Striders Family Track Day

Saturday 13-Jul-2013 12pm to about 4:30pm

This is a closed event for Spectrum Striders RC members & their families only (plus a few invited guests).

The Track Day is a family running day with a mixture of adults and kids races between 12:30pm and 4:30pm. It is suitable for all abilities, this is not just for the faster runners. We normally meet at 12 noon, ready to start the first race at 12:30pm.

The format is series of events with a kids race in between each adults race. The adults can run one race or run them all. The usual sequence is mile, 400m, long jump, 800m, 3000m, then three relays 4x100m, 4x400m, and the fun medley.

We normally have a good gang of non-runners who come along to watch, so bring a chair and a few sandwiches. Graham and Aimee Driver did a brilliant job in 2010 introducing more variety and fun into the kids games and they will be there to entertain us all.

The venue is the Victoria Park track, where we have our regular summer Tuesday track training. The showers and toilets at the Victoria Park Arena will be open.

(Remember that the track mile and 3k can count towards your Club Standards.)

Barbecue

To round the day off, Julian hosts a barbeque for everyone from around 5pm at his house in Locking Stumps. Julian will provide kebabs & sausages. Please bring some beer, wine or soft drinks. Also, can you bring along a sweet, a salad or a savoury. Please let Julian know what you will be bringing so we don't end up with 20 potato salads!

2012 track day on Saturday 14-Jul-2012

Thanks to everyone for supporting the Track Day. Also, thanks to Julian for hosting his traditional BBQ in the evening, also for typing up all of these results!

Mick Charman was taking photos.

Event report from Julian:

"Our 24th annual Family Track Day was held on a surprisingly warm and sunny day. As usual, we had a great time – everyone ran hard and there were some amazingly competitive finishes. Whether Mike Welsby overtook Andy Smith on the finish line in the 4x200m relay remains with the steward’s inquiry.

We were, as usual, very thankful for the enthusiastic children who were keen to run and give us a rest between the big kids events. The bucket and sponges game for the kids was great, although some of the little ones had to be guided to the right bucket. It was like It’s A Knockout of old!

The barbeque chez Julian afterwards was great with about 40 hungry runners returning to devour my house (contents).

Thanks to Steve Martin, Andrea Millington and John Ramsdale for recording the positions and the times, well done everyone who took part."

Results

A version of the results in PDF format is available (ideal for printing). Click on the link on the right side of this page.

Mile

Heat 1

Pos	Name	Time
1	Chris Millington	05:12
2	Stephen Pilditch	05:23
3	Julian Spencer	05:32
4	Tim Murphy	05:41
5	Liz Whitfield	05:43
6	Andy Gaskell	05:47
7	Rob McHarry	05:53
8	Dillon Alcock	06:09
9	Karon Forster	06:14
10	Paul Porter (Helsby RC)	06:23

Heat 2

Pos	Name	Time
1	Phillip Rose	05:58
2	Kenny Forster	06:02
3	Andy Smith (Helsby RC)	06:15
4	Mick Charman	06:18
5	Karl Alldred	06:46
6	Alan Peers	06:53
7	Vince Alcock	07:11
8	Gwendy Gibson	07:12
9	Heather Garland	07:20
10	Christine Ramsdale	08:31

Karon Forster's time is a new Club FV50 record, beating Janet Redpath's time of 6:23 set at the Club Road Mile on 15-Jun-2002 by 9 sec.

Christine Ramsdale's time is a new Club FV60 record, beating her own previous time of 8:55 set at last years Track Day on 9-Jul-2011 by 24 sec.

400m

Heat 1

Pos	Name	Time (sec)
1	Stephen Pilditch	62
2	Julian Spencer	65
3	Tim Murphy	69
4	Rob McHarry	70
5	Liz Whitfield	72
6	Andy Gaskell	75
7	Dillon Alcock	80

Heat 2

Pos	Name	Time (sec)
1	Wes Gaskell	74
2	Paul Porter (Helsby RC)	76
3	Alan Peers	80
4	Andy Smith (Helsby RC)	83
5	Karl Alldred	84
6	Vince Alcock	86
7	Emily Sinkinson	91
8	Bill Bradley	92
9	Gwendy Gibson	93
10	Heather Garland	95

Long Jump

Name	Jump 1	Jump 2	Jump 3	Pos
Rebecca Forster	No Jump	3.91	3.44	1
Stuart Andrew	3.61	3.89	3.60	2
Dan Middlebrook	3.83	No Jump	No Jump	3
Stephen Pilditch	3.50	3.75	3.74	4
Julian Spencer	3.59	3.66	3.60	5
Tim Murphy	3.40	3.43	3.62	6
Rob McHarry	3.23	3.49	3.51	7
Emily Sinkinson	2.85	3.02	2.72	8
Heather Garland	2.97	2.70	2.57	9=
Jim Dawson	2.95	2.94	2.97	9=
Andy Smith	2.84	2.65	2.96	11
Bill Bradley	2.76	2.41	x	12
Jasmin Jones	1.57	x	x	13

800m

Pos	Name	Time
1	Stephen Pilditch	02:20
2	Mike Welsby	02:25
3	Julian Spencer	02:32
4	Tim Murphy	02:39
5	Andy Gaskell	02:41
6	Liz Whitfield	02:45
7	Jim Dawson	02:49
8	Phillip Rose	02:51
9	Andy Smith (Helsby RC)	02:57
10	Gwendy Gibson	03:00
11	Alan Peers	03:13
12	Karl Alldred	03:16
13	Heather Garland	03:22

3000m

Pos	Name	Time
1	Chris Millington	10:38
2	Mike Welsby	11:08
3	Stephen Pilditch	11:15
4	Julian Spencer	11:20
5	Jim Dawson	11:23
6	Liz Whitfield	12:05
7	Karon Forster	12:22
8	Kenny Forster	12:23
9	Andy Smith (Helsby RC)	12:27
10	Mick Charman	13:12
11	Alan Peers	14:02
12	Heather Garland	14:56
13	Ken Black	17:44