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Sorry about that...couldn’t resist...normal service now resumes... July 09 Steve wins at Winterton! Earlier this month Steve Large took a break from his half-marathon-a-month schedule to run the Winterton Ten Mile race and was presumably delighted to finish first overall in a time of 61:05. The race is organised by Winterton Running Club and is held as part of the local show - Winterton being in North Lincolnshire, near Scunthorpe. I have thanked Steve for the photos but assume they were taken by Karen Large (Steve being the wrong side of the camera) and very good they are too! Above: Steve crosses the finish line at Winterton, and left, clutching the winners shield - Steve’s name will be the first on it! - and an armful of prizes. Pics from Steve. And as if that weren’t enough... Lads win at Golden Acre Relays and more success at Danefield Relays! The Horsforth Cronks - a collection of cranks, crocks and crooks - just guessing! - compris- ing of Richard Sunley, Marc Springer and Andy Riddoch took first place at the Golden Acre Relays on 8th July. Or as Marc said, ‘First vets, first everything!’ We even managed to loan Phil McGeever to a team called Hydro Flyers (from Ilkley we think) who finished, thanks to Phil, in 14th place overall. Steve O’Hara was also running for a team under the ‘parkrun’ banner, and we had a girls team - Angie Pattinson, Serena Blackburn and Cath Gray - also running. Picture, right, shows Marc handing over to Andy who ran the final leg. Thanks to Abbey Runners for the pic. The ‘Cronks’ warmed up a week earlier at the Danefield Relays where they won the 1st vets prize, as did the womens team (Theresa, Serena and Cath) while the mixed team (Richard, Gill and Garth) were 18th of 43 teams competing. Pictured, on steamy evening left to right, are Richard Sunley, Andy Riddoch, Gill Gaskin, Garth De Roux, Cath Gray, Theresa Duckett and Serena Blackburn. Picture from Marc. Captains HELP WANTED Your club needs you! Columns Much of the success of the club is down Your captains are at your service. Any ideas, to the funds raised by our two annual races. A trip to the AGM and a glance at observations and even the occasional grumble the clubs report and accounts will should be addressed to: Captains Corner, confirm this. 106, Long Row, Horsforth Leeds LS18 5AY. However the races don’t just happen Tina writes: (despite any appearance to the contrary) and require long term Hi All - planning and some creative thinking every year. Great that we’ve had some lovely weather and The club needs fresh blood and ideas on been able to get off road even if the nettles the race committee this year - for next and grass are over our heads (mine anyway). years races - and we are looking for one, two or more people to join the commit- The provisional teams for the Leeds Country tee to help with immediate effect. Way will be announced shortly so if I haven’t What does it entail? Well, it requires had chance to speak to you personally please attendance at a monthly meeting let me know a.s.a.p. if you would like to run. (although not every month), which are fairly short and are usually in the club- We will be organising recce runs in August house after a Tuesday night training ready for the event on September 6th. For any session, and after that completing the new runners who have not taken part before tasks allocated in the time scale speci- just ask myself, Hils or Marc for details. fied. And contribution of ideas, new ways of achieving things, in short, Enjoy your summer running! engaging the brain! There are various tasks from organising the race Tina marshals, timekeeping at the finish of Hils writes: the races, computing, application for various permits, designing and buying Hi all - the mementos for the race, writing and sending out information to the local Have just spent two weeks busing (free!) to media, distributing the entry forms and and from Beachy Head, didn’t fall over, so so on and so on. you’ll have to put up with me a bit longer. As Current and past members of the race well as a lot of walking I did get three very committee can advise in detail on short evening runs in, the days were too HOT. what is required if you require further information. Brill Hol so ready now to marshall the troops If you think you could do, or help, with for the Leeds Country Way, get some extra any of these things please make a training in! massive contribution to our club by join- ing the race committee. You don’t need Hils to be voted on - just see Bob Foulkes in the first instance and you are in! Yorkshire Veterans News Two races have been completed since the last newsletter. Thank you to the 16 Ladies and 17 men who ran the Meanwood Vets Grand Prix. Great to see so many new runners and I hope you enjoyed the event. Your efforts contributed to the ladies continuing with a healthy lead in all three competitions. The men are 3rd in the first ‘4 to count’ and 2nd in the ‘all to count’ and ‘rest to count’. Honley, held July 12th on a new course, hosted by Holmfirth Harriers. A good turnout of seven ladies, on a very busy weekend of racing. Fantastic performances again main- taining top place in all three competitions. Thanks also to the seven men who competed. The men remain 3rd in the ‘first 4 to count’ and 2nd in the ‘all to count’ and ‘rest to count’. If we get all available men running at the next two events we may be able to move from second to first in the ‘all to count’. Every runner scores vital points no matter if you are at the front or the back of the field. The next Grand Prix Race (7th) is hosted by Knavesmire Harriers on Wednesday July 29th at 19:30. This race starts at the York racecourse and is multi terrain and FLAT around five and a half miles. Please try and attend if at all possible. Details in folder, ask Tina for any further information. See www.yvaa.org for all team and individual Phil McGeever and Shirley Walker at results and team and individual standings. Honley. Pics from Flaming Photography, - Phil bought his! - for which many thanks. Tina Tim Appleyard - Ironman! I’ve not been down to training for a few sport athletes often marked-out by Ironman months now - due mainly to being made brand tattoos, lean physique and steely deter- redundant in March, I have been able to train mination. That, plus a fair amount of insanity, during the day instead of the dark winter bloody-mindedness and plenty of training. nights. I have since started a new job, but I opted to enter the UK Ironman 70.3 - these being based in London for some of the time, numbers relate to a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile my midweek runs tend to be around Hyde Park cycle and 13.1 mile run. Sometimes refered to rather than West Park. In the last couple of as the ‘Tinman’ or ‘middle distance’, this years, I have started to mix-up my running distance is exactly half of the full Ironman, but with cycling and swimming - mainly to reduce twice the distance covered in the Olympics. the stress and strain on ageing knees, but also The event is based at Wimbleball Lake near because I have caught the triathlon bug. Dulverton in Somerset - around 280 miles My triathlon career started so unassumingly - from Horsforth. Rather than taking the easy a pool-based sprint here and there, nothing accommodation option and staying in a cosy too taxing, followed by an Olympic-distance B&B, I threw the tent into the back of the car event in London last year. As most of us have and stayed overnight in a local farmer’s field found with running over the years, one thing before the event. The camping equivalent of leads to another as we set ourselves bigger an athletes village was a mix of seasoned challenges. So it was that the logical next step Ironmen, middle distance newbies and was to enter into the world of Ironman - multi- novices such as myself. I had a couple of simple objectives for the day - firstly, to get around the course in one piece, and secondly, to enjoy the event - in that priority. All of the pre-race talk on the various triathlon forums refered to the deadly hills - the organisers proudly claim a total of 3000m of climb over the bike and run - and the camp- site chit chat continued to along similar lines. All in all, there are reckoned to be 52 hills in the 56 mile cycle route - whilst I’m sure we Horsforth types would question their defini- tion of a hill, some of the ups were on a par with some of those steep ones around Arthington and Otley. Of course, what goes up must come down - in this case, some helter- skelter descents during which, it was claimed, speeds of 50 - 60 mph could be achieved. As the owner of a Garmin which has only once appearance, giving me plenty of time for eat, breached 40 mph, I was rather conservative in drink and make the usual pre-race prepara- my descents - I didn’t really fancy ending up tions.