Subject:                                     V S Update - Training, AGM, Membership, West Yorks XC. Results and reports from LCW, VS Autumn Junior Race and Handicap, Wetherby, Yorkshireman and more

 

Sent: 16 September 2013 00:09

Next 3 weeks training

·         Next Tuesday (17th) – all groups at Harewood, 6pm and 6:45pm, details www.valleystriders.org.uk/up130912.htm

·         Thursday 19th, Scott Hall group as normal, but Kathy’s improvers group meeting 6:30pm at the car park by the playground near Leos2

·         The following Tuesday (24th) normal “summer” sessions, 6pm and 7pm

·         Tuesday 1st October, normal 6pm sessions, could the intermediates and experienced runners please arrive for 6:45pm as it is the AGM after training starting promptly at 8:30pm

 

Annual General Meeting – Tuesday 1 October 8:30pm at Leos

·         5 years ago, when we rewrote our constitution, we had just 3 training groups (one each on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays).  Now we have 7 training groups plus a significantly expanded fell section plus a cycling section plus …  I’m keen that we get a rep from each group onto the committee, we have 5 or 6 committee meetings a year, please volunteer or email me if you want more information.

·         See also www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsconst.htm

·         And book pie and peas at [email protected]

 

Membership Fees

·         www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm has a list of who is still due to pay and shows the membership fees.

·         Payment can be made either by cheque (payable to Valley Striders) to Paul White, 17 Whinmoor Court, Red Hall, Leeds LS14 1NX or by internet banking payment to Sort Code: xx-xx-xx, Account Number: aaaaaaaa, please include your name in the reference.

·         If you’re owing for anything else, e.g. Leeds Country Way (£9.50) or West Yorks XC (see below) please pay at the same time!

·         Please check www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsmemreg.htm and see whether there is a “Y” in the final column for you.  If not, we don’t have emergency contact details for you, please email me with a phone number and a name that we should call were you to be taken ill at training or at an event.

 

West Yorkshire Cross Country

 

We enter two leagues in the autumn/winter, the West Yorkshire has 4 races October to December, the Peco 5 races November to March.

 

Entries for the WY Series are required to be in to us by 10pm Sunday 28 September.  Please email [email protected] if you want to enter. 

 

Cost is £12 for seniors, £6 for juniors.  This is the cost for the series, not the cost per race!  Unbeatable value!

 

Race dates

·         Sunday 20 October at Wakefield

·         Saturday 2 November at Pudsey

·         Sunday 17 November at Leeds

·         Sunday 1 December at Guiseley

 

There are 10 races at each event, start times are from 11:45 (1.5km for U11 boys) through to 13:30 (6km senior women) and 14:15 (10km senior men).

 

Juniors require EA affiliation (£10),  age groups are as follows

·         Under 17 is born between 1 Sep 1996 and 31 Aug 1998 i.e. is aged 15 or 16 on 31 Aug/1 Sep 2013

·         Under 15 is born between 1 Sep 1998 and 31 Aug 2000 i.e. is aged 13 or 14 on 31 Aug/1 Sep 2013

·         Under 13 is born between 1 Sep 2000 and 19 Oct 2002 i.e. is aged 11 or 12 on 31 Aug/1 Sep or is 10 on that date but has their 11th birthday before 19 Oct

·         Under 11 is born between 19 Oct 2002 and 19 Oct 2004

 

Vets age groups are much simpler, they are purely the age on 19 October in 5 year bands.

 

Yorkshire Bicycle Show (advert)

 

Countdown to the Yorkshire Bicycle Show has begun! Taking place in Leeds Town Hall over the weekend of 20-22 September, there’ll be a host of exhibitors from all areas of cycling with a range of new products on show.

Here at the Show we’re proud of Yorkshire and the organisations that make it a success. To thank them, we are offering local businesses free tickets to a special preview event on the Friday afternoon, before the Show opens to the general public over the weekend.

As part of this, we’d like to invite members of your club who work in the region the opportunity to come along to the free event, along with their colleagues, to start the Show off with a bang.

We’d be grateful if you could circulate this email to your members, asking them to sign up with their names and those of their colleagues who will be attending at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8021970931

Tickets to the Show itself are £5 in advance (with under 12’s going free) and can be bought from the Show’s website: (www.yorkshirebicycleshow.com ).

We look forward to welcoming you, your members and their colleagues later this month!

The YBS Team - Sophie / Edward / Nathan / Tim

RESULTS AND REPORTS

 

Burnsall (24 August)

 

Paul Smith emailed - a few of us did Burnsall 10 (and two of us the fell race afterwards).  Kim came 2nd and 3rd in 10 mile and fell resp.  3 Paul’s (Kaiser, Fotherby, Smith) came 3rd in team prize for 10 miler

 

Classic fell race

W   3 Kim Threadgall   22:43

M 104 Paul Smith       23:58

 

10 mile

  11 Paul Kaiser      1:00:21

   14 Paul Fotherby    1:01:03

   29 Kim Threadgall   1:06:46

   35 Paul Smith       1:08:35

 

Steve Webb emailed that the Fell league has been updated  to include results of Burnsall.

 

Run Sunday (25 August)

 

   1 Joel Giddings  19:26

   2 Ian Sanderson  19:30

   3 James Tarran   19:59

 

Spofforth 10k (26 August)

 

   6 Paul Fotherby  39:42

  18 Andy Stoneman  43:12

  40 Alistair Smyth 46:02

140 Sarah Smith    57:42

DNF Chloe Hudson, stung by bees and broken wrist

 

VSCycling Time Trial – from Andy Stoneman

 

On 28 August night we ran the Valley Striders Cycle Club Time Trial for the second time. An undulating 10.4 mile course, that starts off with a fast 4 mile blast into Collingham along the A58 and then climbs back to Shadwell via East Keswick.

We had 15 riders and finishers (just). Paul Sanderson took a more scenic route and Patrick stopped off with his favourite bike mechanic Dr Kev in Wyke. Many thanks to Ged Coll for helping organise it, and particular thanks to Ian Iain Currie and his daughter, Paul Furness, Kevin Ainley, Tracey Morris and Ian Oram for helping out with the marshalling.

I think we had several PBs compared to when we ran this for the first time back in May, so well done to everyone, the training is obviously paying off! Some fella called Andy Stoneman came home first in 29.01, closely followed by Mick Wrench at 30.20 and Ged Coll in 31.39 (an improvement of nearly 4 minutes!).

Race    Name                Start   Start  Finish Finish  Lights  Race

Pos                          Pos   Time    Pos   Time            Time

   1    Stoneman, Andy          4   01:30     1   31:01   00:30   29:01

   2    Wrench Mick             2   00:30     2   31:20   00:30   30:20

   3    Coll, Ged              13   06:00     7   38:19   00:30   31:49

   4    Murray, Dan             8   03:30     3   35:50   00:30   31:50

   5    Adcock, Richard        20   09:30    12   41:56   00:30   31:56

   6    Cheyne, Oli            14   06:30     8   39:19   00:30   32:19

   7    Loftus, Mick           10   04:30     6   37:08           32:38

   8    Tarran, James          15   07:00     9   40:07           33:07

   9    Simms, William          6   02:30     4   36:06           33:36

  10    Bucktrout, John        16   07:30    11   41:53   00:10   34:13

  11    Davies, Alun           12   05:30    10   40:53   00:30   34:53

  12    Whitehead, Vicky        3   01:00     5   36:47   00:30   35:17

  13    Balshaw, Richard       19   09:00    14   46:57   00:30   37:27

  14    Sanderson, Paul         7   03:00    13   46:52           43:52

  15    Barrett, Patrick       18   08:30    15   55:10   00:30   46:10

 

Ramsbottom Fell – report from Steve Webb

 

The fell section were busy on Saturday morning 31 August running in the Capricorn long distance orienteering score event at Ramsbottom Fell, organised by Pendle Forest Orienteers.  You could opt for a 2 hour, 3 hour or 4 hour time limit.  On the 3 hour event Kim and Julia competed as a pair and were the first ladies in a great 3rd place overall.  Thomas also ran the 3 hour event, and with some good route choice he actually won the event outright.  Sara and I went for the extra value for money option of the 4 hour course.  This was won by James Logue who bagged all controls well within the time limit. I was happy enough with 10th, just behind M50 rival Mark Seddon who is very handy at this sort of thing - he has won the Elite course at the KIMM/OMM more times than anybody.   And Sara was happy enough at having beaten two men!  All in all a good warm up for LCW the next day.

 

Leeds Country Way

 

As most of you know by now, Valley Striders scored a unique clean sweep in the LCW, winning all three trophies – men’s, ladies’ and vets. – each by about 10 minutes.  Congratulations to all our winners.  We also took 6 pairs of fastest leg trophies so in all took home 51 of the 78 available trophies.

 

It was also spotted that we also had the first third-placed team to finish, but unfortunately the sequence was broken by Horsforth 5th team coming in ahead of our 5th team.

 

Many many thanks to our selectors, John and Myra.  And even more thanks to John for completing 10 recce runs even though he was on holiday on the day of the race.

 

Travelling from afar for the race were Pam (weekend from Croydon), Tosh (day trip from Birmingham) and Andy Settle (stayed the night before in Lancashire).

 

Our multi-national squad included Pam (South Sudan), Tomas (Czech), Kim & John (Scotland), Myra (Wales), Sarah Graham (Morpeth), Julia (Trafford), Gary (Birmingham).

 

Myra and I were relieved that no last minute subs were needed, but there were, as usual, a few swaps in the final week leading up to the race and several pairs now relying on the navigation of one person.  I don’t think too many wrong turns were taken! 

 

Selected Team Results

 

    1  Valley Striders  Mens            07:02:00

    2  Airedale Athletics  Mens         07:11:28

    3  Pudsey and Bramley               07:14:42

    4  Pudsey Pacers  A                 07:19:50

    5  Abbey Runners  Mens A            07:32:48

 

    7  Valley Striders  Vets            07:44:04  1st vets

   10  Dewsbury  Vets                   07:54:28  2nd vets

   11  Horsforth Harriers  Mens Vets    07:58:52  3rd vets

 

   12  Valley Striders  B               08:15:07  1st 3rd team

 

   21  Valley Striders  Ladies          08:38:41  1st ladies

   22  Abbey Runners  Ladies A          08:47:17  2nd ladies

   25  Horsforth Harriers  Ladies A     08:54:53  3rd ladies

 

   35  Horsforth Harriers  Mixed B      10:32:33  1st 5th team

   37  Valley Striders  H               10:40:24  2nd 5th team

 

   48  Hyde Park Harriers  ladies       13:17:36  final team

 

Here are the Striders individual results, showing time and position for each leg followed by cumulative time and position at the end of the leg, e.g. Sarah and Holly were 14th fastest team on their leg and at the end of the leg the team were in 26th place.

 

Men's "A" team

1 Andy May        Simon Midwood       1:08:19  1   1:08:19  1

2 Jeremy Ladyman  Dave Penman         1:17:11  4   2:25:30  1

3 Kevin McMullan  John Shanks         1:12:02  4   3:37:32  1

4 Steve Webb      Steve Wilkins       1:18:11  4   4:55:43  1

5 Paul Kaiser     Gwil Thomas         1:04:13  1   5:59:56  1

6 Gary Mann       Jon Pownall         1:02:04  3   7:02:00  1

                              

Ladies

1 Erica Hiorns    Pam Lomoro          1:41:05 37   1:41:05 37

2 Sarah Graham    Holly Williams      1:24:57 14   3:06:02 26 (fastest W)

3 Sharon Kaiser   Louise Wardman      1:24:25 22   4:30:27 24 (fastest W)

4 Julia Leventon  Kim Threadgall      1:31:02 15   6:01:29 20 (fastest W)

5 Sue Sunderland  Alex Watson-Usher   1:24:00 24   7:25:29 21

6 Myra Jones      Lisa Wilyman        1:13:12 15   8:38:41 21 (fastest W)

 

Vets                            

1 Tom Button      Roy Huggins         1:26:11 21   1:26:11 21

2 Ian Sanderson   Jerry Watson        1:17:10  3   2:43:21 11

3 Joel Giddings   Simon Vallance      1:13:09  5   3:56:30  7

4 Tahir Akhtar    Rob Hamilton        1:26:10 10   5:22:40 10

5 Richard Irvine  Mark Woodhead       1:11:42  6   6:34:22  8

6 Paul Sanderson  Paul Smith          1:09:42  9   7:44:04  7

 

"B"

1 Andy Settle     Alistair Smyth      1:27:40 25   1:27:40 25

2 Dan Murray      Jonathan Smyth      1:21:50 11   2:49:30 15

3 Keith Brewster  Steve Dixon         1:21:17 17   4:10:57 15

4 Alan Hutchinson Tomas Mildorf       1:34:37 20   5:45:34 15

5 Tom Curran      Mick Tinker         1:21:24 20   7:06:58 16

6 Ross Bibby      Andy Stoneman       1:08:09  7   8:15:07 12

                            

"H" team (Holly's Honeys?!)                            

1 Sarah Harper    Patrick Barrett     1:38:24 35   1:38:24 35

2 Elaine Craiggs  Becky Murray        2:15:58 45   3:54:22 44

3 Louise Cazan    Grace Thomas        1:55:26 41   5:49:48 43

4 Bob Jackson     Sarah Smith         1:54:32 32   7:44:30 44

5 Gemma Midwood   Ruth Warren         1:29:54 33   9:14:24 39

6 Rich Clough     Helen Stead         1:26:00 30  10:40:24 37

 

Autumn Junior Mile and Club Handicap

 

Junior Mile

 

A great run by Max just keeping a couple of yards ahead of Joe.  Max’s 5:52 in summer still stands as the record, but Ceara took 20 secs off the girls record.

 

In summer there were a record 29 juniors and 8 adults; these numbers easily exceeded by 38 juniors and 12 adults!!

 

                                   Pts     

     1  Max Partington     5.58    100     

     2  Joe Sherman        6.00     99      

     3  Stephen Diamond    6.15     98     

     4  Alex Irvine        6.27     97     

     5  Callum Chambers    6.42     96     

     6  Liam Townend       6.55     95     

     8  Jonah Thorpe       6.59     94     

     9  Sam Hollis         7.02     93     

    10  Max Vine           7.03     92     

    11  Ceara Sexton       7.05     91     

    12  Fin Staines        7.09     90     

    13  Joe Irvine         7.11     89     

    14  Finlay Chambers    7.12     88     

    15  Ben Redshaw        7.13     87     

    16  Tally Diamond      7.21     86     

    17  Cleo Vine          7.29     85     

    18  Georgia Pettit     7.31     84     

    19  Josephine Pawley   7.37     83     

    22  Imogen Idle        7.47     82      

    23  Oliver Charlton    7.49     81     

    24  Nick Tynan         7.51     80     

    25  Ben Hollis         7.51     79     

    27  Sam Chambers       8.05     78     

    31  Amy Parton         8.28     77     

    32  Oliver Pettit      8.32     76     

    33  Henry Firth        8.34     75     

    34  Isaac Carver       8.49     74     

    35  Isaac Durrant      8.51     73     

    36  Ben Easton         8.55     72     

    37  Eleanor Partingto  8.57     71     

    38  Henry Dodman       8.59     70     

    39  Amelia Pettit      9.00     69     

    40  Emily Dodman       9.01     68     

    43  Ella Hollis        9.46     67     

    44  Isla Wynne         9.49     66     

    45  Jordan Diamond    10.13     65      

    47  Daniel Fotherby   11.01     64     

    50  Jonathan Easton   15.08     63     

Adults                                     

     7  Howard Jeffrey     6.57            

    20  Richard Hollis     7.41            

    21  Tony Vine          7.42            

    26  Janet Tynan        7.55            

    28  Chip Chambers      8.06            

    29  David Dunne        8.11            

    30  Phil Staines       8.19            

    41  Liz Durrant        9.17            

    42  Sarah Ord          9.38            

    46  Mandy Sherman     11.00            

    48  Sophia Leeming    11.40            

    49  Sue Dodman        13.00            

 

Autumn Handicap 5 miles

 

The Handicap cup was presented to Pascale as first-over-the-line Rachael had not recorded a qualifying time so was given an arbitrary handicap.

 

Apologies that because of where I’d placed the start, a little out of range of the waiting masses, a few runners missed their start time.  But there were two runners who were very public-spirited with their handicaps and asked for a later start time as they felt the form book was inaccurate.

 

Thanks to our marshals and officials – Mike & Eileen Crosfill, Pat Umpleby, Grace Thomas, Kathy & Ken Kaiser, Liz Reddington, Paul White, Ian Place and John Umpleby.

 

There were 75 finishers, 2 more than the previous record set 6 weeks ago.

 

                           Gun time Hcap     Act time  Act Pos  Pts    Orig Hcap

     1  Rachel Oliver       0:52:35  0:11:00  0:41:35     54      64    N/A   

     2  Pascale Fotherby    0:54:00  0:14:30  0:39:30     45      70    0:14:15

     3  Elaine Craiggs      0:54:55  0:05:15  0:49:40     72      52    0:05:15

     4  Ged Coll            0:54:57  0:18:30  0:36:27     36      76    0:18:30

     5  Franco Pardini      0:54:58  0:26:00  0:28:58      1     100    0:26:00

     6  Jake Towler         0:55:00  0:14:15  0:40:45     48      68    N/A   

     7  Paul Sanderson      0:55:06  0:21:30  0:33:36     20      87    0:21:30

     8  Rav Panesar         0:55:08  0:24:15  0:30:53      6      97    0:24:15

     9  Jon Pownall         0:55:11  0:24:30  0:30:41      5      97    0:24:30

    10  Ross Bibby          0:55:15  0:22:45  0:32:30     13      92    0:22:45

    11  Gillian Felton      0:55:23  0:12:00  0:43:23     61      59    0:12:00

    12  Bill McCaffrey      0:55:33  0:18:45  0:36:48     38      75    0:18:45

    13  Alistair Smyth      0:55:36  0:20:15  0:35:21     30      81    0:20:15

    14  Myra Jones          0:55:39  0:22:30  0:33:09     17      89    0:22:30

    15  Gary Mann           0:55:46  0:24:15  0:31:31     11      93    0:24:15

    16  John Hussey         0:55:49  0:14:30  0:41:19     50      67    0:14:15

    17  John Shanks         0:55:50  0:24:45  0:31:05      9      95    0:24:45

    18  Julie McGurk        0:55:51  0:13:45  0:42:06     58      61    0:13:45

    19  Ian Rosser          0:55:52  0:21:00  0:34:52     26      83    0:21:00

    20  Sarah Howell        0:55:54  0:14:30  0:41:24     53      65    0:14:15

    21  Stephanie Gledhill  0:56:00  0:14:00  0:42:00     57      62    0:08:45

    22  Paul Fotherby       0:56:01  0:25:40  0:30:21      4      98    0:25:45

    23  Adam Parton         0:56:04  0:20:45  0:35:19     28      82    0:20:45

    24  Kate McIntyre       0:56:05  0:14:15  0:41:50     56      63    N/A   

    25  Dawn Parton         0:56:06  0:10:30  0:45:36     69      54    N/A   

    26  Jeremy Richardson   0:56:07  0:19:00  0:37:07     39      74    N/A   

    27  Claire Senior       0:56:12  0:13:15  0:42:57     60      60    0:13:15

    28  Kirsty Myers        0:56:13  0:11:15  0:44:58     66      56    0:11:15

    29  Laura Dransfield    0:56:14  0:21:45  0:34:29     22      86    0:21:45

    30  Tim Towler          0:56:16  0:22:15  0:34:01     21      86    0:22:15

    31  John Bucktrout      0:56:18  0:15:15  0:41:03     49      68    0:15:15

    32  Louise Cazan        0:56:19  0:14:00  0:42:19     59      61    0:12:15

    33  Richard Irvine      0:56:23  0:23:00  0:33:23     18      89    0:23:00

    34  Jeremy Ladyman      0:56:24  0:26:30  0:29:54      3      99    0:26:30

    35  Dan Murray          0:56:27  0:24:30  0:31:57     12      93    0:24:30

    36  Iain Currie         0:56:29  0:18:30  0:37:59     43      72    0:18:30

    37  Simon Midwood       0:56:30  0:27:30  0:29:00      2      99    0:27:30

    38  David Bass          0:56:39  0:20:30  0:36:09     33      78    0:20:30

    39  Rob Marsh           0:56:40  0:21:30  0:35:10     27      82    0:21:30

    40  Liz Guthrie         0:56:41  0:13:00  0:43:41     63      58    0:12:45

    41  Callum Parton       0:56:42  0:19:00  0:37:42     42      72    0:19:00

    42  Simon Vallance      0:56:43  0:23:45  0:32:58     14      91    0:23:45

    43  Andy Stoneman       0:56:44  0:23:45  0:32:59     15      91    0:23:45

    44  Nick Barnes         0:56:47  0:20:30  0:36:17     35      77    0:20:30

    45  Steve Webb          0:56:48  0:25:40  0:31:08     10      94    0:25:45

    46  Gemma Midwood       0:56:52  0:15:30  0:41:22     52      66    0:14:30

    47  Holly Williams      0:56:54  0:23:30  0:33:24     19      88    0:23:30

    48  Jonathan Smyth      0:56:58  0:26:00  0:30:58      7      96    N/A   

    49  Howard Jeffrey      0:57:06  0:21:45  0:35:21     29      81    0:21:45

    50  Alexandra Watson-U  0:57:07  0:18:15  0:38:52     44      71    0:18:15

    51  Sarah Clark         0:57:16  0:12:00  0:45:16     68      55    0:12:00

    52  Mike Furby          0:57:28  0:22:00  0:35:28     32      79    N/A   

    53  Rich Clough         0:57:40  0:16:00  0:41:40     55      64    0:11:00

    54  Andrew Bennett      0:57:43  0:26:45  0:30:58      8      96    0:26:45

    55  Keith Brewster      0:57:46  0:20:15  0:37:31     40      74    0:20:15

    56  Sue Bates-Patrick   0:57:50  0:13:15  0:44:35     65      57    0:13:15

    57  Sarah Harper        0:57:52  0:17:45  0:40:07     46      70    0:17:45

    58  Kim Threadgall      0:57:53  0:24:45  0:33:08     16      90    0:24:45

    59  Josie Rothera       0:57:54  0:13:30  0:44:24     64      57    0:13:30

    60  Helen Gill          0:57:55  0:08:30  0:49:25     71      53    0:08:30

    61  Becky Murray        0:58:05  0:07:00  0:51:05     73      51    0:07:00

    62  Tom Curran          0:58:16  0:22:00  0:36:16     34      78    0:22:00

    63  Jean Hussey         0:58:22  0:00:00  0:58:22     75      50    0:00:00

    64  Julia Leventon      0:58:25  0:23:45  0:34:40     25      84    0:23:45

    65  Roy Huggins         0:58:32  0:24:00  0:34:32     23      85    0:24:00

    66  Ian Sanderson       0:58:37  0:24:00  0:34:37     24      84    0:24:00

    67  Alan Hutchinson     0:58:50  0:22:15  0:36:35     37      76    0:22:15

    68  Sally Cox           0:58:57  0:04:00  0:54:57     74      51    N/A   

    69  Sara Dyer           0:58:59  0:12:00  0:46:59     70      53    0:12:00

    70  Bob Jackson         0:59:06  0:17:45  0:41:21     51      66    0:17:45

    71  Ian Spence          0:59:18  0:21:45  0:37:33     41      73    0:21:45

    72  Alex Irvine         1:00:00  0:19:30  0:40:30     47      69    0:19:30

    73  James Tarran        1:00:23  0:25:00  0:35:23     31      80    0:25:00

    74  Sarah Smith         1:00:43  0:17:15  0:43:28     62      59    0:17:15

    75  Stephen Diamond     1:02:54  0:17:45  0:45:09     67      55    0:17:45

 

Wetherby 10k (VSGP and VSJGP)

                                           

Wetherby mini-marathon 1.8 miles

     8  Callum Parton     10:20  M14       

    13  Alex Irvine       10:44  M13       

    18  Finlay Chambers   11:37  M9        

    32  Sam Hollis        13:00  M9        

    36  Tally Diamond     13:08  F8        

    42  Imogen Idle       13:22  F8        

    57  Ben Hollis        14:25  M11       

    63  Callum Chambers   14:51  M11       

    72  Ben Easton        15:52  M8        

    74  Henry Firth       15:53  M8        

    87  Jordan Diamond    17:13  M14       

    88  Sarah Ord         17:13  F34       

 

Wetherby 10k

                            Gun       Chip      GP Pts  Age grade%

    21  Jonathan Smyth      00:37:26  00:37:23   100     72.06

    24  James Tarran        00:37:44  00:37:38    99     77.18

    26  Dave Penman         00:37:53  00:37:50    98     71.20

    27  Joel Giddings       00:37:56  00:37:51    97     74.52

    31  John Shanks         00:38:16  00:38:11    96     70.47

    33  Kevin McMullan      00:38:24  00:38:18    95     75.26

    52  Andy Stoneman       00:39:41  00:39:34    94     69.72

    60  Myra Jones          00:40:07  00:40:03    93     74.56

    66  Richard Irvine      00:40:21  00:40:17    92     69.06

   103  Adam Parton         00:42:09  00:42:00    91     67.56

   110  Rob Marsh           00:42:18  00:42:09    90     65.88

   142  Graham Jones        00:43:46  00:43:37    89     67.57

   157  Louise Wardman      00:44:32  00:44:24    88     67.18

   182  Ged Coll            00:45:25  00:44:59    87     64.61

   190  Iain Currie         00:45:47  00:45:21    86     63.61

   195  Nick Barnes         00:45:58  00:45:44    85     58.68

   202  Paul White          00:46:12  00:45:54    84     75.35  3rd M60

   215  Alexandra Watson-U  00:46:38  00:46:29    83     64.14

   264  Pascale Fotherby    00:48:13  00:47:46    82     62.21

   288  Sarah Harper        00:49:03  00:48:49    80     60.99

   298  Gemma Midwood       00:49:18  00:49:08    79     60.68

   306  Bob Jackson         00:49:22  00:48:40    81     67.66

   334  Louise Cazan        00:49:56  00:49:43    78     59.91

   335  Steph Gledhill      00:49:57  00:49:44    77     60.04

   393  Joanna Chambers     00:51:52  00:51:24    76     60.18

   408  Esther Hollis       00:52:17  00:51:49    75     59.21

   414  Sarah Howell        00:52:28  00:52:15    74     57.01

   543  Sarah Clark         00:56:39  00:56:10    73     56.96

   558  Louise Jennings     00:57:03  00:56:17    72     55.17

   609  Helen Gill          00:59:35  00:59:06    71     53.26

   also                      

   214  Michael Mansfield   00:46:38  00:46:20    83     64.41 R'hay Runners

Nb the race was won by Louise Wardman’s husband, James!

 

Yorkshireman Marathon

 

Incorrectly named, it should be Yorkshirewoman marathon

 

Race report from Steve Dixon

 

A short race report in case no one else has sent one into you - I'd hate Kim's success to go uneported!
 
For the 3rd year running the weather conditions were good with sunshine, mild temperatures and little in the way of wind.  There were 9 Striders on the start line for the full marathon at 10am and a further 2 Striders in the half starting at 10.30am.

 

Franco led the Striders contingent in the full until an unfortunate stumble resulted in a twisted ankle and an enforced retirement.  Kim took on the baton and in a spectacular run finished first lady and 16th in the field - a minute ahead of the 2nd placed lady!

 

   1 Ged Callan  Bingley     03:18:29

  16 Kim Threadgall-Spence   03:46:55 (1st Lady)

  36 Mick Loftus             04:02:39    

  45 Ian Sanderson           04:07:03

  66 Steve Dixon             04:32:48 (1st MV60)

  71 Alistair Smyth          04:34:29

115 Sarah Smith             05:08:56

142 Simon Barker            05:30:28

Out of 185 starters 179 finished, Striders Franco Pardini and Rob Hamilton were among the 6 not able to finish.

 

In the half marathon Paul Smith came home in 23rd position in 02:02:40  and  Amanda (Meg) Galsworthy came 166th in 02:47:23.  246 finishers out of the 250 starters.  Winner was Ben Mounsey of Calder Valley in  01:41:04.

 

Race report from Kim Threadgall

 

I ran the 'Yorkshireman trail race' on Sunday for the first time which is an off road marathon starting in Haworth.  Apart from the Stanbury Splash earlier in the year I haven't done any running in that area before and I always like to explore new places to run.  I had a leisurely drive to Haworth although somehow seeing Sarah Smith and Steve Dixon cycle from Leeds to Haworth made me feel guilty about not doing enough that day!

As always there were quite a few Valley Striders at the start, some were doing the full marathon and some were doing the half (which is actually closer to 15 miles) and started half an hour after us.  The sun decided to come out which was good considering how bad the rain had been on Friday...

Off we went and after about a mile of running on the roads we hit the trails, the scenery was stunning, beautiful hills and countryside - it wasn't too rough underfoot so it gave me the chance to appreciate the view.  From a race point of view I found myself in second place for about the first 2.5 hours...I could feel myself slowly catching the first female.  Annoying she was with a group of guys who were leading the way and after that I couldn't see anyone for a while...if I passed her it meant I would be leading everyone and it is always easier to follow people in these races as you are constantly looking out for stickers on lamp posts etc.  I eventually did pass them but she stuck to me like glue and I couldn't shake her off.  Although the first 14 miles ish is very undulating the second half has lots of long flat fast sections followed by some steep climbs, as you can imagine a lot of people were cramping up over the second half and I seemed to pass quite a lot of people.  Unfortunately I soon went passed Franco who had to pull out with a twisted ankle!

Thankfully we caught up with someone who seemed to know the way which was good however, we then came to a junction and he turned right, the others followed us but someone was shouting at us to go back...I was about to turn around but the guy in front who was pretty confident about the route told us we were going the correct way.  I stuck with him but the female and the group of guys turned back....it didn't take long before I realised we were not going the right way but he said it would be fine.  My heart sank as I knew I would have lost my lead and eventually we did come out on the correct path and although I had dropped into second place I was probably 'only' about 20 or 30 seconds behind.

Once again I caught her and managed to get in front but by this point my legs were struggling.....with about a mile to the end she passed me again and then I caught her on a downhill section.  With about half a mile to go I knew I had to push as hard as I could even though I knew it was going to hurt and finishing on a steep uphill road section wasn't going to help but somehow I crossed the finish line after 3 hours and 46 minutes, first female and a new course record by 15 minutes!  The second female crossed the finish line about 45 seconds behind me...

Everyone seemed to enjoy it but agreed it was a tough race, I think if you enjoy hills and flat running then it is definitely a good race to do and would recommend it for anyone that hasn't done it to do it next year!  Lots of great results from everyone and Steve Dixon also won first male 60 although we all agreed he doesn't look that age :-)

More Results from Rombalds Romp and parkruns in the next edition.  Please email me with results from other races e.g. Great North Run