V S Update - 10 November
Another VSU !
- Training and food and parents/juniors committee meeting 15 November
- Entries still open till 12 November for Peco and WYXC
- Entries now open to Yorkshire XC, Northern XC and National XC
- Club entries for London and Brighton
- Results from Abbey Dash, Shepherds Skyline and OMM
Tuesday 15 November - training and food
- 6pm sessions for juniors and adult
beginners/improvers at Leos
- 7pm sessions for intermediate and experienced runners from Leos
- All details on the front page of the website.
- Pie and peas will be served at 7:15pm and 8:30pm, see the green box on the front
page of website www.valleystriders.org.uk
for how to book.
Tuesday 15 November - parents/juniors committee/open
meeting
At the same time as the early pie'n'peas will be a meeting of parents of juniors, open to
all parents and older juniors. Richard
will be letting you know about the changes on the VSAC committee and how we are
setting up a committee to represent juniors and parents which in many ways mirrors the VSAC structure.
There will then be an open discussion.
Cross
Country Entries
- We are still able to book "late"
places for Peco adults until 12 November.
- We are definitely still taking registrations for Peco juniors - response has
been a little disappointing - this is a good introduction to XC at local club
level.
- We can still get you in to West Yorks XC for races 3 and 4, at 50% off the
price, until 12 November
- We now have dates, locations and prices for Yorkshire XC, Northern XC and
National XC Championships.
- All details in the blue box on the front page of the website www.valleystriders.org.uk. All "requests" via the
"teams" email address. All
payments to the AC Payments account.
VSAC Membership
As at 4 November, 58% of all members had
renewed. See yellow box on the front
page of website to check your status and how to renew.
London
Marathon places
We have 3 guaranteed places for the London
marathon. Anyone who has joined V S
prior to 1 Jan 2016 is eligible.
Priority will be given to those who have rejection slips, and those who
have not previously had a V S club place.
Please email [email protected]
before 30 November and state your credentials!
Brighton
Marathon places
The Brighton marathon (9 April) entries have
closed but we have access to 6 club places.
Information on the marathon is at www.brightonmarathon.co.uk NB cost is £69.50.
If you want a club place, please email [email protected]. Note that if, in 2016, you have run a
marathon sub 2:45 men, 3:15 women, or a half marathon sub 1:20 men, 1:30 women,
you are entitled to free entry. Note
that all club places must be applied for via our club secretary, you can't
apply directly.
RESULTS AND REPORTS
Abbey
Dash
Gun Pos |
Chip Time |
GP Pts |
|
74 |
John Hobbs |
100 |
|
129 |
Daryl Hibberd |
00:33:41 |
99 |
139 |
Matthew Hallam |
00:33:51 |
98 |
175 |
Rav Panesar |
00:34:30 |
97 |
179 |
Jonathan Smyth |
00:34:39 |
96 |
220 |
Paul Fotherby |
00:35:11 |
95 |
226 |
Tom Venning |
00:35:22 |
94 |
251 |
Jon Pownall |
00:35:48 |
93 |
312 |
Dave Penman |
00:36:44 |
92 |
355 |
Gwil Thomas |
00:37:25 |
91 |
416 |
Ian Sanderson |
00:38:05 |
90 |
566 |
David Merritt |
00:39:43 |
89 |
632 |
Roy Huggins |
00:40:20 |
87 |
645 |
Rob Marsh |
00:40:16 |
88 |
723 |
Jake Towler |
00:40:48 |
84 |
724 |
Alex Brennan |
00:40:33 |
85 |
751 |
Russell Cliffe |
00:40:20 |
87 |
915 |
Louise Cazan |
00:42:11 |
83 |
1097 |
Ken Fox |
00:43:34 |
82 |
1301 |
Leroy Sutton |
00:44:23 |
81 |
1406 |
Paul Sanderson |
00:44:59 |
79 |
1430 |
Alex Irvine |
00:44:55 |
80 |
1439 |
Paul White |
00:45:54 |
78 |
1901 |
Jason Twigg |
00:47:05 |
77 |
1935 |
Claire Capper |
00:47:29 |
76 |
1981 |
Liz Reddington |
00:48:19 |
73 |
2050 |
Eamon O'Brien |
00:47:55 |
75 |
2246 |
Jeremy Richardson |
00:48:27 |
72 |
2323 |
Pascale Fotherby |
00:50:03 |
71 |
2419 |
Anne Worrall |
00:50:48 |
68 |
2665 |
Iain Currie |
00:52:37 |
64 |
2683 |
Eleanor Currie |
00:52:41 |
63 |
2719 |
Stuart Harris |
00:51:41 |
66 |
2763 |
Paul Jones |
00:52:11 |
65 |
2906 |
Rob Hamilton |
00:48:05 |
74 |
3066 |
Nicola Hartley |
00:50:22 |
69 |
3349 |
Alex Watson-Usher |
00:50:12 |
70 |
3469 |
Brian Tyrrell |
00:51:13 |
67 |
4232 |
Maureen Coffey |
00:58:09 |
60 |
4330 |
Kate Brady |
00:54:41 |
62 |
4518 |
Vicki Johnstone |
00:55:24 |
61 |
4651 |
Caroline Tolan |
00:58:19 |
59 |
5669 |
Christine Huckerby |
01:02:42 |
57 |
6764 |
Meryll Cripps |
01:00:36 |
58 |
Just 2 more races in 2016 VSGP - Harriers vs
Cyclists this Saturday and Peco race 1 on 27 November
Abbey
Junior Race
10 |
Sophie Turner |
00:06:31 |
f |
3 |
11 |
Tally Diamond |
00:06:31 |
f |
4 |
15 |
Jamie Walker |
00:06:42 |
m |
10 |
22 |
Keira Jones |
00:07:03 |
m |
15 |
27 |
Imogen Idle |
00:07:07 |
f |
10 |
28 |
Josie Pawley |
00:07:08 |
f |
11 |
52 |
Jessica Baxter |
00:07:42 |
f |
18 |
56 |
Toby Walker |
00:07:47 |
m |
41 |
Shepherds
Skyline Fell Race, Todmorden
(VSFC-BS, 10K, 350m) 5 November 2016
1. Thomas Corrigan, Barlick
Fell Runners, 44.04
26. Ross Bibby, Valley Striders, 50.46
34. Sarah Tipler, Barlick Fell Runners, 52.03 (1st female)
175. Holly Button, Valley Striders, 68.50
177. Keith Brewster, Valley Striders, 69.00
251. Alun Davies, Valley Striders, 83.03
OMM
2016 – race report
This year's OMM (Original Mountain Marathon)
was in the hills of Galloway, South West Scotland, with the event centre based
at the small village of Glentrool. It was an odd sensation to driving up on the
Friday evening with the temperature gauge reading 13 degrees and the forecast
very benign. Usually when I spend 2 days
running back to back marathons with full camping and cooking kit, the weather
is dreadful.
In recent years, the event organisers have
been criticised for making the tougher courses too long, with the effect that
many of the teams that just want to get round, failed to do so. When we picked up the map on the Saturday
morning, we were pleasantly surprised to find that this year's day one was only
32.6km long with total climb of 2595m.
Of course, this is a straight line distance – it's up to us to decide
the best way to get between the controls, which can mean running considerably
more than that. Our next thought was,
it's probably going to be very tough going.
Neil, my partner, recalled having competed in the same area a few years
previously and anticipated huge tussocks and plentiful bogs. He wasn't wrong.
Despite the forecast, as the sun came up, the
cloud was down and delivering that very Scottish of rain, so fine that the
Scots discount it as actual precipitation.
We had an early start (they are kind to old men, giving us more daylight
than the young whippets with later start times) and headed off into the
clag. Despite the forecast suggesting
that cloud was high and the weather dry, it was neither. For most of the day we saw little more than
100 metres or so as we climbed, dropped, fought through tussocks, waded through
bogs and reasonably efficiently found the controls. The map took us into the north of the
competition area, with one very long leg up and over the Range of the Awful
Hand (what a great name). Despite the
weather, there were times when we could see what a beautiful area this was,
with glistening lochs bordered by white sandy beaches, and deciduous woods
displaying their autumn golds and red.
It almost made up for the pain of yet again falling into another bog.
The day was long and strength sapping, with
strong winds making it essential that we keep moving as we were by now quite
wet. Sadly we made a serious
navigational error at control 10 and spent 1 and ¼ hours searching fruitlessly
for a grassy knoll in low visibility.
Despite teaming up with another pair, we could not find the control
until a helpful shout ensured we located it and could descend before
hypothermia could set it.
Our mistake was to prove costly as, when we
got to the overnight camp, some 10 hours and 4 minutes after we had set off, in
the gathering gloom, we were in 21st place and an hour behind the leading vets team. Still,
spirits were high and after a delicious meal and a cosy night's sleep we were
ready to go again. In fact, as I said to
the organisers at the start of day 2, this was the only OMM where I have slept
soundly and been warm on the overnight camp.
Day two was shorter still with a mere 24.7km
to cover and climb of 2025m. This time
the race planners sent us east and south in the competition area, towards the Minnigaff hills.
Today, the cloud was higher and we were able to see more of the Galloway
Forest Park, looking back northwards to where we had run the previous day. Again, we were quire efficient with both our
route choices and locating the controls.
For a while we ran with our nearest vet competitors who, once having
established who we were, shot off, not to be seen until the prize-giving at the
end of the day.
We pressed on, staggered home in 8 hours and
7 minutes, now an hour and a half behind the leading vets team. However, get home we did, with almost an hour
before cut-off and in time to see the prize-giving presentation. The winners in our event, the elite, Shane Ohly and Duncan Archer posted an unbelievable total time of
10 hours and 51 minutes. It had taken us
18 hours and 11 minutes. At least they
had the good grace of wearing their GB tops to receive their prize so that the
rest of us didn't feel so bad about being so far behind them.
Neil and I always have 4 objectives for the
OMM:
1. Stay alive
2. Get round
3. Get round in daylight
4. Be competitive.
This is very definitely in this order. We achieved the first three, and could almost
claim the fourth – 18th place and second vets, until you realise that only 19
teams finished and there were, by the end, only two vets
teams. Still, I'll take that. We were both pretty chuffed with our
performances and, after a suitable period of time, decided that we had enjoyed
it.
The BBC Adventure Show were
there, filming footage of the elite competition. If this report piques your interest, I
strongly recommend that you watch it to get a sense of what goes on. And look out for me – I'm the one in the
orange buff.
Simon Vallance