Subject: V S Update - Peco Race 5 info, Lasagne, Peco Relays, Leeds Race
Series, Peco Race 4 thanks and results, Results from National XC and Snake
Lane, Reports from Wadsworth and Osmotherley
Sent: 24 February 2014 00:07
Sunday 2 March – Peco XC
Peco Race
5 at Northcliffe Park Shipley on Sunday 2 March
Usual
arrangements see www.pecoxc.co.uk/pages/race5.html
The men
are in with a chance of retaining the League Championship but need to beat
Abbey in the final race and also finish no more than one position behind
Saltaire Striders.
The women
should finish comfortably mid-table but which team will turn out next Sunday,
the ones who have finished 3rd and 4th or the ones who
have finished 7th and 8th.
Striders
are also in joint 1st position in the men’s second team championship
i.e. race positions 9 to 16, so let’s pack the places and see if we can win
this one (too).
Also
please come along early and cheer the Junior Striders. Joe Sherman will
be running in the 1 mile race at 10:00 and will finish in the first three but
could be in any of the podium positions depending on his result in the final
race. Alex Pagdin is already guaranteed to win the Boys School Year 10-12
title, and Callum Parton could finish in the top three. And come to
support all the other Junior Striders – there are several – Tally Diamond,
Imogen Idle, Henry Firth, Alex Irvine, Jordan Diamond and Stephen Diamond who
have run every race.
Tuesday 4 March –Lasagne!
LASAGNE at 7:15pm - book at [email protected] before
10pm Sunday 2 Mar, choosing meat or veggie lasagne, and whether you want apple
pie
LASAGNE
at 8:30pm - book
at [email protected] before
10pm Sunday 2 Mar, choosing meat or veggie lasagne, and whether you want apple
pie
Sunday 23 March – Peco
Relays at Barnbow Woods (Crossgates)
Information
from the Peco website
The Club
Team race will be between a single team selected by each club. This team must
contain at least 1 Lady and at least 1 Vet (40+) and no more than 1 Male under
40. This race is open to all PECO and WYWL
clubs.
In
addition, there will be prizes for the first ‘other’ teams in each of the
following categories: M Open, M Vets (40+), M SuperVets (50+), F Open, F Vets
(40+), F SuperVets (50+) and ‘Mixed’ (at least 1 F per
team)
There
will also be a 3 x 1.5 mile-ish relay for Juniors (aged 8 – 16). Teams must
contain at least 1 U11 and at least 1 U13. Prizes for the first Boys, Girls and
‘Mixed’ teams.
After the
presentation of prizes for this race, we will hold the PECO XC League
Presentations at Barnbow Social Club. These will start at 1.30pm with the
Juniors, and continue with the Seniors at 2.00pm. This should allow for those
who are racing elsewhere on this date to get there in time.
Message
to Striders and Junior Striders
Please
email [email protected] by
Sunday 9 March if you want to run in these relays. We will then organise
teams to fit into the categories above.
Leeds Race Series
Details of
the 2014 Leeds Race Series have just been announced, the first “event” is any
Roundhay parkrun in March, best time to count.
Final
results of the 2013 Leeds Race Series are also available, congratulations to
John Shanks (3rd man overall) and Sarah Harper (3rd woman
overall).
The Leeds
Junior Race Series 2013/4 also restarts in March. For school years 1 to
10, the next “event” is any Roundhay junior parkrun in March, for school years
11 and 12, it is any Roundhay parkrun in March.
For
further details including free online entry, see www.leedsathletics.net.
Peco Race 4
Many
thanks to the 45 Striders who assisted on the day - Adam Parton, Alex
Watson-Usher, Alistair Smyth, Amy Parton, Becky Bibby, Bob Jackson, Callum
Parton, Dave Penman, Dawn Parton, Daz Hibberd, Eileen Crosfill, Gary Mann,
Graham Ford, Ian Sampson, Ian Sanderson, Jason Watson-Usher, Jean Hussey, Joe
Hanney, Joel Giddings, John Hussey, John Shanks, John Umpleby, John Wallace,
Louise Cazan, Lucy Taylor, Mick Tinker, Mike Crosfill, Pat Umpleby, Paul Smith,
Rachel Foy, Richard Irvine, Rick Sunderland, Rob Hamilton, Ross Bibby, Sarah
Harper, Sarah Ord, Sarah Smith, Sean Fitzgerald, Simon Midwood, Steph Gledhill,
Stephen Diamond, Steve Wilkins, Sue Sunderland, Tom Button, Tony Mills.
Results
Junior 1 mile
3 Joe Sherman
7:12
25 Tally Diamond 8:39
33 Imogen
Idle 9:00
42 Sarah Brady
10:10
44 Henry Firth
10:20
46 Sammy Mills
11:18
Also
45 Lauren Ford
10:25 (Sammy’s cousin)
Junior 2 mile
1 Alex Pagdin 11:51
17 Callum Parton 14:13
21 Alex Irvine
14:42
32 Stephen Diamond 16:56
38 Jordan Diamond 21:23
40 Adam Mills
21:56
Senior race
Pos
M/W Pos
9 Gwil Thomas
34:59 9
35 Steve Wilkins
37:13 34
59 Joel Giddings
38:53 57
66 Rav Panesar
39:15 63
81 Tony Mills
39:58 78
102 Dave Penman
40:53 97
103 Paul
Smith
40:58 98
132 Mike
Furby 42:26
124
157 Graham Pawley 43:53
143
165 Joe
Hanney 44:10
148
167 Roy Huggins
44:13 150
233 Sue Sunderland
47:21 35
239 Leroy Sutton
47:36 203
253 Alistair Smyth 48:12
216
256 Louise Cazan
48:19 39
261 Sean Fitzgerald 48:34
221
273 Alex Watson-Usher 49:30
45
281 Malcolm Coles
49:56 232
295 Steph Gledhill
50:46 52
302 Dawn Parton
51:11 58
329 John Wallace
52:49 254
338 Julie Townsend
53:36 80
401 Louise Jennings 58:27
124
also Tony Mills'
sister from Burton-on-Trent
308 Ruth
Ford 51:34
63
English National Cross
Country
Women
404 Sharon Kaiser 39:12
652 Sara Dyer 48:04
708
finished
Men
455 Paul Fotherby 44:41
503 Gwil Thomas 45:12
540 Paul Kaiser 45:43
726 Alex Nancolas 47:37
855 Steve Webb 49:12
1657 finished
Unfortunately
Dan and Simon were injured so we didn’t (quite) have a team to count
Snake Lane 10
Cat Finish
Chip
Pos
Name
Cat Pos
Time Time
4 Andy
May
MVet35 2/75 00:55:50 00:55:49
18 David Penman
MSNR 9/68 01:00:26 01:00:21
40 James Tarran MVet45
2/90 01:02:30 01:02:30
66 Kevin Mcmullan MVet45
7/90 01:04:26 01:04:18
94 Gary
Mann
MSNR 25/68 01:06:00 01:05:52
104
Ian Sanderson MVet40
22/89 01:06:36 01:06:24
119
Tom Button MVet40
28/89 01:07:03 01:06:55
153
Paul Smith
MVet40 34/89 01:08:40 01:08:30
195
Graham Pawley MVet45
25/90 01:10:50 01:10:34
225
Sean Fitzgerald MSNR
43/68 01:12:23 01:12:05
250
John Batchelor MVet40
55/89 01:13:40 01:13:29
253
Graham Jones MVet45
36/90 01:13:47 01:13:30
378
Michael Hall
MSNR 54/68 01:18:57 01:18:31
446
Sarah Harper
FSNR 24/65 01:22:19 01:22:02
448
John Shanks MSNR
58/68 01:22:21 01:22:03
453
Stephanie Gledhill FVet35 21/63
01:22:25 01:22:01
494
Eleanor Currie FSNR
31/65 01:24:35 01:24:10
495
Iain Currie MVet45
69/90 01:24:35 01:24:10
557
Gemma Midwood FSNR
36/65 01:28:26 01:28:04
580
Sarah Howell
FSNR 41/65 01:29:49 01:29:24
Race report - Wadsworth
Trog – from Steve Dixon
Saturday
8 February from Old Town Cricket Club, Hebden Bridge. 35 kilometres and
1200 metre of climbing. BL classification.
This race
sells out surprisingly fast and caught at least one Strider out!
It was
always going to be a brutal shock to the system running over some of the
roughest terrain in the south Pennines during early February but was particularly
brutal for me having returned from a holiday in southern India just two days
previously! The drop in the daytime temperature was 30 degrees
Centigrade!
I was
very tempted to drop out after the initial 2 kilometre loop below the Old Town
of Hebden Bridge as I realised it was not just the cold that would batter the
senses. The route planner must have had a reason to send us on a 100 metre
descent down a narrow waterlogged riverside path and then bring us back to the
race HQ at the cricket club to start the race proper. It does however
give you an idea of what was to come.
High
winds and bogs!!! Wind chill and frozen feet beckoned………
How is it
possible to resist???
And so I
continued with the first climb up onto High Brown Knoll and the first of 14
checkpoints?
Interspersed
amongst the CP’s were a further 6 testing climbs over consistently waterlogged
ground or out and out bog! The wind was strengthening throughout the race
but fortunately on the exposed stretches the wind was at our backs or
sides.
Our good
fortune though did not last!
26
Kilometres into the race, and already feeling well exercised, you find yourself
back at the Cock Hill checkpoint on the road between Hebden Bridge and
Haworth. This is the final cut off for the slower runners. It is
also the start of 5 kilometres of rough moorland all over 400 metres high and
fully exposed to the head-on southerly gale. It was a mighty relief to get to
Sheep Stones trig point and the start of the descent back to the Old Town
cricket club.
I knew
that the descent overshoots the finish and was psychologically prepared for
that final 100 metres of climbing to get to the finish but was rather pleased
when a marshal directed us off the race route along the road to avoid some wild
horses in a paddock below. I really believed all we needed to do now was
to run along the level tarmac road to the finish. That joy was
short-lived as further marshals ensured we got full value by sending us away
from the cricket club and back onto the race route, allowing us to visit the
final CP in the valley bottom to give us that final 100 metre climb before the
celebratory jog/stagger round the cricket field to the finish.
The race
was tough but I strongly suspect that most runners were happy to be running but
appreciated the fact that it was only possible due to a dedicated bunch of
marshals throughout the course spending many hours (5 hours plus!) in very cold
exposed conditions.
1 Simon Harding
Macclesfield M 3:00:22
14 Helen Fines
CVFR
LV40 3:34:57 (lady 1)
33 Mick Loftus Valley
Striders V40 3:48:26
36 Simon Vallance Valley Striders
V40 3:50:30
65 Oliver Cheyne Valley
Striders M 4:07:13
75 Paul Smith Valley
Striders V40 4:15:45
101 Steve Dixon Valley
Strider V60 4:35:56 (First V60)
131 Malcolm Coles Valley
Striders V70 4:58:09 (First V70)
142 Sarah Smith Valley
Striders LV40 5:16:13 (lady 27)
173 (38
ladies) started and 158 (36 ladies) finished.
Mick,
Simon and Oliver were counters in the team event and were 6th amongst some
strong local Pennine clubs. Calder Valley provided both the winning men’s
and ladies teams.
Race Report -
Osmotherley 26.2 – from Richard Adcock
It was
actually 27.4 miles but what's a mile or so between friends? Hmm, quite a lot
when you’re tired!
A 7:30am
start made for a very early rise but it also meant I was finished for lunchtime
and after the foul weather we had in the run up to the race I was prepared for
the worst but on the day it turned out nice, cold but dry and midway the sun
even came out for a bit.
The route was
a nice mix of trails, exposed ground, ice, mud and hills, with the first 13
miles taking just over 2 hours I was feeling good until we hit the hills of
Drake Howe[?], Clay Bank and a bit of rock climbing over Wainstones (for those
that did the Lyke Wake these were the three hills that we ran around rather
than over) these combined with the steps and miles of flag stones took their
toll on my energy but back down, a bit of food and then it was just 11 miles or
so following the Cleveland Way all the back to Osmotherley (a reverse of the
Lyke Wake route).
A good
day, well organised with a massive spread of food at the finish :)
I
finished 35/146 in 5:05:59 (1st was 4:03:15)
Links for
Race Information / Route / Results
New Strider
Congratulations
to Natalie Crossland who gave birth to daughter Florence (Florrie) last
Wednesday, a sister for Barney and Ted.
Dad Tim
was allowed out for a run on Saturday, he went to Hyde Park parkrun and won the
race in 17:06, he must have been rushing to get back home to look after the
family!
Grandad
Paul (White) went to Roundhay parkrun and set a parkrun PB of 22:46 to
celebrate a first granddaughter after 4 grandsons.
Pic of the week
We’ve all
seen runners pushing buggies at parkrun, but here’s Andy Bell pushing a double
buggy at yesterday’s Roundhay parkrun.
Andy ran
23:12, just beaten by his two children. Meanwhile, unencumbered by buggy
or children, Hannah was 1st woman finisher in 19:44.
Stop Press
Kim
Threadgall 2nd W in the Grizedale Half Marathon today.
Hopefully a report in the next edition of V S Update!
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