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From the Coach... Daily Update
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THIS PAGE is not controlled in any way by IDLE ATHLETIC CLUB, who take no responsiblity for its content! It is entirely the fault of Club Coach Chris Smith.
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JOHN CARR!
We haven't finished counting heads yet. A gold star for the Tuesday lot - some of em even did last night's session, but proper runner Claire (injury - sciatica) was asking about the Wednesday group...Thanks to her for giving out the Trail Race forms - it meant I could get some pretty good photos which will appear here shortly - and thanks to Hayley for her analysis: "It seemed very...short!"
LOTHERSDALE FELL RACE - there should be one or two Phills there!!
BIG NIGHT OUT! The men's and women's teams have now combined, for 23rd May...looks like minibuses to HORSFORTH!! (not Hawksworth...)at mo...
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BOFRA website More fell races!
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Leeds Hyde Park time Trial 5k
Me and Leon ran the HPTT on 03 May. The HPTT is part of a series of 5k time trials around the country. HPTT is run every Saturday at 9am by a group of students from leeds Uni. You have to register on t'internet at http://www.parkrun.com/hptt_home.aspx as a one off then you are free to turn up any Saturday. It's totally free and informal you just turn up at the start line there's a brief overview of the course from the director and you're off. The course is nearly all tarmac and consists of aboout 2.5 laps of the park, there's a marker at each km and plenty of marshalls shouting encouragement. The only downside is minor in that you have to watch out for other park users. As a club runner I would advise you to get to the front as there's quite a few jogger/walkers that do it. At the end of the trial you are given a disc with your finishing position you take this over to a guy with a laptop and voila you're off back home. HPTT aim to get the results up by noon the same day. They even publish photos. As for the trial itself I ran my guts out and felt sick finishing a few seconds in front of Leon who nonchalently announced he had been taking it easy as a training run for John Carr - pah these pesky kids!
Sean
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www.woodentops.org.uk. An Eggstravaganza of fell running!
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The APPERLEY BRIDGE CANTER is Thursday 22 May, the day before the BIG NIGHT OUT! Stubbs and Maria, opposite, were there last year among others... Davina has been out on our course today and says it's miles better than the ABC, but the Idle Trail is out of bounds to club members of course as you will all be marshalling!
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AWAY WEEKEND - Lisa has produced the definitive final letter, shortly to be followed by another one with details on it! You can still come anyway and we can sort it out - the worst case scenario is sharing my 2 man tent!
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JUNE RUN FOR ALL ADVANCE WARNING! This will be replaced by the Bronte 5 at Haworth, probably...
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From The Coach...Online!
This appeared in March 2005!
There can hardly be a better time for any runner. We might dream of living in warmer, less temperamental climates, and indeed the people there will have little concept of the darkness and misery of winter. Yet by the same token, what concept will they have of the joy of spring? For the distance runner, the long darkness is over. The clocks will go forwards on this final weekend of March, and suddenly the first part of our club training runs will be in daylight. The canal bank, the bridge across the river, and the moors beyond, beckon to the runner jaded by months of tarmac under streetlamps.
Those of us affected by SAD (Seasonally Affected Disorder) will find the sun lifting higher into the sky, and penetrating the atmosphere more effectively. Similarly it will penetrate that darkness that can accumulate in the soul after a long winter, and simply make the mood lift.
Each year I am determined to grasp every opportunity that longer evenings offer, though when the Autumn comes around again, I so often feel that I could have done better. I try at least to have a few midweek evening fell races to look back on. A group of us went to the Lothersdale Fell Race, near Skipton, two years ago, and I still have good memories of an enjoyable run over sloping farmland and fell, of good natured competition between clubmates, and a pint of beer drunk outside a village pub. It’s there again in the fixture list on May 4th, and I’d love to see men’s and women’s teams finish – for me there’s hardly a finer sight than Idle Vests coming off the fell on a still and peaceful evening.
The picture is sharpened in my mind by the months of cold hands, of biting winds, and days that seem to end before they have begun. And even at my age I am often taken by surprise by the feeling of light and warmth coming back. I then remember suddenly, and I am thankful for the temperate British climate, which by making me experience the misery of winter, enables me to appreciate the start of spring. Our fellow runners in warmer climates will have felt little of this, and I believe are the lesser for it.
The longest evenings are in June – try a few evening races before then, on road, trail or fell, and feel as if you have taken hold of your spring and summer. There are the Bunny Runs, the John Carr 5k’s, and Horsforth’s new trail race.
That way, when the darkness of winter comes again, and all there is to offer is miserable drags along inhospitable pavements, you will know that nothing is permanent, and that as fed up as you are, the spring will come again, and you have the experience to deal with it. Look back on the warm memories of a successful summer in 2005 like Tennyson:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Ok he probably wouldn’t appreciate me applying the quote like this, but at least in the depths of winter, we will have something to sustain us, and the knowledge that there are better things to come.
-Chris.
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