Subject: V S Update - Xmas Do, Membership Fees, Dates, GP&FC 2011&2012,
Pendle, men 1st & women 2nd at Peco, Up&Running move
Sent: 02 December 2011 11:12
Subject: V S Update - Xmas Do, Membership Fees, Dates, GP&FC
2011&2012, Pendle, men 1st & women 2nd at Peco, Up&Running move
Xmas Meal and
Presentation Night Friday 9 December
This is the FINAL
REMINDER for the Striders Xmas Meal & Presentation Night next Friday 7:30pm
at Leos.
Email [email protected] by Tuesday 6
December 10pm saying whether you want carnivore, veggie or half'n'half
(cost is £10). You will receive a confirmation email if you’ve addressed
it correctly. Please note that 10pm Tuesday is the very latest date/time
– Tony will be shopping in Sainsbury’s on Wednesday morning.
Please pay Paul White
before the night so that he can enjoy his meal rather than having to spend the
whole evening collecting money. Send a cheque to 17 Whinmoor Court, Red
Hall, Leeds LS14 1NX.
To check your booking
go to www.valleystriders.org.uk, click “For Club
Members” and “London & Xmas”
On the night, bring
along any race T-shirts – unworn or only worn once or twice – charity
collection for Africa.
Membership Fees
Membership fees for
2011/12 are £20 for first claim members. We now have 164 paid and 102 to
pay.
You can check your
membership status at www.valleystriders.org.uk, click “For Club
Members” and “Membership List”. By the way, your England Athletics
registration number is on this page too.
If you’ve not yet
paid, please pay in the next 2 weeks, otherwise we are going to send the
heavies around. And before you say there are no heavies in running clubs,
we have a mutual arrangement with Leos rugby club – they send their forwards
round to block the door to collect from our runners, we send our fastest
runners to chase their members.
Please send a cheque
for £20, payable to Valley Striders, to Paul White at 17 Whinmoor Court,
Redhall, Leeds LS14 1NX. If you don’t have a cheque account, then please
email Paul on [email protected] for details of how
to make payment via internet banking.
If you’re still owing
for Leeds Country Way, West Yorks XC, Xmas meal etc, please pay for these at
the same time.
NB There are
alternative rates if you
·
Are
not intending to run competitively in the next 12 months
·
or
are under 21 and in full time education
·
or
are second claim
Other dates
Sunday 4 December –
final WYXC at Thornes Park Wakefield.
Sunday 18 December –
Peco XC race 2 at Middleton Park www.pecoxc.co.uk
Monday 26 December –
Chevin Chase – are you in?
Monday 2 January –
Club Winter Handicap 5 miles. Meet by the Lodge by the Res at
11:00. Afterwards back to Leos – bring festive food to share. The
bar will be open.
For the following
cross country races email Drew at [email protected]
Sunday 5 February – Dewsbury 10k – as fast as the Abbey Dash, chip timed, an
opportunity for a PB – this is the next destination for Kathy’s Tuesday group
Sunday 1 April -
Baildon Boundary Way - entries open at www.runbritain.com and likely to
sell out very fast
Saturday 14 April –
amended probable date for Meanwood Valley Trail – if anyone knows a reason for
not having it on this day, please let me know. NB I do know the
Wakefield 10k is on the 15th!
Saturday 28 April –
Three Peaks Race, entries open on Monday 9 January.
Sunday 13 May – Leeds
Half AND Calderdale Way Relay AND River Moy half.
Grand Prix and Fell
Championship 2011 and 2012
Following the Peco XC
race, the 2011 Grand Prix is now complete and all results are on the
website. You can look and find out who are our new men’s and women’s
champions (both have not won it previously) and who have won the vets and group
categories.
If you’ve run 8 races
you should have have had an email from Paul White inviting you to purchase a
limited edition VS GP 2011 technical T-shirt. If you’ve not had that
email then please email Paul [email protected]
The Fell Championship
is also complete and the spreadsheet with all results is on the website.
We held a meeting
last Tuesday to select the races for the 2012 Grand Prix. We are
including a few more local races as soon to be announced is the “Leeds
Athletics Network” Leeds Race Series 2012 open to all runners in Leeds – you’ll
be able to get VSGP and Leeds Race Series points at the same time. I’ll
let you know when the Leeds Race Series is launched.
The Fell Championship
2012 is awaiting publication of the 2012 Fell Running Handbook with all the
race dates – there will be a meeting in January.
Results
Tour of
Pendle
M winner 2:21:48
W winner 2:46:44
Factor 1.1
Time Fell Chmp
Pts
John
Marsham 2:57:22 87.9
Mark
Woodhead 3:23:59 76.5
Richard Adcock
3:50:21 67.7
Graham
Ford 4:19:08 60.2
Sarah
Smith 4:23:30 69.6
There is
an explanation of the scoring system on the website!
I’d
mentioned to John Marsham that he looked weary crossing the line in the Abbey
Dash the next day. He explained “There was a certain
work pressure to run the Dash, so our work mens team had a chance against the
work women's team. I think we just beat them. It hurt though. Sorry for
stopping just over the line - I should know better by now, but I was kind of
tired …”
Peco
Race 1 at Fitzwilliam Country Park
A
fantastic start to the Peco XC league!
The
women, newly promoted to the premier division, finished 2nd,only 17
pts behind Abbey Runners. And Tracey, now only “allowed” to run off-road,
finished second in the race behind fellow Welsh international Non Stanford, but
since Non was running as a guest, Tracy took the coveted red number 1 tag.
The men’s
team went one better and with 5 in the top 7 and the last counter at 36, dipped
under 100 points whereas second placed Abbey scored over 200.
The only
very slight disappointment was in the vets. The women’s team needed one
each of W35, W45 and W55, but with no W55, finished 5th. The
men needed 3*M40, 2*M50, 1*M60 and finished 7th.
All
results on www.pecoxc.co.uk which
also contains race instructions for race 2 Sunday 18 December at Middleton Park
(back of John Charles Centre for Sport). See you there!
Women
GP Pts
1 Tracey Morris 93
W35
6
Myra Jones
84
21
Sue Sunderland 79
W45
32
Sharon Tansley
78
60
Sarah Smith
74
Men
2 Andy May
100
3
Dan Fisher
99
4
Simon Midwood
98
6
Gwil Thomas
97
7
Jon Parker
96
15
Paul Kaiser
95
17
Dave Penman
94
36
Joel Giddings 92
M40
56
Roy Huggins 91
M40
57
Gary Mann
90
66
John Shanks
89
84
Justin Vogler 88
M40
88
Mark Woodhead
87
89
Dan Murray
86
108
Nick Barnes
85
114
John Batchelor
83
113
Joe Hanney
82
132
John Wallace
81
139
Leroy Sutton 80
M50
176
Bob Jackson 77
M60
177
Malcolm Coles 76
M50
186
Tony Haygarth
75
211
Bob Wilkes
73
Results
show “counting” vets. Malcolm counted as a M50 even though he is actually
over 70!
Luton
Marathon – report from Steve O
My son
Paul ran his second marathon at Luton on 20-11-2011 to finish 2nd in 2.38.54
only 9 seconds slower than his London time on a hillier 3 lap course. He ran
most of the way on his own with the winner doing 2.35. He is very pleased with the
result as he was in two minds whether to compete due to a lot of missed
training with an injury problem. He plans to do London and Berlin next year. I
missed the race as I was on holiday in Nerja, Spain and only got back
yesterday. His team mate has never broken 3 hours before and was desperate to
do so bearing in mind he is a 1.17 half marathon runner. In 12 marathons he has
always died in the later stages. I got Paul to guide him on the diet which he
did for the first time and he was over the moon to run 2.55 feeling a lot
stronger than normal towards the finish. One more p.b. for the coaching team!!!
Paul
wanted to run the Chevin Chase as he is in Leeds for Christmas but has missed
the entries. If anyone in the club has one spare let me know.
Message from Terry
Massey at Up & Running
On Saturday 3rd
December Up & Running is moving from Lands Lane, in central Leeds, to
bigger and brighter premises at 38 Boar Lane - it's just a couple of
minutes' walk away.
At our Grand
Opening this Saturday we're giving kit worth £40 away with shoes sold. Would
you be kind enough to share the news with members of Valley Striders.