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We have some great plans for the Summer – I’ve tried to summarise concisely, it wasn’t easy…

WE NEED NEW LEADERS! Our weekly runs require 9-10 leaders and we’re in a position now where we’re not always able to put on all the runs. Other leaders will often step in at the last minute (thank you) but the run might not be quite what regulars were expecting. Rather than reduce the range of runs on offer, we’d been given the go-ahead to recruit more run leaders! If you’d like to find out more, contact me via facebook page or email louhiggins79@gmail.com.

A NEW HOME? During June and July our Monday evening runs will start at Bradford Amateur Rowing Club, just over the river from Hirst Wood car park, with the opportunity to socialise at the club house post-run. This is a trial; if it doesn’t work for us or the rowing club we will revert back to Caroline Street on Mondays. But it has so much potential, we think you’ll love it!

BEGINNERS’ GRADUATION: our beginners are now in their final two weeks of training! Their graduation 5k will be at Lister parkrun on Saturday 14 May. Hope you can be there to show your support to the runners and your appreciation of the massive effort put in by Donna, Julia and team! Many of the beginners’ group will then join our regular club runs. This may be a scary prospect for some of them but I’m sure we all remember what it’s like and will do our best to make them feel welcome and part of the club.

ILKLEY RUN: our annual club run to Ilkley will take place on 29 June, with at least two different paced groups. More information to follow nearer the time.

SUMMER AWAY RUNS: In addition to our club trips to Ilkley, Burnsall and Grimsby there’ll be plenty of opportunity to get to new destinations this Summer and take part in fun events such as relays, races and altogether runs – more to follow from your Captains. The club calendar is busting at the seams!

POST MARATHON RECOVERY: we’re well into marathon season and some crazy Striders are doing more than one! The marathon is gruelling. It deserves respect. It stresses and batters the body in a whole host of ways and suppresses the immune system – so a good marathon plan will include a recovery phase, generally a few weeks of easier running and good nutrition to let your body repair and strengthen. Ignore this phase at your peril! If you’ve been mad enough to enter a second marathon (let’s say Leeds) three weeks after another (let’s say London), the focus between the two should be recovery and taper. Listening to your body is crucial during these short weeks to optimise your performance at the second.

REGULAR TRAINING RUNS: we continue to meet as follows:

- Monday nights at Caroline Street, Saltaire during May at 19.00 – choice of 3-4 runs. During June/July runs will be from the rowing club.

- Wednesday nights at Carlton Keighley running track at 19.15 – interval training suitable for all or tailored to your needs. Cost £2.

- Thursday nights at Nuffield Baildon at 19.00 – a choice of 3-4 runs

ALL our regular training nights have runs suitable for ALL members.

Club coaches - our club coaches can support Striders with all aspects of running – returning from injury, improving running form, improving performance, training plans and more. Talk to any of usat training nights: Ewan Gibb, Will Kerr, Alistair Nash, Louise Nash - or message us. We can match you up with whoever will best meet your needs.

Tailored nutrition advice - Strider Izzy Anderson provides one:one consultations and will give club members a 10% discount – contact Izzy direct via her website here: https://www.izzynutrition.co.uk/

Nutrition discounts - we have secured discounts for members as follows: Mountain Fuel 15% code: Saltaire2215 http://www.mountainfuel.co.uk/ Kendal Mint 15% code: STRIDERS-2UBpVE (excludes offer, trade, subscriptions, clearance) http://www.kendalmint.co.uk/

Keep up to date: training updates/changes are usually shared via our social media platforms, please request to join in if you haven't already.
Facebook group “Saltaire Striders Chat”
WhatsApp group “Saltaire Striders"

Key Races for 2023

Calderdale Way Relay 21st May

Bradford Millenium Way Relay 11th June

Leeds Country Way 3rd Sept (Provisional)

Northern Athletics 6 Stage Road relays September/October TBA

Just a heads up for now as further information will be released nearer the time but if anyone is interested in the XC relays then please let the club captains know.

striderscaptain@gmail.com
 

Orsted Great Grimsby 10k 4th June 2023

Results Base - Ørsted Great Grimsby 10k 2023
 

SAVE THE DATE: ANNUAL CLUB TRIP TO THE RED LION 

 Please join us for the annual Saltaire Striders away trip to Burnsall. This year the event will be taking place on Friday 16th June.

All are welcome and invited to attend. And, of course, bring a partner or a friend to join you for the evening - they don't have to be able to run, they can go straight to the pub! 

We will get a coach (paid for by the club, more details below) up to Burnsall where there will be three different runs from which to choose (or just head into the Red Lion). Following the runs, there will be the female-only option of using a room in the pub in which to freshen up or the unisex option of a wash in the Wharfe!

Following this will be an amazing five-course meal (details and menu options to follow) in the Red Lion before the return coach home.

 All of this for the fantastic price of £32.50 per person!

Coach Pick-up Locations:

First Pick up - Shipley Market Square - BD18 3QJ - to depart at 5.00pm

Second Pick up - Saltaire Shell garage - BD18 4DJ - to depart at 5.10pm

Third Pick up - Bus stop outside Lidl Bingley main street. BD16 2BA - to depart at 5.20pm

I hope that you will be able to join us - any questions just let me know!

Best wishes Tracy Foy

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


Finalising the 2022-23 season with Tim Mosedale


While we wait for the awards night (have you got your tickets yet?) to confirm the winners of each division, we can reveal that 137 striders posted a result in one of the races, which is phenomenal!  The most popular event was the Roberts park takeover in Jan (and plenty of other striders were volunteering!).

There is the small matter of promotion and relegation.  As we've had so many runners, we're able to make the divisions a bit bigger and promote some more people.

Moving on up we have Carolyn Rix, Graham D'Arcy, Joanne Hardaker, Sheila Pepper, Tim Spencer and Tom Kay, and the 3 Richards (Airey, Thomas, and West) joining the premier league, and a nice long list moving up into the first division: Harriet Fletcher, Ian Storey, Isabel Anderson, Jenny Shaw, John Walton, Kathleen Dixon, Kathryn Wood, Lee Halliday, Norman Saldanha, Pawel Tryc, Reece Smith, Sheila Bugg, Sur Sroka, and Tim Gore.  Well done everyone!

And in what we like to call the 'Leeds' position (aka certain relegation), we have Frank Beecroft, John Singh, Mervyn Silva, Noel Fitzpatrick, Rachel Parker, Nick Breare, Barney Lerner, Mel Murley, Stephen Hetherington, Fran Guy, and two more Richards (Bond and Smith).

Full 2023-24 divisions will be sent out in May's newsletter along with the scoring for the first few races.

Well done to everyone who's taken part last year or this.

2023 Championship

We had a possible 5 races in April (including anyone wild enough to run marathons), and kudos to Ian Storey for running 3 of them, turning in performances in Burnsall, Guiseley, and Baildon.  He posts an early lead in the first division, with Stuart Dunbar and Marcus Isherwood leading premier and second divisions having run two races each.

Also a big thumbs up to Russ McFarlane who ran all 3 bunny runs, posting his best time in the last, nudging his score ahead of John Singh (first strider in race 1) by 2 seconds!  Of those of us who ran the very wet race 2, I'm still working on a weather adjusted algorithm...

Full 2023-24 tables will be in the next newsletter.

In May we have the Leeds half marathon (the same day as marathon day) and Up The Odda on the 20th - plenty of entries remain available for the latter, local race, and there could be plenty of points on offer with only half a dozen of us entered so far!
 

For the 2023-24 season, there are 24 selected races, plus your best marathon time between April 2023 and March 2024.

1. Baildon Boundary Way, 13.1 miles Sunday 2nd April
2. Bunny Runs 5k, Penistone Hill Haworth Tues 4th, 11th & 18th April (Fastest time counts) Pre-Entry for Bunny Runs – Wharfedale Harriers
3. Guiseley Gallop, 10k Sun 9th April Guiseley Gallop 10k | BookitZone | Online Event Entry Service
4. Burnsall Trail, 13.1 miles Sat 22nd April SiEntries – Burnsall 10k Trail Race
5. Leeds Half Marathon, Sun 14th May
6. Up the Odda 10k, Sat 20th May Up The Odda 2023 – RaceBest
7. Orsted Great Grimsby 10k Results Base – Ørsted Great Grimsby 10k 2023
8. Otley 10, Weds 14th June Otley 10 Mile – RaceBest
9. Solstice Saunter, 5 miles Weds 21st June Solstice Saunter 2023 – RaceBest
10. Harrogate 10k, Sunday 2nd July Harmony Energy Run Harrogate 10K & Fun Run 2023 – RaceBest
11. Baildon Carnival Canter, 5k Saturday 8th July
12. Even Splits 5k, August TBA
13. Round Hill Fell race, 9 miles Sunday 6th August, enter on the day
14. Roberts Park Parkrun, 5k September TBA
15. Punk Panther Reservoir Dogs, Half/20 miles SiEntries – Punk Panther Reservoir Dogs Trail+Ultra
16. Bradford City Runs, 5k/10k&Half October TBA
17. Leeds Abbey Dash 10k, October TBA
18. Guy Fawkes 10 miles, Sunday 5th November
19. Post Hill Challenge 5k, November TBA
20. Auld Lang Syne Fell Race, 7 miles, Sunday 31st December
21. Bradford Parkrun 5k, January TBA
22. Peco 5 miles, January 2024 TBA
23. Epilepsy Action Bradford 10k, March TBA
24. Keighley BIG 10k, March TBA
25. Any Marathon

Trial of a new base

Saltaire Striders’ original headquarters was St Bede’s school in Heaton, where runners would often meet for post-run refreshments.  This changed to Esholt Sports Club and, in more recent years, we’ve been homeless.  We manage, but members often say a base would be nice.

An unexpected upside of Will Kerr becoming injured is that he started rowing, established himself within Bradford Amateur Rowing Club, and has negotiated a deal for Saltaire Striders to try the rowing club out as a base for Summer running.

The run leaders met there this week and agreed it could be the perfect Summer base, with great route options and the potential to socialise in the club house post run.  There are changing facilities too.  So we agreed our Monday runs (best night for the rowing club) will switch from Caroline Street to Bradford Amateur Rowing Club throughout June and July.  We’ll make the first Monday of each month a social, so we can enjoy some post-run hydration, fuel and maybe even some laughter. 

There’s a car park at the rowing club, or it can easily be reached on foot from either the Upper Coach Road side or over the bridge from Hirst Wood car park.

We’ll provide more info nearer the time and hopefully your run leaders will be able to lead you past our potential new home during some May runs.

PLEASE NOTE: this is a trial for both Saltaire Striders and the rowing club – if it doesn’t work out for either side, we can go back to Caroline Street.  There are no plans to use the rowing club in the Winter, it’s only for light evenings.  Thursday runs will continue to start at Nuffield.

Any queries/concerns, feel free to reply to this email or discuss with another run leader.

Louise Nash
Saltaire Striders Coaching and Training Co-ordinator

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! 
 

Baildon Boundary Way-Championship Race

 

2/4/23

2nd Nick Hardy 1:26:43 (2nd MSEN)

8th Paul Weir 1:32:46 (3rd MV35)

16th Stuart Dunbar 1:38:58 (1st MV60)

87th Thomas Bolland 2:00:28

96th Richard West 2:02:35

133rd Jez Rix 2:11:18

181st Martin Love 2:21:54

192nd Helen Love 2:24:57 (1st FV65)

193rd Graham D’Arcy 2:25:17

204th Gavin Hamilton 2:28:28

225th Gillian Hyde 2:39:12

228th Mohanial Mistry 2:39:21

236th Ian McKenna 2:42:00

238th Ian Storey 2:42:25

248th Laura Bentley 2:49:42

254th Joanne Hardaker 2:55:53

255th Michael Wigglesworth 2:55:54

London Landmarks Half
 

2/4/23

964th David Bower 1:41:16

4526th Craig Elliott 2:12:47

Bunny Runs Week 1 Championship Race
 

4/4/2023

25th John Singh 19:26

37th Russell McFarlane 19:53

106th Brett Jackson 24:43

120th Louise Nash 25:30

123rd Alan Douglas 25:35

136th Shane Corcoran 26:58

153rd Claire Thaper 29:28

165th Lee Halliday 31:17

172nd Michelle Eyres 32:08

183rd Urmila Mistry 37:20

184th Mohanial Mistry 37:20

9/4/2023

9th Andy Brown 39:41 (1st M50)

13th Stuart Dunbar 40:17 (1st M60)

75th Tim Mosedale 52:41

78th Marcus Isherwood 52:54

80th Alice Kershaw 53:06

97th Louise Nash 54:26

126th Anne Preston 57:16

159th Rachel Parker 1:00:32

160th Kath Wood 1:00:45

164th Jenny Shaw 1:01:13

170th Ian Storey 1:01:56

211th Kathleen Dixon 1:10:55

Bunny Runs Week 2 Championship Race

11/4/2023

28th Russell McFarlane 20:28

43rd Rob Henderson 21:31

99th Tim Mosedale 27:01

122nd Jenny Shaw 30:12

123rd Helen Love 30:26

131st Tim Gore 32:46

135th Claire Thaper 33:49

Manchester Marathon
 

16/4/2023

4857th Chris Jones 3:36:20

16524th Sue Sroka 5:19:40

16/4/2023

10k

7th Paul Weir 57:45

5k

69th Andrew Hawksworth 41:20

84th Rachel Parker 43:40

93rd Suzanne Hague 45:01

16/4/2023

4857th Chris Jones 3:36:20

16524th Sue Sroka 5:19:40

18/4/2023

38th Russell McFarlane 19:07

106th Marcus Isherwood 24:19

148th Jenny Shaw 27:11

165th Helen Love 28:46

190th Michelle Eyres 31:27

23/4/2023

125th Marcin Soszka 2:29:46

1190th Martin Fillingham 2:47:27

1522nd Tom Kay 2:50:39

3920th Stewart Spink 3:06:58

4402nd Alistair Nash 3:09:50

4488th Steven Fowler 3:10:25

16238th Andrew Pine 3:55:10

19596th Igs Robun 4:04:26

21223rd Pawel Tryc 4:10:16

23817th Helen Western 4:18:52

24813rd James Gardner 4:22:16

27382nd Claire Thaper 4:30:33

34541th Jez Rix 4:45:40

41927th Humera Butt 5:35:15

42100th Sue Sroka 5:36:25

42101st Debbie Moore 5:36:26

23/4/2023

Men

7th Stuart Dunbar 42:16

62nd Stephen Hetherington 52:16

95th David Leaf 56:44

Ladies

71st Michelle Eyres 71:35

81st Kelly Heathcote 75:30

26/4/2023

3rd Reece Smith 16:26

10th Martin Fillingham 17:47

32nd Loris Dell'Amico 19:32

51st James Carlton 20:43

56th Richard Thomas 20:53

88th Louise Dell'Amico 27:13