Below is this month’s newsletter, with details of upcoming league races (including tomorrow’s Kibworth 6), outruns, races and a running nutrition talk.
Tag: club runs
Newsletter – 1 Feb 2016
Stilton 7 preparations, league race updates, club run diary and more – all in this month’s newsletter:
Junior training
It has been great to see the numbers of juniors attending our training sessions steadily increasing recently. In order to ensure that all attendees can continue to get a quality session, please can any new runners contact Di Underwood (contact details on the juniors page) before coming along for the first time.
Thanks.
New Year’s Newsletter
Newsletter is below: new ‘couch to 5k’ starts this week, lots of racing coming up including LRRL and DRXC, the Stilton 7 and entries now open for the (Melton Mowbray) Road 2 Recovery Half Marathon on 19th June…
[NB note change of venue for 6th Jan head torch run]
Running over the Christmas period
For those looking to burn a few of those Christmas calories, escape the family or just get out for a run in the fresh air, there is plenty of running in the area over Christmas – details below.
Included in the list is the opportunity to join with a unique challenge – Ben Smith is currently aiming to run 401 marathons in 401 days (raising a lot of money for charity along the way) and we have been invited to join him on 30th December, running from the Manor Pub in Quorn at 9.30am. Full details of the challenge are at www.the401challenge.co.uk
- 21 December (6.30pm) – Xmas 4 mile group run from Parkside alongside Rob and Simon’s Run England group – festive fancy dress / Santa hats encouraged!
- 23 December (7pm) – club run – KE7 Sports Centre (Route 4)
- 26 December (9am) – parkrun
- 30 December (9.30am) – 401 Marathon (Manor Pub, Quorn) – see above
- 30 December (7pm) – club run – KE7 Sports Centre (limited facilities only – centre is closing at 7pm, but runners are welcome to meet there for a group run)
- 1 January (10.30am) – New Year’s parkrun (reverse course)
- 2 January (9am) – parkrun (back to normal!)
- 3 January (11am) – Huncote Hash
- 4 January (6.30pm) – new beginners sessions for a new year
- 6 January (7pm) – club run – KE7 Sports Centre (Route 1)
- 6 January (7pm) – alternative head torch run (Scalford, Kings Arms)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at the club!
Newsletter – 1 November 2015
Please see this month’s newsletter attached. Includes important details for this year’s annual awards and Christmas dinner, a charity t-shirt collection, Strider Cup changes for the new season and more.
As ever, if you have anything to add to the website – reports, photos or anything else then please let us know.
Race calendar updates
With next year’s LRRL dates getting finalised and lots of Striders planning their 2016 races, we’ve put through a bunch of updates to the Events Diary page – with more races added and (thanks to Simon for this one) a Google Calendar embedded.
As ever, if you have a favourite race that isn’t listed and you would like to get a few fellow Striders along, let us know and we’ll add it to the listings.
Run England Group Leader of the Year!
If you’ve had reason to be anywhere near the council offices on Parkside around 6.30pm on a Monday over the last couple of years, you may well have wondered what is going on to attract so many people. In fact, this is the meeting point for one of the most successful beginners running groups in the country.
Sponsored by Run England, organised and led by Rob Beers, and supported by many individuals from Stilton Striders (Ian, Simon, Jon and Jay all deserve a mention) these sessions are free for all, no commitment necessary and provide the warmest of welcomes to everyone regardless of prior running experience.
With a record attendance at the start of January this year (85 brand new runners signed up in one evening), the group has continued to go from strength to strength. With regular 10 week ‘Couch to 5k’ coached courses (the next one starts in January), and a friendly group of like minded runners to keep everyone motivated all year round, this has proved a winning formula. Many of the runners have gone on to compete in races over roads and trails, and covering all distances from 5k up to the marathon, and ever a 50k ultra marathon!
Rob himself can usually be found dishing out encouragement, advice and gently cajoling people to help reach their goals – even running with people in their debut races to help them along. It was therefore no surprise to many to hear that he was nominated as “Run England Group Leader of the Year” at the recent England Athletics regional awards for the East Midlands. Whilst unable to attend the awards ceremony where he was named the winner, he couldn’t get away that easily as everyone knew where he would be on a Monday evening… The trophy was duly awarded to him this Monday by Dave Lodwick (EA Regional Council member) and Kim Angell (Leicestershire Beginner Running Activator) in front of his usual group of runners! Congratulations, Rob.
For more details on the Monday evening runs, or support in beginning running, please check Facebook.com/MeltonRunningClub, or via www.stiltonstriders.co.uk
Autumn/winter club runs
Autumn is here, so for the first time in a while we have a choice of club runs this Wednesday (30th Sep) – both at 7pm.
The usual road run will be in Melton from KE7 Sports Centre, suitable for all (with a guided 5 mile group at the pace of the slowest, as well as lots of optional extensions for quicker runners).
For the more adventurous we have the return of our headtorch runs – an hour in Stathern Woods, returning to the Red Lion for refreshments afterwards. Head (or hand held) torches mandatory – let us know in advance if you want to borrow one – trail shoes and hi viz / reflective kit highly recommended.
The choice is yours!
26 Aug 2015 – Three club challenge
This year’s event was hosted by the Striders, with a course specially designed and hosted by the Houghton clan at The Grange garden centre. After traffic problems caused a delayed start, the 95 runners set off into the last rays of summer evening sunshine on a warm, if a little wet underfoot, evening.
Jason Barton set the early pace, leading the field of 40 Stilton Striders, 30 Wreake Runners and 25 Barrow Runners across the early muddy sections and into the wheat fields. Whilst broadly flat along the River Wreake, the course made its way up three hills – christened “Barrow Bump”, “Wreake Rise” and “Strider Mountain” for the evening – as it headed out to Kirby Bellars and then back towards The Grange.
With Tim Hartley from Barrow coming through to finish the 4.6 mile course quickest, the team challenge was to see which club would get their first 25 runners back with the lowest cumulative position.
Final positions were calculated over a fantastic Tartiflette (and a drink or two), and for the first time since 2009, Stilton came out on top by a slim 8 places overall.
A huge thank you must go to John, Louise and all at The Grange who did us proud, all our enthusiastic marshals and everyone else who contributed – designing, clearing and marking the course, volunteering on the night and, of course, all the runners. It was a great night, with a really positive atmosphere – roll on 2016!
A selection of photos are here.
