Stilton Striders Awards
We now have a new awards system in place as organised by John Stares. Please click the below links:
For an overview of the new club standards Click here
For the mens' standards Click here
For the womens' standards Click here
Kibworth 6 - LRRL 3
The third LRRL road race of the season is the Kibworth 6 on Sunday 21st February, at 10:30. Striders will be meeting at the Wilton Road Car Park, for 9am. Hope to see you there. Please Click here to visit the host club website.
Xmas Meal and Presentations
Friday 11th December - The Stilton Striders Annual Dinner and Presentation Evening took place at The Plough, Stathern recently with around 40 members attending.
The main award winners were: [Best Male Runner] Patrick McNeight [Best Lady Runner] Vicki Lowe [Best Veteran] Neil Jaggard [Most Improved Runner] Abi Arnott [Club Person Award] Phil Douglas [Handicap Race] Jason Shelton [Chairman’s Special Award] Andy Robinson
Trophies were also presented for Club Runners from the Leicestershire Road Running League: [2nd Male Vet 40] Chris Southam [3rd male Vet 50] Phil Douglas [1st Male Vet 55] John Cresswell [2nd Lady Vet 50] Julie Jaggard
The Ladies Team claimed runners up spot in Division 2 of the League and have gained promotion to Division 1. These trophies were presented along with awards for the runners who competed in all of the League Races. The 100%’ers were: Vicki Lowe, Michelle McNeight, Helen Widdowson, Wayne Hackett, Clive Wright, Phil Douglas, Abi Arnott, Patrick McNeight.
The London Marathon places were presented to Helen Widdowson and Michelle McNeight.
County Cross Country Championships
The closing date is getting quite close. Please let me know by this saturday if you wish to be included. So far the following people have entered [Masters Men] Darren Glover, Andy Robinson [Masters Women] Vicki Lowe [U17 Men] Loz Robinson [U15 Girls] Lizzie Golland, Jasmin Southam, Alice Newton [U13 Boys] Linden Brewster, Luke Jane, Matt Lowe [U13 Girls] Lucy Golland.
I also now have entry forms for both the Midland Championships, to be held at Stafford on 30th January, and the National Championships which are at Leeds on 27th February. Closing dates for both are around 11th January so i will need to know very soon if you want to run. At the moment i only need names in order to submit the block entries, and will collect entry fees after Christmas (£5 for each event).
[Nick Brown]
The Stilton 5 (Chris Ingram Race)
Thank you to everyone who took part or gave their support in this race. Please click on the image below
Derby Runner Cross Country 2009/ 2010
Any members that wish to run in these races but have not ran them before please let Vicky know so you can be registed. The dates do not clash with the winter league races!
To see the different races, Click here
Christmas Dinner
December 11th (7:30pm) at The Plough at Stathern (£20.00 per person).
Wreake Challenge
May 20th - To see the photographs of the Wreake Challenge (cheers Paul!) please Click here. Press the back arrow to return.
A strong Striders Team regained the Wreake Challenge Trophy on home ground. In perfect conditions, 58 runners set off from the school on a multi-terrain course taking in Burton Lazars, the Sawgate, Lags Lane and the Jubilee Way before a fast finish back at the school. First overall was Chris Southam in 30:57, a considerable way in front of Stuart (Barrow Runners) in 32:19 and Bruno Nickolof (Wreake Runners) in 33:07. First lady was Kate Ramsay (Barrow Runners), 7th in 35:44, a lady from Wreake Runners was 2nd in 37:20, with Jenny (one of our talented Junior Striders) 3rd lady in 28th place in 41:11. The Running Family Robinson contributed 3 of our 15 counters (even without John Mills) with Loz 9th, Andy 22nd and a welcome return for Craig in 26th.
Striders Results
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1st (30:57) Chris
4th (33:41) Darren
5th (34:04) Nick
6th (34:57) Martin Booth
9th (36:15) Loz (Junior)
11th (36:53) Toby
12th (36:59) Patrick
13th (37:19) Phil
16th (37:44) John
21st (39:00) John (Junior)
22nd (39:18) Andy
25th (40:17) Martin Miles
26th (40:34) Craig
27th (40:47) Clive
28th (41:11) Jenny (Junior)
All of the above were counters for the Striders on the night
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30th (41:28) Wayne
32nd (41:32) Mike
33rd (41:56) Vicki
34th (41:58) James (Junior)
36th (42:26) Emma (Junior)
37th (42:50) Jason
38th (43:15) Jenny
39th (43:30) Gary
40th (43:50) Sam
45th (46:15) Pippa
56th (52:44) Celia
At the end of the race we all retired to the Rugby Club for a sumptuous buffet, which included (amongst all of the goodies) a fantastic selection of homemade cakes with Granny Dolby’s chocolate brownies taking star rating. Thanks to all of you who brought cakes and sandwiches – I think we’ve set a high standard!
Thanks as well to everyone who helped out, from the humblest Mars bar ‘giver-outer’, the raffle ticket distributor and to the marshals who did a great job around the course - Geoff, Di, Ron, Cis, Ian, Christian, Kirsty and Paul for the Photo's, plus anyone else who knows me. Also the unknown dinner lady who sorted out the food, Wayne for sweeping up (he’s got to be good at something!), the vultures who did a good job of clearing up any food for their pack-up and, finally, to those who helped clean up at the end.
A donation was made by each runner, with £98 being raised for the Air Ambulance. Many thanks. [Neil]
LRRL team standings
To see the current position of the Stilton striders in the LRRL races please Click here (Excel document). Use the tabs at the bottom for the different categories. Close document (x) to return.
London Marathon
Many congratulations to the following runners for completing the Marathon.
Chris Southam in a phenomenal 2:32:45. Vicki Lowe in 3:39:55. Phil Douglas in 3:39:56. Elizabeth Wildman in 4:43:47 and Susanne Birley in 5:06:39.
Nice oven mit
Neil's report has now been added to the race results page.
Good website
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LRRL Winter league
The Winter League has now finished as the Ashby will not be reorganised this year. The race positions will be calculated on 3/4 races.
Ashby 5 Cancelled
The race on Sunday at Ashby has not surprisingly been cancelled.
Stilton Striders Xmas Dinner
Another excellent gathering of 50 Striders at the 2008 Christmas Dinner and Presentation evening at The Plough Stathern had a fun packed (well I enjoyed it ) evening. A couple of pints of the local brew in the bar before heading through to the restaurant for the "guess or remember what you ordered for starter" game. This is a great way to start a meal and is guaranteed to annoy even the most experienced waitress. Things started to go awry (good word) when a lady member grabbed a smoked salmon instead of a pate leaving 3 pate's left and Stuart (or Stewart) salmon-less. The waitress demanded to inspect 'ze lizt' but I destroyed all the evidence so I did not get detention.
The main course was good as usual with plenty of meat and veg and only one awkward pseudo vegatarian the room, so went off without a hitch. Home made puddings and mince pies and coffee to follow to get everyone in the mood for the presentations.
The main speeches were given by Theresa and the trophies were presented by our esteemed member Ron Grove (without an S). Main prize winners this year were :
- Mens Winner ---- John Cresswell
- Ladies Winner----Vicki Lowe
- Veterans Award--Nick Brown
- Most Improved---Julie Jaggard (who. question mark)
- Club Person ------Darryl Woolward
Congratulations to all of those and I hope their awards spur them on to greater things in the future. The London Marathon places went to Phil Douglas and Andy Robinson, Good luck to them and to everyone competing in this years event.
After a month by month guide to the Summer outrun season giving at least 12 good reasons why its better to run across the fields and keep out of the rugby club in the Summer and in fact during the rest of the year, the main award of the season was presented. After much deliberation and a fair amount of cash being exchanged between myself and those of you who didn't want to win it, the 'special' award (went, deservedly so after raiding his partners wardrobe over the course of the year which shows true dedication (can anyone show as much this year), to part-time pizza salesman and entrepreneur Wayne Hackett.
I would also like to thank Wayne for making the rest of the evening go so well. Fun and games were played with a pass the parcel game with forfeits, with the parcel for some strange reason ending up with Wayne on three occasions. He reverted to type when putting on lipstick for the kiss the pigs butt game and looked great in his feather boa, and he is still trying to blow up his balloons. I may be able to help him there as Santa bought me a kit for making balloon animals, I have had hours of fun and can now make a dachshund, a poodle and a top heavy Rhinocerous with an enormous horn!!! Main winners of pass the parcel were myself, and two other people, who cares. There was also a major raffle with about 50 prizes which took us into the wee small hours.
The final game was the legendry True or False game with jelly santas and snowmen as prizes, none of your rubbish here, no expense spared. A tip for next year. After asking the same question for 6 years some of you are still confused about Daniel O'Donnell's real name which is in fact Daniel O'Donnell and not Donnel O'Daniel. Or is it. question mark.
Thanks to everyone for your support.
Regards Big Leggy.
Darryl's Cafe
To get everybody in the Christmas spirit Darryl invited the club to his eating establishment 'Off the Beaten Path' where we were treated to home made soup, rolls and a selection of home made cakes and pastries. A big thank you to Darryl his wife Angela and the girls for making it a great evening.
Before starting on the food a group of us ran around the mine road in the dark with only Waynes head torch to guide us - he was mistaken for a dalek more than once. The 'softies' just did a route around the town. After the run we were visted by Helen Langlands, a group fund raiser for the D L R air ambulance, we presented her with a cheque for £150 (money raised throughout the Summer out runs - by holding a GPS sweep competition). Thanks to all who contributed and we hope to beat that this summer. [Neil]