Michelle Gibson

Christmas Social Night Saturday 3rd December.

Cross Country Relays

Also, just a heads up that the cross country relays are to be held on 22nd October in Sheffield. Not much information about this yet but if you are interested then please let me know and we can look at getting teams together if there is sufficient demand. This could be a good primer for the forthcoming Peco XC series which starts in November- more on that later....

Please reply to Stuart Dunbar if you are interested in taking part in either or both of the above.
 

PECO'S!

They're back! Everyone's favourite series of 5 runs, usually involving appalling weather and lots and lots of water and mud, get your mudclaws cleaned off!
The provisional timetable is as follows:

Race 1 Sunday 27th November, Middleton Park
Race 2 Sunday 18th December, Temple Newsam
Race 3 Sunday 22nd January, West Park/Becketts Park
Race 4 Sunday 19th February, Middleton Park
Race 5 Sunday 5th March, Roundhay Park
Relays TBA

PECO XC League Race 1 - RaceBest

For details on the Club Championship, how it works, and how points are scored, please visit the website via the link below.
 
Club Championship ← Saltaire Striders

The list of remaining championship races for 2022/2023 is below:
 

1 Abbey Dash 10k Road Sunday 23/10/22  Leeds Abbey Dash 2022 | Age UK (enthuse.com)

2 Bradford City Runs 5k/10k/13.1 Road Sunday 30/10/22 Bradford City Runs 2022 - RaceBest 

3 Guy Fawkes 10 10m Road Nov Sunday 6/11/2022  UP & RUNNING: Guy Fawkes 10 Mile | BookitZone | Online Event Entry Service

4 Tadcaster 10 10m Road Nov Sunday 20/11/2022  Tadcaster 10 - RaceBest

5 Cyclists V Harriers 5m Trail Nov Enter on the day

6 Peco 5K Trail Dec Sunday TBA

7 Roberts Parkrun 5K Road Jan Saturday 18/01/2023

8 Dewsbury 10k 10k Road Feb Sunday 05/02/2023

9 Keighley BIG 10k 10k Road Sunday 23/3/2023  Keighley 10k & 5k 2023 - RaceBest

10 Any Marathon 26.2m 
 

Latest Club Championship Standings 2022-2023

After 10 races up to and including the EA Bradford 10k race. If your name doesn't appear below it's because you haven't done a race yet!


Remember that your fastest marathon of the year counts too - please let Tim Mosedale know any you have run.

 

I was one of the 79.

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal Race (https://canalrace.org.uk/leeds-liverpool-canal-race/) begins at the Clarke's Basin girder archway, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, before following the route of the Georgian waterway north and east through Wigan, Blackburn and Burnley, eventually passing into Yorkshire and making its way along the Aire Valley to Leeds. 

Aside from a couple of bridge crossings, the first 30ish miles to Wigan are entirely flat, passing Aintree Racecourse and Wigan Athletic's DW Stadium, before hitting Wigan's 21 locks and a 200ft climb over a couple of miles.

Through the first three checkpoints - at 14.5mi, 25.7mi and 40.2mi - everything was going well and I was only a few minutes outside my ETAs - understandable given the warm weather of the day. But somewhere between Blackburn and Accrington, not overly long after CP4, stiffness started creeping into both quads, and they quickly turned into lumps of wood. Walking was alright, running was alright, but I just couldn't transition between the two with any element of comfort. ‘Is this where we tell him to just run...?’ were my wife's kindly words of support in our crew WhatsApp… so I did. And I actually covered some of my fastest miles of the race through to the CP at 70.6ish miles.

Annoyingly, on leaving the checkpoint, my right knee started hurting and I could hardly run. But I had the fantastic support and company of Robert Henderson to get me through the next 15mi. Rob’s knowledge and experience was so helpful at this point - he seemed to know what I needed more than I did. We made some reasonable, albeit slower than intended, progress up and over the two tunnel diversions at Gannow and Foulridge and through CP5 at 84.1mi to meet Martin Fillingham at Barnoldswick.

This was then the slowest part of the race: it was night; I had some real soreness in the legs; fatigue was creeping in; and general tiredness meant I started to struggle to keep moving. But Martin kept me moving and eve allowed me a whole 2mins power nap on a stile and a further 4mins on a bench in Skipton… and they worked wonders each time! 

Clearly getting bored by our slow progress, or being a supportive buddy runner, or maybe both, Martin suggested we try running for a minute and then walking for a minute. ‘Ok, but maybe three minute walk,’ I said. And it worked. We were suddenly hitting the heights of around 16min/mi and veritably eating up the miles to ‘home turf’.

It was a massive boost hitting Five-Rise Locks (and getting my first Calippo of the day), and then seeing my family at Hirst Wood and again at Dockfield Road - along with Rachel Parker, Stuart Dunbar and final buddy runner Bernie Bowden.

Bernie joined me for the ‘glory leg’ to Leeds and she brought every part of Bernie that we all love - positivity, excitement, praise in bucket loads, tons of chatter, more positivity, more excitement. We shared ice cream and Calippos. And I ran more. And more. Much to Bernie’s excitement.

Coming in to the last few miles, and Bernie was very keen to tell every passer-by that I was a ‘warrior’ apparently… and I had to keep Bernie restrained from sprinting off in her joy!

Reaching the last few hundred yards and finally seeing the Candle Tower at Granary Wharf was amazing! Tears filled my eyes as I knew that the finish line was in sight.

And then my legs woke up!

The final ‘sprint’ in felt glorious… despite being outrun by my not-yet-5-year-old daughter, Eilidh! (A check of Strava data later showed that I hit somewhere around my 10k target pace in the 'sprint'...)

I'd crossed the line in 33 hours and 42 minutes, finishing in 19th place overall. But those elements were insignificant in the grand scheme of the whole weekend.

This was an amazing adventure - everything that I hoped it would be and one that I will likely take part in again - with wonderful support from my friends and family! A huge thanks go to Rob, Martin and Bernie for buddy running, and to all Striders who gave me words of encouragement or turned up on the canal on Sunday to give me cheer!

Extraordinary General meeting

Thank you to all the members who came to the recent Extraordinary General Meeting. The meeting as held to fulfil a commitment made at the last AGM by the committee to bring potential amendments to the constitution before the next round of committee elections. This would allow the membership to choose who elected the captains and vets captains, all members or just members in the appropriate groups.

The committee took the opportunity to make some other changes to the constitution in line with EA guidance and our own practice.

Amendment One, adding a second Welfare Officer and the role of Runs Organiser, while changing the name of the Chair of Coaches to Training and Coaching Coordinator and removing the Officer Without Portfolio was passed unanimously

Amendment Two cashing the wording used to describe the captains was passed with only one vote against.

Amendment Three, which would have opened voting on the Captains to all members was defeated with 17 votes for, 20 against and 5 abstentions so the existing rules will continue to apply

The minutes of the meeting are available on the club website (insert hyperlink) and the updated constitution is also there (insert hyperlink)

Annual General Meeting

The next AGM of the club will take place on Thursday November 10th at the Caroline Street Club. As usual club runs will go from Caroline Street that night and will get back in time for the meeting at 8pm.

In addition to reports on the club’s activities over the year and finances members will set the membership fees for next year and the elections will take place. Committee posts up for election this year are: Captain (Men), Social Secretary, Welfare officers (now 2 posts) and the renamed post of Training and Coaching Coordinator. Non committee Officers to be elected are BMWR Chair, John Carr Chair, and Runs Organiser. There will also be an opportunity for open discussion. Formal notice will go out soon, but in the meantime pop the date in your diary and think how you might like to get involved.

Race Results

Please let me know if you do an event which may be missed by me, as it is impossible to know the results of every race nationwide. Thanks! 

A number of club records have been set this month with some exceptional performances as shown in the results detail below: 

Heights Ultra 32 Miles
 

3/9/22

47th Ian Storey  7:21:56 
69th Claire Thaper  8:57:50
70th Liz Hamilton  8:58:09

Peveril 33 Mile Ultra

4/9/22 

Sheila Pepper  14:07:29
 

4/9/22

OPEN Overall Team Time 7:49:49 6th Place
Leg 1 Martin Fillingham & Carl Kernick 3rd1:12:35
Leg 2 Will Kerr & Nick Hardy 2nd 1:14:32
Leg 3 Simon Frazer & Loris Dell'Amico 11th 1:19:34
Leg 4 Reece Smith & Rich Sykes 11th 1:31:22
Leg 5 Andy Brown & Aaron McConkey 13th 1:17:28
Leg 6 Josh Yeadon & John Singh 10th 1:14:18

MIXED/LADIES Overall Team Time 10:29:51 29th Place
Leg 1 Tracy Foy & Helen Love 45th 1:56:00
Leg 2 Darren Parker & Alun Griffiths 44th 2:03:49
Leg 3 Jen Willingham & Helga Tolentino 20th 1:29:08
Leg 4 Tim Gore & Martin Love 40th 1:58:50
Leg 5 Chris Hassall & Janet Bower 26th 1:34:13
Leg 6 Beth Hirst & Izzy Anderson 24th 1:27:51

Martin Love & Tim Gore having a 'slurp'!

The Yorkshireman Marathon & 14.7 Mile 'Half'

11/9/22

Marathon

36th Richard Stone  4:37:57

Half Marathon

35th Loris Dell'Amico  2:17:05
46th Bernie Bowden  2:23:25
47th Richard Sykes  2:23:28
66th David Bower  2:29:51
84th Richard Nixon  2:38:48
96th Janet Bower  2:46:08
195th Claire Thaper  3:31;48
196th Liz Hamilton  3:31:52 
 

11/9/22

50th Marcin Soszka 1:10:46

1347th Simon Frazer 1:31:53

1433rd Stewart Spink 1:32:29

1917th Ian Dickinson 1:35:21

6708th Tim Spencer 1:51:44

6803rd Richard West 1:51:57

12415th Craig Elliott 2:03:16

20739th Emon Choudhury 2:19:35

22380th Denise Davis 2:22:55

23485th Kash Ahmed 2:25:19

25766th Andrea Longrigg 2:30:26

28411th Lee Halliday 2:36:48


Craig Elliott's take on his GNR 2022 

A few people have asked what it was like at the Great North Run yesterday, so here goes…
I stopped just 5 miles outside of Durham at a small pub with 10 small rooms in out buildings run by my cousin, all 10 rooms are people doing the GNR.
I got the train in from Durham as it was only 10mins away the train was packed to capacity with other runners, after arriving I followed the masses through Newcastle (or smallcastle) 3 miles and 90min queuing to my start pen (I was near the front) but my spirits were lifted to see one of the elite runners Marcin then fellow striders Simon Stewart Richard Richard each behind bars
After finally reaching my pen I was squeezed in and it was a squeeze the race started and I had 25 minutes wait to reach the start line nearly another mile, but here I am at the start of the GNR as I start my Garmin I hear a voice saying “hello craig” it’s a lesser known strider Cath Brown
So the race is on…100 meters in and I come to a stop because 3 women are walking but as I’m trying to find space to people are shouting my name with encouragement then the ogi ogi ogi start people are happy and cheerful as get out of the city centre the crowds remain cheerful and plentiful as I look ahead I see a road full of colour and no space water stations are every couple of miles but that had me concerned that I might trip/fall on the hundreds of bottles and caps that littered the floor.
At mile 6 the sunshine came and the crowds remained strong and vocal, jelly babies, oranges ice lollies and haribo a plenty as locals lined the street in support
At mile 11 my legs are starting to feel heavy but the crowd is willing everyone on as each other runner is the locals are now handing out beer and Elvis is singing away, but at this point I start to notice a couple of runners collapsed at the side of the road getting medical assistance.
After a short decent to the seafront just over a mile to go I finally have a bit of space around me but I can’t help notice that now the side of the road is lined with runners who have collapsed then a guy drops in front of me me and another runner drag him to the side where St. John ambulance take over for the final mile I can see people been assisted every 50 meters or so never seen anything like it before and hope never will again!
After crossing the finish line I headed straight for the bag collection where Liz spotted me which was a good job as the buses are a mile after the finish which I would say is overall the fastest way back to Newcastle and food
Over all it’s not a race it’s a celebration, event, and dare I say it fun run! But most of all an experience that I’m glad to have.

Craig & Marcin at the GNR

 

3rd Marcin Soszka 32:44 (2nd MO)

11th Martin Fillingham 34:29 (2nd M50)

29th Tom Kay 36:36

30th Stuart Dunbar 36:41 (1st M60)

41st Reece Smith 38:05

43rd Paul Parkins 38:20

70th Mohammed Rayaz 40:07

73rd John Hudson 40:22

96th Ian Jenkins 42:05

123rd James Gardner 43:10

135th David Bower 43:48

136th Jeremy Rix 43:49

157th Tim Mosedale 44:27

184th Pawel Tryc 45:33

202nd Tim Spencer 46:14

253rd Martin Love 48:21

279th Sue Sroka 48:53

337th Alan Douglas 50:16

338th Ian Storey 50:18

340th Janet Bower 50:25

344th Helen Love 50:35 (1stF65)

356th Tim Gore 50:55

372nd Alun Griffiths 51:36

395th Ian Stevens 52:05

299th Jenny Shaw 52:10

456th Craig Elliott 53:36

493rd Kath Wood 54:26

512th Harriet Fletcher 54:54

537th Josephine Briggs 55:11

561st Kathleen Dixon 55:57

639th Suzanne Hague 58:17

647th Ian Dickinson 58:33

773rd Michelle Gibson 1:02:21

810th Sheila Bugg 1:03:25

811th Kelly Heathcote 1:03:45

841st Mike Moss 1:04:21

973rd Judith Nunn 1:11:57

1074th Sylvia Ross 1:23:13

Part of our team, and one with our very own Mayor and Mayoress!

Northern Road Relays
 

25/9/22

Leg 1 Martin Fillingham 23:17

Leg 2 Aaron McConkey 23:46

Leg 3 Tom Kay 24:08

Leg 4 Reece Smith 25:11

Leg 5 Paul Parkins 25:46

24/9/22

Heat 9 6th position, Martin Fillingham 4:53.2

Heat 8 18th position Paul Parkins 5:11.4 (New M40 club mile record)

Heat 3 62nd position Alun Griffiths 7:04.8

25/9/22

Women

32nd Helen Love 54:00

Men

10th Andy Brown 39:25

45th Stephen Hetherington 46:15

46th Tim Spencer 46:30

66th Martin Love 50:43