Subs Renewal Time At last nights AGM it was agreed that subs would remain at £35 for 1st claim members and £15 for 2nd claim members. If you wish to renew your membership please can you make payment into the club account via BACS (contact Hannah at info@otleyac.org.uk for the bank details if you don’t already have them) by the 30th November 2018. If you don’t intend to renew (why wouldn’t you? lol) please let Hannah know so she can…
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Report from Tony Walker Having had to abort a couple of pre-entered 10ks – the second one due to gout on the day, ouch! – I finally had a free Sunday and looked for a good race. I woke up expecting to do the Wistow 10k but then thought I’d better check if you can enter on the day. Good job I did because you couldn’t. So plan B was Accrington. I used to live over that part of the…
Report from Howard: Just back from Ibiza where I took part in the European standard duathlon championships last Sunday in the blistering heat. The sprint the day before had been a bit chaotic with the beach transition being swamped by a heavy sea swell and then cramped into the town. Run crossovers and bike turns for them led to all sorts of bumps and falls and even some mis-directions from marshals. Our Spanish hosts learnt from this and the standard…
Antonio ‘destroyed the field‘, (in his own words), 🙂 on a bitterly cold morning. It would have been a little closer if Malcolm’s internal compass hadn’t gone awry dropping down to the canal at Apperley Bridge. Nick had a fine run finishing 3rd just ahead of the fast finishing Rogan and Liam, who recorded the fastest time of the day. Bob retains his big lead in the handicap table ahead of David Cattanach. The battle for the podium is very…
Woodhouse Moor parkrun A total of 457 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Nathan EDMONDSON Unattached 00:16:29 3 3 Richard SMITH Otley AC 00:17:31 13 1 Faye BIRKBY Pudsey Pacers RC 00:19:00 196 154 Ryk DOWNES Otley AC 00:26:27 Hackney Marshes parkrun A total of 262 runners took part. Position Gender Position parkrunner Club Run Time 1 1 Joe DALE Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC 00:16:36 3 1 Hannah VINER Highgate Harriers 00:16:45 43 7 Rebecca…
Report from Billy With the Fell Relays the day before and the Yorkshire Marathon the week before there were a few absentees for the first race. For the ladies Becky Harpur, Vicky Satainburn and Ruth Poole turned out for the black & whites. The race was approximately 5k consisting of 3 laps. Vicky was first home for Otley in 15th place in a time of 22:30 closely followed by Becky in 23rd in a time of 23:17. Ruth finished in…
Report from Tom Paget I’ve spent a week in the States visiting my brother and decided to give oversees racing a go. After an internet search I found the Foxborough 10k, a rather low key event organised by a local high school. I’m not a fan of the 10k distance – it always seems to be to be painful for the whole race – but it was the only event I could find. 125 of us toed the line after…