Subject: V S Update - Events, Curry, Grand Prix, Fell Champs, Subs,
Results from Peco, Brass Monkey and Northern XC, running groups
Sent: 30 January 2012 00:02
Subject: V S Update - Events, Curry, Grand Prix, Fell Champs, Subs,
Results from Peco, Brass Monkey and Northern XC, running groups
Events
Tuesday 31 January
·
Run
Leeds session at 6pm
·
Striders
session meet Leos 7pm for pyramid session at High Ashes
·
Steve
and Keith’s marathon chat at about 8:45pm. Anyone intending to run a
marathon this year or next is welcome to listen and chat!
Saturday 4 February – Rombalds Stride
(VSGP), I think this is full
Sunday 5 February – Dewsbury 10k
(VSGP), entries still open for the next day or two at www.ukresults.net definitely no entries on the day.
Tuesday 7 February
·
Run
Leeds session at 6pm
·
Striders
session meet Leos at 7pm for 3 by 10 mins at High Ashes
·
Curry
at 8:30 pm, book by 10pm Sunday 5th saying whether you want meat or
veggie curry, and whether or not you want apple pie, Please note that if
you don’t book by 10pm Sunday, there may be spares, but check, before taking,
whether the spare is meat or veg and also whether or not there is spare apple
pie.
·
During
and/or after the curry – Ladies Summer Tour planning
·
During
and/or after the curry – Fell Section planning
Sunday 19 February – Peco XC race 4 at
Golden Acre Park. The men have been 1st in all 3 races, the
women 2nd in all 3 races, and I’m pleased to say that at race 3 we
had an all time record V S contingent at a XC race with 37 runners. As a
result of the popularity of this series, race 4 has been added to the 2012 V S
Grand Prix. (Race 5 at Otley Chevin on 11 March is also in the GP).
Ben Nevis Race – from
Steve Dixon - for anyone keen on running in Scotland in September the entry
forms for Ben Nevis have just been made available on the web
site. It will fill up very quickly. http://bennevisrace.co.uk/html/secretary_notes.html Printed
mine off and will be in the post tomorrow. It is an expensive race
though £22!
Thanks, Steve, and anyone else with
information about other races and cut-off dates, please email me and I will
include it in the next V S Update.
V S Grand Prix and
Fell Championship
The races have now all been
decided. There may be one or two changes before the end of the year but
if you want to run where other Striders are running then a good bet is to enter
a VSGP or VSFC race.
There’s a full list which you can
normally reach via the “For Club Members” tab, but here’s a quick link www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
Note that the Rombald’s Strider,
Baildon Boundary Way, London Marathon and 3 Peaks are already full, this leaves
about 39 races still open. My inside information is that the Leeds Half
Marathon on 13 May is already over half full, you have been warned!
Membership Subs
If you’re one of the 42 who hasn’t yet
paid, then, by the middle of next week, you will be technically 5 months
overdue, but since we didn’t officially set them till the AGM on 1 November,
you are “only”(?) 3 months overdue.
There’s a full list which you can
normally reach via the “For Club Members” tab, but here’s a quick link www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm
If you are renewing, please send to
Paul White 17 Whinmoor Court,
Redhall, Leeds LS14 1NX. If you’re not renewing, please email
me! If you want to change your membership status e.g. 1st
claim to social, please email me.
We had a discussion about setting subs
at our Committee Meeting last week. Our year runs September 1 to August
31. The subs need to be agreed at the AGM but the AGM needs to wait till
the annual accounts are published (usually the end of September) otherwise we
can’t make educated financial decisions. However if we have new members
coming along in July or August it is unfair to ask them for a full year’s subs
just for 1 to 2 months so we usually ask them to pay for 13-14 months and
therefore we have to have had an unofficial view of the subs from 1 July.
So our practice is to set the subs in July and then get them confirmed at the
AGM in October or November. If the AGM decided a different figure we’d
have to ask for extra or make refunds to those who’d paid “early”. Anyone with
suggestions for an alternative way of doing this please email me!
While we’re on subs, just to explain
that if you are a first claim adult member paying £20, then £5 goes to England
Athletics for your competition licence, £7.50 goes to Leos, and £7.50 to Valley
Striders.
Results
Peco Race 3 at Templenewsam
This was the biggest ever Peco field,
over 400 runners and the organisers ran out of tallies for both men and women
37 Striders lined up on the start
line, the largest number of Striders ever at a XC race just beating (by 2) when
the Nationals were held in Roundhay Park in 2010.
Jenni Kerr made her debut for VS, and
it was the first VS XC race for Gillian and Maureen.
Men
Dan
Fisher
2 M 100
Simon
Midwood
5 M 99
Andy
May
7 M 98
Jon
Parker
11 M 97
Gwil
Thomas
12 M 96
Paul
Kaiser
16 M 95
Steve
Webb
26 M 94
Joel
Giddings
29 M 93
Dave
Penman
30 M 92
Jeremy
Ladyman 38
M 91
Dan
Murray
57 M 90
Ian
Sanderson
68 M 89
Clive
Bandy
72 M 88
Andy
Thorpe
74 M 87
Roy
Huggins
75 M 86
Gary
Mann
85
M 85
John Batchelor
96 M 83
Joe
Hanney
112 M 81
Adam
Parton
138 M 80
Leroy
Sutton
157 M 79
Nick
Barnes
162 M 78
Alistair
Smyth 167
M 75
Patrick
Barrett 183
M 73
Malcolm
Coles 185
M 72
Bob
Jackson
199 M 71
Tony
Haygarth 207
M 69
Bob
Wilkes
227 M 67
267 finished
Women
Holly
Williams
5 W 84
Myra
Jones
10 W 82
Sharon
Tansley 28
W 77
Sue
Sunderland 29
W 76
Liz
Wood
38 W 74
Jenni
Kerr
49 W 70
Chloe
Hudson
60 W 68
Gillian
Felton 111
W 66
Sara
Dyer
127 W 65
Maureen
Coffey 143
W 64
161 finished
2 mile junior race 11-16
Callum
Parton 23rd
Brass Monkey Half Marathon
Striders were the club with the most
runners, and congratulations to Sue Sunderland, 1st W50.
Despite having positions 11, 13 and
18, the men were 2nd (no prize) behind Holmfirth who scored 2, 5 and
6.
Thanks to Paul Hunter who sent me a
link to Terry (the Complete Runner) Lonergan’s reflections on the 1987 race
(he’d won in 1986) http://terryrunningonempty.blogspot.com/
.
Gun
Gun Chip
Cat AG % GP Pts
Pos
Time Time
11 Andy May
01:14:51 01:14:50 M
80.03 100
13 Dan Fisher 01:15:28
01:15:27 M
79.04 99
18 Simon Midwood 01:16:50
01:16:45 M
77.63 98
32 Paul Kaiser 01:18:08
01:18:05 M
76.34 97
40 Gwil Thomas 01:19:00
01:18:56 M
75.50 96
64 Joel Giddings 01:22:28
01:22:10 M40
74.17 95
102 Kevin McMullan 01:24:49 01:24:31
M40
73.69 93
108 Clive Bandy 01:25:06
01:24:30 M
70.09 94
112 Ian Sanderson 01:25:14
01:24:57 M40
72.29 92
118 Dave Penman 01:25:34
01:25:18 M
69.71 91
165 James Tarran 01:27:55
01:27:39 M45
72.15 90
194 Andy Stoneman 01:29:01
01:28:28 M
67.78 88
199 Andy Thorpe 01:29:04
01:28:25 M
66.97 89
225 Roy Huggins 01:29:54
01:29:38 M45
72.74 87
229 Drew Taylor 01:29:58
01:29:50 M
66.30 86
285 Gary Mann
01:31:42 01:31:03 M
65.05 85
290 John Batchelor 01:31:51 01:31:32
M40
67.56 84
328 Myra Jones 01:33:05
01:32:27 F
70.68 83
336 Eric Green 01:33:15
01:32:45 M50
73.05
82
347 Greg Skerrett 01:33:36
01:32:55 M
63.72 81
370 Liz Wood
01:34:13 01:33:55 F35
70.62 80
382 John Wallace 01:34:38
01:34:01 M45
67.03 79
401 Alan Hutchinson 01:35:10 01:34:33
M55
72.17 78
449 Keith Sexton 01:36:38
01:36:04 M40
64.68 77
452 Sue Sunderland 01:36:39 01:36:05
F50
77.54 76
457 Sharon Tansley 01:36:46 01:36:28
F
68.00 75
486 Alistair Smyth 01:37:38 01:36:56
M50
69.18 74
506 Patrick Barrett 01:38:15 01:37:55
M50
68.75 73
518 Hayley Nancolas 01:38:36 01:38:02
F
66.73 71
526 Simon Redshaw 01:38:45
01:38:00 M40
62.40 72
565 Richard Adcock 01:39:52 01:39:08
M40
62.13 70
580 Ged Coll
01:40:14 01:39:12 M45
63.77 69
586 Mick Tinker 01:40:28
01:39:34 M55
69.58 68
639 Paul Sanderson 01:41:47 01:40:52
M40
61.86 67
644 Paul Gill
01:41:56 01:40:53 M50
66.26 66
648 Iain Currie 01:42:05
01:41:26 M40
61.68 65
668
Mike Higgins 01:42:29
01:41:36 M
58.20 64
717 Tim Darlison 01:44:02
01:43:10 M
57.34 63
752 Chloe Hudson 01:45:07
01:44:31 F
62.60 62
806 Bob Jackson 01:46:57
01:46:31 M60
67.16 61
919 Meg Galsworthy 01:50:06
01:48:45 F
59.76 60
957 Leroy Sutton 01:51:11
01:50:28 M50
61.27 59
1103 Henry Powell-Jones 01:55:21 01:52:55
M
51.71 58
1238 Ruth Warren 01:59:33
01:58:31 F55
66.49 56
1248 Alexa Hannant 01:59:53
01:58:22 F
54.88 57
1268 Simon Duckworth 02:00:32
01:59:50 M
49.49 55
1711
finished
Northern Cross Country at Pontefract
Our three women were placed nicely
mid-field but unfortunately it was 4 to count. Striders had a relation
with a gold medal – Maureen Coffey’s daughter Charlie Wills was 4th
counter for the Leeds City winning team.
92 Myra
JONES 38:17
115 Sue SUNDERLAND
39:13
135 Sharon TANSLEY
40:34
235 ran
Our men were placed 12th
overall, 3rd best in Leeds, 3rd best in West Yorks and 4th
best in Yorkshire
99 Simon
MIDWOOD 45:40
141 Andrew
MAY 46:48
173 Jon
PARKER 47:44
193 Paul
KAISER 48:18
194 Gwil
THOMAS 48:20
214 Steve
WEBB 48:53
286 David
PENMAN 50:36
554 John
WALLACE 59:16
623 Malcolm COLES
1:03:10
685 ran
Teams
1 Altrincham & District
AC 149
2 Leeds City Athletic Club
170
3 Salford Harriers 181
4 Liverpool Harriers &
AC 195
5 Stockport Harriers &
AC 195
6 Hallamshire Harriers
Sheffield 285
7 Morpeth Harriers & AC
365
8 Sale Harriers Manchester
555
9 Border Harriers & AC
641
10 Southport Waterloo AC 650
11 Pudsey & Bramley AC
900
12 Valley Striders 1014
52 complete teams
Full results
http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/Pages/Article.aspx?id=262
Pics from Jerry
Watson on facebook http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3165246694140.2156149.1354566255&type=1
Urgent - anyone
interested in leading running groups?
A repeat of my email
of 13 January (so far I have three people interested in options 1 or 3 or 4 and
two people interested in option 6, but need more) and to notify you of a new
LiRF course for fell running (option 2)
Several opportunities
are available.
1.
Help
lead one of our regular club sessions on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday – come
and support by timing, supporting new members etc and then possibly go on a
one-day LiRF (Leadership in Running Fitness) course
2.
NEW!
Similarly for fell training sessions – there is a new LiRF course to lead
fell-running groups
3.
Help
lead our beginners/improvers session 6pm Tuesday - ditto
4.
Help
lead a new beginners/improvers session 7pm Monday – we think there is a market
for people who finish work too late to make our Tuesday 6pm session, so we are
considering starting a new group in April on Monday evenings and will need 2 or
3 regular leaders who can commit to coming 2 weeks in 3.
5.
Lead
a brand new group external to Valley Striders, maybe in your workplace –
funding is available from outside Valley Striders as part of the government
campaign to get people exercising 30 minutes 3 times a week
6.
Lead
between 5 and 10 brand new groups – as above but we see this as a part time job
– some groups could be mid-morning to mothers who have kids in pre-school, some
at lunchtimes at offices or other places with a large workforce
(supermarkets?), some in evenings. Funding and support will be available
to set up the groups, and you could charge say £1.50 per runner, therefore with
a group of 15 you have an income of £22.50 per session.
The last two are
brand new opportunities. Holly and myself are on a committee covering the
whole of West Yorkshire with a target for Leeds to get 800 new people into
running in the next 12 months.
Please email me ASAP
if you are interested or ask myself or Holly [email protected] about these.
Night Running
Some of the fell
correspondence has been about night training and running.
Paul Hunter emailed
“As a new member at
Wetherby. We have a regular 'Moonlight Run' off road - good fun and it is
surprising how different everywhere feels. Recommended”
Steve Webb emailed
“Airienteers have
been staging regular Wednesday evening night score orienteering events over the
winter. This Wednesday is at Meanwood, next Wednesday at Woodhouse
Moor. Mass start at 7.00pm, 45 minute time limit to find as many controls
as possible. At Meanwood the controls will be postboxes or lamp posts, at
Woodhouse Moor (Hyde Park) probably conventional O flags on mapped features
(bushes, buildings, paths etc). All are welcome, £2 entry and it's good
fun. Details on AIRE website.“