V S Update - 27 June 2016
- Terry Kelly
- training on 28 June and training & food on 5 July
- VSAC committee and open meeting on 5 July
- VS BBQ
- VS junior mile and handicap
- Golden Acre Relay and Leeds Country Way
- results from Otley Chevin & Pudsey 10k
- race report from Leeds Aquathlon
Terry Kelly
Sadly, I have to report the death of Terry
Kelly at the age of 87. His funeral service
will be at Hughes Funeral Chapel, 180 York Road, LS9 9NT on Tuesday 28 June at
10:30am. There is a brief bio later in
this V S Update.
Tuesday 28 June training
- Juniors, parents, beginners, improvers and
slower intermediates will be at GSAL at 6pm (link to map on website home page).
- Experienced runners and faster intermediates will be hills by Eccup
Reservoir, meet Leos at 7pm
Tuesday 5 July training and food and committee meeting
- Juniors parents, beginners, improvers and slower
intermediates will be at Leos at 6pm.
- Experienced runners and faster
intermediates will be 5 by 6 minutes by Eccup Reservoir, meet Leos at 7pm
- Early sessions followed by lasagne at 7:15pm - book at [email protected]
- Later
sessions followed by lasagne at 8:30pm - book at [email protected]
- Book
before 10pm Sunday 3 July
- Choosing meat or veggie lasagne (£3.50)
At 8:45pm there
will be a VSAC (i.e. running section) committee meeting with an open agenda and
open to all members - topics will have a 10 minute limit and individuals
contributions maximum 2 minutes per topic.
Please email me if you'd like anything putting on the agenda.
Email
addresses
Please note my
virgin.net email addresses will cease this coming Thursday, so if you have
these in your address book, please replace [email protected]
by [email protected] and replace [email protected] by [email protected] (note the
digit 1 in the new address).
If you are emailing
to any of the @valleystriders.org.uk addresses, these are unchanged.
Valley Striders Club Barbecue - Saturday 6 August
First of all,
please save this date in your diaries!
Dan Murray has
posted in Facebook (24 June)
Hi All, we will
shortly be promoting the Valley Striders Summer BBQ to be held this year on
Saturday the 6th August. Becky Murray as the VSCC social secretary will be
promoting the event through the cycling club and we're looking for someone to
do the same for the runners.
The role will
involve setting up the event on FB, compiling a list of names from those who
have placed a booking through the email address which we'll give out and then
assisting with collecting the monies in. Simple!
Anyone feel up to
the challenge? You'll work closely with Becky Murray so there'll be plenty of
help at hand but you need to be proactive to keep generating interest so we can
get the ticket sales up.
Let me know please.
No replies to this
post so far, please message Dan if you can help.
NB re "collecting
the monies", most payments will go through the V S Payments account so you
won't be handling vast amounts of cash.
Race Diary
Note that the Hyde
Park Mile and the Eccup 10 are now full.
Danefield Relay
on Tuesday 5 July http://www.fellandale.com/new-page/
Canal Race 5k and junior race
from Methley http://rothwellharriers.org.uk/canal-run/
The Club Summer Handicap and Junior 1 Mile
races will be on Tuesday 12 July. All
races start by Eccup Reservoir, juniors from 6:10pm and seniors from 6:55pm.
Golden Acre Relay is on
Wednesday 13 July, teams of 3, approx. 2.75 miles each. Please make up your own teams (and choose a
suitable name including either "Valley" or
"Striders"). If you are 2 and
need 1 more for a team or are 1 and need 2 more, post on Facebook.
More info http://www.abbeyrunners.co.uk/golden-acre-relay/
Leeds
Country Way
is on Sunday 4 September. Myra requested
names in by 4 July so that pairings and allocation to legs can be done in
plenty of time - this is critical as if people go on holiday for 2 (or more)
weeks it becomes difficult to organise recces.
So far the response has been disappointing - only 22 - so 38 short of
our usual 5 teams and 52 short of our most ever 6 teams.
More info http://www.kippaxharriers.org.uk/lcwv2.htm
For more local
events, see www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
Bramham Village 10k (from
Kate McIntyre)
Bramham Village are
organising a 10k event on Sunday 17th
July at 10.30. There is also a fun run for
adults and accompanied children too.
- £9 to enter
- Medal for all finishers
- mixture of tracks and bridleways in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside;.a couple of cheeky
hills too.
- Refreshments in the Pavilion afterwards.
- Enter at bookitzone.com (search for Bramham)
Terry Kelly bio (from Bob)
I'll include a more detailed "bio"
in next week's V S Update, but in brief
- Terry was a serious cyclist in his early days and also a runner
- I believe he had had a serious back injury when cycling, which caused a
slightly contorted running style that could be spotted from afar.
- I first met him when he joined Burton's Running Club. I worked at Burtons but had already joined VS
before Burtons RC was started.
- After Burtons RC folded, he ran unattached for a while and then joined Valley
Striders in 2011
- In the late 90's, Max Jones was setting world age-group records for 50 miles
and 100km, and both of them went to run Comrades "Marathon" in South
Africa (I put it in quotes as it is 56 miles!)
- Terry's 4 runs make impressive reading
- 1999, aged 69, ran 9:33:14 and finished 8th in the M65-69 category
- 2000, aged 70, ran 10:18:31
- 2002, aged 72, ran 10:53:43
- 2003, aged 73, ran 11:13:49
- NB in 2001 his result shows a DNF, but it may be that he exceeded the time
limit, in those days the time limit was 11 hours, it was then extended to 12.
RESULTS
Otley Chevin Fell Race, VSGP/VSFC, B Short, 4.5K/210m
1. Jack Wood, Ilkley Harriers, 17.45
10. Ross Bibby, Valley
Striders, 20.21
18. Mick Loftus, Valley Striders, 20.59
23. Bronwen Jenkinson, Eryri
Harriers, 21.27 (1st female)
30. Ronan Loftus, Valley Striders, 22.15
31. Holly Button, Valley Striders, 22.19 (3rd female)
60. Rob Marsh, Valley Striders, 24.15
94. Stuart Harris, Valley Striders, 29.48
(104 finishers)
Ilkley
Trail - correction
Also 36 Graham Jones 47:58 and 292 Anne Jones
1:17:40. VSGP points have been adjusted.
Pudsey 10k
Report in Bradford Telegraph
& Argus:
TESFAYE Debele
of Leeds City won the PUDSEY 10K in 35min 26sec.
The tough course included an
opening two kilometres on the road before five kilometres of tracks and muddy
paths through Fulneck valley, before a steep climb
back into Pudsey for a final two miles on the road.
John Hobbs (Valley Striders) did
well to stay close to Debele, finishing 50 yards behind.
Matt Lockyer (Pudsey &
Bramley) was a minute adrift, while Daryl Hibberd (Valley) and Will Kerr went
head to head a distance beyond the pack and finished together on 36:28.
A total of 476 athletes finished
Sunday's event, which was organised by Pudsey Pacers.
V S Results
|
2 |
John Hobbs |
00:35:48 |
100 |
|
4 |
Daryl Hibberd |
00:36:28 |
98 |
|
27 |
Andy May |
00:42:35 |
97 |
|
58 |
Paul Smith |
00:45:59 |
95 |
|
87 |
Adam Parton |
00:48:07 |
93 |
|
90 |
Hayley Nancolas |
00:48:25 |
92 |
|
114 |
Mike Robins |
00:49:20 |
90 |
|
127 |
Alistair Smyth |
00:50:10 |
88 |
|
128 |
Mark Woodhead |
00:50:22 |
87 |
|
129 |
Sue Sunderland |
00:50:23 |
85 |
|
188 |
Simon Barker |
00:53:58 |
83 |
|
194 |
Dawn Parton |
00:54:25 |
82 |
|
234 |
Lucy Robins |
00:56:54 |
80 |
Note that the Grand Prix Table and all results to date are now on the V S
website, click on "For Club Members" at the top, then "Grand
Prix & Fell Champ" on the left.
English
Aquathlon Championships - from Howard Jeffrey
Today (11th
June) I competed in the English national age group aquathlon
championships. What the heck's that I hear you ask.
Last year I did not know myself but discovered when I entered the Leeds sprint
triathlon scheduled for Sunday 12th that it was on for today. 750
metre open water swim in Roundhay park lake which I have done a couple of times
in other events and then 5K run, along effectively the Roundhay parkrun course
but in reverse. Mass start at 12.30 for the men with the
women 5 minutes after. The water was a balmy 18 degrees and was wearing
my original Zoot suit (not the gangster type, google it but the wetsuit)
because I have not had breathless experiences in it to date. None the less I
let the others pull away for a few seconds before I got into a rhythm which was
quick by my standards but relatively slow by national aquathlon
standards. No bad experiences and I came out of the water near the back of the
men's wave but just in front of the first lady. There was quite a long drag up
to the transition which allowed me to remove most of the suit and get warmed up
for the run. Any-one that knows Roundhay will appreciate that it is a hilly and
challenging course but I know it well and knew where it would suit me. That was
around the little lake and down the carriage drive where I can get a head of
steam downhill. I was breathing heavily coming into transition but by the time
I got my running shoes on I was good to go. On the first lap of two I passed
two of the age group rivals and on lap two another three and had a pretty good
run in to the finish. The 5K took 22 minutes or so which at Roundhay park is OK. The results are up live and I had managed third
so picked up a bronze medal which was the best I could have hoped for as the
two in front were three minutes faster in the water.
As for the sprint tomorrow, I
withdrew because, without going into detail, I was not happy with the logistics
of the finish. I feared hanging around exhausted in the cold and damp which
would not have been good for my troublesome chest and I have the European aquathlon championships in France in a fortnight. I am
still a runner though, because next week is the Wakefield half marathon.