Road Roundup

The 2013 club road championships

I shall be updating the 2013 road race championships soon to include the last few races so keep checking the website. Remeber you can pick up points still by doing all 4 local Parkruns – Albert Park, Stewart’s Park, Tees Barrage and Locke Park Redcar. So its your 4 best parkruns this year as part of your 15 races to count.   

The results are based on the WMA Age-grading calculator. See http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wmalookup06.html

Curry night

The club curry night has been booked for Tuesday 3rd December. 8pm for 8.30 start. Cost is £12 with a glass of wine. Doug Welsh will be doing the rounds collecting names and deposits of £5. Please make every effort to be at club training session or races including the Stewart Park Park Run in the next few weeks with your £5. The training session for that night may be held at Guisborough Rugby Club so we can have a shower after the session. (The training location is to be confirmed by the coach but you are more than welcome to do a training session there) 

Recent races:

Richmond Castle 10K – 13^th October

2 nymac members competing

Notable runs:  Alasdair Tatham was 2^nd overall and Andrew Dobson was 12^th overall in a one of the toughest 10K road races in the country.

York Marathon – 20^th October

6 nymac members competing

Notable runs: Alasdair Tatham was 12^th overall in 2hr39min. Marc Mason notched up another marathon run. Catherine McShane finished in 3hrs32min and beat her pb by 24 minutes. Read Catherine’s race report on the website. Barry Dunne and Jayne Parkin made their marathon debuts and finished in 3hrs33min & 3hrs52min respectively. Iain Hall completed another marathon in 3hrs41. Well done to all marathon runners.

Amsterdam marathon – 20^th October

2 nymac members competing

Notable runs: Jonathan Skidmore finished in 3hrs 9 minutes and Martin Luxton finished in 3hrs 41 minutes. Read Martin’s race report on the website.

Derwentwater 10 mile road race – 3^rd November

4 nymac members competing

Notable runs:  Ken Farrell finished in a fantastic 71 minutes on a tough and windy course and set a new M60 nymac distance record for 10 miles.

Guy Fawkes 10 mile road race – 3^rd November

3 nymac members competing

Notable runs: Alasdair Tatham was 5^th overall & Katie Scott ran her first race for the club and finished in 1hr24 minutes.

Scarborough 10K – 3^rd November

13 nymac members competing

Notable runs: Richard Fawcett was the first member home in 37min20 and 21^st place. It was a very windy day which made any pb attempt very difficult but it didn’t stop Paul Bainbridge who achieved a pb with 46min01. Bill Ferguson and Eddie Meehan were second and third respectively in the V60 category.

Maltby 7 mile road race – 10^th November

23 nymac members competing

Notable runs: Alasdair Tatham was 3^rd overall to continue his great form and also won the M40 category.  Dave Watkins and Andrew Dobson had very strong runs to make the top 20. Mike Hobson who has just come back from injury pb’d on the course.  Martin Luxton was 3^rd in the M60 category.

Runner of the Month

A lot of people are running well due to consistent training and good club sessions but for me one person has stood out as I’ve looked through the results over the last month or so and that’s Alasdair Tatham. Alasdair has had some top results in his last few races, 2^nd at Richmond 10K, 12^th at York marathon, 5^th at Guy Fawkes 10 mile& 3^rd at Maltby 7 road  race. What’s the secret? It’s no secret, consistency and time to training he tells me. Well done Alasdair.

Also worthy of a mention is Paul Bainbridge for breaking his pb at Scarborough 10K in very windy conditions, Ken Farrell for setting a new M60 club record for 10 miles and the rest of the marathon runners – Jonathon, Martin, Marc, Barry, Catherine, Jayne & Iain. Not forgetting Lucy Clough who in the spring ran 10 marathons in 10 days.

Derwentwater 10 race report – 3^rd October by Paul McGough

As I was missing the Scarborough 10K due to being at Centre Parcs with the family for the weekend I looked for a race near the lakes and the Derwentwater 10 mile road race came up. I’d done it in 2008 with a few other club members and remember it very well but for the wrong reasons unfortunately – I set off too fast and paid for it half way round when I got to the big hill!

The course is undulating navigating the lake with a big climb at 5 miles. It’s very scenic with great views and a nice midday start time.  

This time round I paced myself well through the first few miles and felt good at 5 miles when I got to the climb. It starts quite steeply which is tough but when the gradient eased off I picked up the pace and also started picking off runners. This continued until the end and I was pleased to get under 64 minutes on what is a fairly tough course.

It’s quite far to travel to a race but if you can make a weekend of it as I did it’s a race well worth doing.  

Training sessions

Training sessions are going very well with group numbers reaching 20 some nights. We have been doing a lot of Vo2 max sessions at the track and the industrial estate in preparation for the Leeds Abbey Dash 10K. After the Leeds Abbey Dash we will be changing the Clairville meet to the Bluebell, Acklam. See the Training location list.

Training locations

Virgin London Marathon 2014 club Ballot.

The club has received 3 club entries for the 2014 Virgin London Marathon. To apply for a club place it will be the usual format,

1)      You will have to be a fully paid up club member for more than 12 months.

2)      You will have to have received the 'Sorry' refusal magazine from VLM and be able to show it on application.

3)      You will not be able to apply if you have had the guarantee of a `good for age’ place and haven’t used it.

4)      You will not be able to apply if you have received a club place the previous year.

 If it is over subscribed then there will be a ballot for the club places. If there are any spare places then the rules will not apply in descending order.

 Important dates to note:

7pm 21st November – application for a club place to be handed to the club.

8pm 28th November – ballot and subsequent notification of successful club member

5pm 17th January – chosen club members to have completed the entry form and paid for the entry.

Applications to date: Jonathan Skidmore, Wayne Bouttell, Iain Hall & Martin Luxton

Marathon training

In December I will be starting a marathon training program aiming to compete in the Manchester marathon on Sunday 6^th April. I have put together a 16 week training program as first devised by Peter Conner for Tom Gibbons and also used by Wayne Bouttell. It has been modified slightly over the years but still has the back bone in of a marathon training program – long run on a weekend, mile reps, target races, etc.

I would be more than happy to for anyone to join me. Currently Mark Brown and Lucy Clough have signed up to Manchester and I’ve had interest from quite a few others. Wayne Bouttell and Jonathan Skidmore are hoping to get into London marathon which is a week later and Richard Fawcett has signed up for Edinburgh marathon at the end of May.

Personally I chose Manchester as it is easy to get into and fairly early on in the year. London albeit a great marathon is an expensive do and for me has a lot of pressure attached to it.

An early marathon means they’ll be a lot of running in the dark, cold and rain but aiming for that target will keep me motivated throughout the winter months and when it comes to summer I’ll hopefully have the marathon done and dusted and also have a very high level of fitness to take into the summer races.

I’m hoping to incorporate some of the marathon speed / strength session into the Tuesday and Thursday night nymac club session.

A typical pacing session will be:

1 mile minimum jog warm up, then 5 x 1 mile or 1600m at 10K pace or 6 min’s (based on marathon target time of 3 hour) fast, with 400m (2-min) jog recoveries, then 1 mile jog cool down.

Some long runs will be done at marathon pace. Such as:

18 miles in approx 2 hrs 14 – first 9 miles easy in 72 minutes, last 9 mile at marathon pace in 62 minutes. This is based on a marathon target time of 3 hours.

Up and coming races

Road Fixtures:

Saturday 23^rd November start-2:00pm – Norman Woodcock Memorial Road Race (5 Miles)

Sunday 15^th December start-11:00am – Loftus Poultry Run

 X-C fixtures:

Saturday 14^th December – North-eastern X-C champs.

Strava

Have you joined Strava? If not, why not? We now have over 20 club members part of Strava and members of the nymac Strava club as seen on the club website. If anything it's a great motivational tool to get you out and get yourself climbing up the league. As well as using a GPS watch such as a Garmin you can also use a Smartphone to join and record runs.

Regards

Paul McGough

Road Manager