Subject: V S Weekly Update -
arrangements for 24 July, help wanted, dates, Yorks
bronze for Andy May and team win at Eccup 10,
Windmill report, Boff's book
Sent: 20 July 2012 13:50
Striders
30th Anniversary Barbecue – Tuesday 24 July
Please
get your barbecue food orders in by 10pm Sunday to [email protected] by
Sunday 22 July 10pm, just saying whether you want veggie or carnivore. NB
Families welcome whether or not runners! Should be a
good night – already 50 bookings.
Unlike
pie and peas when Tony makes a few spares for those who’ve forgotten to order,
there will be NO spares for the barbecue – so no order, no food (unless there is
a cancellation). Just £6, pay on the night.
Small
print : if you book and don’t turn up you still owe us
(unless we can reallocate)
Club
Handicap (adult race)
Meet
at the bottom of the path from Alwoodley Lane to Eccup Res (summer hill session). Please arrive by 6:50pm to
get your handicap. First runner (slowest) starts at 7pm, the last
(fastest runner) will probably start about 7:30pm, everyone should arrive back
about the same time.
Currently
planned to be an off-road route of just over 5 miles http://valleystriders.org.uk/hcaptrl.jpg
, but we’ll check the course over the weekend, and may change back to our 5
mile road route http://valleystriders.org.uk/hcap10k.jpg
. If you have trail shoes and road shoes bring both!
One
mile junior race
Starts
at 6:30pm, please arrive by 6:20pm. Adults also welcome to run this race.
Special
message from Mr Food
Starting
with the Anniversary BBQ, we’re going to be asking everyone who has ordered
food to pay when you get to the counter by putting your money in the beer pot
and then ticking your name on a list. We’ve had a few people who have ordered
food recently but not turned up so we need to keep a track on who is doing this
so we can collect the money in after the event to make sure that Tony isn’t
left out of pocket.
Marshals
wanted
Need
a few marshals for the 5 mile route (whichever route we choose), please contact
me! Half price barbecue for those that volunteer!
Help
Wanted
To
hand out entry forms for our Harewood Trail Race at
two races on Sunday - the Pudsey 10k (also has a junior race) and the Harrogate
10k
I,
with help from John Shanks, handed out about 400 forms at the end of Eccup 10 last Sunday and we already have a few entries
coming in.
The
Pudsey 10k is a similar profile to our race and Harrogate 10k is just down the
road, so I’m sure a large percentage of the competitors at both races will be
interested in ours.
Please
let me know if you can help!
Leeds
Country Way – Sunday 2 September
There
will be a reminder for this for the next 7 weeks. Link to Kippax Harriers website http://www.kippaxharriers.org.uk/
has more details including maps of all the legs. NB the route
follows the old Leeds Country Way which, on legs 1 and 2, crosses the border
into Wakefield. This is different from the route maps that are currently
on sale.
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. Please email as soon as you can saying whether you are “Definite (barring injury)”,
“Probable”, “Possible” or “Unavailable”
Because of summer holidays it is sometimes difficult
to arrange recce runs, so the earlier the better, and so also important to sign
up early.
Dates
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/
. Can anyone help at the finish by handing out Harewood
Trail entry forms?
Sun 22 July – Harrogate 10k - Can anyone help at the
finish by handing out Harewood Trail entry forms?
Tue 24 July – VS 30th anniversary – see
above
Wed 25 July – Golden Acre Relay - teams of 3 – make up
your own teams – details will be on http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/ . Can
anyone help at the finish by handing out Harewood
Trail entry forms? Mark Hetherington of Abbey Runners has emailed “Following a record
entry of 91 teams last year, we have increased the race limit to 120 teams for
2012. Entry is ‘on the night’ only: the race starts at 7.00pm, so it would be
worth turning up before 6.30pm to be on the safe side! It is important that
everyone parks legally and considerately, as we don’t want any complaints from
the police or other motorists.”
Sat 4 August – Round
Hill Fell Race (more a trail race) approx. 7 miles – VSGP AND VSFC. http://otleyac.org.uk/round-hill-fell-race/
and yes it is a Saturday (it always used to be a Sunday)
Wed 15 August – Hyde Park 1 mile – V S Grand Prix –
note entry limit of 150. Entry information on www.ukresults.net
Sun 2 Sep – Leeds Country Way
Sat 8 Sep – Leeds Golden Mile – www.evensplits.co.uk
Sun 9 Sep – Yorkshire Vets relays at Saltaire
Sun
9 Sep – Wetherby 10k - VS Grand Prix - also
Junior Race
3 Andy
May
0:56:28 100 (Yorkshire
bronze)
11 Simon Midwood
0:59:20 99
13 Gwil
Thomas 0:59:49
98
14 Paul
Kaiser
1:00:07 97
16 Richard Balshaw
1:00:32 96 (1st
M45)
17 Steve
Webb
1:01:23 95 (1st
M50)
41 Joel Giddings
1:03:33 94
48 Ian Sanderson
1:04:10 93
55 Kevin McMullan
1:04:51 92
60 James Tarran
1:05:25 91
68 Dave
Penman
1:06:02 90
76 Andy Stoneman
1:07:00 89
95 Roy
Huggins
1:08:09 88
100 Tahir Akhtar
1:08:22 87 (2nd
M55)
116 Adam
Parton
1:09:32 86
123 Andy Webster
1:10:08 85
141 Keith Sexton
1:11:37 84
143 Laura Goodson
1:11:51 83
166 Richard Irvine
1:13:03 82
170 Joe
Hanney
1:13:18 81
175 Alan Brydon
1:13:28 80
198 John
Shanks
1:14:26 79
201 John Batchelor
1:14:34 78
226 Jonathan Brownbill
1:16:04 77
252 Ged
Coll
1:17:36
76
254 Iain
Currie
1:17:38 75
257 Sue Sunderland
1:17:45 74
271 Mike Higgins
1:18:23 73
283 Mick
Tinker
1:19:00 72
303 Chris Sawyer
1:20:00 71
374 Gary Sutherland
1:24:21 70
414 Graham Ford
1:26:48 69
434 Pascale Fotherby
1:27:33 68
469 Bob
Wilkes
1:30:04 67
531 Sarah Harper
1:35:12 66
547 Sara
Dyer
1:36:31 65
599 Ellen Dolamore
1:42:50 64
GP
Points updated on website
Junior
1 mile race
11 Sarah
Brady 8:50
12 Emily Stoneman 9:53
Junior
2 mile race
10 Nathan Brady 14:21
11 Alex Irvine
14:30
15 Eleanor Ford 15:36 (2nd girl)
Abigail
Stoneman ran in the under-9 fun run
Pictures
of Eccup 10 on www.abbeyrunners.co.uk
Other
pics on V S Facebook (thanks to Hannah Stoneman and
Kathryn Giddings)
Windmill
Half Marathon (Lytham St Annes) – report from Eric Green
Driving along for the short drive from Preston to Lytham took
about half an hour. Somewhat longer than the journey Bob
tells me some Valley Strider members made in 1989 for the race. Perhaps
next year it will be back on the VS Grand Prix after a lengthy gap.
Signs were up for the British Open and I wondered if I'd see any
famous golfers at the run. If there were any golfers running I didn't recognise
them.
The first running of the Lytham Windmill Half-Marathon for 25
years attracted over 350 runners from throughout the UK. Starting and finishing
at The Fairhaven Lake Cafe, the strong wind took its toll on times. We
started in sunshine with the wind blowing from the side. First short lap
around the lake seemed quite easy as we were mostly sheltered from the
wind..
The next longer lap took us out onto the sea front down to the
windmill then a turn back into the wind. This was followed by a rerun
of the first lap taking us around the circuit again. By this time the
scenery was beginning to look quite familiar.
At the front a good race developed between Lancashire rivals
Charlie Pass of Wesham Road Runners and evergreen
veteran Paul Muller. The pair broke away after five miles and eventually agreed
to share the spoils and finish together in 1hr 18mins 14secs. They tossed a
coin to decide who took the first prize at the presentation and Pass won.
I hung around for the results to be published and found that
although Paul Muller who is in the same age category was 1st Male 55, as he
took second place I took home the 1st M55 prize for coming 2nd M55 (1hr
35mins 2 secs), a £10 shopping voucher.
A very well organised race, plenty of
friendly marshals. I'm sure this race will re-establish itself in the
Fylde Coast race calendar.
Thank
you, Eric, race reports are always welcome!
And
here are the Striders results (from 1989)
24
Terry Lonergan
71.30
29
Steve Thirkell
72.33
71
Martyn Hopson
75.46
73
John Hallas
75.49
86
Eric Cusack
76.20
122
Don Wrigley
78.48
139
Dave Edwards
79.41
167
Ray Jones
80.29
168
Sonia Dear
80.30
176
Richard Lumb
80.46
216
John Umpleby
82.39
218
Martin Cockerham
82.47
219
Dave Taylor
82.48
293
Yvonne Bissitt
85.19
351
Neil Benson
86.45
373
Roger Mackintosh 87.08
497
Charlie Markinson
90.12
498
Martin Clements 90.13
509
John Bean
90.29
560
Kathy Kaiser
91.51
609
Danny Burnham 92.52
813
Gary Dickson
97.34
1121
Wilf Little
104.01
1125
Andy Barritt
104.05
“Running
Wild” book signing
Hello
there.
My
name is Kieran O'Connor and I am Events Co-Ordinator here at Waterstones Leeds. I am just writing to tell
you about an upcoming event we are hosting in our store which may be of
interest to you and the members of your club.
Boff Whalley is better known as guitarist from
the chart-topping hellraising Armley
band Chumbawamba, but beyond his musical career,
Whalley has been prominent in the fell running scene, particularly in West
Yorkshire and he runs at a relatively high standard. He has recently
released a book called Running Wild, a wonderfully striking mediation on
running and its cleansing, awe-inspiring, other-worldly aspects. Equal
parts travelogue, training log and reminiscene, all
laced with Boff's laconic, self-deprecating humour,
this is a book that I feel can inspire and well as entertain.
To
celebrate the release of this book, Waterstones Leeds
are hosting an evening event instore
on Thursday 26th July at 7pm with Boff Whalley
himself. He will be talking about what inspired him to write the book, as
well as reading a couple of extracts, fielding any questions from the audience
and, hopefully, dusting off his acoustic guitar for a few numbers.
Tickets are priced £3, but I would like to offer you and your members free entry to this event, and it will include a free
glass of wine for attendees on arrival. Places are limited, but if this
is of any interest to you, please let me know and I'll confirm your places: all
I need would be a name and a contact number from attendees just in case any of
the details should change in the run up to the event.
I
look forward to hearing from you soon.
All
the best
Kieran
O'Connor
Events
Co-ordinator
Waterstone's Leeds
Tel:
0113 2444588
Email:
[email protected]
Twitter:
@WaterstoneLeeds
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/waterstonesleeds
Leeds City
Council sports offers
(spotted by Mick Tinker)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/sports/Pages/2012-Leeds-Summer-of-Sports-offers.aspx
The 12 activities
for £20 is
what caught my eye but some good stuff for kids.
