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Venue: Oddfellows / Three Links Club BD23 1ER

When: Friday 5^th December at 7:30

Please inform Chris Rose (small.rose@virgin.net) or Paul Norman (p.d.norman@leeds.ac.uk) of:

·         Proposals for club officers by Friday 28^th

·         Items for inclusion in Any Other Business, also by Friday 28^th

·         Any further notifications of going in the hat for the London Marathon Places, also by Friday 28^th

Please bring any items of memorabilia relating to the club’s past (photos, articles, (clean) kit, etc.)

Agenda:

·         Welcome & apologies

·         Officers’ reports: Treasurer, Membership & Chair

·         Election of Officers for 2015

·         Election of committee

·         AOB

·         End of AGM

Break for refreshments, food will be served (the club has a bar)

Non AGM

·         Handicap results & prize giving

·         Draw for London Marathon Places

·         Mix, mingle, admire archive items

For the 3^rd time in 4 years Skipton AC sent a team to the UKA British Fell and Hill Running Championships on 19^th October 2014.

Entering the Open category the team of Sarah, Craig, Brian, Derek, Emma and I lined up against British Fell Running Champions past and present, multiple times 3 peaks winners and an Olympian, as well as the 1000+ mere mortals.

All the team performed admirably in their own way. Sarah completed Leg 1 in 1 hour and 3 minutes after suffering a twisted ankle.

Emma brought the team home in 159^th position despite having minimal fell running experience and having to endure the worst of the weather and visibility.

In the middle, Craig and I had to battle the steepest descent and ascent of the day (just at the time the wind decided to try its hardest) before handing over to Brian and Derek for the navigation leg. Special mention here to the pair for successfully getting all the checkpoints; something not managed by 11 teams. (sorry I haven’t found any Photos of you yet!)

The event was excellently organised by Dallam Running Club and Howgill Harriers. I would recommend this event to anyone interested in running the fells. I’m sure Emma will concur that some fell running experience is preferable!

Skipton Results:

Leg 1: Sarah King 1:03:45

Leg 2: Craig Keedy & Joel Dalby 1:46:18

Leg 3: Brian Hugill & Derek Ives 1:34:40

Leg 4: Emma Yiu 1:26:35

Total Time: 5:51:18 (159^th)

Full results here

Photos from Woodentops here

Photos from John Leech Studio here

Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon, London – Sunday 12th October 2014

If you want that London experience but the Marathon is too much then I would highly recommend the Royal Parks Half Marathon (and it is over with in half the time so more time to soak up the atmosphere!). You see more of the best parts of London and run through 4 of the 8 Royal parks. You feel like you are doing the last part of the Marathon backwards but at the start of the race while you are still feeling quite fresh to take in the surroundings.

The route starts and finishes on Kensington road at the bottom of Hyde Park. You run out of the park, down Green Park and past Buckingham Palace. Run down Birdcage Walk, past Houses of Parliament and loop out and back over Westminster Bridge. You run along the embankment for about a mile before returning through the Admiralty Arch, up the Mall and past the palace again. Back up through Green Park and into Hyde Park. You are roughly at halfway point by now and the remaining route loops through Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens before finish back where it started.

There is a good Festival Area with a charity village, stalls and food and drink. There are around 16,000 runners so there is a great atmosphere. There was plenty of support along the route with the majority in Hyde Park. My friends saw me 4 times throughout the race without them having to move very far due to how the course loops.

Entry for the race is via a Ballot which opens towards the end of Feb for about a week and you find out if you were successful the week after so no long wait like VLM.

Oliver Thomas – PB time of 1:42:08

Hi All

Training for this week:

Tuesday 14^th October:

Route A – Town circular backwards

Intervals

Thursday 16^th October:

Route B – Central Town

Social at the Narrowboat – don’t forget to let Jan know if you are going.

Results:

Parkrun – Sat 11/10 – 99 runners

4 Joel Dalby 19:24 (PB)

10 Mel Ives 22:07

25 Peter Wood 24:21 (PB)

39 Sally Ann Harrison 26:38 (PB)

40 Emma Yiu 26:58

73 Colin Shackleton 30:17

Richmond Castle 10K – Sun 12/10 – 407 runners

10 Neil Maloney 37:50

217 Hilary Seward 51:50

Yorkshire Marathon – Sun 12/10

What a fantastic day in York although couldn’t see much of it due to the fog.  Everybody had a great run with all of us gaining PBs. I would definitely recommend this race especially for your first marathon as really well organised and great support en route (especially from fellow Skipton AC members Chris, Paul, Rick, Steve, Jan, Pam and Barbara).

Ann-Marie Bulcock 3:15:01 (3^rd in age group, 16^th female)

Emma Newbould 3:52:28

Sue Marshall 3:53:07

Rebecca Malin 4:31:43

Gillian Elsworth 4:32:25

Victoria Wilson 4:40:34