Subject: V S Weekly Update -
dates including Real Relay and P&P, VSFC, Yorks Vets race, Striders down
under, Emmerdale
Sent: 29 June 2012 00:06
Dates
Sun 1 July – you’ve seen the Olympic Torch Relay with all the
celebrities walking a quarter of a mile and the torch travelling by train and
car between towns. How about the “Real Relay” where real runners cover the full
8,000 miles of the route in 10 mile sections running 24 hours a day for 2
months. Now you’ve the opportunity to take part as one of our members,
Lisa Wilyman, is running the section from Wakefield to Pontefract with a friend
on Sunday evening and has invited Striders to accompany them. For further
details, see below, Yes, I know there’s a
football match on, but you’ve got a “record” button, haven’t you?!
Sun 1 July 10pm – latest time to book food for …
Tue 3 July – Pie and peas night. The proposal
is that Kathy’s group and Holly’s group will both meet at 7pm so that runners
can have a meal straight afterwards. Fell training group to meet at Leos
but earlier than usual - 6:45pm. Club group meet Leos 7pm for 3 by 10 mins
session. Book food at [email protected] saying whether you want meat pie or veg bake, whether you want mushy
peas or baked beans and whether or not you want apple pie.
Tue 3 July – Jane Tomlinson 5k canal run at Methley www.ukresults.net , part of Leeds Race
Series www.leedsathletics.net
Wed 4 July – “John Lunn” 5k at Woodhouse Moor www.ukresults.net – V S Grand Prix,
also part of Leeds Race Series www.leedsathletics.net
Wed 4 July – Danefield Relay – teams of 3 – make up your own teams http://otleyac.org.uk/
Sun 8 July – Run For All 10k in Leeds – who’s
running? Also as the results are not likely to show club names, please
send me your results.
Fri 13 July – Washburn Valley Relay – teams of 3 – make up your own
teams http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races.php?id=2142
Sun 15 July – Eccup 10 mile – V S Grand Prix – also junior races (3
different distances depending on age) http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/
Sun 15 July – Holme Moss Fell Race – V S Fell Championship
Sat 21 July – Ingleborough Fell Race – V S Fell Championship
Sun 22 July – Pudsey 10k – V S Grand Prix – also junior races (2 different distances depending on age) http://www.pudseypacers.com/
Tue 24 July – VS 30th anniversary – change of plan! - Summer Handicap at 7pm from Eccup Res, 5 mile off-road route via
Emmerdale, also junior 1 mile race at 6:30pm, followed by barbecue.
More information to follow
Wed 25 July – Golden Acre Relay - teams of 3 – make up your own teams –
details will be on http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/
Sun 2 Sep – advanced notice of date for Leeds Country Way - last year we
had 5 teams of 12 runners, keep this date free! This is a 60 mile route,
run in pairs, so each pair runs 10 miles. It uses country footpaths and
it is strongly advised that you do at least one recce run a week or so before
the race so you know the route. When we pick the teams, the first 12 to
sign up are guaranteed a place - Anne, Kim, Liz, Mel and Sarah from Kathy’s
group have already done so. Email [email protected] if you’d like to
run. You can check you are on the list – there is a link on the “home
page” of the V S website.
Sun 9 Sep – Yorkshire Vets relays at Saltaire
The Real Relay
- message from Lisa Wilyman
Hi Bob and Tim,
Please will you forward this to anyone that might be interested, including
yourselves!
Endurance Life have organised a "Real Relay" for runners the whole
length of the Olympic torch route. The route has been split into legs of
approx 10 miles and began 10 days after the Olympic torch relay started. The
legs are being run continuously with the last leg expected to finish at the
same time as the Olympic torch in London. The website is: www.endurancelife.com/realrelay/
The legs were up for grabs a few days ago and me and my
friend have got Wakefield to Pontefract, via Castleford, this Sunday night,
1/7/2012. The exact route has to be followed where the flame was in
public view, but we can choose the route when the flame was in transit.
Our route is attached as a picture. It’s between 11 and 12 miles.
At the moment our starting time is 9.10 PM from Wakefield Cathedral,
finishing at The Masonic Hall in Pontefract no later than 11 PM. And
at the moment my dad is going to follow us in the car to make sure we're safe!!
The runners who are
doing 2 legs before us will ring my friend, Janine Stones (runs for Mablethorpe
Runners in Lincolnshire), when they set off to give us an idea of how close to
schedule they are, and also the previous runner is going to ring when he sets
off. If we're behind schedule we need to run a bit faster and vice versa
so the overall finish coincides with the Olympic torch!
At the moment I'm meeting her at the Masonic Hall in Pontefract at 8.15pm and
leaving her car there - Janine rang to check this would be ok. Dad is
going to take us both to Wakefield Cathedral where we wait for hand over and
he's then going to follow us so that when we finish she can get straight back
to Lincoln. When we get the baton we have to ring the runners 2 legs
ahead as well as the guys taking over from us so that they can plan their
times. I also think the baton can be tracked on Endurance Life website
but will have to check this.
We've chosen to run the main road way from Wakefield to Castleford as this
follows the exact torch route through and out of Wakefield. The torch was
then in transit to Castleford and I've driven the route which is pretty
straight forward, with pavements and streetlights. We will be wearing our
club vests with something high vis though as it will
be getting dark, and taking lots of photos!! At Castleford we then pick
up the actual public torch route and follow that down to Pontefract.
There might be some hanging around in Wakefield as relays are a bit
unpredictable but we will have our phones and the previous runners should have
our numbers so fingers crossed!
Would anyone like to
join us on a late night sunday run??? Should be
good fun :o)
Please email [email protected] or ring on
07910315694 if you are considering coming (but if there are no takers we will
not be offended!!!)
Hope to hear from
you,
Lisa x
Valley Striders Fell Championships
– from Steve Webb
Just two runners representing Striders at Buckden Pike in
typically awful weather for June 2012. Steve Webb and Martin Oddy tackled
the near vertical ups and downs of the hill and two crossings of the fast
flowing beck. Results have been added to the Fell Champs table and Steve
is the first to complete 5 scoring races. Please let Steve know if you
have completed any A Long races so your points from these can be taken into
consideration.
Coming
up in July is Holme Moss, an A Long on Sunday 15th and Ingleborough on Saturday
21st.
Steve
Yorks Vets Race
Firstly a very
special thank you to Ken Kaiser who recced the route twice, created the maps,
set out the course on the morning of the race, went round the course on the evening
putting up tape to replace that which had been torn down during the day and
then did another half lap taking out a group of marshals.
Memo for next year,
get more people involved prior to the race.
Also thanks to Kathy
(one recce with Ken), to Geoff and Sylvia who helped set up the course on the
Tuesday morning, to John and Pat for buttering and filling a mountain of
sandwiches and to Carole for 250 individually iced cakes including a centre
piece with cakes with letters Y-O-R-K-S-H-I-R-E-V-E-T-S.
OK, I don’t usually
name all the marshals, but with the conditions underfoot being so slippery it
was important to have a full complement not only to point the way but also to
be able to attend to emergencies (we had 4 drop outs).
So a big thank you to
Alexa Hannant, Alun Davies, Andy Stoneman, Chloe Hudson, Edward Carey, Eileen
Crosfill, Gary Mann, Gary Shaw, Ged Coll, Graham Needham, Helen Gill, Holly
Williams, Iain Currie, Jayne Sexton, Jeremy Ladyman, Joe Hanney, John Hallas,
John Whalley, Joyce Lambert, Kathy Kaiser, Kirsty Myers, Lucy Carey, Meg
Galsworthy, Mel Murray, Melissa Dexter, Mick Loftus, Mick Tinker, Mike
Crosfill, Niamh Carey, Paul Furness, Paul White, Peter Lambert, Sarah Smith,
Simon Vallance, Steve O’Callaghan, Tomas Mildorf, Tony Haygarth and sorry if
I’ve missed someone. Special thanks to club newcomers, I hope you enjoyed
the experience!.
And a final thanks to
the final man Patrick Barrett who was sweeper and as you can see from the
results was out on the course for quite a while. And a final final thanks to
John Wallace who was one of the last to leave, having swept and mopped the
changing rooms.
Selected results –
(see www.yvaa.org for full results):
M1 Dave Watson 28:20
(Holmfirth)
M6 Richard Balshaw 30:40 2nd M45
M30
Dan Murray 34:05
W1 Margaret Sykes 34:16 (Holmfirth)
M51
Rob Bumstead 35:59
M56
John Wallace 37:13
Last
finisher 70:52
There were 209
finishers – 77 women, 120 men and 12 guests – which represents £104.50 for
Valley Striders funds. Unfortunately we could only “release” 4 Striders
from marshalling duties to be able to run. If we could get more
volunteers next year we could have more runners. Could we compete with
Horsforth – they had 52 runners?!
Next year I hope to
secure sponsorship from the sponsors of Jungle Formula insect repellent, we
could have done with a few cans of the stuff!
Striders
Down Under –
message from James Forbes
(to John Wallace) Hi John it’s
James, I've had so many E-mails and can’t find my last Valley Striders one so
I'll E-mail you if you can pass a message onto the club, how’s the UK?
New Zealand’s colder.
Anyway onto important information, I ran the Christchurch Airport Half
Marathon while I've been here and recorded a time of 2 hours 3 mins which was
somehow 9 minutes better than my last PB time I got in the Leeds Half Marathon,
flat course and very good atmosphere but I’ve trained less, eaten less healthily
and drank more alcohol while backpacking so I've no idea how I managed that.
However also the race is a full marathon, half marathon and a 10k and
while I was running I saw a lady in a Valley Striders top doing the 10k out
here which amazed me considering I am 12,000 miles away so it would be nice to
know who it was.
Hope the club’s doing good, I will be rejoining
you guys once I return to the UK in mid August.
Take care
James
Runners wanted for episode of
Emmerdale
I wondered if you could help, we are looking for some extras to participate in a fun run for an episode of Emmerdale. I have come across your website while looking for local running clubs and thought I would see if you could help.
Below is the breakdown of what we are looking for, it would be great if you could help and if anyone from your club is interested -
*Approx 5-10 extras to take part in a fun run in the village.
*Must be runners but not 'professional' as it is a fun run. Various ages required.
*The filming date is Tuesday 10th July 2012 so they must be available to commit to this if interested.
We would offer the club a donation in return but there would be no direct payment to the runners, this is usual practice when we use clubs.
It has been mentioned that may need one or two dressed in fancy dress, more info on this would be to follow.
If anyone of your members are interested could they please email me at [email protected] and send a picture of themselves (running if poss but not essential). I must stress that we do need a minimum of 5 people for this and we would prefer to have them from the same club. Obviously we need to move quite quickly on this so if you think this may be something your club would be interested in please get in touch at your earliest convenience.
Many thanks, I hope to hear from you soon.
Kind Regards,
Lynsey Taylor