Upcoming races/runs

Upcoming races and details of how the championship works are on the website.: New members are automatically added to the second division.

Next up is the Vale of York half marathon on the 12th Sept.

Myrtle Park parkrun 21st August

6th Simon Frazer 21:01
16th Dave Bower 22:35
17th Jen Willingham 23:06
52nd Janet Bower 27:18
108th Judith Nunn 36:56
112th Sylvia Ross 38:42

The Club AGM will be held at a date to be decided in November, and I thought this year it would be helpful to give members a bit of advance notice and information about the elections to the management committee.

The day to day running of the club is done by a Management Committee of eleven members which meets every month or so. There are also four other officers with specific jobs who are not part of the committee, but attend when needed. All officers are elected for three years at the AGM although they can, and sometimes do, retire before the end of a term in which case the post is filled by cooption if needed until the next AGM. Because of this different officers are elected at each AGM, depending on when they were first elected and if the sequence has been altered by early retirements.

Officers can be re-elected once, at the end of their first term, but cannot be elected for the same post a third time, so have to stand down after a maximum of six years. This helps make sure there is a healthy turnover and gives opportunities for new members to get involved (although there is nothing to stop any member from putting themselves forward for any post, even if the current post holder is standing again). It also prevents an officer from feeling obliged to continue doing a job for longer than they would really want to.

This year the the following posts are coming up for election: Treasurer, Ladies Captain, Membership Officer, Communications Officer (Management Committee posts) and Male Vets Captain and John Carr chair (not Management Committee posts).

The current Treasurer (Richard Stone), Communications Officer (Jack Verity) and Male Vets Captain (Martin Love) are not eligible to stand again so we must find a new member for these positions.

Getting involved with the running of the club is a rewarding experience. If you think you might like to be involved, and want to know in more detail what is involved in a particular role please talk to the current post holders, or any committee member - with no obligation!

Northern Athletics Affiliation

There has been some ongoing discussion on the issue of our affiliation to Northern Athletics who provide running competitions in the region which can lead to National qualification. They cater for most disciplines including road running, Track & Field as well as cross country events. As a club we have competed in the road relays and the cross country relays. The committee thought the best option was for the club to decide as a whole via an online vote. As the membership year begins in September and there are relays scheduled for 18^th September the vote could not wait for the November AGM where these things are normally decided.

An email was therefore sent out to all club members asking them to vote online via a google form. For the vote to count we needed at least 50% of the members to vote which equated to 92. By Midnight on 31^st August 94 responses to the vote were received.. The results were over 70% in favour so a clear decision as shown by the chart below:

As club captain I am pleased with this result as it shows a few things:

1. The club members are keen to have a say in how things are done

2. A large number of members have realised that the NA affiliation is not just about our involvement as a club but is part of the ‘bigger picture’ of promoting athletics in our area.

3. The club is keen to see us compete at regional (and possibly National) level and thus raise the profile of Saltaire Striders.

So what now? Firstly I need at least a team of 6 men for the road relay on 18^th September. A women’s team of 4 would be good too. There was little response to the Email sent out but maybe it ended up in your junk folder….

Details are here: Men’s Event       Ladies

There is also a cross country relay on 23 October. If you are interested in taking part in this then please let either myself or Helen know. Men Teams are 4 legs of approx. 2 miles and Ladies is 3 legs of the same course.

More information is available here: Cross Country relay

There are also the 12 stage relays which are normally in April, further details will follow when they are available. If we finish in the top half of this completion we get the opportunity to compete in the national competition which is usually held in Sutton Coldfield in late April.

Please can I ask that people respond to emails by replying to them rather than sending me a text/WhatsApp/FB message etc. This may sound obvious but I spend a lot of time searching through other applications for messages which are in response to an email request. The email I use for club business is striderscaptain@gmail.com Please add this to your address list to ensure my emails don’t end up in your spam/junk email folder.

Thanks.

Stuart