WAKEFIELD DISTRICT HARRIERS & AC

MID-WEEK DISTANCE RUNNING LEAGUE

NEWSLETTER 58  22^nd November 2002 

Ron Needham 01924 829495   email: wakefieldharriers@yahoo.co.uk

Biggest turn-out ever

A record 28 entries this month, covering a course of approximately 2.5 miles around Wrenthorpe.  When I think back to the times in the early days when we could muster only 6 or 7 to some of the events!  Another record  -  no one, not even Val Anderson and Peter Farr, managed to get lost.  Our thanks to Tony Audsley for coming up with the course, and for organising the sausages, chips and mushy peas at the pub afterwards.

Steve Tibbs’ challenge on the title took a bit of a dint as he dropped to 4^th place behind Adam Cooper, although he retains a commanding lead.  Things are very tight at the top of the veterans table, with Tony Audsley making a “hidden” challenge after wrongly being categorised as V60 for the best part of the season.   In the ladies table, Denise Green edged one more point ahead with her 24 seconds lead over Jane Senior.

Accounts

We had £181-50 in the kitty.  28 members paid £55-50.  Prizes cost us £14-50 and the food at the pub cost us £45, leaving us with a balance of £176-50.  It was agreed at the event that, starting with te January event, we would offer the opportunity for the race organiser to arrange for food to be put on (at £1-50 per head).  In the events when food is being put on, the entry fee will be raised to £2-50 with non-runners paying their contribution of £1-50.  If the organiser for any race can’t arrange food, the entry fee for that race will be at the old entry fee of £1-50.  Food will be available at the Christmas handicaps, which should cost us about £40.

Next Event

Next month’s league event are the Christmas Handicaps and will take place on the 19^th December over the traditional two lap of the park course.  Please be at the start/finish area of the track no later than 6-45.  The Christmas Handicaps are run on a “start handicap” basis (i.e. if you have 15 minutes start, you start 15 minutes before the scratch man).  Will last year’s winner please remember to bring back the cup (nicely polished)?  There is no entry fee.  Instead, everyone running MUST bring a unisex prize to the value of between £3 and £4, suitably wrapped (its true nature disguised if possible).  First back takes first choice from the table, and so on.  Please don’t run if you don’t bring a prize.  Food (kindly being put on by Dave Brooks) and presentations are in the Magnet after the event. NB:  in the last few years. organising the event has been made incredibly difficult by juniors and others running who have no “form” by which I can arrange handicaps and who have often just run and not participated in the full aspect of the event (the prize giving and the socialising afterwards).  I’m determined this year that, although entry to all distance league events is open to any senior member of the club, no newcomers will be allowed to take part without providing me with a recent 10k time and everyone must bring a gift as entry.  As the prize giving is in a pub, no one under the age of 16 will be allowed to participate.  That is not to stop other sections of the club from arranging and officiating at their own handicap events on the same night and on the same course if they wish to do so (in fact they would be welcomed  -  as long as they don’t get mixed up in my results  -  it’s hard enough handicapping and recording times and so on of upwards of 30 members, without “strangers” getting mixed up in it all).

London Marathon

Stuart Anderson tells me there are 5 club entries for London Marathon entries.  Details of entry criteria will be published, I believe, after the next Club Management Committee meeting.

 

LADIES LEAGUE TABLE

1	D Green	L35	50
2	J Senior	L35	46
3	V Anderson	L55	38
4	S Needham	L45	35
5	D Hand	L55	25
6	M Anderson	L	15
7	J Ibbotson	L35	14
8	L Green	L35	06

 

Result of November meeting at Pot Oil, Wrenthorpe                                                   Division

1	A Cooper	V40	14-04	2
2	T White	M	14-49	1
3	R Parfrey	M	14-55	1
4	S Tibbs	M	15-00	1
5	R West	M40	15-37	3
6	S Wilkinson	M40	15-41	2
7	P Young	M40	15-46	2
8	M Domaille	M40	15-55	1
9	P Campbell	M	16-02	3
10	P Sanderson	M40	16-10	2
11	T Audsley	M50	16-16	1
12	D Brooke	M	16-54	1
13	P Walker	M40	16-59	3
14	D Dawson	M	17-30	3
15	P Farr	M50	17-56	2
16	A Stainer	M50	18-14	3
17	M Box	M40	18-18	3
18	S Anderson	M60	18-26	1
19 1L	D Green	L35	19-13	L
20 2L	J Senior	L35	19-37	L
21	G Whitworth	M50	20-10	2
22 3L	D Hand	L55	20-23	L
23 4L	M Anderson	L	20-25	L
24	A Gelder	M	20-33	3
25	B Cooper	M60	21-04	3
26 5L	J Ibbotson	L35	22-42	L
27 6L	S Needham	L45	23-50	L
28 7L	V Anderson	L55	24-32	L

 

 

VETS LEAGUE TABLE

 

1	T Audsley	M50	48
2=	P Farr	M50	46
2=	S Wilkinson	M40	46
4	S Anderson	M60	45
5=	M Logan	M40	35
5=	D Brailsford	M40	35
7	P Young	M40	33
8	R West	M40	27
9=	A Stainer	M50	26
9=	M Domaille	M40	26
11	G Whitworth	M50	20
12	M Box	M40	13
13=	P Sanderson	M40	10
13=	A Cooper	M40	10
15	B Cooper	M60	09
16	P Walker	M40	03
17	N Devlin	M50	02

 

MENS’ LEAGUE TABLE  Division 1

1	S Tibbs	57
2	T White	43
3	R Parfrey	41
4	D Brooke	38
5	M Logan	29
6	S Anderson	25
7	A Audsley	24
8	M Domaille	22
9	C Heppenstall	10
10	D Needham	00

 

Division 2

1	S Wilkinson	52
2	P Farr	41
3	D Brailsford	38
4	G Whitworth	35
5	P Young	34
6	P Sanderson	20
7=	B Horsefall	10
7=	A Cooper	10
9=	S Butler	00
9=	S Faulkner	00

 

Division 3

1	D Dawson	36
2	A Stainer	31
3	R West	30
4	M Box	29
5	P Campbell	18
6=	P Croft	10
6=	B Cooper	10
8=	N Devlin	08
8=	P Walker	08
10	A Gelder	04