Running Venues for this week.
Jeffers –St Katherine’s car park
Gentle Joggers – Primary School Car Park
Easy Runners – Swimming Pool Car Park
Runners – Homebase Car park
Sprinters – St Katherine’s Car Park
Fast Group – Market House.
When you meet up to run, please remember to maintain a social distance.
We have 2 groups at Gentle Joggers and Easy Runners pace. One at Runners pace but with a leader available if there are people on the reserve list this week.
Obviously putting on more groups does stretch our lead runner numbers so if any of you would like to volunteer to lead a group – whether as a regular leader or just occasionally, please talk to either your lead runner or let me know and we can fill you in on what the role entails.
Lead Runners for this week are:-
Sprinters – To be confirmed
Runners – Sue Kirk
Easy Runners – Tony Saunders and Helen Keegan
Gentle Joggers – Chloe Brown and Jayne Cresswell
Jeffers – Catherine Every
There is a limit to 5 runners plus a leader for each group with the exception of the Fast group which is 6 runners in total (no leader)
If, after signing up, you find that you can’t run on that night, please remove your name so that others can sign up.
If you could sign up by Monday evening, that will allow our Lead Runners to see who is in their group.
Please read our Risk Assessment and guidelines to Runners which can be found here.
Guidelines for Running with the Club
As a reminder the group paces and mileage are:-
Jeffers:- Run/walk group – about 3 miles
Gentle Joggers: 11:00 – 12:00 min miles – about 3-3 ½ miles
Easy Runners: 10:00 – 11:00 min miles – 4 – 4 ½ miles
Runners: 9:00 – 10:00 min miles 4 ½ – 5 miles
Sprinters 8:00 – 9:00 min miles 5 – 6 miles
Fast Group < 8:00 min miles 7- 8 miles
As it is beginning to get dark as the runs are finishing so please can you make sure that you start to wear high-viz and/or carry a head/chest torch.
Races
On 24th October, there is the Dymock Virtual 10K. There are 150 places available.
https://www.runbritain.com/RaceDetail.aspx?eventid=74bd0ccb5963&raceid=7cba09ce5968
There are also some ‘real’ races taking place as well now.
The Jon Ward 5K race – Sunday 4th October hosted by Hereford Couriers in memory of one of their runners who passed away in June. https://herefordcouriers.com/club-races/jonward5k/
Hereford Couriers are also putting on their Xmas race again on the 28th December. https://herefordcouriers.com/club-races/christmas-10k/
This is a lovely but undulating course and gets those Christmas cobwebs blown away.
England Athletics are to release their guidance soon on Cross-Country events so please watch this space. We will let you know if the Herefordshire Winter League is going to be running this year,
If you are taking part in the Virtual London Marathon on 4th October, it would be great to see some pictures from your run/walk and also your route!
If you know of any other races taking place, be it Virtually, as time trials or actual races under the new guidelines, please let me know so I can add them to the newsletter.
parkrun have taken the decision that it is not appropriate at this time to restart in England. If you are missing your parkrun, both Newent and Ross hold ‘personal’ parkruns. See their facebook and web pages for more information.
Helen