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Evening all,

Hope you had a great weekend and have had a good start to the week! Here are this week’s key Alchester updates for you.

🏅 Medal Monday 🏅

In a weekend that saw England Women win the Rugby World Cup and Europe win the Ryder Cup, a handful of members got stuck into their own bit of sporting action. Great running all 🙌👏

🏃‍♂️Vitality London 10k – Chris Melbourne (PB)

🏃Wild Run Cotswolds 10k – Annika Lucas

🏃‍♂️Nottingham Half Marathon – Stuart Walford

Do check out the posts on the Facebook page and Instagram for photos and if we missed you, do let me know and share your pics!

🏃‍♂️ 🏞️ Cross Country

Watch out in your email inboxes this week for all the details for the new, upcoming Cross Country season. It would be great to have a strong Alchester presence and representation at as many of the races as possible, so please do read and then act on the email if you’re interested.

♣️🏁Club Championship

We hope to have details of the Club Championship for 2025-26 finalised very shortly, so do look out for the details when they come!

🥳🍔🍷🕺 End of Season Party – SAVE THE DATE

We are delighted to confirm that the date for the end of season party is Friday 21st November – please put it in your diaries/calendars as we’d love as many of you as possible to be there to celebrate another brilliant year for Alchester RC!

More details to follow soon!

🗣️ Members WhatsApp Group

After gathering feedback from you, we are delighted to let you know that we have setup an Alchester Members WhatsApp group. This group will be used to communicate key messages to members, however, key messages will continue to be communicated via email and the Facebook group, so if you’d rather not join the group then you’ll still get the info!

The members WhatsApp group is part of the Alchester WhatsApp community and I will post a video into the WhatsApp group in the next week or so explaining how to use the group and where it fits within the community and where/how/what you’ll receive certain messages.

Join the WhatsApp group here.

As part of our communications review, we have now also decided to decommission our use of Spond, so we will no longer be using it!

♣️🏁Club Championship Races

There’s just the 1 race left in the Club Championship for this season:

12th October – Buckingham 10k – enter here

This week’s Club Night Details

In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:

Tuesday 30th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Gavray Drive, the railway track end – here
🏃🏃‍♀️ Mile reps. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!

Thursday 2nd October
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Bicester Leisure Centre (meet in the car park round the back by the football pitches)
🏃‍♂️ Various pace groups will take in a variety of routes around the ring road aiming to get back at the same time
🔦🦺 Be seen, be safe. As the nights are drawing in, it is worth thinking about what you wear to ensure that you’re visible but that you can also see on your runs, especially with the ring road light lottery. So do think about wearing hi visibility clothing and bringing torches in the coming weeks!

That’s all for now! Have a great week.

Gleds

On behalf of the Alchester Committee

Evening all,

Hope you had a great weekend and have had a good start to the week! Here are this week’s key Alchester updates for you.

🏅 Medal Monday 🏅
This weekend saw a variety of events over almost the full spectrum of distances from the track to the trails and the city to the hills! Well done all 🙌👏

🏃‍♂️Berlin Marathon – Dom Falla

🏃 Fyri Trail – Tom Butler

🏃‍♀️ Keswick Half Marathon – Stuart Walford

🏃 Southern Counties Veterans Athletic League 3000m Final – Steph Giles

Do check out the posts on the Facebook page and Instagram for photos and if we missed you, do let me know and share your pics!

🥳🍔🍷🕺 End of Season Party – SAVE THE DATE
We are delighted to confirm that the date for the end of season party is Friday 21st November – please put it in your diaries/calendars as we’d love as many of you as possible to be there to celebrate another brilliant year for Alchester RC!

More details to follow in weeks to come!

🗣️ Members WhatsApp Group
After gathering feedback from you, we are delighted to let you know that we have setup an Alchester Members WhatsApp group. This group will be used to communicate key messages to members, however, key messages will continue to be communicated via email and the Facebook group, so if you’d rather not join the group then you’ll still get the info!

The members WhatsApp group is part of the Alchester WhatsApp community and I will post a video into the WhatsApp group in the next week or so explaining how to use the group and where it fits within the community and where/how/what you’ll receive certain messages.

Join the WhatsApp group here.

As part of our communications review, we have now also decided to decommission our use of Spond, so we will no longer be using it!

♣️🏁Club Championship Races
There’s just the 1 race left in the Club Championship for this season:

12th October – Buckingham 10k – enter here

This week’s Club Night Details
In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:

Tuesday 23rd September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Gavray Drive, the railway track end – here
🏃🏃‍♀️ 10-12 x bridge reps. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!

Thursday 25th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Bicester Leisure Centre (meet in the car park round the back by the football pitches)
🏃‍♂️ Various pace groups will take in a variety of routes around the ring road aiming to get back at the same time
🔦🦺 Be seen, be safe. As the nights are drawing in, it is worth thinking about what you wear to ensure that you’re visible but that you can also see on your runs, especially with the ring road light lottery. So do think about wearing hi visibility clothing and bringing torches in the coming weeks!

That’s all for now! Have a great week.

Gleds

On behalf of the Alchester Committee

Evening all,

Hope you had a great weekend and have had a good start to the week! Here are this week’s key Alchester updates for you.

🏅 Medal Monday 🏅

This weekend it was all about the 13.1 miles distance, which saw some cracking performances and thankfully all missed the worst of the weather! Well done all 🙌👏

🏃‍♂️Worcester Half Marathon – Steph Giles (🥈V35), Henry Larard (PB), Jonathan White

🏃‍♀️ Porto Half Marathon – Lyndon Hammond

🏃 New Forest Half Marathon – Courtney Wylde

If I’ve missed you, do let me know and if you ever have any photos for Medal Monday, please send them to me.

❄️🏃‍♀️ Club Night Venue/Route Changes

The time has come to change back to our Winter venues/routes, which will bring a mixture of emotions, but they are back as of today for the foreseeable.

This means that Tuesday speed sessions will meet at 6:55 for a 7pm start at the railway end of Gavray Drive. Thursdays club run meeting point will continue to be in the car park at the leisure centre for a 7pm start, but the routes will be based around the ring road! Hands up if you’ve missed Gavray and the ring road 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

👥Committee Meeting

Last Friday the committee had a really good meeting discussing all things Alchester and some of the discussion will be communicated in due course, including the next item!

🥳🍔🍷🕺 End of Season Party

The details for the end of season party are being finalised and will be communicated very shortly, so watch this space!

♣️🏁 Club Championship Races

There’s just the 1 race left in the Club Championship for this season:

12th October – Buckingham 10k – enter here

This week’s Club Night Details

In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:

Tuesday 16th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Gavray Drive, the railway track end – here
🏃🏃‍♀️ 800m x 6 or 8 with 1 min recovery between reps. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!

Thursday 18th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start
📍 Bicester Leisure Centre (meet in the car park round the back by the football pitches)
🏃‍♂️ Various pace groups will take in a variety of routes around the ring road aiming to get back at the same time
🔦🦺 Be seen, be safe. As the nights are drawing in, it is worth thinking about what you wear to ensure that you’re visible but that you can also see on your runs, especially with the ring road light lottery. So do think about wearing hi visibility clothing and bringing torches in the coming weeks!

That’s all for now! Hope to see you this week, but if not have a good one.

Gleds

On behalf of the Alchester Committee

Evening all,

Hope you had a great weekend and have had a good start to the week! Here are this week’s key Alchester updates for you.

🏅 Medal Monday 🏅

September is here and after a number of relatively quiet weekends, a good number of members were back putting themselves to the test this weekend at events across England including the penultimate event in the club championships! Well done all even if some of you did receive a medal with the wrong city on the medal! 🙌👏

🏃‍♂️ Cotswold Classic 10 – Ben Breaker, Alan Bowen, Emily Davenall, Richard Francis (🥈V40), Steph Giles, Polly Hughes, Alasdair Kerr, Annika Lucas, Sarah Morley, Shaun O’Gorman, Steve Welfare, Jonathan White

🏃‍♀️ The Big Half – Lyndon Hammond, Jesus Romero, Vicky Smith

🏃 Great North Run – Mike Fisher, Emma Rundall-Hadley

If we missed you, comment below and share your pics!

☀️ 🏃‍♂️🍻 Last summer social run

The next (and last 😢) summer social run for 2025 is this Thursday 11th September and will be in Stratton Audley – see details below.

❄️🏃‍♀️ Club Night Changes

The time has come to change back to our Winter venues/routes, so this is the last week on summer routes/venues and winter routes/venues will be used from w/c 15th September.

This means that Tuesday speed sessions will meet at 6:55 for a 7pm start at the railway end of Gavray Drive. Thursdays club run meeting point will continue to be in the car park at the leisure centre for a 7pm start, but the routes will be based around the ring road! Hands up if you’ve missed Gavray and the ring road 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

👥Committee Meeting

This Friday, 12th September, the committee are meeting. If you have anything you want to raise with the committee or if you have any concerns for them to discuss at the meeting, please either reply to the email or message me or contact Sue Morris by the end of the day on Thursday 11th.

♣️🏁 Club Championship Races

There’s just the 1 race left in the Club Championship for this season:

12th October – Buckingham 10k – enter here

This week’s Club Night Details

In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:

Tuesday 9th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Whitelands
🏃🏃‍♀️ Lucky dip where the lengths of rep and recovery are pulled out of a bag! All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!

Thursday 11th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 prompt start
📍 The Red Lion, Stratton Audley, OX27 9AQ
🏃The route is about just under 5 miles and is on mixed terrain, starting and ending at the pub
🔦🦺 It will be a bit of a race against the light, so it may be worth bringing a head torch if you’d like to and ensuring you’re nice and visible!
🍔 🍺 Please do come and stay for food and/or a drink after the run. There’s no need to pre order food.

That’s all for now! Have a great week.

Gleds

On behalf of the Alchester Committee

Evening all,

Hope you had a great weekend and have had a good start to the week! Here are this week’s key Alchester updates for you.

🏅 Medal Monday 🏅

As far as I’m aware there was just the one member who took on a challenge this weekend 💪🙌

🏃‍♂️Littlehampton 10k – Scott Hathaway

If I’ve missed you, do let me know and if you ever have any photos for Medal Monday, please send them to me.

As well as the weekend’s exploits, a massive well done to everyone who took part in the last Mota-vation race at Stratfield Brake last Thursday. It was fantastic to see another great Alchester turnout as well as some brilliant performances – a great way to bring the curtain down on the 2025 series.

Congratulations also to the following for finishing on the podium for the series:
Steph Giles 🥈
Edwina Colclough 🥉V40
Richard Gould 🥉 V50
Nigel Lambert 🥇 V80
Ladies Team 🥉

☀️ 🏃‍♂️🍻 Last summer social run

The next (and last 😢) summer social run for 2025 is next Thursday 11th September and will likely be in Stratton Audley meeting the recently reopened The Red Lion, but details TBC and confirmation will be in next week’s email.

❄️🏃‍♀️ Club Night Changes

The time has come to change back to our Winter venues/routes, so as of week commencing 15th September (2 weeks today) we will be changing.

This means that Tuesday speed sessions will meet at 6:55 for a 7pm start at the railway end of Gavray Drive. Thursdays club run meeting point will continue to be in the car park at the leisure centre for a 7pm start, but the routes will be based around the ring road! Hands up if you’ve missed Gavray and the ring road 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

⚽️ Fantasy Football

If fantasy football is your thing and you’d like to enter the Alchester league but haven’t yet, you can still do so here. Albeit you’ll now be playing catch up!

♣️🏁 Club Championship Races

Just the 2 races left in the Club Championship for this season:

6th September – Cotswold Classic – enter here
12th October – Buckingham 10k – enter here

This week’s Club Night Details

In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:

Tuesday 2nd September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Whitelands
🏃🏃‍♀️ 5x 5mins with 1 min jog recovery. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!

Thursday 4th September
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Bicester Leisure Centre
🏃🏃‍♀️ Last week on the summer routes across the fields at various different paces – be great to see lots of you there.

That’s all for now! Have a great week.

Gleds

On behalf of the Alchester Committee