Saltaire Striders newsletter 31st December 2019
 

Welcome to the Saltaire Striders newsletter.

The next edition of the newsletter will be published at the end of January so if you have anything to be included please submit it by 28th January.

Upcoming races/runs

12th Jan. Stanbury Splash fell race - Haworth
19th Jan. Peco Cross-Country league race 3 - Crimple Valley, Harrogate
1st Feb. Kirkstall Calverley Cutter 16k

Further race listings can be found on these web sites

John Schofields UK Results

Race Best

North East races

Northern Running Guide

http://www.ukresults.net/

https://racebest.com/

http://northeastraces.com/

http://northernrunningguide.com/races/03/2018

January featured race

Stanbury Splash fell race 11:30,12th January - Haworth

The parking / toilets / Registration are at the Penistone Hill Country Park.  If you've ever fancied doing a fell race but not sure whether it might be too tough this is a nice introduction.

6.7 mile 1200ft : BM

Starting from Penistone Hill Country Park and circuiting the upper reaches of Ponden Clough and Stanbury Moor.

Route

Starting from the quarry bottom on Penistone, turn right onto the road and then left onto the Bronte Way track.  Just past the ruins of Middle Intake Farm it turns right through a gate and down through the fields to cross Sladen Beck, the first of many times for wet feet.  Its then an inevitably muddy climb,  back up the other side to reach the track continuing from Back Lane. Turn left, uphill, on a good track, to Upper Heights Farm where the route branches right on a narrow footpath to circuit Ponden Clough and passing by Ponden Kirk. On a clear day there are magnificent views down the Clough, but on a misty day it can be quite bleak. After circuiting the Clough, with several more beck crossings and even more wet feet, you will meet back with the outgoing course, when you will retake the route back towards the start. Carefeul as you descend back to cross Sladen Beck as it can be hard to stay upright, then climb back through the fields.  Just after you pass Middle Intake farm, bear right off the track and onto the path to take the shortest way back to the finish line on the cricket pitch.

Roy Wilks RIP

It is with sadness that we have to report the passing of another former member of the St. Bede's club, Roy Wilks, who died suddenly on 19th Dec.  Roy was a stalwart of the club in the 90's and into the 2000's.  For several years Roy organised the popular Beckfield 10k from the nursing home where he worked on Bolton Lane.

Along with his wife Jackie, Roy worked hard on the social front of the club organising club weekends to Center Parcs and trips abroad.  Longer standing members of the club will remember quiz nights at Esholt on the evenings after Calderdale Way relays.  Roy also produced the club magazine Bede-e-eye and Eye Balls out in the days before the internet.

On the running front Roy was a decent performer, 1990 being a particularly good year running 35:43 for 10k at the O&K Escalators race in Keighley and 60:21 for the tough Burnsall 10 miles.  Later Roy turned to fell running and ran the first Yorkshireman marathon with Mike Moss (which turned out to be 28+ miles) he also completed "the beast" - the Wadsworth Trog a couple of times.

Roy was an active member of the club committee and a founder member of the Bradford Millennium Way organising committee and lead marshall at the Laycock handover.

PECO Cross-Country League

These are open to all club members and are around 5m trail runs.  We usually meet at Nuffield for car sharing to the venue (details via e-mail prior to each race). 

Note: the third race has now been switched to Crimple Valley near Harrogate which was used for the first time last year and race 4 which was a TBA is now at West Park, Leeds.

Race 3 - 19th January - Crimple Valley, Harrogate

Race 4 - 9th February - West Park, Leeds

Race 5 - 1st March - Roundhay Park, Leeds

Relays - 29th March - TBA

Entries for these races are open on the Racebest website.. These will NOT sell out. You can either enter individual races or a Season ticket for the remaining 3 races for £15. An end of season party is also included in the price.

Race 2 - Middleton Park

Ladies

12th Lesley Watson 34:41 (3rd F45)
38th Bernie Bowden 37:34
60th Claire Bond 39:40
84th Louise Nash 41:10
160th Helen Brant 44:51
161st Catherine Brown 44:55
198th Helen Love 46:50
212th Louise Dell'Amico 47:26
244th Fiona Farquhar 49:30
254th Mel Akeroyd 49:55
256th Cat Bruckner 50:00
264th Denise Davis 50:35
276th Fran Guy 51:24
327th Sheila Pepper 58:15
331st Miami Holt 59:04

Men

7th Tim Baldwin 27:58
12th Will Kerr 28:54 (1st V40)
15th Colin Walker 29:09 (2nd V45)
22nd Andy Brown 29:26 (1st V50)
51st Martin Fillingham 30:25
71st Stuart Dunbar 31:19 (1st V55)
76th Matt Richardson 31:29
77th Richard Bond 31:31
127th Lee Casson 33:22
144th Stewart Spink 33:49
170th Loris Dell'Amico 34:33
262nd Simon Furlong 37:57
266th Ian Dickinson 38:02
267th Darren Parker 38:05
275th David Bower 38:17
276th Tim Spencer 38:18
315th Rod Pegg 40:00
324th Alun Griffiths 40:23
329th Martin Love 40:28
349th Gary Western 41:24
350th Graham D'Arcy 41:29
367th Alan Douglas 42:12
377th Tim Mosedale 42:39
405th Lee East 44:33
417th Craig Elliott 45:53
426th Mohanlal Mistry 46:08
432nd Barney Lerner 46:32
443rd Mike Moss 48:34
465th Mervyn Silva 54:04
466th Nick Breare 54:09

Full results

 

Striders Calendar

It's still not too late to grab a bargain at just £5.

Produced in A3 format and full-colour, it is a proper working calendar and not just an ornament.

We have made considerable effort to include every member that takes part in club runs where possible.

Being the first time we have only produced a limited number of calendars and offered on a first-come-first-served basis. At £5 a calendar a bargain!

To place your order please CLICK HERE

Or see Craig Elliott at a training session to pay in cash and take immediate delivery.

Proposed club trip to Sweden August 2020

A few members are going on a trip to Sweden next year if anyone would like to join us. This is to take part in the 6 Lakes race series:

Note: This is a DIY trip.

You will need to book the flights, accommodation and race entry yourself. Feel free to do your own thing -  the following are just suggestions. All the information about the race and travel is on the race organiser's web site https://www.6sjoar.se/en/home/

All distances are catered for 5k, 10k, half and full. It looks to be a friendly low key event. The races take place around 6 lakes near Uppsala  (about 40 minutes north of Stockholm.) and are a mix of road, gravel track and off-road,
 
Race date is 15th August so the plan is to go out on Friday 14th and return Monday 17th.
 
Flights are from Manchester. These are the ones most of us are choosing:
 
Out: SAS 09:45 Manchester 2h 20min direct 13:05 ARN Stockholm Arlanda
Back: SAS 16:20 ARN Stockholm Arlanda 2h 30min direct 17:50 MAN Manchester
 
The hotel of choice is Clarion Hotel Gillet in central Uppsala.

Birthdays

Happy birthday to the following members who have a birthday in January  - Jessica Alred, Philippa Bird, Claire Bond, Roy Bradshaw, Helen Brant, Catherine Bruckner, Lee East, Olivia Gregory, Andy Hutchinson, Vicki Johnston, Sikander Khan, Sheila Pepper, Paul Purcell, Joshua Rose, Ian Shaw, Becky Smedley, Richard Smith, Jennifer Tutton and especially Barney Lerner and Richard Nixon who both have big birthdays coming up.

New Members

Welcome to  Jenny Shaw who joined the club in December.
 

Congratulations to Esther Silva and Tom Lee on the safe arrival of their baby daughter Robyn Elsie, younger sister for Lucy! Mum and daughter are doing well.

Club Records

Congratulations to Tim Baldwin who absolutely smashed the club 10k record with his time of 31:33 at Ribble Valley, taking almost 2 minutes off an already impressive PB. Almost certainly breaking the 5k record as well en route.  Not to be outdone Louise Nash took over a minute and a half off the F50 record which in itself is pretty impressive coming only 3 days after the tough Chevin Chase.

Club Championship

So the 2019 club championship is complete with Stuart Dunbar winning the Premier league with a maximum 400 points.  Will Kerr and Martin Fillingham were tied in 2nd place with 396 points each. Martin came out second winning 3-2 on the head to heads between them.
 

148 members took part in at least 1 championship race.  The Epilepsy Action 10k was the most popular race and had 68 members finish, the Rush around the rhubarb was the least popular with just 6 finishers.  33 members had a marathon score.

In the 1st Division Suzanne Hague came out victorious with 383 points and  Lee East and Josie Briggs tied in second place on 372 points.
 

In the second division Richard Bond was the winner with Janet Bower in second and David Bower in third.
 

November Strider of the Month

Claire Thaper - November can only be described as an amazing and unbelievable month for Claire. 

Starting with her first Ultra, White Rose (30m), a very hilly, wet, off road course, in the worse weather conditions. A real tough ask from the start but after hitting the biggest of ‘Walls’ half way round and taking a very nasty fall, she dusted herself off, wiped off the tears and showed truly amazing grit and determination to finished the race with a massive smile. 

She followed that up, with what only can be described as the longest recovery run ever, completing the hilly Guy Fawkes 10 the following morning, and despite heavy legs and a sore body from the previous days efforts, Claire absolutely smashed the course and really earned that post race chocolates and endorse the saying ‘ultra runners don’t run up hill’!!

But Claire wasn’t finished there and decided to tackle her first ever fell race and take part in very muddy and extremely hard Harriers vs Cyclist!. As always she showed the grit and determination of any great runner and pushed herself all the way to the end. Despite  finishing with the comment ‘What the hell was that’, the usual smile and sense of achievement quickly return .

In November Claire has become a fell runner, an ultra but more importantly she has shown all the qualities of a great runner and is fully deserving of this award.  What a woman!

Race Results

Auld Lang Syne fell race

12th Will Kerr 46:14 (2nd V40)
19th Matt Richardson 47:33
63rd Stewart Spink 54:21
76th Simon Frazer 55:43
91st Loris Dell'Amico 57:12
99th John Singh 57:41
148th Ian Dickinson 61:41
189th Stephen Hillas 64:39
204th Dave Bower 66:21
211th Rod Pegg 67:24
212th Jen Willingham 67:27
213th Martin Love 67:30
264th Graham D'arcy 71:23
294th Mohanlal Mistry 74:27
307th Helen Love 75:25
325th Cat Bruckner 80:25

Full results

Ribble Valley 10k

41st Tim Baldwin 31:33
313th Ian Jenkins 40:46
387th Loris Dell'Amico 42:42
458th Robert Hague 44:08
528th Louise Nash 46:02 
614th Time Mosedale 48:20
937th Claire Thaper 56:16
968th Suzanne Hague 57:16
1030th Mervyn Silva 58:15
1055th Nick Breare 58:52

Full results

Chevin Chase

34th Andy Brown 44:58 (3rd V50)
42nd Martin Fillingham 45:54 (2nd V45)
57th Richard Bond 47:06 
122nd Stewart Spink 50:34
182nd Tom Lee 52:39
186th Ian Jenkins 52:55
219th John Singh 53:45
286th Shane Corcoran 56:39
328th Richard Stone 57:10
342nd Bernie Bowden 58:02
383rd Darren Parker 58:57
403rd Janet Bower 59:23
443rd David Bower 60:33
479th Jen Willingham 61:44
544th Jack Verity 62:51
547th Stephen Hillas 63:01
556th Louise Nash 63:04
606th Mohanlal Mistry 65:37
650th Lee East 66:15
672nd Barney Lerner 66:50
706th Rachel Parker 67:38
713th Debbie Moore 68:06
720ish Helen Love 68:16
910th Michael Wigglesworth 75:30
934th Laura Richardson 76:07
936th Helen Brant 76:09
944th Frank Masley 76:08
1072nd Donna Pollard 84:28
1073rd Claire Thaper 84:29
1130th Lindsey Pearson 96:10
1131st Dairine Nethercott 96:11
1132nd Ben Pearson 96:13

Full results

Podium 5k

39th Tim Baldwin 16:01

Full results

Myerscough 10m

254th Michelle Eyres 1:41:51
278th Sheila Pepper 1:51:30

Full results

Keyworth turkey trot half marathon

86th Kyle Bethell 90:42

Full results

Yorkshire Vets 2020

So far 3 dates have been confirmed for the 2020 Grand Prix series.

April 19th - Honley
May 26th - Kirkstall
Aug.5th - Halifax

Watch this space for further details.

Cross-country championships

8th March Longley Park - Sheffield

10m championships

Thirsk 10 - 15th March

A new private facebook group has been created to back up the official YVAA website by "pushing" information out to members and to encourage dialogue, comments and enquires.  Details of how to register can be found at https://www.Facebook.com/groups/3189196357821902/ 

Committee meetings

The next committee meeting will be held on 22nd January  - if you have anything which you wish to be discussed please contact or speak to any member of the committee.

Saturday/Sunday long runs

There is a closed facebook group Saltaire Marathon And Long Run Friends for people who are interested in doing some longer runs during the winter at a steady pace.  The runs are arranged via the group on an ad-hoc basis.  If interested please ask to join the group.

Club vest /kit

If you would like to purchase a club vest or any Saltaire Striders branded kit (e.g. hoodie) please contact Gavin Hamilton.

To view what kit is available
Click here

Tuesday Track Sessions

Our interval sessions at Keighley track are now every Tuesday and are attended by ladies and gents of all abilities and we always tailor sessions to meet the needs of everyone who comes along. It costs £2 to use the track. Sessions start with 1,600m warm-up with dynamic stretches and strides and finish with cool down.

Sportsshoes.com discount code

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