Subject: V S Weekly Update - Anniversary report & results, parkrun wins, Pudsey 10k, Northumberland report
Sent: 27 July 2012 08:22
Events
Sun
29 July - Yorkshire Vets at John Smeaton www.yvaa.org
Tue
31 July – back to normal with training sessions at 6pm and 7pm from Leos (see
website)
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)
Tue 7 August – training sessions (including fell
training) to be confirmed (see website next week), followed by lasagne, book to [email protected]
by 10pm Sunday 5th saying whether you want meat or veggie lasagne and whether or not you want apple pie.
Wed 15 August – Hyde Park 1 mile – V S Grand Prix –
note entry limit of 150. Entry information on www.ukresults.net
Also Wed 15 August – Sports first aid course at Leos,
probably 7pm to 10pm. This course normally costs £30 but Leeds Athletics
Network are funding half of this and Valley Striders will fund the rest
(providing you are or will be a frequent volunteer for at least two of our
three races each year) – email me [email protected]
to “book”. So it’s free but if you book and then don’t turn up, you
will have to pay as someone else could have had the
place. Book early, filling fast.
Sun
2 September, Leeds Country Way see previous emails for
details, [email protected]
if you want to run.
Lots
of race information on www.ukresults.net,
no point me listing it all here!
Valley
Striders Anniversary
We
received birthday wishes via email from club founder Stuart StJohn
and by facebook from one of our leading ladies from
the late 80’s / early 90’s Yvonne Bissitt (now
Ambler).
The
festivities started with the 1 mile junior race which was contested by 11
juniors, 3 slightly over-18’s and 1 toddler, Lucy Adcock (age 2) who completed
the route in just over half an hour. The race was won in a new record of
6:23 by Nathan Brady, and Eleanor Ford was first girl. This was the third
time the mile race had been contested and most of the runners dipped under
their previous times. See http://valleystriders.org.uk/vsgp12j.htm
. Pictures on Facebook from Andy Stoneman.
We
had special Valley Striders 30th Anniversary race numbers for the
junior race and for the club handicap. 77 of them were used, so you can
determine that there were 62 runners in the club handicap, beating our previous
best of 54 set in the 25th Anniversary race. Handicap winner
was Sarah Harper with Tomas Mildorf and Tosh Akhtar
finishing fast but not quite fast enough to overtake Sarah. Fastest on
the night was Rob De’Giovanni, with Paul Kaiser and Richard Balshaw only a few
seconds slower.
Thanks
to our marshals – Mary Egan at Goodrick Stile, Paul
White on Eccup Moor Road, Peter Lambert & John
Umpleby in Eccup, Andy Settle & Sylvia Watson at Emmerdale, Sharon Tansley at the Water Treatment Works and
Ken & Kathy Kaiser & the whole of John Shanks’ family between w.t.w. and the lodge on the dam. Also thanks to Mike
and Eileen for timekeeping and Pat Umpleby and myself for recording.
I
presented Sarah with the cup and then made a presentation of Honorary Life
Membership to Peter Lambert. His wife, Joyce, was made a Life Member 5
years ago as club number one supporter, and since then, Peter has referred to
himself as “The Apprentice”. Peter has now qualified! Peter
marshals at most of our own races and is also to be seen spectating at other
races. If, halfway through a race, in the middle of nowhere, a man shouts
“Come on Striders” to you, it is probably Peter.
Back
at the club, a superb barbecue was served to 80 Striders and friends (another
record), followed by fairy cakes made by Carole Schofield and a Valley Striders
T-shirt cake made by Sarah Howell – thank you both.
I
presented a slide show “30 years of Valley Striders in less than 10
minutes”. (Here I must thank Louise Purdy who just happened to have her
laptop and a memory stick with her so when I couldn’t make connection to the
projector with my laptop, I used hers instead)
And
then I presented John & Pat Umpleby with Honorary Life Memberships.
Both help out at nearly every event, marshalling, holding keys, recording,
handing out beer, handing out water, making sandwiches, moving tables and
more. John presented the V S Handicap Trophy in 1988 which has now been
contested nearly 100 times. I thought he’d never won it, but in fact he
did in 1989!
Junior 1 mile results
1 Nathan
Brady 6:23 (11) new
record
2 Joe
Sherman 6:51 (9)
3 Joe
Irvine 7:35
(9)
4 Ben
Redshaw 7:41 (7)
5 Eleanor
Ford 7:58 (12)
6 Theo
Giddings 8:24 (7)
7 Sarah
Brady 8:59 (8)
8 Emily
Stoneman 9:30 (8)
9 Abe
Giddings 9:32 (11)
10 Abigail
Stoneman 10:28 (7)
11 Amanda
Lea-Langton 11:23 (>18)
12 Maya
Lea-Langton 12:52 (9)
13= Mandy
Sherman 13:21 (>18)
13= Harry Lea-Langton 13:21 (>18)
15 Lucy
Adcock
(2)
Trail
Handicap approx 5.1 mile results
Race
Race
Hand- Run Pts
Pos
Time icap
Time
1 Sarah
Harper 0:53:35 0:12:20
0:41:15 55
2 Tomas Mildorf
0:53:50 0:17:30 0:36:20 70
3 Tahir
Akhtar 0:53:52 0:21:15 0:32:37
91
4 Steve
Dixon 0:53:55
0:15:00 0:38:55 58
5 Joel Giddings
0:54:15 0:23:00 0:31:15 97
6 Keith
Sexton 0:54:24 0:19:15
0:35:09 80
7 Ronan
Loftus 0:54:28 0:16:15
0:38:13 62
8 Sarah
Smith 0:54:30
0:14:15 0:40:15 57
9 Amanda
Seims 0:54:32 0:17:00
0:37:32 63
10 Laura
Clark 0:54:34
0:19:00 0:35:34 76
11 Simon Vallance
0:54:36 0:22:15 0:32:21 94
12 Richard Irvine
0:54:40 0:19:45 0:34:55 81
13 John Batchelor
0:54:41 0:21:15 0:33:26 89
14 Joe
Hanney 0:54:57
0:19:30 0:35:27 77
15 Julia Leventon
0:55:01 0:21:00 0:34:01 86
16 Laura Goodson
0:55:07 0:19:15 0:35:52 71
17 Gary
Mann 0:55:11
0:22:30 0:32:41 90
18 Rob De'Giovanni
0:55:25 0:25:45 0:29:40 100
19 Dusan Svoboda
0:55:28 0:23:00 0:32:28 93
20 Roy
Huggins 0:55:30
0:23:00 0:32:30 92
21 Paul
Kaiser 0:55:31
0:25:45 0:29:46 99
22 Sue Sunderland
0:55:35 0:17:15 0:38:20 61
23 Kate
Brady 0:55:37
0:07:00 0:48:37 46
24 Andy Stoneman
0:55:39 0:22:00 0:33:39 88
25 Jenni
Kerr 0:55:41
0:18:30 0:37:11 65
26 Richard Balshaw
0:55:43 0:25:45 0:29:58 98
27 Graham
Jones 0:55:45 0:20:00
0:35:45 72
28 John
Marsham 0:55:47 0:21:30
0:34:17 85
29 Liz Reddington
0:55:52 0:11:30 0:44:22 52
30 Gillian Felton
0:55:53 0:11:30 0:44:23 51
31 Hayley Nancolas
0:55:55 0:19:00 0:36:55 66
32 Simon Redshaw
0:56:12 0:21:30 0:34:42 82
33 Nick
Barnes 0:56:15 0:19:00
0:37:15 64
34 Bob
Wilkes 0:56:16
0:11:30 0:44:46 50
35 Iain
Currie 0:56:19
0:17:45 0:38:34 60
36 Dan
Murray 0:56:23
0:21:45 0:34:38 83
37 Clive
Bandy 0:56:24
0:24:30 0:31:54 95
38 Myra
Jones 0:56:25
0:20:45 0:35:40 74
39 Sarah
Howell 0:56:30 0:12:30
0:44:00 53
40 Ged
Coll
0:56:38 0:17:45 0:38:53 59
41 Alistair Smyth
0:56:40 0:21:00 0:35:40 74
42 Graham
Ford 0:56:56
0:16:00 0:40:56 56
43 Mick
Loftus 0:57:00
0:23:00 0:34:00 87
44 Jeremy Ladyman
0:57:01 0:25:15 0:31:46 96
45 Paul Sanderson
0:57:07 0:21:30 0:35:37 75
46 Rob
Bumstead 0:57:30 0:22:15
0:35:15 79
47 Alan Hutchinson
0:57:47 0:21:00 0:36:47 67
48 Elaine Craiggs
0:57:56 0:07:00 0:50:56 44
49 David
Bass 0:57:57
0:21:30 0:36:27 69
50 Chloe
Hudson 0:58:03 0:12:30
0:45:33 48
51 Alan Brydon
0:58:05 0:22:45 0:35:20 78
52 Liz
Wood
0:58:09 0:21:30 0:36:39 68
53 John
Shanks 0:58:32
0:24:00 0:34:32 84
54 Anne
Jones 0:59:24
0:05:15 0:54:09 42
55 Helen
Gill 0:59:28
0:07:00 0:52:28 43
56 Kim Knowles
0:59:58 0:05:15
0:54:43 41
57 Mel
Murray 1:00:04
0:02:00 0:58:04 40
58 John Bucktrout
1:00:07 0:14:45 0:45:22 49
59 Grace Thomas
1:00:23 0:12:45 0:47:38 47
60 Maggie Horgan
1:00:42 0:10:00 0:50:42 45
61 Emma
Johnson 1:02:26 0:01:00
1:01:26 39
62 Rob
Hamilton 1:04:48 0:22:30
0:42:18 54
Other
Results
Parkruns
Two wins at the weekend - Jeremy Ladyman at Roundhay (18:07) (where we also had 6 in the top 10) and Dan Fisher at York (16:33)
Pudsey
10k
GP Pts
4 Richard Balshaw 0:38:05
100
15 Joel Giddings 0:40:51
98
32 Tosh
Akhtar 0:44:38 97
41 Gary
Mann
0:45:10 95
49 Richard Irvine
0:45:52 94
61 John
Shanks 0:46:51 92
66 Laura
Clark 0:47:17 91
67 Alan Brydon
0:47:33 89
71 Hayley Nancolas
0:47:50 88
95 Jonathan Brownbill 0:50:15 86
107 Sue Sunderland
0:50:51 85
167 John
Shanks 0:54:34 83
198 Sarah Howell
0:57:47 82
206 Andy
May 0:58:18
80
Harrogate 10k
160 Paul White
0:45:58
The
Northumberland Coastal Run – report from Simon Vallance
Regularly
voted one of Britain’s most scenic runs by readers of Runners World this approximately
14 mile race (depends on whether the tide is in or out) is pretty
challenging. It starts in Beadnell and follows
the coast all the way to Alnmouth. In doing so, it
cross three beautiful sandy beaches, passes the ruined Dunstanburgh
castle and the 18th century fishing village of Low Newton.
For
this year’s race the tide was on its way out and according to my GPS a mere
13.1 miles long. However, the shorter distance was more than compensated
for by the screaming headwind. We all gathered on the beach, and without
any warning we were off. The most low key start
to a race I can remember.
The
terrain is pretty flat as you might imagine, but running on the beach gives its
own challenges as you run over rippled sand, seaweed and exposed rocks.
Before the race we were warned that the stream we have to cross at a mile and a
half would be up to our waists and was running quickly. If true this
would have meant a half mile diversion, and a major delay as runners queued to
cross the tiny footbridge upstream.
Thankfully
by the time we reached it, the tide was out sufficiently for us to ford it
safely, with the water knee high at most. On, into the
wind and across the rest of the bay before leaving the coast to run along the
road for half a mile or so to Low Newton and Embleton
Bay.
Yet more running on soft sand, with the stark silhouette
of Dunstanburgh marking the end of the sweep of sand
we have to cross.
A little sunshine accompanies a somewhat tentative crossing of the rocks before
we climb through the dunes to run below the castle. From here we run
across the salt meadows that climb and then drop into Craster,
the smell of smoking kippers announcing our arrival at the approximate half way
point.
Once
through the village, it’s back onto the coastal path for a short way, before
picking up a short stretch of road that becomes a track which seems to go on
forever. Tired legs are made heavier by the flooded sections where the
choice is to wade through water or mud before the route’s only real climb out
of a stream valley. I’m feeling OK and pick up a few places as people
struggle to adapt to the change of gradient.
Not
long after this, we re-join the coastal road at Boulmer.
This section is always hard; a slight climb for about a mile is made harder by
the strengthening wind. The road is also dead straight and vanishes over
a rise which never seems to get any nearer. Finally the road starts to
drop slightly and I catch sight of the sign informing us that there are only
two miles to go.
But
what a two miles! The first half mile is in soft sand and is really hard
going. I feel like I’m going backwards as two runners pass me strongly,
although my spirits are lifted as I manage to pull back a couple of places
slightly further on. Then we turn the corner and the finish is in
sight. We all seek out the firmer sand nearer to the sea, despite this
meaning we have to run further. The wind intensifies and I dig in to
finish. I’ve been neck and neck with the second lady for almost four
miles and she begins to pull away. But a poor route choice sees her
running through a soft patch of sand and I pass her and her companion with
about quarter of a mile to go.
I
finish in a time of 1.33 in 53rd position, for me a personal best in seven
years of doing the race. I’m pretty pleased with that.
One
of the nicest parts about the run is that it finishes on the beach, so there is
always plenty of support at the end, with deckchair and sandcastles a
plenty. It’s been a while since the kids have voluntarily come to watch
me run, so it’s nice for them to have something to do whilst whiling away the
time that I’m running (even though this does involve being sandblasted almost
continually).
I
thoroughly recommend the race. Superbly organised by Alnwick
Harriers – entry includes a bus ride from the finish to the start if you need
it, a really friendly bunch of runners and of course some of the most beautiful
seaside in the North East. A Striders trip for the future perhaps?
For
more information see Alnwick Harriers website http://www.alnwickharriers.co.uk/?page_id=103
Simon