Subject: V S Update - Junior mile and Club Handicap; MVT thanks; Diary incl
2 parkruns, LHM and BMW; Results and reports incl MVT, VLM, HCR, GG, MDS, and
EU Duathlon; Win for Kim at Santa Cruz trail marathon
Sent: 24 April 2014 13:22
Tuesday 29 April - VS Junior Mile and
Club Handicap (no training sessions)
There are no “normal”
training sessions next Tuesday, these are replaced by The Junior Mile and the
Club Handicap 5 miles, both starting on the footpath by Eccup Reservoir.
Meet here http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=429750&Y=441300&A=Y&Z=3
Juniors please meet
6:15pm. The race will start
at 6:25pm prompt, and is half a mile on the footpath, a U-turn and half a mile
back. Parents and members of Kathy’s beginners group may also run (and
will be timed).
Seniors please meet
at 6:45pm. There will be
a set of handicap start marks pinned to the fence, if you have not run as a Valley
Strider before you will need to let us know (on the night) your best recent 5k
or 10k time (or guess!), and we will calculate a start mark for you (*).
The first runner will start at 6:55pm prompt for a measured 2.5 mile run on the
footpath, across the dam, almost to Eccup, a U-turn and 2.5 miles back.
Runners will set off slowest first and the handicap cup is presented to the
first runner across the line. * Note that the cup can only be won by
someone with a pre-calculated start mark. Grand Prix points are awarded
on run time.
There will be lasagne
at Leos, just one sitting at 8:30pm. Book at [email protected] before 10pm
Sunday 27 Apr, choosing meat or veggie lasagne, and whether you want apple pie.
The above details are
also on the home page of the website.
Meanwood Valley Trail
Many thanks to the 80
Striders who helped on the day and/or with the beer labelling the night
before. Particular thanks to Jason Praill who provided all the facilities
for the water station (see pics on V S website).
3 of our marshals had
to give back word due to personal reasons; fortunately we’d recruited a
“floating” marshal for each section, so we weren’t short and 5 Striders adults
were able to run.
The whole event went
without a problem and many of the runners at the finished mentioned the good
support they’d received from the marshals on the route.
There is a bottle of
Meanwood Meander Ale for every marshal, please collect from Leos.
There were 36 Striders
juniors and 5 Striders seniors running, results further down this email.
There’s a picture of
some of the juniors with their certificates on the V S website home page.
EVENTS DIARY
Valley Striders
organising Roundhay parkrun on Saturday 3 May
Thanks to everyone
who has volunteered to support the race. Alex will be emailing back
soon. If you still want to volunteer, please email Alex at [email protected]
Training - Tuesday 6
May
There will be two
sittings for curry after the session, but please don’t book until after 29
April!
Leeds Half Marathon –
Sunday 11 May
Everyone should have
their race numbers now, just to remind you that Valley Striders’ policy is not
to approve of number swaps, see www.valleystriders.org.uk/17rules.htm for some reasons why
you shouldn’t swap. By the way, the maximum sanction, if caught, is a ban
on entering races for both the donor and receiver.
Roundhay Parkrun
Mobrun on Saturday 17 May
An early reminder
that 17 May is mobrun day, we will be trying to be the club with the most
runners. Please book this date to run at Roundhay (not at Hyde Park,
Templenewsam or anywhere else!!!)
Ilkley Trail Race –
Monday 26 May
Lawrence Basham of
Ilkley Harriers has emailed
We thought some of
your runners might be interested in the 7th Ilkley Trail race on 26th
May, which takes place over some of Yorkshire’s most stunning countryside. An
entry form is attached for your information; more details can be found at the
Ilkley Harriers website www.ilkleyharriers.co.uk
Bob says “this is a
nice trail race on the gentler hills on the north side of Ilkley – good
footpaths and very little tarmac”
Bradford Millennium
Way Relay – Sunday 29 June
Myra has emailed
We are now looking
for teams for the Bradford Millennium Way Relay on Sunday 29 June.
This is teams of 5 pairs, total 50 miles, all within Bradford City Council
boundary, but nowhere near Bradford, details at http://johncarr5k.org.uk/site/bradford-millennium-way-relay/. Route starts
and finishes at Bingley Rugby Club, and goes via Marsh (near Oxenhope),
Laycock, Silsden and Ilkley.
We entered 2 teams
last year and it would be great if we could do the same this year. The
first 10 who apply get a guaranteed place.
We won the mixed team
prize from 2002 to 2005 and the vets in 2006 so maybe this can be the
year we get back on the prize list again...
Please email [email protected] if you’d like to
run.
She then says “I'm
happy to sort out a team but I'm at a wedding that weekend so will arrange for
someone else to deal with any last minute changes.”
RESULTS & RACE
REPORTS SECTION
Meanwood Valley Trail
– Striders Results
1 MILE - SCHOOL YEARS 3 TO 6
Race
FirstName LastName
Time Group Pos Prev
Pos
in Grp Races
8 Alvie
O'Brien 6.55
BSY3-4 3 0
9 Ben
Redshaw 6.58
BSY3-4 4 0
12 Laurie
O'Brien 7.03
BSY5-6 7 0
14 Sam
Hollis 7.08
BSY5-6 8 1
18 Oliver
Charlton 7.17
BSY3-4 7 0
21 Tally
Diamond 7.27
GSY3-4 2 0
27 Cleo
Vine
7.45 GSY5-6 2 0
29 Imogen
Idle
7.49 GSY3-4 4 0
34 Josephine
Pawley 8.00
GSY3-4 5 0
36 Ella
Hollis 8.06
GSY3-4 7 1
38 Marvin
Udenze 8.08
BSY5-6 14 0
40 Alvin
Udenze 8.21
BSY5-6 16 0
41 Jude
Howes
8.39 BSY3-4 14 0
43 Ben
Easton 8.43
BSY3-4 16 0
44 Ewan
Howes
8.51 BSY3-4 17 0
45 Sarah
Brady
8.51 GSY5-6 5 2
51 Henry
Firth
9.24 BSY3-4 19 0
54 Sam
Chambers 9.44
BSY3-4 20 1
55 Billy
Sawyer 9.53
BSY3-4 21 0
56 Ella
Blythe 10.29
GSY5-6 8 0
58 Nathan
Ellis 10.57
BSY3-4 22 0
59 Yasmin
Ellis 10.58
GSY5-6 10 0
60 Asmi
Shembekar 11.10
GSY5-6 11 0
61 Fahd
Hans
11.15 BSY3-4 23 0
2 MILES - SCHOOL YEARS 7 TO
12
1 Alex
Pagdin 10.12
BSY9-10 1 1 (2nd
claim VS)
5 Callum
Parton 11.19
BSY9-10 4 4
10 Alex
Irvine 12.00
BSY9-10 6 1
16 Aileen
Loftus 12.57
GSY9-10 3 2
17 Stephen
Diamond 13.17
BSY11-12 1 0
18 Max
Vine
13.42 BSY7-8
7 0
19 Callum
Chambers
13.44 BSY7-8
8 1
21 Joe
Irvine 14.41
BSY7-8 10 0
27 Ben
Hollis 16.04
BSY7-8 11 1
28 Jordan
Diamond 16.04
BSY9-10 8 0
34 Amy
Parton
18.22 GSY7-8
7 2
35 Adam
Mills 19.56
BSY7-8 14 0
SENIOR RACE
Race FirstName LastName Time Group Pos Prev. Pos in Grp Races 21 Simon Vallance 51.22 M40 4 1 33 Myra Jones 52.46 F 4 0 47 Andy Pagdin 54.47 M50 8 1 140 Joanna Chambers 65.21 F35 12 0 141 Esther Hollis 65.26 F35 13 1
Baildon Boundary Way
Missed from the last
V S Update – the V S Men – Steve Webb, Gary Mann, Ross Bibby - won the team prize,
aided by an administrative error by the winning Bingley runner,
he omitted his club name otherwise Bingley would have won the team prize!!
Santa Cruz Trail
Marathon
Congratulations to
Kim Threadgall – first woman in the marathon in 6:31:19 (picture of
prize presentation on V S website) Ian Spence ran the half marathon
in 3:23. More information about the race on http://festivalsantacruzextreme.com/?lang=en
Roundhay junior
parkrun 13 April
Sarah Ord emailed
with the results of the first junior parkrun over the summer route
A few
Valley striders Juniors attended the new summer route at the junior Roundhay
parkrun with most obtaining a PB.
1st
Position Alex Irvine Time today : 08:15 (New PB) Previous PB 08:35
4th
Position (1st Girl) Tally Diamond 09:03 (New PB) Previous PB 09:34
14th
Position (13th Boy) Jordan Diamond 10:11 (New PB) Previous PB 11:13
17th
Position (2nd Girl) Josephine Pawley 10:31 (not a PB but great effort) PB stays
at 09.39
28th
Position (22nd Boy) Daniel Fotherby 12:13 (New PB) Previous PB 12:53
DNF Joe
Irvine (He had an altercation with a cyclist but he's fine now)
Thought
they all deserved a mention.
Great
start would be good if few other Juniors could pop along.
Thanks
London Marathon
672
Dave Penman 2:51:50
100
2066
Kevin McMullan 3:07:53 98
3401
Alistair Smyth 3:19:08 95
3850 Ian
Sanderson 3:22:38 93
4943
Kate Hargreaves 3:29:26 90
5632 Andy
May 3:33:21
88
6762
Sean Fitzgerald 3:39:51 85
12926 Andrew
Webster 4:05:07 83
32775 Hayley
Foy 5:54:49
80
also
1178
Jerry Watson 2:58:26 98 (Thames Hare
& Hounds)
Looking at the
results, Dave was the fastest runner from a Leeds club! Pic on the
website homepage, a few more pics if you click on the “Photos” link on the top
bar of the V S website.
Hot Cross Run
1 00:47:02 Pete Wilkie Roundhay Runners 1st M
3-4
00:49:23 Gary Mann & Joel Giddings
5
00:49:46 Rachel Mackie Abbey Runners 1st W
9-10
00:53:27 Graham Jones with Martin Gebbett (Fellandale)
18
00:57:02 Ian Sanderson
33-34
01:07:34 Esther Smyth & Alistair Smyth
35-38
01:08:16 Gillian & Paul Felton (also with Penny & Philip
Hill (Roundhay))
46-48
01:13:01 Liz Reddington, Julie McGurk & Sarah Howell
74-75
01:30:53 Anne Jones & Kim Knowles
The next Country
Trail Race will be The Maypole Meander, Weds
28th May 2014, from 6.30pm from the Gascoigne Arms, Barwick-In-Elmet, LS15 4JQ
- Part of the Yorkshire Evening Trail Series
Guiseley
Gallop
36
Jonathan Smyth 0:41:55 M
(019/070)
54
Simon Vallance 0:43:34 M45
(009/039)
59
Myra Jones 0:44:08
F (003/047)
71
Roy Huggins 0:44:47 M50
(007/045)
77
Alistair Smyth 0:44:59 M55
(003/031)
86
Andy Pagdin 0:45:46 M50
(009/045)
115
Leroy Sutton 0:48:04 M55
(005/031)
116
Graham Pawley 0:48:07 M45
(015/039)
179
Simon Barker 0:51:43 M40
(020/033)
218
Michael Robins 0:53:43 M55
(013/031)
225
Bob Jackson 0:54:20 M60
(008/021)
285
Lucy Robins 0:57:54 F45
(010/025)
292
Chris Sawyer 0:58:15 M55
(020/031)
423
Deborah Fraites 1:09:13 F50 (015/019)
Airedale Triple Trail
Certificates are
awarded to all runners who complete the Baildon Boundary Way, the Meanwood
Valley Trail and the Guiseley Gallop.
Congratulations to
Simon Vallance who won the trophy for 1st M40 (3:14:45). Myra was 2nd W (3:16:57).
Race Report - Marathon Des
Sables
Richard
successfully completed the event, here are his final 2 reports
Day 4 81
km, 16 hrs 55
That was
the hardest day I have had in my life, it was 35c by 8:30 am, by mid morning
was baking hot and stayed like that until about 4 pm The stage was a majority
of sand- imagine walking on soft sand on the beach on holiday for 40 miles!! It
was relentless, oh and throw in a couple of mountains that were a hands and
feet rock climb and roped because it was a long way back down. I ran out of
water for 2.5km early afternoon and the checkpoint was a welcome sight I can
tell you. I suffered for that and had to have almost an hour in the bivouac to
recover enough to carry on for the next 40km. Blisters were painful especially
but after 30 mins, you get used to the pain and concentrate on putting one foot
in front of the other. Once the heat died down I picked up the pace a bit and
it was quite surreal run/walking for 7 hours in the desert in the dark. The
finish camp was visible from about 6km away and that was a tough section.
Just a
marathon to go!!
Day 6,
42.2km 5hrs59
Hi
everybody,
Marathon
day- the last race day today.
After a
sleepless night due to my shoulder hurting I wasn't looking forward to carrying
my pack today, but a 7am start and with the temperature a nice cool 35c the
heat was a lot more bearable than previous days.
The route
was much the same as previous days, sharp rocks (which have destroyed my
shoes), hard trails, energy sapping soft sand and dunes
At the
halfway checkpoint I had to stop in the medical tent to get some pain relief
for my shoulder, and then back out for the last 21km of sharp rocks, hard
trails, soft energy sapping sand, and for the last few kms' to the finish a few
dunes just in case you were missing them!
I'm not
sure of final results but today I finished 365th, and at the moment (not
everybody is in yet) I am 367th overall.
I enjoyed
the race but I am glad it's over as it was hard work in this heat and I am
really looking forward to having some proper food and a nice bed
Richard
Note that
there was no day 5, this was reserved to allow runners to take up to 36 hours
to complete stage 4
Some interesting listening
In April 1967,
Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the historic Boston Marathon. At
the time, athletics officials tried to stop her, believing women were incapable
of running more than a mile and a half. Switzer managed to cross the finishing
line, but was later disqualified. It was an experience that turned her into a
lifelong campaigner for women's sport.
There was an
interview on the radio last week, just 15 minutes http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hx68
Race Report - EU Sprint Duathlon
Championships – from Howard Jeffrey
I competed in the EU
Sprint Duathlon Championships on Sunday morning in Horst Holland. So many Brits
it was like a domestic competition.
I was pleased with my
performance considering the lack of training before and after Christmas. The
weather was almost perfect in that it was sunny but cool with a bit of wind in
the exposed bike course.
First 5K I dipped
under 20 minutes at 19.54 for the first time in a couple of years I think. The
20K bike ride saw me unleash my secret weapon (Scott Plasma Team: Google it if
you’re interested) and I reckon it was worth about 3 to 4 minutes judging
by where my known rivals were. I ran at the same pace in the last 2.8 K and
finished 9/14 in my new age category (it is getting harder) and 225/332
overall. OK bearing in mind they were all qualified age groupers.
Next champs are the
World Sprint Duathlon in Pontevedra Spain end of May and the EU Sprint
Triathlon in Kitzbuhel mid June.