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Ilkley Harriers Annual Awards 2011, Fri 27 Jan

It's nearly here, the Do of the year! The Ilkley Harriers Annual Awards Presentation Evening at the new Ilkley Rugby Club

Update 26 Jan: all tickets sold out!

Itinerary ....
7.30pm doors open
7.45pm-8.30pm hot buffet served (approx one third of the meals provided will be vegetarian, please arrive early if you have strict dietary requirements)
8.45pm Presentation of Sports Leaders Awards to some of our younger members
9pm Ilkley Harriers Annual Awards and League winners
9.30pm Live band Five$Shoes
10.15pm Raffle Draw
10.30pm Live band Five$Shoes
11.15pm-11.30pm wind-down

We have some absolutely fabulous prizes in our Grand Raffle....
a weekend in a holiday cottage in Northumberland (see www.twoscotsgap.co.uk)
2 good tickets to Opera North's new production of Roger and Hammerstein's Carousel
running prizes from Complete Runner
running prizes from Dobson & Robinson
Ilkley Harriers ladies Wacky Sox
plus fancy boxes of chocolates, biscuits, and more!
Raffle tickets available on the night.

Soreen Stanbury Splash, Sun 22 Jan

Another very windy race, and some brave performances from the 13 juniors who had the worst of the weather. In the senior race, Tom had a good win over Bingley's Rob Jebb, and Jann reports that our ladies won the team prize. Photos and results on woodentops.org.uk ...

1   45:45 Tom Adams
(2  45:55 Rob Jebb, Bingley
3   46:13 Graham Pearce, P&B, 2nd claim Ilkley)
22  51:40 Lee Morley
82  59:16 Toni Melechi
87  59:40 Richard Joel
107 62:06 Kate Archer
123 63:04 Mike Baldwin
148 64:53 Helen Thurston
154 65:28 Jann Smith
174 67:12 Alison Weston
180 67:35 George Elmes
294 77:30 Sue Morley
330 83:23 Gemma Carpenter
348 87:28 David Green
369 finished

Brass Monkey Half Marathon, Sun 22 Jan

Heavisides Henry reports ... the very strong winds made for a tough Brass Monkey race, with most of us were several minutes slower than we would normally expect on this course. Steve Weston was the fastest Ilkley Harrier, with Jonathan Sinclair not far behind. I did manage to get a prize for 2nd M55, so at least there was some reward for the hard work on the day.
Results from ukresults.net ...

(1   1h06:42 Yared Hagus, Wallsend Harriers & AC)
77   1h23:12 Steve Weston
85   1h23:55 Jonathan Sinclair
140  1h26:10 Justin Phillips
151  1h26:53 John Atkinson
222  1h29:38 Henry Heavisides
346  1h32:26 Rob Cunningham
399  1h34:05 Steve Newell
428  1h35:45 Jane Bryant
435  1h35:03 Adrian Bastow
634  1h41:39 Peter Shields
833  1h46:34 Chris Cunningham
1578 2h13:51 Michael Picken
1683 finished

Parkruns, Sat 21 Jan

Leeds Hyde Park
79  24:26 John Marshall

Harrogate Stray (new)
33 24:29 Jim Towers
93 31:29 Lyn Towers

PECO XC 3, Temple Newsam, Sun 15 Jan

Results (unofficial times) from pecoxc.co.uk.

1   26:24 Tom Adams
27  30:24 Jamie Hutchinson
41  31:30 Steve Coy
137 36:26 Ben Joynson
170 39:07 Andy Jackson
194 41:13 Paul Wood
200 41:50 Jim Towers
226 45:01 Eric Morley
229 45:36 David Green
244 48:15 Don Macrae
269 finished
5th team

Ladies
31  38:55 Kelly Harrison
65  43:41 Sue Morley
85  46:13 Gaenor Coy
99  47:53 Gemma Carpenter
136 51:39 Kate Lofthouse
148 54:51 Lyn Eden
151 55:12 Julie Elmes
162 finished
5th team

Some great junior results including a win for Euan Brennan in the 8-10yrs race,

This was the final counter in the 2011 Harriers Race League (in place of PECO 2) - calcs here soon ...

Tod MMM, Sun 15 Jan

Graham Arthur reports ... Phil Hodgson and Tod Harriers organised the extremely pleasant Tod Mini Mountain Marathon on Sunday. This is a 3-hour score event, and the controls were scattered around the moors and countryside to the NW of Todmorden. Freezing crystal clear sunny weather all day meant that navigation should never have been a problem. However, there were some prominent new walls which were not on the map, several non-existent walls (and many tracks) which were on the map, and a very helpful ÔbeautifulÕ line of pylons which often aided orientation. An excellent little local event and great fun Ð about 70 competitors I think. Did not even notice that most of my route was in Lancashire until later. Still, the hot soup and sandwiches made up for that.

Country to Capital 45 Miles Trail Run, Sat 14 Jan

Sharon Meadows reports ... What a beautiful day. Very lucky with the weather, crisp blue skies but a bit chilly to start at -6.5, couldn't talk much for the first hour as my face was frozen. This was a Go Beyond event and so very well organised. The race started from Wendover, Buckinghamshire and for the first half went over the Chilterns, so some very pretty views (but not as good as Yorkshire) and then onto the Grand Union Canal for the second half which was not quite as inspiring. Due to the flatness of the second half my running pals and I had an 8/2 strategy (8 minutes jog, 2 minutes walk and eat), which worked well. Was a lovely day out but a long way to go for a race unless you are making a weekend out of it.
1st Male 5.22 hours
1st Female 6.49 hours
Me 8.30 hours

Leeds Hyde Park Parkrun, Sat 14 Jan

Will Buckton was 29th in 20:21

Harrier of the Month, December

Nominations were:
Gemma Carpenter: new(ish) member but has shown great commitment in turning up to races throughout the year and has shown improvement over 2011. Good results in Dec include WYXC, Stoop, and Giants Tooth
David Westhead: 1st Harrier at WYXC Wayfield, and overall V40 Champ
Norman Bush: 4 good race results incl V70 record Stoop and 1st V70 at Auld Lang Syne Hector Haines: 4th at Chevin Chase
Lee Morley: Whinberry Naze and Cowm Reservoir race wins and good results at Auld Lang Syne

The HoM awards went to Norman Bush and Lee Morley. Congratulations to them. They will receive technical running gear from HoM sponsor UP & RUNNING.

Yorkshire XC Championships, Sat 7 Jan

Diane Haggar reports ... A great result from the ladies today. Thankfully the weather was dry albeit very windy. The courses were rerouted due to muddy conditions. On the day there seemed very little mud, in fact I've never finished a mid winter race cleaner!! Having taken 3rd in the Complete Runner WY League the ladies were keen to maintain their standing. With solid runs from Sally, Diane and Emma backed up yet again by the ever improving Helen we took 4th in relation to the other CR league clubs, due to Bingley bringing out their top runners. Overall a really pleasing season, next year we have Holmfirth and Leeds City to aim at!!

Results from the Northern Athletics web site are ...

Men
22  38:12 Tom Adams
76  42:08 David Westhead
78  42:14 Jim Ryder
89  42:53 Dave Wilby
133 45:26 Mark Iley
134 45:28 Nick Pearce
153 46:47 Mark Mon-Williams
212 55:18 Pete Shields
9th team

Women
15  22:47 Sally Morley
38  24:01 Diane Haggar
40  24:10 Emma Barclay
57  25:24 Helen Thurston
89  27:37 Florence Haines
107 30:09 Sue Morley
7th team

Some superb junior results including 3rd U17 Georgia Malir, Georgia and Sarah Pickering earning Yorkshire selection for the forthcoming inter-regionals, 4th GU13 team (and 8th and 10th teams!), and many more.

Lots of photos on woodentops.org.uk.

Ovenden Fell Race, Sat 7 Jan

Paul Stephens reports ... A record field for this 8 mile fell race from Ogden Water, a good course - hard in the strong wind - with some superb views across the moors. It was cold as well, though the rain did stay away. I'd done this race twice before - in 1996 when I was 38th out of 74 and in 1997 when the course was shortened because of the snow. This time I came in in the top half - around 80th I think in about 1hr 14, and then it was back to the decorating.

1   57:49 Karl Gray, Calder Valley
78  75:02 Paul Stephens
124 82:53 John Coates
152 88:12 Graham Breeze
192 finishers

Parkruns, Sat 7 Jan

Bradford Lister Park
53 26:19 Sue Bickerdike
61 27:19 Emma Olooney
68 28:52 Jacqui Weston

Leeds Hyde Park
64  22:55 Will Buckton
96  24:57 John Marshall
175 28:48 Linda Marshall

Filey Flyer, Sat 7 Jan

Amanda Parnaby reports ... 23 miles setting off in Filey and onto the Cleveland Way before heading inland and returning to Filey. Tremendous weather for time of year despite a cool wind off the North Sea. Finished in 5 hours 2 mins.

Ilkley Harrier Phil Chappell in New Year's Honours List

Congratulations to Phil on being awarded an MBE in the 2012 New Year Honours list, for charitable services. Many Harriers will be familiar with Phil's work for The Revival Centre and Orphanage in Matugga, Ugunda as this charity is the beneficiary of our Trail Race.

Gloucester New Year Day 5 Mile Road Race, Sun 1 Jan

Justin Phillips reports ... After welcoming in the New Year in Tewkesbury I couldn't resist the opportunity to have a go at a local race and it didn't take much to persuade Tom to join me for only his 2nd ever outing on the black stuff. An out and back course on flat, traffic free roads it was a road runners' paradise. Tom ran shoulder to shoulder with the local superstar until mile 4 when the excesses of new year's eve caught up with him. I had a good run and am looking forward to several hundred more in 2012!

1  26:16
2  26:36 Tom Adams
12 30:26 Justin Phillips

Giants Tooth fell race, Sun 1 Jan

1   17:18 Quentin Lewis, Baildon Runners
14  19:28 Ian Rowbotham
52  23:43 Toni Melechi
53  23:47 Tilly Melechi
104 29:17 Gemma Carpenter

Silsden New Year's Day Run

Bernie Gibbons was the lone Ilkley Harrier out in the blizzards for the Silsden New YearÕs Day Run. Some 75 hardy souls decided to rise, shine and race for the New Year.
Runners assembled at The Green in Silsden to begin the ascent of Bradley Road and Hole Lane, a climb of some 500Õ. They then had a very wet cruise along Heights Lane before the tumultuous descent down Horn Lane and Bradley Road. The race was won by Dave Kirkham of Wharfedale Harriers in 17:07, with Bernie finishing 48th in 27:19

Older News, December 2011