Subject: V S Weekly Update - more
training and food, race calendar, parkrun mobrun, Chris Leggatt race, results
from 3 Peaks, VS junior mile, Sunderland and Manchester, some offers
Sent: 03 May 2013 07:48
Leos beer
fest – Fri/Sat 3/4 May
See last
week’s V S Update!
Training
– Tuesday 7 May
Beginners/Improvers
and Juniors 6pm at Leos – followed by food at 7:15pm
Intermediates
7pm at Leos (I think) check website for any changes– followed by food at 8:30pm
Experienced
runners 7pm at Leos for session 3 by 10 minutes by Eccup Res– followed by food at
8:30pm
Food is
lasagne (again, but there are good reasons), please book saying whether you
want meat or veggie lasagne and also whether you want apple pie. NB
Parents could you book the number of portions you want – half portions
permitted! Please book to [email protected] by 10pm
Sunday.
Fell
Runners group meet 6:30pm at Darwin Gardens Ilkley for recce of Jack Bloor
route. Further details from Simon Vallance:
·
Reminder
that the next fell session will be a recce of the Jack Bloor race route (race
takes place the following Tuesday 14th May). A recce is useful
in the event of bad weather, to get a feel for the terrain and to inform your
route choice so you can work out where to save a few seconds on your
competitors.
·
It’s
a great short race, lots of local interest and usually a good Striders turn
out. There are also junior races beforehand. Full details from here
http://www.jackbloor.co.uk/ and a copy of the
route http://www.jackbloor.co.uk/index.php/route
·
Please
be ready to leave from the Darwin Gardens car park below the White Wells Road
in Ilkey at no later than 6.30pm. Please let me know if you are coming so
that we don’t leave without you…
·
For
those wanting to make a night of it, we’ll move on to the Wetherspoons for some
refreshments afterwards. Here’s hoping that the weather is as nice as
today.
Note that Juniors,
beginners and Intermediates will be at Grammar School for Leeds on Tuesday 14
May
Race
Calendar
Weds
8/15/22 May – John Carr 5k series at Esholt.
This
series is part of our Grand Prix - best time to count. As far as I
know the series is not yet full, enter at http://johncarr5k.org.uk/ by
Sunday 5 May.
Sat 11
May –
Fairfield Horseshoe - VSFC
Sun 12
May – Leeds
Half Marathon (also junior races) – VSGP and VSJGP
Tue 14
May – Jack
Bloor (also junior races) – entries on the night - VSGP and VSFC
Sat 18
May – Cross
Flatts parkrun – message from the organiser that Hunslet Hawks are supporting
the Cross Flatts Parkrun on Saturday 18 May 9am. They are trying to
encourage as many locals down as possible to get a taster for what is a great
regular event. Runners get the opportunity to purchase a discounted
ticket are £7 for an adult with a child free (but not compulsory) for the match
against Batley Bulldogs on Thu 23 May.
Thu 23
May –
Apperley Bridge Canter – VSGP (also part of Leeds Race Series, see www.leedsathletics.net )
Fri 24
May – Post
Hill 5k (part of Leeds Race Series)
Sat 25
May – parkrun mobrun at Templenewsam
Ronnie and Neil
emailed - This year the parkrun 'Mob Run' is visiting Temple Newsam parkrun on
the 25th of May.
The event is a simple
challenge for a bit of inter-club fun. Clubs across the area see who can turn
out the most runners, and who has the fastest average runners at a specific
parkrun. Last year it was held at Leeds parkrun and a great success, this year
Temple Newsam parkrun will be hosting the event.
The more members you
can turn out the higher your club will be in the table! If you could spread the
word to your members about this event then we'd be very grateful, of course
like always with parkrun its totally free.
You can always point
them in the direction of our website article about the event:- http://www.parkrun.org.uk/templenewsam/news/2013/04/26/mob-run-2013/
Many thanks indeed,
hope to see you there - the cafe afterwards serves great food and parkrunners
get 10% off!
Bob says – at the first two mobruns, Striders had the second most
number of runners, beaten each time by Hyde Park Harriers for whom it was home
territory. Now we have a chance to get the most runners at the third
attempt, so I’m asking that all parkrunning Striders turn up at Templenewsam on
25th. I’ll be there! NB could everyone make sure
they are registered as Striders!
Sun 16
June – Bradford Millennium Way Relay
We still
need lots of runners email [email protected]
Sun 23
June – Chris Leggatt Memorial 5k at Pool (part of Pool Feast)
Chris was
a Valley Strider for part of his running career. Older Striders will
remember the Pool 10k and / or the Pool Fell Race both organised by Chris, and
when VS organised a Peco race on Otley Chevin 2 years ago, Chris helped myself
and Mick Tinker recce the route.
Note the
race goes the north side of the Wharfe to Castley and back so is not as hilly
as the 10k and fell race which both went up the Chevin.
It would
be great to see a large contingent of Striders at this new race in his memory.
Fell
Championship
Steve
Webb emailed
League
updated with results of Three Peaks (and now on website); I still need to add
Clive Bandy to the Heptonstall scores but the results seem to have gone AWOL.
Regarding
Three Peaks, I'll leave it to those who had very good runs (Messrs Loftus and
Murray spring to mind) to provide a report. For me it was a case of 2
Peaks good, 3 Peaks bad, as a total lack of long runs in training took effect.
Three Peaks
94 Mick
Loftus
3:49:23 88
167 Dan
Murray
4:00:48 86
173 Simon Vallance
4:01:59 85
202 Eirik Stangnes
4:06:29 83
231 Julia Leventon
4:10:28 82
263 Steve
Webb
4:16:43 81
294 Ollie Cheyne
4:20:57 79
304 Ann-Kristin Koehler
4:23:08 78
305 Paul
Smith
4:23:14
325
Andy Stoneman
4:27:55
386
Clive Bandy
4:35:24 77
414 Ross
Bibby
4:38:20 76
510 Richard Adcock
4:52:24 74
529 Andy
Settle
4:54:44 73
594 Alistair Smyth
5:07:27 72
628 Tomas Mildorf
5:19:03 71
666 Graham
Ford
5:33:58 70
(shows
current Grand Prix points in Any Other Marathon category – no points for Paul
and Andy as they have already run another marathon faster elsewhere)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151346710721415&set=np.193862102.638238673&type=1
http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~lecjm/Photos/20130428_3peaks_forVS.zip
Race Results
Valley Striders Junior Mile
A record 22 juniors
(and also 2 adults) in the 1 mile and the first three runners all broke the
previous record
1 Max Partington 0:06:01
2 Joe
Sherman
0:06:03
3 Alex
Irvine
0:06:07
4 Max
Vine
0:06:50
5 Callum Chambers 0:06:51
6 Tony
Vine
0:07:03 (adult)
7 Ben
Redshaw
0:07:19
8 Joe
Irvine
0:07:27
9 Eleanor
Ford 0:07:28
10 Ben
Dyal
0:07:31
11 Joanna Chambers 0:07:38
(adult)
12 Abigail Stoneman 0:07:58
13 Finlay
Hunt 0:08:05
14 Sarah
Brady 0:08:13
15 Finlay Chambers 0:08:14
16 Emily
Dodman 0:08:18
17 Eleanor Partington 0:08:19
18 Henry
Dodman 0:08:19
19 Sam
Chambers 0:08:25
20 Adam
Mills
0:08:46
21 Emily Stoneman 0:08:48
22 Cleo
Vine
0:08:51
23 Ella
Blythe
0:08:53
24 Emma
Blythe
0:08:54
Abigail Stoneman was
awarded a V S Performance certificate Grade 1 (see picture on facebook!)
Results of the Club
Handicap in the next VS Update (or check the website over the weekend)
Marathon of the North – report from
Ian Sanderson
This was the second
staging of the grandly named 'Marathon of the North', which is the organisers'
attempt to disguise the fact it is in Sunderland. The race starts and finishes
outside the 'Stadium of Light' football ground (they are big on hyperbole in Sunderland
- bit of a inferiority complex going on, I think) so access was easy with
minimal tailbacks and lots of on-site parking. The ground is open for the
event, so there are lots of toilets (no queues) and you can get out of the
weather if you need to.
The marathon and the
new half marathon started at 9:30, with the larger 10K race setting off half an
hour later, but the start wasn't particularly crowded and I managed to line up
a few feet from the start-line. The race route is extremely convoluted; in
broad terms you cross the bridge and do a half marathon on the south side of
the river and then another half on the north side but it twists and turns up
and down random side streets and you feel like you are getting nowhere fast. It
was all marked out well enough with traffic cones and barriers but it did sap
the spirits a bit and I have read that some of the slower marathon runners
found it a bit difficult to figure out towards the end. And while I am trying
to put any tribal prejudices aside, you couldn't call Sunderland a particularly
attractive town to run around. But the marshals were jolly, even if the locals
were mainly dis-interested, and the finish was noisy enough to get you over the
line. You pick your t-shirt, medal and goodie bag up by the football pitch,
which was a nice touch, before a mercifully short walk back to the car. In
summary, a perfectly well organised race but a bit underwhelming, to be honest.
As for my race, well
I had high hopes (as ever) having done more mileage than normal in
preparation…admittedly that included a 50 mile ultra in the middle of my
'tapering' phase, but where the harm in that? I started quickly as I tried to
tuck-in behind a bunch of runners to keep out of the strong, gusty wind. I
suspect they were half marathon runners because I was soon running sub-3 hour
pace but I optimistically decided to stick with it, despite failing to keep up
with them and hence out of the wind. I cheered up a bit when I spotted Ged and
Iain on one of the many out and back sections, but it was a bit of a dull plod
round the first half. Beyond the half marathon split, the road was almost
deserted but the organisers decided to throw in a few hills to add interest to
the second half - thanks. It was hard and lonely work running along Roker
sea-front for a couple of miles, just so we could turn back the way we came,
and the pace inevitably dropped as the miles plodded by. The last two miles
into the headwind were particularly cruel, despite the odd word of
encouragement from random Makems ("Way te gan, Striders!"). I
stumbled over the line in time to shave a few seconds off my p.b., and just
avoided the rain - result!
36 Ian Sanderson
3:08:35 97
231
Ged Coll
3:43:38 90
231
Iain Currie
3:43:38 90
Winning time: 2:42:23
, 785 ran
(shows
current Grand Prix points in Any Other Marathon category)
Manchester Marathon
169 Kim Threadgall
3:00:38 100
231
Gary Mann
3:04:55 99
269
James Tarran
3:07:08 98
365
Joe Hanney
3:11:10 96
869
Andreas Mayer
3:24:55 93
1079
Patrick Barrett
3:22:24 94
3233
Sarah Howell 4:19:50
80
4213
Alan Walsh
4:48:38 75
(shows
current Grand Prix points in Any Other Marathon category)
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