Everything is in place for a successful end to our year’s fixtures on Saturday, December 7th in Simister. The village hall with a new central heating boiler installed will be open from 11.30 a.m. and the race proper will commence at 1.00 p.m. However, in an experiment to ease problems experienced in the narrow stretch of road out and back from the usual start outside the hall, we are going to begin and end the event on either the motorway bridge or opposite the Farmer’s Arms. Obviously this will mean the course will venture further into the park before the 2.5km turn. Huge thanks to Roy Gunnett, who will be measuring in advance the possible changes.
As is usual it would be really helpful to let Dave Evans know if you are able to attend and in what capacity – see dave.evans08@hotmail.co.uk
The club always tried to hold a race near to Xmas. Indeed the now sadly defunct Yorkshire Race Walking Club held an annual Boxing Day event for many years. I’ll try to dig out the results of some past Xmas races. One difficulty is that the formidable Jim Hackwood of the Sheffield club was the Northern correspondent to the Record for years and was said to overlook from time time Lancashire results! More seriously it underlines the tragedy of losing decades of club minutes and recordings. In the meantime here are four December results from 1959, 1960, 1964 and 1966.
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1966
Thanks as ever to Dave Ainsworth for this BBC Sounds link to an interview on BBC Radio Leeds on Alternative Sports – Race Walking
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