Contents
- Emmy Deverill – world biathle triple medallist
- Booking training for November
- Peco cross country league first meeting 8 November
- Emmy Deverill – world biathle triple medallist
- Not the 1 mile and 5k race results at Bodington on Tuesday 27 October
NB please reply to [email protected] as the gmail address that I’m sending from isn’t monitored regularly
NB Race information is on our club website pagehttps://www.valleystriders.org.uk/events-for-juniors-autumn-winter-2026-27/
and it will be updated there as the season progresses.
Just to apologise in advance if I’m not replying to emails and messages as fast as usual in the next 10 days. I’m helping with entry checking and information for the first Leeds Schools race on 7 November and for the first Peco race on 8 November so this and next week are very busy for me.
Emmy Deverill – world biathle triple medallist
Congratulations to Emmy Deverill who represented GB at the World Biathle Championships in Madeira and returned with one of each colour
- Bronze individual
- Silver in mixed teams
- Gold in girls teams
Biathle is run-swim-run. See https://www.pentathlongb.org/choose-a-sport/
Booking forms open for November
Here’s the link
https://www.valleystriders.org.uk/booking-junior-training-sessions/
Peco XC – first race on Sunday 8 November
42 junior Striders have entered so far.
Entry link https://racebest.com/races/8w7su Only £8 in total for 6 races.
Just a reminder that if you get your entry in before Sunday 1 November your name will be printed on the front of your race number.
Other XC
There was information about Leeds Schools XC, West Yorkshire XC and Leeds university XC junior races in the previous emails
https://www.valleystriders.org.uk/email-to-parents-23-october-2026/
and
https://www.valleystriders.org.uk/email-to-parents-26-september-2026-cross-country-special-edition/
Not the mile and 5k races at Bodington on 27 October
Plan A was to have a mile for all juniors and 5k for juniors 11 and older and adults
There had been a problem with the booking and we didn’t have dedicated use of the whole track; potentially we would be sharing it with cyclists. The 5k race was cancelled (most adults were contacted via the Spond system that juniors don’t use.
Plan B was to run a mile race for all juniors using two loops of the flat half of the cycle circuit. Everyone to start at 7:15pm (this would be OK for the older juniors who had planned to run 5k as they were supposed to book in between 6:50pm and 7:20pm)
We had problems measuring the track to get 1 Mile. Ian Richards (Harry’s dad) organses international race walking events at Bodington on a 750m circuit on the flat loop …
Plan C was two loops of Ian’s circit for a 1500 metre race for all juniors which actually started at 7:25pm
A big thank you to those who helped –
- Ian for the idea of the 750m lap and for marshalling the turn point
- Sam and Graham on timekeeping
- John K & Tom D on funnel marshal
- Jason and Carol on disc “tokens”
- Nic and Nikki on recording
- Alice as back-marker
- anyone else I missed
- everyone for being so patient while we went from plan A to plan B to plan C
NB ages on race day because the plan was that anyone aged 11 on race day would be eligible for the 5k race (UKA rules)
Medals to top 3 boys and girls aged 11 and over and to top 3 boys and girls not yet 11.
I will get medals ASAP to those listed who didn’t receive them on the night.
1 Josh Salmon (12) 5:07 1st B>=11
2 Elijah Tedd (12) 5:09 2nd B>=11
3 Levi Woodger (12) 5:14 3rd B>=11
4 Harry Richards (12) 5:18
5 Fred Rees (10) 5:24 1st B<11
6 Alfie Rees (12) 5:26
7 Niamh Archbold (12) 5:45 1st G>=11
8 Kyle Reid (10) 5:50 2nd B<11
9 Emmy Beardsmore (10) 5:54 1st G<11
10 Ella Shanks (10) 5:55 2nd G<11
11 Abigail Bottomley (12) 6:02 2nd G>=11
12 Xav Peacock (10) 6:05 3rd B<11
13 Matilda Dark (11) 6:07 3rd G>=11
14 Rocco Gurney (10) 6:10
15 Barney Woodger (9) 6:16
16 Jack Pearson (10) 6:24
17 Chloe Deak (13) 6:31
18 Søren Pailor (14) 6:34
19 Reuben Salmon ( 8 ) 6:36
20 Elise Murphy (11) 6:37
21 Issy Dawson (10) 6:44 3rd G<11
22 Alex Player (9) 6:46
23 Gwen Rees (10) 6:47
24 Theodore Harrington ( 8 ) 6:50
25 Evie Kendell (12) 6:52
26 Nye Mason (10) 6:57
27 Molly Kendell (11) 6:57
28 Poppy Bennett ( 8 ) 7:06
29 Tilly Beardsworth (11) 7:08
30 Orin Murphy ( 8 ) 7:13
31 Elodie Dawson ( 8 ) 7:13
32 Leo Guppy (12) 7:17
33 Laurie Rawlings (12) 7:22
34 Skye Graham (7) 7:41
35 Nuria Zain ( 8 ) 8:17
36 Margot Player (7) 8:31
37 Alice Bonner (16) 8:31
Hope you all enjoyed it!
PS. everyone who got a medal needs to return one-sixteenth of it because they only ran 1500m instead of 1609m