Striders Family Track Day

Saturday 14-Jul-2012 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!

2011 Track day on Saturday 9-Jul-2011

Thanks to everyone for supporting the Track Day.  Also, thanks to Julian for hosting his traditional BBQ.

Mick Charman took lots of photos.

Event report from Julian:

"Our 23rd 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 I overtook 8 year Robert Salmon on the finish line in the 4x100m relay remains with the stewards enquiry.

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 new games for the kids introduced by Graham Driver were great, especially the transfer water by sponge from bucket to bucket, just like It’s A Knockout of old!

The barbecue at the my house afterwards was great with about 30 hungry runners returning to devour my house (contents). 

Many thanks to Steve Pickford and various others for recording positions and times.  Well done everyone else who took part."

Mile

Pos Name Time
  1.
Julian Spencer 5.22
  2. Jim Dawson 5.43
  3.
Graham Driver 5.56
  4. Rob McHarry 6.09
  5. 
Karon Forster 6.21
  6. Pauline Welsby 6.26
  7. John Ramsdale 6.28
  8. Janet Robertson 6.30
  9. Jordan Jones 6.44
10.   Ian Johnson 7.21
11.   Rebecca Forster 8.26
12.   Christine Ramsdale 8.55
13.   Eric Pendleton 9.41
14.   Mick Charman DNF

400 metres

Heat 1

Pos Name Time (sec)
  1. Steve Pilditch 59
  2. Mike Welsby 62
  3. Julian Spencer 64
  4. Graham Driver 70
  5. Rob McHarry 71
  6. Liz Whitfield 72

Heat 2

Pos Name Time (sec)
  1. Ian Johnson 71
  2. Pauline Welsby 75
  3. Janet Robertson 83
  4. Jordan Jones 84
  5. Kate Johnson 85
  6. Geoff Wilson 89
  7. Robert Salmon 99
  8. Heather Salmon 127

Long Jump

Name Practice Jump 1 Jump 2 Position
Stephen Pilditch 3.13 4.13 No Jump 1
Rebecca Forster 3.90 3.85 4.10 2
Julian Spencer 3.65 3.90 3.96 3
Ian Johnson 3.88 3.75 3.68 4
Rob McHarry 3.41 3.23 3.75 5=
Graham Driver 3.55 3.75 3.68 5=
Kate Johnson 2.71 3.11 2.87 7
Jordan Jones 2.74 2.54 2.67 8
Robert Salmon 2.38 2.38 2.65 9
Meriel McHarry 1.92 2.25 2.00 10
Gemma Johnson 2.61 2.16 1.85 11
Ella Driver 1.81 1.54 1.85 12=
Lucy Driver 1.52 1.26 1.85 12=
Sophie de Jong 1.14 1.32 1.70 14
Erica Pilditch   1.44 1.33 15
Eleanor 1.85 1.32 1.23 16
Heather Salmon 1.18 1.28 1.20 17
Jasmin Jones 1.00 No Jump 1.26 18

800 metres

Pos Name Time
  1.  
Steven Pilditch 2.20
  2.  
Julian Spencer 2.25
  3.  
Mat Rimmington 2.28
  4.  
Mike Welsby 2.29
  5.  Liz Whitfield 2.49
  6.  
John Ramsdale 3.00
  7.  
Janet Robertson 3.04
  8.  
Kate Johnson 3.19
  9.  
Geoff Wilson 3.24

3000 metres

Pos Name Time
  1.  Mike Welsby 10.45
  2.  Steven Pilditch 10.50
  3.  Julian Spencer 10.53
  4.  Jim Dawson 11.23
  5.  Mat Rimmington 11.39
  6.  Graham Driver 11.44
  7.  Karon Forster 12.35
  8.  Pauline Welsby 13.22
  9.  David Redpath 15.49
10. Eric Pendleton 20.10
11.Janet Redpath
DNF

Relays

There was a mixed 4x100 relay.  4 teams ran but no details were recorded.

There was a mixed 4x400 relay.  The only details we have are:

Team 1: 4:34  Team 2: 5:16  Team 3: 5:27