MAY 2019

Club website www.altrincham-athletics.co.uk

PAWPRINTS

The Newsletter of Altrincham & District Athletic Club Ltd

(Altrincham & District AC since 1961)

The AGM will be held at 8:15pm on Tuesday 14th May at Timperley Sports Club.

Agenda 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of previous AGM 3. President’s Address 4. Accounts 5. Chairman’s Remarks 6. Committee Positions 7. Presentation of Trophies 8. Any Other Business.

A complimentary drink on arrival together with a light buffet, will be available.

(please do not bring your own food into the club).

Please make every effort to attend.

Thank you,

Mansel Pope (Chairman)

Annual General Meeting 2019

Alty hats for sale

£10 each with all proceeds going to the Christie Hospital.

They will be available at the AGM and on Tuesday nights.

See Margaret Bullock or Gordon Nicoll

Poem from Margaret

Altrincham Athletics Club Is a veritable social hub.

But there’s no room for complaining.

Just get on with your training!

And remember to pay your subs!

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PAWPRINTS MAY 2019

Club website www.altrincham-athletics.co.uk

June Pawprints

Please send material for next month’s Pawprints to Colin Davies: colinxxdavies@gmail.com by Monday 27th May. Articles, reports, results, news, and photos gratefully accepted.

ADAC Committee 2018 - 2019

Chairman

Mansel Pope

Vice Chair

Vacant

Secretary

Helen Simpson

Membership Secretary

Richard Pavey

Treasurer

Carole Harrison

Welfare Officer

Mel McGuiness

Social Secretary

David Vaughan

Coaching coordinator

John Snape

Road Running

Mike Berks

Cross Country

Graham Harrison

Fell Running

Tim Raffle

Track & Field

Peter Rice

Social Media Officer

Andrew Whittingham

Officials coordinator

Vacant

Data Protection

Bill Egan

Altrincham now has a specialist running shop. Realbuzz is situated in the Stamford Quarter at the extreme end of George Street next to WH Smith and offers a 12% discount to all club members.

Mon - Fri 10:00am - 5:30pm

Saturday 09:00am - 5:30pm

Sunday 10:30am - 4:30pm

Realbuzz

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Road Running Championship 2019/20

The club road race championship will be conducted along the same lines as last year, as follows:

Format of the 2019/20 ADAC Road Race Championship

The championship will be based on a specific list of races (see below).

To qualify for the championship you will need to have competed in at least 5 of the listed races, and covering more than one distance (i.e. cannot qualify with 5 x 5K races).

If you have run in more than 5 races your best 5 age graded performances will count.

As the year progresses, and in the final analysis, your 5 best age graded performances will be added together and averaged.

The overall championship will be based on the best average age graded performance across the year.

Because Age Grading takes account of gender there is no need for separate championships – Males and Females will compete against each other.

The age grading will be arrived at by using the Runners World Age Grade Calculator

(runnersworld.com) – which utilises the 2015 World Masters Athletics tables.

Qualifying races are as follows:

Wilmslow Half Marathon Sunday 24th March

Salford 10K Friday 19th April

Mid Cheshire 5K Friday 26th April

Tatton Park 10K Sunday 12th May

Colshaw Hall 10K Sunday 23rd June

Hollins Green 5K Sunday 23rd June

Alderley Edge Bypass 10K Sunday 7th July

Sale Sizzler 5K x 4 27th June, 11th & 25th July, 8th August (best of 4 to count)

Birchwood 10K Sunday 18th August

Mid Cheshire 5K Thursday 29th August

Southport Seaside 10K Sunday 22nd September

Manchester Half Marathon Sunday 13th October

Preston 10 Mile Sunday 17th November

Wilmslow 10K Sunday 24th November

Stockport 10 Mile Sunday 8th December (TBC)

Alsager 5 Mile Sunday 2nd February 2020 (TBC)

*Any Marathon* (see below)

*Any Parkrun* (see below)

“Any Marathon” & “Any Parkrun”:

Club members will have the opportunity to include their best marathon and/or parkrun in the final figures. The runs must have taken place between 1st April 2019 and 31st January 2020 to count.

I will send out a reminder for you to provide me with details early next year.

So come on everybody there is plenty to go at, get entering these races and let’s get involved!!

Dave Ainsworth

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Road Running Championship 2019/20

Results of the first 3 eligible races in this year’s championship. The left hand side of the tables show the actual chip times and finishing positions of Altrincham runners in relation to each other. The right hand side shows the Age Graded Score and re-casts the positions based on this score.

Wilmslow Half Marathon

Chip Time Position Age Graded %

Shane Allen 1:24.07 1 96.70 Vicki Perry

John Noblett 1:27.56 2 88.04 Bev Jackson

Andy Spencer 1:30.50 3 84.97 Peter Pickwell

Vicki Perry 1:32.08 4 77.47 John Noblett

Peter Pickwell 1:32.10 5 76.53 Gordon Nicoll

Gordon Nicoll 1:32.12 6 73.26 Harriett Pearce

Nathan Egan 1:32.19 7 73.24 Steph Thompson

Bev Jackson 1:32.58 8 73.10 Duncan Dickinson

Andrew Crockett 1:34.27 9 72.76 Shane Allen

Duncan Dickinson 1:34.50 10 69.55 Andy Spencer

Harriett Pearce 1:40.48 11 66.52 Nathan Egan

Steph Thompson 1:44.40 12 63.17 Andrew Crockett

Justin Thompson 1:47.36 13 61.70 Justin Thompson

Duncan Gazeley 1:49.08 14 56.53 Duncan Gazeley

Richard Parry 2:15.28 15 45.54 Richard Parry

An incredible 96.7% performance by Vicki Perry at Wilmslow - only 3 minutes off 100% !

Salford 10K

Chip Time Position Age Graded %

Bev Jackson 45.05 1 82.03 Bev Jackson

Colin Davies 49.46 2 72.89 Colin Davies

Richard Parry 1:00.12 3 47.19 Richard Parry

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Road Running Championship 2019/20

Mid Cheshire 5K

Chip Time Position Age Graded %

Andy Norman 15.39 1 87.44 Richard Johnson

Dave Norman 16.07 2 85.93 Andy Norman

Mike Berks 16.47 3 85.47 Sean Butler

Richard Johnson 17.17 4 84.69 Dave Norman

Richard Evans 18.17 5 84.05 Richard Evans

Sean Butler 18.56 6 82.63 Alison Vesey

Gordon Nicoll 19.14 7 80.58 Gordon Nicoll

Dave Ainsworth 20.01 8 80.09 Carole Harrison

Graham Harrison 20.11 9 79.44 Dave Ainsworth

Steph Thompson 22.08 10 79.00 Mike Berks

Carole Harrison 22.14 11 78.10 Graham Harrison

Alison Vesey 22.26 12 76.45 Steph Thompson

Justin Thompson 23.04 13 63.43 Justin Thompson

Richard Parry 25.07 14 54.34 Richard Parry

Overall Positions after 3 Races

The championship will be based on the best 5 performances of each runner from the list of races. Runners will remain in the overall list until such time as it is not possible for them to complete the required 5 races (e.g. if they have only run in 1 race and only 3 races remain). At that point they will be taken off the overall results.

No of races

Age Grade %

Vicki Perry 1 96.70 1

Richard Johnson 1 87.44 2

Andy Norman 1 85.93 3

Sean Butler 1 85.47 4

Bev Jackson 2 85.04 5

Peter Pickwell 1 84.97 6

Dave Norman 1 84.69 7

Richard Evans 1 84.05 8

Alison Vesey 1 82.63 9

Carole Harrison 1 80.09 10

Dave Ainsworth 1 79.44 11

Mike Berks 1 79.00 12

Gordon Nicoll 2 78.56 13

No of races

Age Grade %

Graham Harrison 1 78.10 14

John Noblett 1 77.47 15

Steph Thompson 2 74.85 16

Harriet Pearce 1 73.26 17

Duncan Dickinson 1 73.10 18

Colin Davies 1 72.89 19

Shane Allen 1 72.76 20

Andy Spencer 1 69.55 21

Nathan Egan 1 66.52 22

Andrew Crockett 1 63.17 23

Justin Thompson 2 62.57 24

Duncan Gazeley 1 56.53 25

Richard Parry 3 49.02 26

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Greater Manchester Marathon - Sunday 7th April

Chip Gun

498 Richard Johnson 2.57.17 2.57.52

544 Steve Renny 2.58.00 2.58.35

642 Andy Oates 2.59.17 2.59.51

665 Dan Martell 2.59.32 3.00.07

1003 Richard Jellyman 3.07.09 3.07.43

1195 Dave Livingstone 3.10.48 3.11.23

1728 Craig Bradbury 3.18.06 3.21.30

2676 Gordon Nicoll 3.28.24 3.36.17

3272 Duncan Dickinson 3.36.54 3.44.47

3273 Andy Spencer 3.40.06 3.44.48

4882 Amanda Navin 3.52.20 4.05.29

The eleven Altrincham runners who took to the local streets for this year’s marathon were blessed with good running weather and big supportive crowds of spectators.

Richard Johnson, Steve Renny, Andy Oates and Dan Martell all finished inside three hours with Andy and Dan managing to shave a few seconds off their personal bests.

In addition, Richard Jellyman lowered his personal best by over 13 minutes, Gordon Nicoll by more than 15 minutes and Duncan Dickinson by almost 8 minutes

The marathon was won by Aaron Richmond of Bideford AAC in 2.21.34 and the first lady was Jenny Spink of Bristol & West AC in 2.35.19.

There were more than 13,000 finishers.

Full results: https://results.sporthive.com/events/6488812689306147584

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Tatton 10K - Sunday 14th April

Chip Gun

19 Shaun Jackson 41.06 41.10

67 Craig Partridge 45.48 45.51

133 Colin Davies 50.41 50.44

244 Richard Parry 58.04 59.19

The fourth of this year’s monthly Tatton Park 10Ks took place on a cold sunny morning and attracted over 600 runners. The race was won by Euan Gardner in 36.37 and the first lady was Aimee Backhouse in 41.39. Shaun Jackson, Craig Partridge, Colin Davies and Richard Parry all ran well, Shaun finishing 3rd V45 and Colin 2nd V65.

Full results: http://results.racetimers.co.uk/Results.aspx?CId=16487&RId=2058&EId=1

Colin Davies

Shaun Jackson

Richard Parry

Craig Partridge

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Salford 10K - Friday 19th April

As usual, the Salford 10K took place on Good Friday, but with only three Altrincham runners taking part this year. A warm sunny morning, with a cloudless sky ensured the water station at half way was well used. Bev Jackson, using the race to practise her pace for the following week’s London Marathon, was first home for Altrincham and finished as second FV55. Colin Davies was pleased to get below 50 minutes whilst Richard Parry was just outside the hour. Norman Shreeve of Cambridge & Coleridge won the race in 31.03 and the first lady was Bronwen Owen of Leeds City AC in 34.35. There were 605 finishers.

Chip Gun

268 Bev Jackson 45.05 45.11

351 Colin Davies 49.46 50.02

521 Richard Parry 60.12 60.49

Full results: www.ukresults.net/2019/salf10k.html

Mid Cheshire 5K - Friday 26th April

Fourteen Altrincham runners took part in this fast 5K at Kingsley and Andy Norman led them home in 45th place out of 563 finishers. Richard Johnson was 2nd V50 and set a new personal best whilst Sean Butler was 1st V60. Carole Harrison was 3rd FV50, finishing just in front of Steph Thompson who had a slightly faster chip time which was a new personal best. Alison Vesey was 2nd FV55 and Richard Parry set a new personal best, almost two minutes faster than he ran on this course last year. Richard Allen of Aldershot Farnham & District won the race in 14.15 with a total of 16 men going below the 15 minute barrier. Ciara Mageean from City of Lisburn AC was first lady in 16.08 .

Full results: https://cutefruitevents.niftyentries.com/Results/Mid-

Cheshire-5k-Spring-2019

Chip Gun

45 Andy Norman 15.39 15.41

71 Dave Norman 16.07 16.07

122 Mike Berks 16.47 16.49

158 Richard Johnson 17.17 17.21

237 Richard Evans 18.17 18.30

261 Sean Butler 18.56 19.02

295 Gordon Nicoll 19.14 19.35

325 Dave Ainsworth 20.01 20.09

342 Graham Harrison 20.11 20.24

422 Carole Harrison 22.14 22.29

425 Steph Thompson 22.08 22.31

436 Alison Vesey 22.26 22.49

448 Justin Thompson 23.04 23.27

504 Richard Parry 25.07 25.33

Andy Norman

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Mid Cheshire 5K - Friday 26th April

Sean Butler Gordon Nicoll

Photos by Mick Hall

Steph Thompson Justin Thompson

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Fell Running

from Tim Raffle

2019 Club Fell Championship

Sun 10th March James’ Thorn AS Peak District

Wed 17th April Herod Farm AS Peak District

Sat 4th May Bollington 3 Peaks BS Peak District

Sun 26th May Helvellyn & the Dodds AL Lake District

Wed 5th June Boar’s Head BM Peak District

Sun 16th June Settle Hills BM Yorkshire Dales

Sat 6th July Warslow Beer Festival AS Peak District

Sun 4th Aug Saddleworth Round BL Peak District

Sun 18th Aug Sedbergh Hills AL Howgills

Sat 14th Sept Groovy Kinder Love AL Peak District

Sun 27th Oct Clwydian Hills AM North Wales

Sun 8th Dec Litton Xmas Cracker BM Peak District

The scoring system is the same as last year with your best 8 races to count, scoring in each race

10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, etc. 10 extra points for everyone who competes at the FRA Relays.

Club championship update

Herod Farm – Wednesday 17th April

The second round in this year’s club fell running championship saw Dan Martell collect maximum points ahead of Richard Kennaugh. However, Richard holds the early lead in the championship with 18 points to Dan’s 10.

33rd Dan Martell 29:18 61st Richard Kennaugh 32:20

Daniel Haworth of Matlock won in a time of 22:23 with Caitlin Rice of Ribble Valley the first female in a time of 26:25. There were 130 finishers.

The next race in this year’s club championship is the Bollington Festival Three Peaks Race on Saturday 4th May at 2pm. This race is a rather easier proposition than its Yorkshire namesake.

Later in the month is Helvellyn and the Dodds, a classic category AL race in the Lake District, on Sunday 26th May at 12 noon. Details at http://keswickac.org.uk/kac-races/helvellyn-and-the-dodds/. Pre-entry is encouraged (and cheaper).

Other News

Neil Walker, Shaun Jackson and Craig Partridge all put in strong performances at the Newlands Memorial Fell Race (this is the new name for the Anniversary Waltz). Unfortunately full results are not yet available so further details next month but here are some photos to show the rest of you what you were missing.

Shaun Jackson Craig Partridge

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General Training Sessions at Timperley Track – Start Time 7.15pm

All Tuesday sessions are on the track unless stated otherwise

May

Tue 7th 12 x 90s, 60s recovery.

Tue 14th 8 x 300m, 2 min recovery.

followed by Club AGM at Timperley Hockey/Cricket Club at 8.15.

Tue 21st Session in John Leigh Park:

4 sets of 30s hill rep, 90s sustained effort, 30s hill rep, 3½ min effort.

2 min between efforts, 4 min between sets.

Thu 23rd Dunham Park 5K hosted by ADAC, marshals required.

Tue 28th See Phil Nichol’s session.

Dunham Massey Race 1 Thursday 23rd May 7.15pm

Birchwood Brook Thursday 30th May 7.30pm (hosted by Spectrum Striders)

Bowdon Thursday 6th June 7.15pm

Dunham Massey Race 2 Thursday 13th June 7.15pm

Hollins Green Sunday 23rd June 10.00am (hosted by Spectrum Striders)

Series entries (5 races for the price of 4) or individual race entry forms can be accessed

via the Spectrum Striders website: www.spectrumstriders.org.uk/our-races

Online entries are available through Bookitzone.com: www.bookitzone.com

North Cheshire 5K Grand Prix Series

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Welsh Castles Relay

Caernarvon to Cardiff

Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th June

For anyone new to the club this is an annual relay event that ADAC compete in each year. It is a two day 20-stage relay over 211 miles on mostly roads and plenty of hills.

It starts in Caernarfon and ends in Cardiff.

Each leg has a mass start at a set time, full details can be found here:

http://www.lescroupiersrunningclub.org.uk/welsh-castles-relay-2016/ The whole weekend is a great fun event with lots of shouting cheering and cowbells involved.

Just turn up and do your own leg, or for the best fun, do your own leg then follow the race to Cardiff.

We have an overnight stop at Newtown mid-Wales where camping is available or book a B & B.

In the past we have had a mini bus, or as we like to call it a fun bus, which we would love to do again if we can get (a) 2 drivers and (b) enough athletes who want to travel for the whole weekend. If you want to get involved or want more information please email caroleharrison65@yahoo.com

or speak to Carole or Graham Harrison at the track.

Some of last year’s team

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Silver for Dave Cowlishaw in World Masters Indoors

Dave reports

I really enjoyed catching up with the Alty people at the Nationals and of course am honoured by the life membership of the club. They gave me the new vest when I was there, which is great so will be sporting that with pride whenever in UK.

Following that, and I kept it quiet after last year’s Málaga (6th in World Masters last September) fiasco but did the World Indoors in Torun (Poland) and got silver medal behind super talent and new kid on the block Mark Symes from GB. Very happy to put Málaga behind me with this, it was the best result I could not risk running from front and blowing up again, and beat the Italian who was 2nd in Malaga, Symes won M45 in Málaga at 49 years old which is a huge achievement he's only been in the Sport 4 years!

Torun was an absolutely fantastic experience, even though only there 3 days I was able to focus and block everything else out, and I really benefited this time from getting into that cocooned championship world and sharing that unique experience with other competitors. The camaraderíe in these Masters’ events is second to none, brilliant atmosphere on and off the track. I travelled out and back with 2 Madrid based Spanish guys and while there had meals etc. with them and other people. By now I know almost all the British and Spanish middle-distance guys and we've become friends.

After the semi-final (5pm Friday) the final was scheduled for 10.22am Saturday so it was a case of getting back to the hotel as soon as possible and resting up, went out for dinner but not for long. Re. Final strategy, I knew Symes has a devastating change of pace and the only way to beat him normally could be a hard pace from the gun but a) having only had 1 track race a month ago in a slow time so not at optimum race sharpness, b) not wanting to risk blowing up again like Malaga (could not make the same mistake twice at least not consecutively!!) I decided to go with the race and gradually wind it up final 3rd if nobody else did, plus if Symes passed at any point to hang on his coat tails and try to reel him back in. The gun went and with an outside draw I was able to easily position into 2nd behind Haines fellow Brit, and I was surprised when Symes took it on with 2 laps to go. That really helped as I could go with him as we opened up a gap on the rest winding it up and get ahead of the Italian Moroccan who won silver in Málaga. At the bell I was running to win then there was a sharp acceleration from Symes right in the tight first bend, opening up 5 metres going into the back straight which he managed to hold to the line, I felt I held form and was happy to hold on for 2nd, I wasn’t disappointed to not win this time, guess because unlike Málaga it wasn’t the sole objective, this was about getting back into the mix and the medals. I was also happy with a sub 1.20 last 500m, 1.37 last 600m, being able to change the pace from 4.30 to 4.00 and it gives confidence to target 4.10 this summer.

The race formed part of Super Saturday where the Brits won Gold M55 to M40 with the Spanish guys right up there challenging, they were great races which I saw trackside, particularly impressed with Guy Bracken, Dean Richardson, James Thie and of course Mark Symes!, We all enjoyed the medal ceremonies and felt very proud on the podium in spite of Brexit! Followed that with a few beers in the town centre before I had to leave back for Warsaw flight home and by all accounts, they had a huge day and night of celebrations. It was a shame to miss all that!!

In summary, a real blessing to be part of Torun World Indoors and Masters Athletics which goes from strength to strength, never seen a championships so well organised!!

M50 1500m Final

Mark Symes GBR 4:17.49

Dave Cowlishaw GBR 4:19.21

El Azzouzi ITA 4:19.50

Photos on next page

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Silver for Dave Cowlishaw in World Masters Indoors

Dave leads the field

The M50 finalists in the 1500m

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20 local parkruns

Bolton Worsley Woods Heaton Park Chadderton Hall Oldham

Hyde Stamford Park Marple Lyme Park Macclesfield

Wilmslow Bramhall Park Woodbank Cheadle Hulme Burnage

Stretford Fletcher Moss Sale Water South Manchester Wythenshawe

Oldham

Macclesfield

Worsley Woods

Heaton Park

Chadderton Hall

Bolton

Stamford Park

Hyde

Marple

Lyme Park

Cheadle Hulme

Wilmslow

Woodbank

Bramhall Park

Stretford

South Manchester Sale Water

Wythenshawe Fletcher Moss

Burnage

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Duncan Mason Athlete Matters Worsley Physiotherapy and Sports Injuries Clinic.

First floor, Ackerley House, Roe Green, Worsley M28 2JL

Mobile: 07792072642

www.athletematters.com Hours of Business: Mon to Fri: 9.00am to 9.00pm Saturday: 8.30am to 1.00pm

Thornber Podiatry assessment, treatment and provision of orthotics / in-shoe devices.

ADAC members will receive a 10% discount on treatments.

Contact: Matthew Malone Specialist in Paediatric and Adult Biomechanics.

0161-491-2938

Mobile: 07843629704

Mike Jones

Personal Trainer at M20 Personal Training Studio.

Mobile: 07480113036

Mark Belcher from Active Life Massage is a fully qualified Swedish and Sports Massage therapist. Mark can be contacted on 07722243060 or mark@activelifemassage.co.uk For further details , please go to http://activelifemassage.co.uk/ For ADAC members, Mark will waive the surcharge for treatment at a client’s home, provided it is within a 15 mile radius of Handforth.

Mona Noblett is an accredited and qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) and Counsellor. Mona works with adults, adolescents and couples, from her practice in West Timperley. Mona can be contacted on: 07800 958879, or by email: info@monanoblett.co.uk For further details please visit www.monanoblett.co.uk ADAC members and their families will receive a 15% discount on session fees.

As most readers will be aware, club subscriptions run from 1st April to 31st March in line with

England Athletics financial year. Members will be asked to pay their own subs online using the

England Athletics Portal. As last year, you will receive an email with instructions on how to renew

your subscription on-line.

In summary the email will contain a link to www.englandathletics.org/myprofile where you

can login, check and update your personal details. There is an option to renew your membership

and pay your subs. England Athletics will retain your affiliation fee and pay the remainder of your

subs to the ADAC club account directly.

For 2019, ADAC Membership Fees will be increased for competing seniors to £50,

over 65s £30. Junior membership remains at £25 except for U11s £20.

It is important that you complete payment promptly after receiving the email to enable you to continue to benefit from reduced race entry fees and to represent the club in league meetings and championships.

Life members and coaches are exempt from this process.

However, if you do not have access to the internet, or wish to make alternative arrangements to pay your subs, please speak to a member of the committee at the track.

ADAC Membership & England Athletics Affiliation

Foot Respect is situated next to Waitrose in Broadheath.

For any problems with your feet contact Ola Pankiw (BA Hons, Dip CFHP, MPS Pract).

www.footrespect.co.uk