Evening all,
Once again, lots of things to read in this week’s update so do take your time to read all the info and action anything!
🏅 Medal Monday 🏅
A big shoutout to those who put themselves out there and ran brilliantly in events over the weekend in the beautiful sunshine ☀️
🏃♂️ Oxford Town and Gown 10k (inc pacers) – John Gardiner, Antony Giles, Steph Giles, Andrew Gledhill, Louise Gostelow, Alan Hine, Iwona Kedzior, Alasdair Kerr, Chris Lumley, Sarah Morley, Laura Rundall-Hadley, Jonathan White
🏃♀️ Buckingham Half Marathon – Alan Bowen, Edwina Colclough, Shaun O’Gorman, Stuart Walford
🥈 A special mention to Edwina who finished 2nd lady 👏
🏃 Bewl Water Marathon – Jan Larard
🚲 Hatch End Triathlon – Chris Melbourne
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!
Summer social runs return
Thanks to the social committee for organising our first summer social run last Thursday. We had a good attendance and enjoyed a lovely route although it didn’t feel too much like summer! Let’s hope the weather is more summery for our run in June, the date of which is TBC but watch this space!
For those that don’t know, our social runs replace our normal Thursday club run and are in a different location each time, with the routes tending to take in at least some countryside and ending with drink(s) (and sometimes food).
parkrun takeover
We are going to do a Bicester parkrun takeover on Saturday 7th June which will include providing all the pacers and marshals as well as a few other things.
Thank you to those who have already expressed a desire/willingness to help. If you’d be willing to help in some capacity, please let Gleds know asap.
We will also head to Esquires coffee shop in Graven Hill afterwards and so it would be great to see as many of you as possible whether that he helping or running. More details on the takeover in the coming weeks.
Sportshoes.com Discount
As you hopefully already know, one of the benefits of being a member is that you can get a 15% discount at sportsshoes.com, however, the way you access the running club discount is changing.
Rather than having a new code each month, you can now easily access your exclusive SportsShoes offers via the ULTRA members portal.
To do this, you need to sign up for an ULTRA account and add your England Athletics URN to your account and your discount will be applied automatically at checkout. Head to sportsshoes.com/login to get started.
As a result, we will no longer be sharing the discount code each month.
Thursday Club Run Route
A couple of weeks ago at club on Thursday a few of the groups experienced a dog jump over the fence around the cluster of houses/businesses on the cut through back from Bucknell, which left some members not feeling safe running this route.
If you/those in your group don’t feel safe to do this route, there is a path that cuts through from Bainton Road a little earlier than the normal cut through and brings you out at the same point on Bucknell Road – please see the red path on the map below.
We will keep this route under review and may look at alternative routes in coming weeks as we want everyone to feel safe on the routes we run.
This week’s Club Night Details
In terms of what’s going on at club nights this week, the details are as follows:
Tuesday 13th May
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Whitelands
🏃🏃♀️ 6/6/6 session – 6x 2mins, 6x 1mins, 6x 30secs with 1min/45sec/30sec recovery. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!
Thursday 15th May
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Bicester Leisure Centre
🏃🏃♀️ Summer routes across the fields in full force at various different paces – something for everyone.
That’s all for now! Hope to see you this week.
Gleds
On behalf of the Alchester Committee