Fifty two Vale athletes at Temple Newsam for the opening PECO race. The women fifth in the Premier Division by two points, the men fifth in the second, and fifteen of our thirty two juniors running their first ever PECO race.
Author Archives: Ian Martin
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Nov
Nov
Will Haw has compiled our first full set of road, parkrun and distance club records, women’s and men’s, from 5K to the marathon.
01
Nov
Nov
Cross country season starts next Sunday at Temple Newsam. Enter today and your first name goes on your race number. Online entry closes 2pm on Friday 6 November.
29
Oct
Oct
Tom Whiting on his year as President of the University of York Athletics Club, cross country for Vale of York, breaking 17 minutes for 5K, and the bet that cost Jared his dignity.
21
Oct
Oct
Last Sunday 18 October I ran 19.6 miles of the Yorkshire Marathon. Then I stepped off the course and took off my bib. This post, and the video that goes with it, is about that DNF: the race I did not finish.
Since Sunday, lots of people have asked me how the Yorkshire Marathon went. When I tell them I bailed out just short of 20 miles, they offer their sympathies and commiserations, almost as if I have been diagnosed with a serious illness or someone close to me has died.
For me, a DNF isn’t like that. This one was close to planned. Stopping before the finish was a serious option from two weeks before the race, and in this post I want to explain why, what I have learned, and what changes for my marathon build for London 2027.
For anyone new, my goal for the London Marathon 2027 is a sub 3 at 60.
20
Oct
Oct
Daniel Lloyd takes the club marathon record outright in 2:55:46, Neil Ryan knocks thirteen minutes off his best, and Steve Middup is second M65 again.
15
Oct
Oct
Adie Turford ran 57 miles from Glasgow to Edinburgh in 13 hours and 2 minutes, finishing under floodlights on the athletics track at Saughton.
13
Oct
Oct
Thirteen Vale of York athletes at Cliffe Castle, a full scoring team in both senior races, and one spare runner in each.
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Sep
Sep
Three Vale of York runners took on Selby Striders’ Wistow 10K on Sunday 27 September. Conditions were about as good as late September offers, not too hot, with one light shower, but the Lordship wind was ever present. Steve Middup led the club home in 43:15, second in the M60 category and 41st overall, for […]
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Sep
Sep
One of our juniors, Reuben, took on the Great North Run Junior last weekend. It was his first time at an event of that scale. The Junior version is a 4km race through the heart of Newcastle and Gateshead, which takes place the day before the Great North Run Half Marathon. He finished in 17:03, […]