Werrington Joggers Virtual Jack Frost Winter series for Junior and Senior members

During the winter months we usually have the opportunity to take part in the Frostbite winter series of  6 x 5 mile races (Seniors) or  6 x 1½ Miles races (Juniors) but sadly the league has had to be cancelled this year due to COVID 19 and the safety issues when racing in a large group.

The idea of a year without Frostbite races seemed really sad to me so I’d like to offer everyone the chance to run in Werrington Joggers very own virtual Jack Frost Winter league series.  You will need to run 5 miles/8km (Seniors) or 1½ miles/2.4km (Juniors) on the Frostbite Sunday, (the second Sunday of each month), and then send me your time. I will be accepting times on trust but may ask for proof if you suddenly start running like Mo Farah!! Equally though I’ll accept screen shots of your Strava or Fetcheveryone entry or Garmin or Fitbit record either to my email address which is richardson57@ntlworld.com or via Facebook

Feel free to wear your club vest or T shirt if you wish, but its not mandatory if you’d rather not

The Jack Frost race dates will be

11 October 2020

8 November 2020

13 December 2020

10 January 2021

14 February 2021

14 March 2021

I’ll publish the results of each weeks race via Sue in the week after the Jack Frost Sunday so we can congratulate our virtual scoring team in both the senior and junior categories and at the end of the series the committee will award unique Jack Frost Runners of the Series for seniors while the junior coaches will decide the two junior winners. We will also incorporate the usual handicap event into the final race based on your times in the previous races

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at richardson57@ntlworld.com or via facebook messenger, but I hope you’ll join in and support this series while we try to come up with innovative ideas to keep everyone motivated to run in these difficult times

Many thanks

Louise Richardson

Werrington Joggers

WERRINGTON JOGGERS – JUNIOR SECTION UPDATE – 4 October 2020

Dear Parent/Carer and Junior member

Thank you to those members that have responded to our previous emails, if you have not, then to help us to plan ahead for when Juniors resumes, please could you email me back to confirm if your child wishes to continue attending so we get an idea of numbers and can start planning coaching rotas.  I would also appreciate if you could include in the email a brief description of your child’s running fitness so that we can start planning sessions and allocating groups.  Please email this information to richardson57@ntlworld.com.

Just to confirm, We have still not got a return date yet due to the reasons mentioned in our previous emails.   As mentioned in my previous emails, the lockdown and coronavirus will have affected us all differently,  some individuals may have exercised more/less or hardly at all during lockdown and this is fine and is expected as we all have coped with this pandemic in our own way.   

With this in mind, our coaching team thought it might be useful to give a generalised exercise plan to help increase your child’s fitness levels.  This is not mandatory and is only provided as guidance.

Here is the next two weeks training.

Level of Fitness	Suggested training plan for week beginning 5 October and 12 October
No sport during lock down	Twice a week Walk for 10 minutes as a warm up then Run for 5 mins, walk for 1 minute and repeat the run walk 5 times Walk for 10 minutes as a cool down Static stretches Core exercises 4 times a week – see below
Exercising once a week or just going for walks	Three times a week Walk for 10 minutes as a warm up then Run for 5 mins, walk for 30 seconnds (recovery time) and repeat the run walk 5 times  Walk for 10 minutes as a cool down Static stretches if your child finds this really easy then reduce the 30 second recovery walk to 10 seconds  Or increase running time to 10 mins before having a 1 minute recovery time. Core exercises 4 times a week see below
2 – 3 days exercising or more	Continue their normal exercise programme but add in the core exercises below 4 times a week Also remember to start incorporating drills in before your runs and static stretches afterwards

Building a strong core is a key part to all exercise but especially running.

Core Exercises for all
Planks Squats Lunges Side Planks	1 minute 10 10 30 seconds

If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to email me back using the following email address – richardson57@ntlworld.com  or call me on 07732 407070. 

I will be emailing out an updated exercise plan every two weeks until Juniors returns.

Many thanks

Louise Richardson

Werrington Joggers

WERRINGTON JOGGERS – JUNIOR SECTION UPDATE

Dear Parent/Carer and Junior member

We hope you are all well and enjoying the summer break.  We are starting to look at and are planning the reopening of our Junior section but we are unable to give an exact return date due to the continued closure of the Werrington Sports Centre.  Peterborough City Council have said that it will be sometime in September and we believe that for Juniors to resume we must have access to the centre to allow us to discharge our duty of care to your children.  As soon as that date is confirmed then we will contact you again about the resumption of Werrington Joggers Juniors.The lockdown and coronavirus will have affected us all differently,  some individuals may have exercised more/less or hardly at all during lockdown and this is fine and is expected as we all have coped with this pandemic in our own way.   

With this in mind,we as a coaching team thought it might be useful to give a generalised exercise plan to help increase your child’s fitness levels.  This is not mandatory and is only provided as guidance.

Building a strong core is a key part to all exercise but especially running.