Newsletter
For more up-to-date information regarding the club, upcoming races and general information please request the newsletter from Richard at stiltonstriders@yahoo.co.uk
LRRL winter league Races
Each of the winter league races (LRRL) listed on the calendar on the right is a 10.30am start on Sunday mornings and many of us meet at the Wilton Road car park in Melton just before 9am to share lifts. These races are a perfect way of improving your running and everyone is welcome.
Stilton Striders Running Club Presentation Night 2011
Stilton Striders held their Annual Presentation Night at The Plough in Stathern.
The winners of 2011 were:
Female Runner - Nicola Clay (not in photo)
Male Runner - Richard Gray
Veteran Runner - Mike Brighty
Most Improved Runner - Celia Fox-Mapletoft
Club Person - joint winners, Lucy Underwood & Ian Johnson
Club Handicap Winner - Phil Douglas
Congratulations to all the winners.
Christmas Dinner and Presentation Evening 2010
The Stilton Striders 2010 Christmas Dinner and presentation took place at The Plough, Stathern. Winners of the awards this year were:
Best Male - Chris Southam –although injured for some time he came storming back to form, achieving the Platinum Standard in the new Club Standard Awards
Best Female - Jenny Norwood – this was for her outstanding performance in ultr-distance and endurance races throughout the year.
Best Veteran - Vicki Lowe – the ever-consistent Vicki had another good year.
Most Improved - Gary Postle – he achieved a number of PB’s at different distances throughout the year.
Club Handicap - Rob Szabo – in a highly competitive race at Exton.
Club Person - Neil Jaggard – who rigged the votes!
Congratulations to all!! Many thanks also to the ever-lovely Kirsty Ainscough who presented the prizes this year. The two London Marathon places went to Patrick McNeight and, eventually, Gary Postle – best of luck to both of them and any other Stilton Striders doing the Marathon this year.
With the introduction of Club Standards, the presentations went on a bit (!) but the following awards were made:
Chris Southam 45-49 Platinum
Christian Davidson Open Gold
Darren Glover Open Silver
Neil Jaggard 50-54 Silver
Phil Douglas 50-54 Silver
Julie Jaggard 50-54 Silver
Theresa Coltman 45-49 Silver
Vicki Lowe 40-44 Silver
Gary Postle 40-44 Silver
Patrick McNeight 40-44 Silver
Wayne Hackett Open Bronze
Richard Gray Open Bronze
Helen Widdowson Open Bronze
Abi Arnott 35-39 Bronze
John Stares 60-64 Bronze
Ian Mason 40-44 Copper
Again, congratulations to all!!
There were a few games to round up the evening, with Helen and Michelle destined for singing stardom on the X factory and Phil Voyce, accompanied by Catherine, doing the moonwalk and showing us what a lovely mover he is.
If only Daniel O’Donnell, or whatever his name is, had been able to attend it would have been perfect!
Neil
Rainbows 100Lap race
This has been added to the results page.
Xmas Meal and Presentations 2009
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.
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
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]
2009 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.
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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.
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]