Newsletter – 1st March 2020
Upcoming Events
MEC7 Race Meeting – 5th March at 7:45pm. This will be at the Rugby Club All welcome to attend.
17th March – Treasure Hunt. We will be having a Treasure Hunt as part of our Tuesday Run. There will be 10 items to find and photograph. It will be done in the usual Tuesday groups. The items are such that every group from C25K to the Fast Group can find them. Prizes will be available at the end. It would also be nice if people stayed for a drink in the bar afterwards.
21st March will be the Couch to 5K graduation Parkrun. Please come and support the new ‘graduates’ either by running or volunteering.
21st March. Skittles Evening at the British Legion. Chilli (meat and veggie options) plus rice will be served. £5 per ticket. Please let Jo Taylor-Greig know if you can come, along with your money plus which chilli version you would like.
29th March – Magnificent Eastnor Castle 7 Race
Details of this run have been finalised:
Canicross 10:45
Main Race 11:00
Kids Race 11:10
Entry fee – affiliated £14 non-affiliated £16
Refreshments are now being organised by Ella and Edd Hogan. If we can have a couple of extra volunteers for the day that would be a great help. We will also be looking for donations of cake!
Entries are now live – https://www.entrycentral.com/MEC72020. Please promote at any races you attend or share across Facebook with any other groups who may be interested.
Chris Law will be round to get names for help over the next couple of weeks for marshalling, set up etc.
5th May – Beauchamp Arms, Dymock – Summer Pub Run
Litter Pick – YET ANOTHER NEW DATE! (Sorry!)
The Litter pick will now be on Saturday 9th May. Meet at the Rec at 11:30am.
14th May Film night at the Market Theatre. The film is “Run, Lola, Run”.
The film will start at 8pm. The bar will be available and tickets will be £5 each. Friends and family welcome. Please note that the film is rated as a “15”.
16th June – Yacht Race . This is a timed 5K run. You get together in pairs and decide how long your combined time will be. The pair closest to their estimate wins! The catch I that you can’t wear a watch or other timing device. You don’t have to run with your partner. I will be getting names and times at a later date.
5-10K Group
We are thinking of running a 5-10K group for runners who want to get up to running this distance with a race over that distance at the end. We have two races in mind, either Dymock 10K on May 24th or Newent Nine on 15th November. If you could let me know if you are interested and which race would you like to aim for. Thanks. You can email me at info@ledburyharriers.co.uk or let me know on a Tuesday night.
Lead Runners this week
Jeffers: Jayne
Gentle Joggers: Nick
Easy Runners: Sally R
Runners: Catherine
Sprinters: Help needed
Please can I remind you of the running group pace and distance. It is important that groups stay together as much as possible and those faster runners in the group should muster back to the runner at the back. This is really important as it makes everyone feel part of the club.
Jeffers – Run/walk group
Gentle Joggers – 11 – 12 min mile pace, around 3 – 4 miles
Easy Runners– 10 – 11 min mile pace, around 4 miles.
Runners – 9 -10 min mile pace, around 4 – 5 miles
Sprinters – 8 – 9 min mile pace, around 5 –6 miles
Elites – 7 – 8 min mile pace, around 7-8 miles
Fast and Fun
Thursday night 6pm meet at Homebase or 6:15pm at the corner of Prince Rupert Road.
Everyone welcome. You don’t have to be fast – you just want to run faster.
ICE Tags
Now you have your ICE tags, don’t forget to put them on!
Club Kit
Unofficial club kit is available
http://www.yournameonitshop.co.uk/ledbury_harriers.html
Publicity
Please send any race reports to Holly who will try and get them into the paper. If you can email Holly with photos that would be good as the resolution of photos taken from Facebook isn’t good enough for the paper.
Up and coming races
Wolverhampton Trail Half 14th March 2020
Bath Half 15th March 2020
Inkberrow Relay 15th March 2020
Abergavenny 10K 5th April 2020
Dick Whittington 4 Thursday 14th May
Pendock Chicken Run 22nd March 2020
Speech House (FOD) Friday 27th March 2020
Herefordshire 10 miler 29th March 2020
Great Bristol 10k 3rd May 2020
Sandwell Valley Park 5K and 10K 10th May
Edinburgh Marathon 24th May 2020
Dymock Half Marathon and 10k 24th May 2020
Bridgnorth Lions Walk & Marathon Monday 25th May
Bulmers Bash 31st May
Sharpness 16/50 Canal 6th June 2020
Aldridge 5K and 10K 14th June 2020
Frampton 10k Monday 29th June
Severn Bridge Half Marathon and 10k Sunday 30th August
Wye Valley Trail Race 25K 5th September 2020
Bristol Half Marathon 27th September 2020
If you do any events, please let me know so that we can celebrate your successes.
That’s all this week’s news
Helen