Runners from last week’s VLM include:-
Jayne Creswell
Catherine Every
David Bannister
Rachel Bannister
Ella Hogan
Well done to all of you for getting out there!
As you can see from Rachel’s photo’s, it was a bit wet!
Neil Grinnell and Martin Williams completed the Jon Ward 5K in Hereford as well.
Running Venues for this week.
We had a bit of a technical problem with the sign-up spreadsheet for 13th October (for some reason it disappeared!) . Please check that if you want to run this week, that your name is on the spreadsheet.
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 – Holly Gourlay
Easy Runners – Sally Rooke and Pip Frost
Gentle Joggers – Chloe Brown
Jeffers – To be confirmed
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
Autumn and the dark nights are here now, so please can you make sure that you start to wear high-viz and/or carry a head/chest torch.
Fast and Fun is back!
There is a Thursday sign up sheet. 6 people to each group. One group will start at 6:15 and the second group at 7:15. The session for that evening will be at the top of the relevant sheet. This week’s session is
5 mins hard, 2 mins easy x 5.
Remember to warm up ready to start at either 6:15 or 7:15pm
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.
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 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.
Helen