V S Update - 20 December 2017

- Annual Awards VSAC, VSFC and VSTC
- Junior Awards
- Meanwood Trail Race 2018
- VS Autumn Marathon Tour 2018
- Fell Championship final table
- Reminders about previous V S Update
- Results from WYXC 4 and Peco 2
- Race reports from Kirkstall Abbey and Vale of Clwyd

Annual awards

VSAC Annual Awards

- Marathon trophy * for best marathon performance - Tim Straughan 2:57:33 at Chester
- Max Jones trophy for best age graded performance in year - John Hobbs at Evensplits 5k time 15:45 age 39 AG 86.4%
- Vadim Kuznetsov trophy for best age graded performance in Leeds Half Marathon - John Hobbs time 1:12:59 age 39 AG 81.76%
- Stuart StJohn "also-ran" trophy - Chris Sawyer
- Grand Prix
- men's winner - John Hobbs
- ladies' winner - Myra Jones
- men's vets 40 winner - Ian Sanderson
- ladies' vets 35 winner - Steph Gledhill
- men's vets 50 winner - James Tarran
- group winners - (B) Gary Mann, (C) Paul Smith, (D) Leroy Sutton, (E) Sean Cook, (F) Stuart Harris
* note that this was a replacement trophy, the original has gone missing, if you see a cup with an inscription "Horsforth Marathon Trophy", please email [email protected]

VSFC Annual Awards

Fell championship
- men's winner - Ross Bibby
- ladies' winner - Amanda Seims

Triathlon Annual Awards

- overall champion (and ladies' vets winner) - Liz Ball
- men's champion (and senior men's winner) - Andy Turner
- senior lady - Michaela Laxton
- men's vet - Mike Furby
- junior girl - Hannah Taylor
- junior boy - Theodore Rosenberg

Junior Awards for Summer 2017

For period 1 March to 31 August - all new awards

- performance award for best age-graded performance - Leon Jones at Roundhay parkrun time 20:13 age 10 AG 78.1%
- performance award for best age-graded performance (girl) - Jessica Baxter at Roundhay parkrun time 23:36 age 8 AG 76.8%
- participation awards for taking part in training sessions and races (qualification at least 13 of each in the 6 month period):
- girls trophy (presented by Pat Umpleby) - Darcey Mollitt
- boys trophy (presented by Bob Jackson) - Ben Williams-Dustan

Meanwood Trail Race 2018 (from Steph Gledhill)

Hello, we want to host the MVT in 2018, I’ve had some volunteers but we need a team of organisers.

Can you please let me know if you can help out with the organising and are willing to lead/partake in a small team of helpers.

This will count as your 2% which increases your chances of getting a London Marathon Club Ballot Place.

Please offer to help out in some way, if we don’t get enough volunteers then we won’t be able to host such a great event.

Please reply to the recent FB post or email [email protected]

V S Autumn Marathon Tour 2018 (from Kathy Robbins)

Kathy Robbins here with news of the 10th VS Autumn Marathon Tour. This will be to Bilbao in NE Spain.

It is a night-time event with HM and 10k options. We think it is on Sat 20 Oct but are double checking the date.

https://runedia.mundodeportivo.com/en/race/edp-bilbao-night-marathon-2018/20182852/

31 runners and supporters went to Toulouse this year and we hope a few more of you will come along in 2018.

I will announce core tour dates, flights and the main hotel in due course. You are also welcome to make your own plans and join us there.

If you are at all interested and not part of the tour FB group, please request to join https://www.facebook.com/groups/483780568467971/

I can also be contacted at [email protected] (NB two a's in Katharine and two b's in Robbins).

V S Fell Championship Final Table (from Steve Webb)

The final Fell Champs league is now on the website and includes the Wadsworth Half Trog.

This year we had 39 scorers in the Men's championship and the winner was Ross Bibby, who averaged over 90 points at his top 5 races and regained the prestigious trophy he won in 2015. Ross left it late because his only qualifying Long category race came at Pendle in November. There was a close battle for 2nd place with Simon Vallance just pipping Mick Loftus, who was the most prolific racer.

There were 19 scorers in the Ladies' championship and the very clear winner was Amanda Seims who has had some excellent results including scoring over 100 points at Fairfield. Second was the ever-running ultra adventurer Sarah Smith and third was Josie Rothera. It is good to see so many new names in the Ladies' championship this year: I hope they enjoyed running on the fells and will try some more races in 2018.

www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsfc2017.xls

Reminders about items in previous V S Update

See www.valleystriders.org.uk/up171215.htm for nformation about
- Junior session Friday 29 December
- Winter junior races and club handicap - 31 December
- Northern XC Championships (deadline 9 January)
- Running from injury - Why do runners get injured and how to we stop it? - 31 January
- Membership renewal reminder

RESULTS

WYXC Junior Results from Jamie Walker

	INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
	Race 4 Keighley, WYXC
Pos	Name	Time
	U11 BOYS
14	Leon Jones	06:09
40	Gus Cawcutt	06:35
	U13 BOYS
32	Jamie Walker	12:12
	U13 Girls
26	Hannah Taylor	13:00
	U15 Girls
31	Sofia Robottom	16:42

	OVERALL RESULTS
Overall Pos	Name	Race 1 Pos	Race 2 Pos	Race 3 Pos	Race 4 Pos	Total: Best of 3 races
	U11 Boys
4	Leon Jones	2	3	5	14	10
47	Gus Cawcutt	58	39	57	40	136
49	Felix Linley	56	42	42	999	140
54	Toby Walker	62	55	38	999	155
	U13 Boys
21	Jamie Walker	23	15	18	32	56
51	Alfie Jones	65	55	51	999	171
68	Tom Mackreth	999	37	34	999	1070
69	Jack Woodeson	55	999	38	999	1092
	U13 Girls
27	Hannah Taylor	25	30	999	26	81
67	Josephine Pawley	24	27	999	999	1050
68	Imogen Idle	999	55	999	999	2053
	U15 Girls
50	Sofia Robottom	999	30	999	31	1060

NB 999 means an athlete did not compete in a race

WYXC Senior Results - report from Myra Jones and Steve Webb

Myra : Final results from WYXC league are now available. Congratulations to Sue for winning her category and to Steve and Jerry Watson claiming a very closely fought 2nd and 3rd place in their category. Top 5 category finishes for Paul Kaiser, Matt Hallam and me.

Men finished 7th overall. Unfortunately, Ladies failed to get a team out for the final fixture so don't feature in final standings.

A huge thank you and well done to all those who represented the club.

Steve : I attended the (incredibly drawn out) prizegiving and collected the trophies for Sue Sunderland and Jerry Watson. Had a great tussle with Jerry over the 4 races: we each bagged two 2nds, one 3rd and one aberrant 5th. It went to aggregate time and I was just 18 seconds faster over 140 minutes of cross country running. Shame that John Convery was miles ahead

	Senior Ladies
22	Myra Jones	22:02
46	Claudia Stanton	24:34
82	Finished
	Senior Men
20	Matt Hallam	27:55
31	Jon Pownal	28:51
41	Jeremy Ladyman	29:40
66	Steve Webb	31:25
74	Paul Kaiser	31:59
85	Jerry Watson	32:35
132	Finished

PECO Event 2 at Golden Acre

Juniors 1 mile

Pos	First Name	Surname	M/F	Year	Cat	Time	Cat Pos
2	Leon	Jones	M	6	B5-6	07:18	2
9	Sam	Preston	M	5	B5-6	07:41	7
19	Flo	Pell	F	6	G5-6	08:11	3
20	Stefan	Robottom	M	6	B5-6	08:17	16
24	Felix	Linley	M	5	B5-6	08:20	19
26	Luke	Mackreth	M	4	B3-4	08:21	3
30	Michael	Fotherby	M	3	B3-4	08:26	4
31	Evie	Rose	F	5	G5-6	08:27	7
33	Ted	Crossland	M	4	B3-4	08:28	6
36	Jessica	Baxter	F	4	G3-4	08:33	1
40	Alannah	Thornton	F	4	G3-4	08:47	2
43	Ben	Shenderey	M	4	B3-4	08:57	11
48	Matthew	Sedgley	M	6	B5-6	09:07	24
49	James	Taylor	M	5	B5-6	09:07	25
50	Abigail	Kingston	F	4	G3-4	09:11	4
54	Jamie	Thomson	M	3	B3-4	09:15	13
58	Oliver	Lubiecki	M	4	B3-4	09:20	15
59	Joseph	Whitehouse	M	4	B3-4	09:23	16
62	Henry	Pell	M	3	B3-4	09:25	17
63	Christa	Shackleton	F	5	G5-6	09:25	15
65	Daniel	Fotherby	M	5	B5-6	09:32	28
68	Marcus	Johnstone	M	5	B5-6	09:39	29
86	Emily	Thomson	F	5	G5-6	10:33	22
96	Bruce	Mackie	M	5	B5-6	11:18	31
99	Barney	Crossland	M	2	B3-4	11:25	27
100	Lily	Sadler	F	3	G3-4	11:27	15
101	Darcey	Mollitt	F	3	G3-4	11:28	16
106	Katy	Irvine	F	5	G5-6	11:56	28

Juniors 2 mile

Pos	First Name	Surname	M/F	Year	Cat	Time	Cat Pos
19	Josephine	Pawley	F	7	G7-9	13:36	5
23	Tom	Mackreth	M	8	B7-9	13:47	11
26	Jack	Woodeson	M	8	B7-9	13:54	13
28	James	Williams-Dustan	M	9	B7-9	14:03	14
31	Hannah	Taylor	F	7	G7-9	14:09	7
32	James	Preston	M	9	B7-9	14:15	16
35	Sofia	Robottom	F	9	G7-9	14:36	9
36	Isaac	Rose	M	9	B7-9	14:39	18
39	Imogen	Idle	F	8	G7-9	15:03	10
41	Sophia	Lubiecki	F	10	G10-12	15:25	4
52	Emily	Hilton	F	7	G7-9	17:26	16
57	Daniel	Keen-Bone	M	8	B7-9	19:33	27
58	Ben	Williams-Dustan	M	7	B7-9	20:23	28

Ladies

Pos	Surname	First name	Cat	Time	Cat Pos
28	Mackie	Rachel	F40	34:11	3
42	Button	Holly	FSEN	35:38	23
46	Robins	Fiona	F40	35:49	7
55	Hudson	Chloe	F35	36:28	11
60	Spencer	Amanda	F45	36:32	7
84	Wood	Liz	F40	38:02	13
97	Ball	Liz	F60	38:55	2
101	Woodeson	Sarah	F45	39:14	14
115	Eaves-Lai	Alison	F35	40:13	23
120	Merritt	Gemma	FSEN	40:40	48
130	Hilton	Helen	F40	41:17	21
134	Warren	Ruth	F60	41:28	4
163	Fotherby	Pascale	F35	42:50	30
177	Lovell	Bethany	F35	43:42	33
226	Kara	Leila	F50	46:39	23

Men

10	Hobbs	John	MSEN	26:32	8
11	Hallam	Matthew	MSEN	26:37	9
17	Venning	Tom	M40	27:41	3
23	Pownall	Jon	MSEN	28:05	18
34	Fisher	Dan	MSEN	28:38	24
47	Bibby	Ross	MSEN	29:16	34
57	Mann	Gary	MSEN	29:46	39
59	Midwood	Simon	MSEN	29:50	41
67	Straughan	Tim	M50	30:15	4
79	Tarran	James	M50	30:42	6
81	Fryer	Anthony	M40	30:45	14
82	Murray	Dan	M40	30:49	15
96	Simms	Dave	MSEN	31:13	59
98	Fotherby	Paul	M40	31:28	18
106	Drake	Richard	M40	31:39	21
113	Sanderson	Ian	M45	31:50	12
128	King	Howard	M40	32:09	25
138	Giddings	Joel	M45	32:22	21
162	Parton	Adam	M45	33:19	26
193	Long	Vernon	M50	34:25	19
199	Hanney	Joe	M40	34:39	38
201	Hall	Michael	MSEN	34:46	98
216	Furby	Mike	M45	35:10	35
220	Thornton	Oliver	MSEN	35:14	104
246	Sutton	Leroy	M60	36:17	5
249	Rosser	Ian	M45	36:21	43
255	Fox	Ken	M55	36:48	20
274	Powell	Mike	MSEN	37:24	118
284	Smyth	Alistair	M55	37:53	24
292	White	Paul	M70	38:25	2
309	Tinker	Mick	M60	39:31	14
314	Jackson	Bob	M65	39:40	4
319	Coles	Malcolm	M75	40:02	1
350	Mackreth	Paul	M40	41:41	59
356	Tyrrell	Brian	M55	42:23	32
368	Hall	Neil	MSEN	44:05	136
372	Macnay	Jonathan	M50	44:41	46

Kirkstall Abbey Trail Running Festival (from Chris Sawyer)

Saturday 18 November

A choice of four distances for these races organised by Its Grim Up North running ranging from 8 miles to an ultra (32 miles). I ran the half marathon. The route was similar to the Kirkstall trail race except in reverse so after running up the A65 and dropping down towards the river you then made your way over the fields to cross the river close to the Railway pub and then onto the canal. For those doing the half there then followed an out and back run along the towpath to Apperley Bridge with a short diversion on the way back which involved crossing the canal and then climbing up to the Calverley Road before running a short distance along the ring road before joining the canal again until you reached the Abbey Inn then back up to the A65 and returning to the Abbey to finish. My watch had the distance at 12.9 miles. If you like running along canal towpaths - which I do - the Its Grim Up North races most of which involve canal towpaths may be worth trying out.

Two Striders present -
Hayley Nancolas 1:33:22 First lady and fifth overall
Chris Sawyer 1:50:24 39th
88 finishers

Vale of Clwyd Half Marathon (from Chris Sawyer)

Sunday 3 December

When you commit to running a half marathon every month in the year you find the choice of half marathons in December somewhat limited. This year I spotted this race in Denbighshire in North Wales. Probably too far to go without an overnight stay but my wife did not object to a weekend in Chester. It was about a 40 minute drive from Chester to the village of Llandyrnog which is close to Ruthin. The race was organised by a personal trainer who puts on events to encourage his clients. The race was held on country roads around the villages surrounding Llandyrnog. The route was undulating but the two long climbs were only up very gradual gradients. The race although low key was efficiently marshalled with three water stations en-route.

I finished in 1:48.24 and was 29th out of 104 finishers.

I have now run 11 half marathons since I invested in a Garmin watch. So I can report that the most climbing I did in a half marathon is Burn Valley Half (July) which involved 415m of climbing which is 140m more climbing than any other half I ran. This was also a very hot day. Not surprisingly the Vale of York (Sept) was the flattest with only 44m of climbing according to the watch.