V S Update - 4 June 2017
- Training Tuesday 6 and 13 June
- Note to parents
- Danefield Relay
- EA membership packs
- Sportshoes discount code
- V S Grand Prix and Fell Championship
- Country Trail Race
- London 2018 GFA
- Report from West Highland Way
- Results from John Carr 5k series, Junior 1 mile races, Club Handicap, Ilkley
Trail, YV Kirkstall
Training Tuesday 6 June
- Juniors and Beginners/Improvers 6pm at GSAL
- Intermediates and Advanced 7pm at Far Moss
- Fell Runners recce run for Danefield Relay see VS Fell/Trail Runners Facebook
group
Training Tuesday 13 June
- Juniors and Beginners/Improvers 6pm to be
advised (see website)
- Intermediates and Advanced 7pm at Leeds Beckett Uni track Headingley
Note to parents of juniors
Please note that while juniors are training, a parent needs to remain on site. If a parent does leave, they must nominate one of the other parents as responsible for their child/children (and the child must be aware who that is). Please read more information at www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsjunior.htm
Danefield Relay (message from Amanda Seims)
Teams of 3 needed for Danefields relay race on 4th July, 7:15pm. Each member running one leg of approx. 5km. Only gets really hilly at the end :-)
Details here: http://fellrunner.org.uk/races.php?id=5029 and http://www.fellandale.com/danefieldrelay/
Please sign up to this event on facebook see link below or email me [email protected] or so we can create a few teams, stating a team preference where possible.
(Bob says that if this link doesn't work for you, go to VSAC FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/291402584033/ and look at events. If the Danefield Relay doesn't appear in your event list, look in the calendar for 4 July)
P.S. You also get VSGP and VSFC points for this!
England Athletics membership packs
All first claim members should now have received their membership packs. Please email [email protected] if you haven't received yours.
Discount code for www.sportsshoes.com
Members of Valley Striders can have a 10% discount and free delivery on purchases.
This is available to all members of Valley Striders including juniors, cyclists and triathletes.
Please don't share this code with people who are not a member of VS and please do not copy to any social media site open to the public.
The code for this month is: (see VSAC FB Group or or VSJuniors FB group)
V S Grand Prix and V S Fell Championship
See calendar on website www.valleystriders.org.uk/vsdates.htm
Country Trail Race
The next race is the Bardsey Bound from the Bingley Arms in Bardsey on 7 June, https://www.facebook.com/countrytrailraces/
London Marathon 2018 Good-for-age
Steve Dixon has sent this link
https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/en-gb/how-to-enter/good-age-entry/
RACE REPORTS
Please send your reports to [email protected]
West Highland Way Challenge Race (from Steve Dixon)
Saturday 27 May 2017 - 95 Miles and 14,760ft of ascent
I signed up for this race early in the year mainly because I saw it as a cheap 'convenient' way to get 6 qualifying points for the Ultra Tour of Mont Blanc ballot without the bother of going abroad. I didn't really think I would enjoy it that much. Long stretches of Land Rover tracks running parallel to the busy A82 heading north towards the 'proper' highlands beyond Fort William. The interminable running for hours on end along the shores of Loch Lomond. It was all of that but I was wrong, I did enjoy it. The trails along the shoreline of Loch Lomond at dawn were sublime and my attention was drawn upwards to the mountain tops rather than the trunk road below. What made it especially enjoyable though was the small scale, friendly nature of the event that, even so, managed to provide excellent support from the start to the finish and back via coach to the start. This relatively new event was set up as an alternative to the well-established West Highland Way Race held later in the year with a much bigger field. The new race suited me perfectly as there was no requirement to provide a motorised support team of two people to meet me at each checkpoint as is the case with the latter. A big plus in not having a large field of up to 250 runners each with their own support team is how little impact we had on the peace and tranquillity of the highlands. I was not running that well but I thoroughly enjoyed immersing myself into the landscape through dawn to dusk and through to dawn again. Most of the time it was idyllic and non-threatening but a low did come in the early morning hours of my second night out. I'd climbed the Devil's Staircase out of Glencoe having started hallucinating (quite common in longer ultras due to sleep deprivation) and now facing the most technically difficult section of the West Highland Way, the descent into Kinlochleven. The clouds then dropped enveloping the hillside and the rain was at its heaviest. This made the head torch almost useless in identifying the path, never mind following the path! It was a slow laborious process constantly checking my GPS position to make sure I wasn't going round in circles. At times I was actually forgetting where I was and where I was trying to get to! It was quite a weird feeling falling asleep on my feet and waking with a 'start' as I started to fall to the ground. I'd left the Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe shortly before 10.30pm and it was 3.40am when I finally reached the checkpoint at Kinlochleven just 9 miles further. It was somehow quite soothing and reassuring to find the race director, Jim Drummond, gently slumbering in his sleeping bag at the back of the Checkpoint. He'd been working tirelessly it seems throughout the event seeing him pop up at many of the previous checkpoints. It was nice to think that the next time I'll see him will be on the Claggan Football Ground in Fort William, just 14 miles away, presenting me with my crystal goblet that all finishers are awarded.
I was not particularly happy with my time of 34hrs 28mins and my position at the back of the field. This had a lot to do with my inexperience allowing an over enthusiastic start in the first quarter that saw me running in the front of the field with runners who ultimately finished with sub 24hr times. I think it may have been a combination of tiredness from that early effort and the absence of sleep but as I struggled to keep in touch with that small pack of runners I tripped over tree roots, face planting and smashing my left knee against rocks. Thankfully it was not a race ending injury but it certainly blew the wind out of my sails and I was ultimately relieved not to have been timed out.
I'm sure plenty of other Striders have finished this event in the past but I am aware that at least one has - our own fell running legend, Sylvia Watson, ran back in 1988 in a spectacular time of 21hrs 40mins 45secs. Support crews and food and drink laden tables at various checkpoints would have been unheard of, as would well signposted tracks. I'm informed by Sarah Smith that Sylvia cycled the route prior to the race to stash tins of rice pudding to sustain her in the race. Since hearing this story I've tried this nutritional strategy with a modern twist - plastic pots rather than the tins and having them transported in drop bags by the race organisers wherever possible. It's quite often the only solid food I'm able to swallow in the latter parts of races.
Maybe it was a rusty tin of rice pudding I tripped over?
Race winner: Malcolm McDonald: 19:59:22
First Lady (joint 3rd): Anna Troup 21:49:42
50th: Steve Dixon 34:28:00
77 started, 53 finished
RACE RESULTS
Please send your results to [email protected] (in particular any marathons, half marathons and ultra races - all of these are eligible for GP points)
John Carr 5k Series at Esholt
Results from Rob Hamilton and Graham Jones, calculations by Bob Jackson and Stuart Harris
|
Date |
Pos |
Name |
Time |
GP |
|
2nd May |
38 |
James Tarran |
0:18:10 |
98 |
|
2nd May |
62 |
Jack Crawford |
0:18:51 |
|
|
2nd May |
81 |
Sean Cook |
0:19:24 |
95 |
|
2nd May |
93 |
Paul Smith |
0:19:37 |
|
|
2nd May |
116 |
Russell Cliffe |
0:20:04 |
90 |
|
2nd May |
118 |
Kevin Mcmullan |
0:20:09 |
|
|
2nd May |
171 |
Louise Cazan |
0:21:31 |
88 |
|
2nd May |
189 |
Leroy Sutton |
0:21:36 |
|
|
2nd May |
190 |
Sue Sunderland |
0:21:57 |
87 |
|
2nd May |
209 |
Rob Hamilton |
0:22:07 |
86 |
|
2nd May |
206 |
Paul White |
0:22:32 |
|
|
2nd May |
259 |
Stuart Harris |
0:23:57 |
|
|
2nd May |
284 |
Abi Frankland |
0:24:48 |
80 |
|
2nd May |
364 |
Meryll Cripps |
0:29:19 |
77 |
|
9th May |
2 |
John Hobbs |
0:16:00 |
100 |
|
9th May |
13 |
David Herdsman |
0:16:46 |
99 |
|
9th May |
58 |
Jack Crawford |
0:18:42 |
|
|
9th May |
81 |
Graham Jones |
0:19:22 |
96 |
|
9th May |
82 |
Roy Huggins |
0:19:24 |
95 |
|
9th May |
91 |
Sean Fitzgerald |
0:19:30 |
92 |
|
9th May |
109 |
Paul Smith |
0:19:49 |
|
|
9th May |
111 |
Kevin Mcmullan |
0:19:52 |
91 |
|
9th May |
156 |
Leroy Sutton |
0:21:00 |
89 |
|
9th May |
208 |
Paul White |
0:22:20 |
85 |
|
9th May |
211 |
Sue Sunderland |
0:22:22 |
|
|
9th May |
212 |
Steve Dixon |
0:22:23 |
84 |
|
9th May |
235 |
Liz Reddington |
0:23:11 |
|
|
9th May |
262 |
Stuart Harris |
0:23:46 |
|
|
9th May |
285 |
Sarah Smith |
0:24:47 |
|
|
9th May |
314 |
Abi Frankland |
0:26:07 |
|
|
9th May |
362 |
Maureen Coffey |
0:28:33 |
79 |
|
9th May |
388 |
Meryll Cripps |
0:30:37 |
|
|
16th May |
46 |
James Tarran |
0:18:11 |
|
|
16th May |
56 |
Jack Crawford |
0:18:36 |
97 |
|
16th May |
90 |
Paul Smith |
0:19:26 |
93 |
|
16th May |
124 |
Roy Huggins |
0:20:07 |
|
|
16th May |
162 |
Leroy Sutton |
0:21:29 |
|
|
16th May |
191 |
Sue Sunderland |
0:22:18 |
|
|
16th May |
199 |
Paul White |
0:22:41 |
|
|
16th May |
204 |
Liz Reddington |
0:22:47 |
83 |
|
16th May |
223 |
Stuart Harris |
0:23:29 |
82 |
|
16th May |
243 |
Sarah Smith |
0:24:07 |
81 |
|
16th May |
328 |
Helen Gill |
0:28:59 |
78 |
|
16th May |
335 |
Maureen Coffey |
0:29:23 |
|
|
16th May |
341 |
Meryll Cripps |
0:30:04 |
Junior 1 mile school years 1 to 5
Many thanks to all the parents who volunteered to marshal or officiate!
|
1 |
Leon Jones |
6.08 |
M |
5 |
|
2 |
Sam Preston |
6.37 |
M |
4 |
|
3 |
Felix Linley |
6.40 |
M |
4 |
|
4 |
Luke Mackreth |
6.46 |
M |
3 |
|
5 |
Toby Walker |
6.48 |
M |
4 |
|
6 |
Ben Shenderey |
6.50 |
M |
3 |
|
7 |
Flo Pell |
6.51 |
F |
5 |
|
8 |
Jessica Baxter |
6.57 |
F |
3 |
|
9 |
Max Worrall |
7.22 |
M |
3 |
|
10 |
Alannah Thornton |
7.29 |
F |
3 |
|
11 |
Dexter Rosenberg |
7.41 |
M |
3 |
|
12 |
Oliver Lubiecki |
7.47 |
M |
3 |
|
13 |
Joseph Whitehouse |
7.48 |
M |
3 |
|
14 |
Noah Koi |
8.04 |
M |
5 |
|
15 |
Henry Pell |
8.30 |
M |
2 |
|
16 |
Darragh Moriarty |
8.37 |
M |
5 |
|
17 |
Conor Moriarty |
8.42 |
M |
? |
|
18 |
Katy Irvine |
8.43 |
F |
4 |
|
19 |
Darcey Mollitt |
8.48 |
F |
2 |
|
20 |
Marco Teoli |
8.52 |
M |
4 |
|
21 |
Ella Lim |
8.58 |
F |
4 |
|
22 |
Lily Sadler |
9.05 |
F |
2 |
|
23 |
Sam Hilton |
9.44 |
M |
3 |
Junior 1 mile school years 6 to 11
|
1 |
Alfie Jones |
5.54 |
M |
6 |
|
2 |
Jamie Walker |
6.02 |
M |
6 |
|
3 |
Elijah Gatewood |
6.30 |
M |
7 |
|
4 |
Tom Mackreth |
6.35 |
M |
7 |
|
5 |
Joe Irvine |
6.38 |
M |
10 |
|
6 |
Isaac Koi |
6.39 |
M |
6 |
|
7 |
Sophia Lubiecki |
6.41 |
F |
9 |
|
8 |
Hannah Taylor |
6.50 |
F |
6 |
|
9 |
Sam Mackreth |
7.14 |
M |
6 |
|
10 |
James Worrall |
7.18 |
M |
8 |
|
11 |
Emily Hilton |
7.20 |
F |
6 |
|
12 |
Peggy Seal |
7.22 |
F |
6 |
|
13 |
Alec Twigg |
7.57 |
M |
6 |
|
14 |
Ben Williams-Dustan |
8.14 |
M |
6 |
|
15 |
Annabel Lim |
8.20 |
F |
6 |
Club Handicap
|
Pos |
|
Gun time |
Handicap |
Net time |
GP |
|
1 |
Helen Gill |
00:56:08 |
00:06:30 |
00:49:38 |
67 |
|
2 |
Sarah Wood |
00:56:12 |
00:19:45 |
00:36:27 |
84 |
|
3 |
Anthony Fryer |
00:56:17 |
00:23:30 |
00:32:47 |
93 |
|
4 |
Andrew Bennett |
00:56:19 |
00:25:15 |
00:31:04 |
96 |
|
5 |
Louise Cazan |
00:56:29 |
00:19:30 |
00:36:59 |
81 |
|
6 |
Daryl Hibberd |
00:56:31 |
00:27:00 |
00:29:31 |
98 |
|
7 |
David Herdsman |
00:56:49 |
00:27:45 |
00:29:04 |
99 |
|
8 |
Simon Vallance |
00:56:53 |
00:23:15 |
00:33:38 |
91 |
|
9 |
Amanda Spencer |
00:56:54 |
00:16:45 |
00:40:09 |
77 |
|
10 |
Ian Rosser |
00:56:55 |
00:20:15 |
00:36:40 |
83 |
|
11 |
Martin Sutcliffe |
00:56:56 |
00:12:30 |
00:44:26 |
73 |
|
12 |
Andrew Parker |
00:57:02 |
00:23:00 |
00:34:02 |
90 |
|
13 |
Leroy Sutton |
00:57:04 |
00:20:15 |
00:36:49 |
82 |
|
14 |
Ross Bibby |
00:57:07 |
00:24:00 |
00:33:07 |
92 |
|
15 |
Richard Adcock |
00:57:10 |
00:18:15 |
00:38:55 |
80 |
|
16 |
Rachel Waters |
00:57:14 |
00:07:45 |
00:49:29 |
68 |
|
17 |
Rav Panesar |
00:57:15 |
00:27:15 |
00:30:00 |
97 |
|
18 |
Myra Jones |
00:57:27 |
00:23:15 |
00:34:12 |
89 |
|
19 |
John Hobbs |
00:57:43 |
00:29:00 |
00:28:43 |
100 |
|
20 |
Roy Huggins |
00:57:52 |
00:23:15 |
00:34:37 |
88 |
|
21 |
Paul Fotherby |
00:57:54 |
00:26:45 |
00:31:09 |
95 |
|
22 |
Claire Capper |
00:58:07 |
00:17:15 |
00:40:52 |
76 |
|
23 |
Stuart Harris |
00:58:14 |
00:15:45 |
00:42:29 |
74 |
|
24 |
Paul Smith |
00:58:17 |
00:22:30 |
00:35:47 |
86 |
|
25 |
Pascale Fotherby |
00:58:31 |
00:13:15 |
00:45:16 |
70 |
|
26 |
Joel Giddings |
00:58:34 |
00:23:45 |
00:34:49 |
87 |
|
27 |
Brian Tyrrell |
00:58:41 |
00:13:30 |
00:45:11 |
71 |
|
28 |
Alan Hutchinson |
00:59:01 |
00:18:00 |
00:41:01 |
75 |
|
29 |
Jonathan Ball |
00:59:04 |
00:27:30 |
00:31:34 |
94 |
|
30 |
Paul Sanderson |
00:59:26 |
00:19:30 |
00:39:56 |
78 |
|
31 |
Maureen Coffey |
00:59:45 |
00:08:15 |
00:51:30 |
64 |
|
32 |
Anne Worrall |
00:59:50 |
00:12:00 |
00:47:50 |
69 |
|
33 |
Sean Cook |
01:00:45 |
00:24:30 |
00:36:15 |
85 |
|
34 |
Bob Jackson |
01:01:20 |
00:16:15 |
00:45:05 |
72 |
|
35 |
Rob Hamilton |
01:01:21 |
00:22:15 |
00:39:06 |
79 |
|
36 |
Eamon O'Brien |
01:05:27 |
00:14:00 |
00:51:27 |
66 |
|
37 |
Laurie O'Brien |
01:05:27 |
00:14:00 |
00:51:27 |
66 |
Ilkley Trail Race (from Stuart Harris)
|
Pos |
|
Time |
GP |
|
5 |
100 |
||
|
17 |
Paul Fotherby |
0:47:27 |
99 |
|
19 |
Paul Kaiser |
0:47:46 |
98 |
|
27 |
Gary Mann |
0:48:29 |
96 |
|
42 |
Paul Smith |
0:50:54 |
95 |
|
46 |
Myra Jones |
0:51:27 |
94 |
|
72 |
Sean Cook |
0:53:17 |
93 |
|
73 |
Graham Pawley |
0:53:20 |
91 |
|
89 |
Amanda Seims |
0:55:07 |
90 |
|
113 |
Rachel Mackie |
0:56:50 |
89 |
|
130 |
Mike Robins |
0:58:04 |
88 |
|
154 |
Alistair Smyth |
1:01:04 |
86 |
|
177 |
Stuart Harris |
1:03:04 |
85 |
|
181 |
Steph Gledhill |
1:03:41 |
84 |
|
209 |
Pascale Fotherby |
1:07:26 |
83 |
|
223 |
Sarah Mann |
1:10:32 |
81 |
|
243 |
Bob Jackson |
1:15:28 |
80 |
Yorkshire Vets League Race 2 at Kirkstall (from Amanda Spencer)
|
35 |
Amanda Spencer |
F45 |
0:48:16 |
|
119 |
Maureen Coffey |
F65 |
1:02:29 |
|
140 finished |
|||
|
42 |
Roy Huggins |
M50 |
0:40:40 |
|
46 |
Paul Smith |
M45 |
0:40:59 |
|
71 |
Tahir Akhtar |
M55 |
0:43:03 |
|
83 |
Andy Pagdin |
M55 |
0:43:55 |
|
86 |
Leroy Sutton |
M55 |
0:44:10 |
|
|
193 finished |
See www.yvaa.com for more information about these races, NB you must be aged 33 or more to run.
Other results
- Liverpool Marathon - James Tarran 3:49:54
Liz Wood 3:49:55
- LDWA 100 mile challenge - Ian Sanderson 47th in 31 hours 41
minutes
- Northallerton 10k - 2nd David Herdsman 34:58, 102nd
Louise Wardman 47:29. 657 finished.
RACE REPORTS - Stop Press
From Steve Dixon re West Highland Way
I hate the truth to get in the way of a good story but I'm now reliably informed Sylvia did no such stashing of tins of rice pudding but cleverly checked out the shops along the West Highland Way prior to the race for their stocks of tins of ambrosia and their willingness to open them for her during her race.