Runner of the Month |
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| To nominate a fellow club member for runner of the month, just provide the name of your nominee, along with your reasons why you think he/she should win, to the Club Secretary. Nomination must be in writing, via e-mail to clubsecretary@abbeyrunners.co.uk or by using this form and must be received before the 1st of the following month. Members may be nominated on the basis of race performances, attitude and commitment to training, or for any other significant contribution to the club’s activities. The only restriction is that no member may win the award more than once during a 12 month period. —————————————————————————— August 2021 Winner – Tony Bastin Congratulations to Tony.
———————————————————————————————————————– July 2021 Winner – Massako Kondo Congratulations to Massako.
———————————————————————————————————————–June 2021 Winner – Matthew Holmes Congratulations to Matthew.
May 2021 Winner – Jacqui Elmer Congratulations to Jacqui. Nominated for her performance in the Hardmoors Wainstones Trail Marathon (which is actually 28.5 miles) and has a climb of nearly 6,000 ft. And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month:
———————————————————————————————————————–April 2021 Winner – Laurence Lennon Congratulations to Laurence. Laurence was nominated for organising the ‘Way in May’ runs around the Leeds Country Way, plus all the various training warm-ups that took place in April. These runs have attracted a wide variety of runners to doing longer runs in a group, have been good fun and enjoyable for all who have taken part. They have been good fun in no small part to Lawrence who has brought all involved together, reccied the routes and planned the arrangements for transport etc. And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month:
March 2021 Winners – Alex Firth & Sarah Field Congratulations to Alex & Sarah. Alex – Very impressive running for the Grand Prix including a 21:49 at Woodhouse during March, with noticeable improvement over the Grand Prix as she is getting back into running after having a baby. Won the open competition. Sarah – The first Abbey to complete the Bingo Card And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month:
February 2021 Winners – Alastair White Congratulations Alastair. Not only did Alastair run every day in December up to Christmas as part of the ‘marcathon’ challenge, he’s at it again running every day in February for Cancer Research. He’s done over 200km in February so far! Top man And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month:
January 2021 Winner – Ali Ameri
Congratulations Ali. Not only has he run 350km (well that’s his target and he’s only got 30km to do in 4 days) in January despite the terrible weather. But he’s run a 5Km PB and his very first marathon – sub 4 hours too. His love of running and the club is obvious, infectious and inspiring. And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month:
December 2020 Winner – Simon Jones Congratulations, Simon. Simon was nominated by a few of you for his superb performance at the Short Circuit Ultra on the 12th of December. The route was off-road and extremely muddy and the weather wasn’t particularly kind either. The course was 32.5 miles/52.3 km with 4,000 ft of climb, which Simon completed in 5 hrs 29mins, placing him a very impressive 6th overall! A great achievement All of this was fitted in around helping out at Junior training, which I believe he even attended the day after the ultra! And congratulations too to our other nominees for the month: Sunny Cheema, Shauna Corrigan, Boe Claybourn, Paul Craven, Alastair White, Martin Jones and John Ackroyd
A big congratulations to Vicki Richards for winning our November RoM. Vicki was nominated for completing her “100km in November”, finishing with a 10k PB of 69 minutes. She has also been giving lots of running mentoring and encouragement to others, helping other Abbeys achieve great things in Nov too. Well done also of course to our other top quality nominees in November: —————————————————————————————————————— A big congratulations to Julia Sheer and Liz Willis for being awarded our joint Runners of the Month for October! Yes, it was a tied vote! Julia was nominated for continuous improvement before and throughout lockdown, and has moved her way through the groups, most recently running with Green Group. She just gets faster and faster. Completely embracing Abbey life, attending both sessions a week and some long runs too. She loves everything about the club which is so nice to see! She’s worked hard on the speed sessions which has obviously helped her improve. She’s inspiring to others from only starting to run 18 months ago during our 2019 C25K programme. Liz was nominated for running three half marathons in three consecutive weekends – she ran the Elvington Big Flat Runway Half in 2:11, then the St Aidans Half in 2:15, knocking 4 minutes off her prior year time, then ran it again the following weekend and knocked a further 4 minutes off her time. She also ran a course PB on the Potternewton parkrun, in a time of 26:37! Well done, both! Also nominated were: David Leslie, Tony Bastin, Shauna Corrigan, Simon Jones, Jim Whittaker, All of our coaches and Freddie Roden (ineligible as he has won in the last 12 months)
Also nominated were Helen Roden, Tony Bastin, David Leslie, Lisa Persico, and Zen Zenders. His 9 parkruns in a day in aid of Simon on the Streets was truly inspirational. It also inspired Tom, Duncan and Paul to run them with him, and attracted immense interest from the club in also running parkruns with him throughout the day, or cheering him on. It’s days like that that make realise just how special Abbey Runners is. Matt is an absolute hero.
Also nominated were Martin Jones, Lisa Persico, Lisa Hulme-Vickerstaff, David Leslie, Sunny Cheema, Ali Ameri, Paul Craven, Faye Mullen Adam Ellis, and Graeme Litlewood.
June 2020 Winner – Dave Jackson After his op and the postponement of the Yorkshire Marathon, he may have decided to take it easy. but during lockdown Dave has fired on all cylinders. He’s now onto Marathon training just in case. Onwards and upwards! Other nominees were: Jasmine Salih, Ged O’Donnell, Liam Jenkins, Martin Jones, Steve Hodkinson, Ed Newbould, Mark Hetherington, Helen Roden, Julia, Sheer, Scott MacDonald, Paul Greene and John Ward
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