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HELM HILL RUNNERS NEWSLETTER WINTER 2012 www.helmhill.co.uk Winter’s here! ….and so is the Kendal Winter League!! After such a wet miserable summer Helm Hill runners will be taking everything the winter throws at them in their stride. Here’s the news ….. CLUB NEWS Helm Hill Runners in English Championship glory! Helm Hill Juniors - National Cham- pions, Twice! FRA English Uphill Team & 2012 overall Team! Congratulations to the juniors winning the Uphill Team Championship at Sedbergh & the FRA Junior Champion- ship with a resounding 40 point lead over their nearest rivals. A great team effort by runners, coaches and par- Helm Hill Junior Uphill Team champ trophies presented by ents. Well done everyone. 2011 British Champion, Morgan Donnelly.Photo: MyLittleWalshes Tom Addison: FRA U23 English Champ 2012 Tom made a clean sweep of wins to claim the U23 champs for the second year running. He also came 8th in the English Champs overall! Featuring……... CLUB NEWS 1 UPCOMING RACES 2 Chris Richards: UPCOMING EVENTS 2 CAPTAIN’S BITS 3 FRA U14 English Kendal Winter League 6 Champ 2012! RACE REPORTS International races 8 Chris secured the English U14 title Glamaig 8 with straight wins! Well Done Blisco Dash 9 IH & FRA Relays 9 Chris!! MORE STUFF Fellrunning Memoirs 11 English Champs 2013 12 WEEKLY TRAINING: CONTINUES IN KENDAL UNTIL SPRING Fellrunning Novice 13 Joss Naylor Round 14 It has been fantastic to see so many people of all ages out training Reasons 15 on the hilly roads around Kendal on Wednesday eves. There’s also a Daves Lights 16 fast session for seniors on Monday nights. Please wear something New Helm website 17 Emergency Kit 18 bright if you’re out on the roads. I’ve recce’d it 19 HELM HILL RUNNERS NE WSLETTER UPCOMING RACES Here comes the winter races! Lots of members will be racing so if you fancy joining then and want some guidance/convincing have a chat at training with one of the coaches. SENIORS…...( * = plus juniors) Nov 10th Dunnerdale (FRA) , Nov 11th Copeland Chase (FRA) Helm Hill Club Champs! Links for details of fell races : Nov 17th Tour of Pendle (FRA) Helm Hill races (Winter League) Nov 17th Kendal Film Festival Trail Race Nov 18th Arnside Knott (FRA) http://www.helmhill.co.uk/ Nov 24th Kirkbymoor (FRA) Fell Running Association http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/races.php Dec 8th Really Wild Boar (FRA) BOFRA http://www.bofra.co.uk Dec 27th Wansfell (FRA) ————2013 Jan 1st Nine Standards (25th Aniiversary) (FRA) Jan 6th KENDAL WINTER LEAGUE STARTS* ! Scout Scar from Noon Jan 26th Crosby Commoner (FRA) Jan 27th Thats Lyth (LDWA 26miles) Feb KENDAL WINTER LEAGUE* every Sunday Feb 16th Carnethy (FRA, early entry advised) March KENDAL WINTER LEAGUE* every Sunday March 24th Edale Skyline FRA English Champs) Peak District, entries end of Jan Kendal Winter League Preview on page 6 UPCOMING EVENTS The Christmas presentation night will be on Saturday 22nd Decem- ber at Netherfield Cricket Club starting at 7pm prompt. Shaun will be selling tickets at Wednesday training shortly and practicing his shapes. Helm Hill Christmas Social Drinks - following on from the success of last year (where we had about 30 people turn up!) we will be having Christmas drinks for the adult members of the club ( and long-suffering partners) at the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley on Saturday 1st December from 8pm Page 2 CHAIRMAN’S BIT—TIM MURRAY ello and welcome to another eventually finished in 13th place H packed Newsletter......thanks which was a great performance. again to Rick and Ali and everyone who contributed for all the work that goes On a personal note I've taken the into putting it together. plunge and have started to go to Billy and Shaun's Monday night training session at The great news from the last committee QKS. It's a great session if anyone fancies a meeting is that we now have over 230 go......just make sure you have your tea after the members.....our highest number ever! training and not before! This is likely to grow as we still have a waiting list for Juniors. Our only con- Preparation for the Winter League races will be straint is the number of coaches so if starting soon so if anyone is interested in helping there are seniors out there who would out (and we always need people to help out!) lis- like to get involved let myself or Duncan ten out for announcements on Wednesday night know. The Club will subsidise the cost of or check the website. We need people to flag rac- any coaching courses where possible. es, marshall, timekeeping, register runners etc. We had strong representation at the big A reminder that the Christmas presentation night Relay races again this year....its always will be on Saturday 22nd December at Netherfield good to see loads of Helm vests out on Cricket Club starting at 7pm prompt. Shaun will the hills........and there were some be selling tickets at Wednesday training shortly. magnificent performances in both the We will be recognising lots of great performances Ian Hodgson and FRA relays. (more de- in 2012 so plenty of prizes and medals on offer. tails in the reports to follow). Alex Look forward to seeing you there!! Brown unfortunately broke his leg on the descent from Angle tarn in the Thanks to everyone for your support in making IHMR so I'm sure you will all join me in Helm Hill such a great Club wishing him a speedy recovery. His bad luck did give Mark Addison and Alastair Happy Running, Tim Dunn the opportunity to show some real speed and they made up a staggering 30 places on the next leg. The A team CLUB CAPTAIN’S BIT—MARK ADDISON i Folks, H The summer months have seen Kielder Blast followed with a some great performances by the club in great turnout from the club up in the North races all over the country (not bad for a East. Tom Addison again had a corker finishing reasonably small club!). The English 3rd followed by myself in 6th place. Robin Championships have seen a tremendous Stones ran a great race finishing 44th to put turnout from the club over the last few himself in the points for the first time. Alex races and Weasdale Horseshoe was no Brown and Jos Addison ran a closely fought race different. A cracking run from Tom Addi- both finishing 60th and 62nd respectively, with son saw him finish in 2nd place with my- Shaun Addison producing a gritty performance self finishing 7th. This was backed up by to finish 86th. some great runs from Robin Stones who was 56th, John Bagge finishing 89th, fol- INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION ALERT! lowed by Mark Harris in 119th and Dave Tom Addison has recently been representing Appleyard in 176th. England both domestically and abroad. He fin- Page 3 HELM HILL RUNNERS NE WSLETTER ished 15th in the Home International in Pen- and 4th vets team. I would like to take this rith where he competed against some of opportunity to thank Garry Beardswood & Britain’s best mountain runners. He also Rob Blyth who stopped on leg 4 to help a raced at Smarna Gora in Slovenia where he runner who had suffered a heart attack. finished 13th overall, first England counter They both did the club proud in aiding the with a time that was 20 seconds quicker than people at the scene. My thanks to Shaun last year. These are both incredible achieve- Addison for organising the vet team. ments so well done Tom! There was a great turnout from the club at The FRA relays followed the week after Grasmere sports this year, with some great down in Church Stretton in Shropshire. performances with myself finishing 3rd, Again the club performed extremely well Alastair Dunn 11th, Alex Brown 22nd, Billy with the open team consisting of Jos, Tom Proctor 51st, Garry Beardwood 56th, Chris and Mark Addison, Robin Stones, Seb Silli- Speight 60th and Roger Aubrey 63rd. to and Anthony Emmott finishing in the top ten! Anthony was drafted in at the last mo- Relay News! ment (the night before!!!) but put in an in- The recent ‘relay season’ has seen some fan- credible performance on the last leg to tastic performances from the club. The open sprint past a fellow competitor with such team were a credible 13th after what was an ease to send us into the top ten. Outstand- unlucky start, where Alex Brown unfortu- ing! The vets team consisting of Shaun Ad- nately went over on his ankle on leg 1. It dison, John Bagge, Chris Speight, Rick Stu- was confirmed later that Alex did in fact frac- art, Dave White and Billy Proctor also had a ture his tibia just below the knee. I wish him very successful day finishing 62nd overall. a speedy recovery and on behalf of the club I My thanks to Shaun Addison for organising send our best wishes to him. The vets were the vets team. having a stormer and finished 15th overall LADIES CAPTAIN’S BIT—ALI irstly I would like to thank Kath for bring- had a go at completing the se- F ing the Helm ladies section of the club to ries they could be medal con- where it is today. It is going to be a hard act tenders!! I think you should go to follow and I am relying on Kath for her help for it! All ladies - be warned - and advice (not least providing the goody bags I am really keen to have an- which I can’t imagine ever being organised other crack at this next year enough to do!) The relays (see reports else- and I think if we can get a team to all of the where) were my first task and I would really races we will finish much higher than we did like to thank all the ladies for their willingness this year (see details on the races on p12).