Evening all,
Welcome to this week’s update email – hope you’ve survived the mini heatwave and are preparing for the impending hosepipe ban! This week, we’re celebrating some super distances competed in, have some extra mota-vation places available and remind you of the club championship races. Keep on reading to digest all the info.
🏅 Medal Monday 🏅
Three different events were conquered this weekend by three members in what were, it’s fair to say, challenging conditions – just as well 2 of them had water involved to cool them down 🥵. Fantastic achievements all 🙌👏💪
🏊 🏃♂️ Upton Aquathlon – John Gardiner 🥇
🏊♀️ 🚲 🏃 Ironman Swansea 70.3 – Chris Melbourne
🏃♀️ Race to the Stones 50k – Jan Larard
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!
🏃 Extra spaces available at Mota-vation
If you didn’t sign up to the Mota-vation series but are available on 31st July and/or 28th August, some spaces have become available for the last 2 races if you fancy running them. For more details and to enter, click here.
♣️🏁 Club Championship Races
Here’s a reminder of the races left in the Club Championship for this season:
16th July (this Wednesday) – Waddesdon 5k – enter here
31st July – Mota-vation – Combe II
17th August – Headington 5 – enter here
29th August – Mota-vation – Stratfield Brake
6th September – Cotswold Classic – enter here
12th October – Buckingham 10k – entries now open 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 15th July
⏰ 18:55 meet for a 19:00 start at the car park
📍 Whitelands
🏃🏃♀️ 6x 3:30mins with 1:30 float. All will be explained on the night if you’re not sure!
Thursday 17th July
⏰ 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 sometime this week.
Gleds
On behalf of the Alchester Committee