 3
(pairs) 7 miles, 1550ft ascent, navigation (7 checkpoints given to runners as they
set off)
Leg 4
(solo) 5.5 miles, 1600ft ascent (Whernside and back!)
Bridlington Half Marathon (
Congratulations to Vicky
Whitehead, 1st woman in the race, 1st W35 and Yorks Vets Half Marathon
Champion.
31 Vicky Whitehead 1:22:18
38 Kevin McMullan
1:25:07
More
from
John Parker
Just to let you know I had a great run in
Hope a good time was had by all in
Cheers, Jon
from
Jeremy Ladyman
I thought that I'd just mention that Jon Parker ran 2.51.02
at the Amsterdam Marathon. He's on hols for a fortnight and also may not be
aware of the GP table or the VS updates, but I suspect that his run should be
shouted about and so I'm mentioning it on his behalf.
from
I ran the Amsterdam Marathon at the weekend, it was my
first one and although I enjoyed myself I definitely know now what people mean
when they refer to “the wall”, it’s a dark and lonely place.
I managed to perk myself up at a refreshment station but suffered a painful
knee injury which meant I hobbled the last 10k as you can see from my 5k split
times (26:20, 25:12, 26:29, 27:49, 28:51, 34:58, 48:20, 46:04). The start /
finish in the stadium was great fun and the crowd were very encouraging from
the sidelines, they pretty much carried me over the last couple of miles.
264 Jon
Parker 2:51:02
8690
Abingdon Marathon – from Nick Barnes
I did the
Abingdon Marathon on Sunday 16th October - about as close to a home marathon as
I get, being born 5 miles up the road in
I'd
recommend the race to anyone looking for a well organised marathon outside of
the city ones. It’s as flat as they come and not over-crowded,
about 1000 places are allocated I think. The course is mostly rural roads
so its generally scenic and light on traffic, which was stopped for us at the
excellently marshalled road-crossings, and the start/finish are a lap of an
athletics track. There are two 9 mile laps in the middle, which means you
see mile markers 15-23 when you're only on miles 6-14, but I didn't mind that
and it meant I knew what was to come in the tougher later stages.
Abingdon itself is quite quaint alongside the River Thames, and the parts
that run through the town are well-supported as well as sporadically throughout
the course, although parts of the 2nd lap got quite lonely as the field was
well spread. It seems orientated towards club runners, as it imposes a 5-hour
limit on entrants and it sells out very early - by the end of February, but its
a fast field and there's definite PB potential if you're in shape.
Results here and
photos and mini-report here -
I've got #68 and I dopily forgot to put contact lenses in before I set off so
I'm unusually running in my glasses, but I do have both feet off the ground in
some of them to prove I was trying!
369
Nick Barnes 3:36:55
8118 James Tarran
3:42:19
from Bob
Jon now leads the “Any Other Marathon”
category, and this brings the number of marathon events run by Striders this
year to 73.
Other News
From
I did GNR
again this year too - 2:12:36 – and the Bradford Half too (hilly and
horrific!) in 2:17:35.
From Martin Browne at Abbey Runners
Mark Hetherington
posted the following message last night (Wednesday 19th
October) on Facebook (other social networks are available): “Thomas Owen Joe Hetherington, born today at 6.55pm,
weighing 6lb 15oz. Baby feeding, mother sleeping, father sipping a cold beer
and feeling pretty good about life :-)”
Martin
says “Along with the congratulations that I’m sure we all send to
the proud parents, I think we should also note that Jasmine beat Carla Bruni to
the line by five minutes (that’s gun time not chip time). “
Stop Press
Double
Striders win at parkrun today – Gwil Thomas won