Our annual charity fund raising event, the Werrington Joggers 5m Guesstimate, will be held this year on Tuesday 15th July. The route is the usual accurately measured 5-mile loop around Peakirk and Glinton and you have to guess how long it will take you to complete the distance.

All watches, Garmin's, or other timing devices are banned, and the winner is not the first across the line, but the person who is closest to their guesstimate time. (It’s therefore a run not a race!!) They will hold the Sandra Cooper Cup for 12 months. 

As in previous years invitations have been sent to our friends at the other GPAN clubs to join us. 

Entry is free, but we organise the event as part of our charity fund raising year and therefore donations are much appreciated.

Registration and number collection will start from 18.30 at the Werrington Sports Centre and the run will start at 19.15, just along from the centre.

Following the closure of the Ploughman Public House the results and prize winners will now be announced at the Lime Tree Public House on Paston Lane PE4 6HA which has kindly given use of their function room. It is hoped that we will also have hot dogs and burgers for sale along with your post run beer. Pre orders can be made and paid for at race registration. 

If you are not running but would be willing to help, we'd be very grateful for marshals or help with time keeping and number recording. Please email Tim Cook (tim30dstj@aol.com) or see me or Tim on Tuesday evening. 

Rod

Marshals

Thank you for giving up your time to marshal our 3K/ 5K event on Wednesday 9 July: we are very grateful for the support.

• Please be at the Werrington Sports Centre from 17:30  for your marshal briefing, last roll call 1800
• Everyone who has volunteered will be placed at a specific position out on the course.
• Your briefing may take place in the Drama Studio at WSC which can get very noisy -  so we would be grateful if people can keep quiet while the briefings are being delivered - whilst we will endeavour to be speedy, nothing will be rushed. So if there is a queue in the studio, your patience and cooperation would be appreciated.

 Marshals and WJ runners

Parking

Olympus House ( the building before the Tesco garage on Staniland Way) PE1 6NA,  have kindly agreed that we can use their main car park outside their building, as well as the overflow car park on the bottom right-hand side of their building (around 50 spaces).

The extra car parks will be available from 5:30pm to approximately 9:00pm, giving us a total of around 110 spaces. 

Marshals and WJ runners please use this car park, which will allow more spaces at the Tesco car park for other 3K/ 5K entrants.

Please note that due to very hot conditions expected for Sunday 22 June , the Sunday Run from Wansford will start at 8am.

Please ensure you are fully hydrated and bring water with you on the run. We will meet as usual opposite the Haycock Hotel .

Our new Ron Hill branded running vests have now arrived.

They are in the latest fabric, using the sublimation technique for the pattern, with no horizontal seams.

We now have in stock 3 in each of the following sizes:

Ladies - size 8, 10, 12, 14 & 16, fitted sides with racer back and scooped (longer) tail

Men's - size S, M, L & XL, straight sides and front and back same length

Please bear in mind that if you are looking to order a new style vest the Ron Hill sizing tends to come up small, so the advice is to try the next size up to the one you think you want.

The vests will be priced at £23 each – cash payments at time of purchase.

Tim Cook has kindly offered to be initial point of contact for orders, and Heather Revell has kindly agreed to store the vests.

Please note that the pattern of the new vests is exactly the same as the Shotbowl vests that existing members hold – we are not expecting existing members to rush out and buy a new style vest – the Shotbowl ones are fine.

Tim will bring an example of the new vest to club night on Tuesday ( 24 June) so members can see them.

If you are seeking to buy a new vest (and we anticipate that this will mainly apply to members who have only recently joined the club and who don’t currently hold a vest) please let Tim know what size you'd like and he'll arrange with you collection and payment.

For all other club kit members should continue to order from the Werrington Joggers Shop at Shotbowl.

A round up of the recently set new club records;

• In the Junior Boys category, Seb Freeman set a new Peterborough Junior Parkrun record of 7:29

At the Deeping 10k they were falling like dominos

• For the ladies, Jenny Teacher set a new LV45 10k record in a time of 41:56
• In the MV60 category, Miguel Cann set a new 10k record in a time of 36:24
• In the MV75 category, Roger Sayer set a new 10k record in a time of 50:31

Latest standings after Race 2 are now available

Please note that the West Pinchbeck 10K scheduled for 28 September 2025 has been cancelled.

This would have been the final Club Championship event for 2025 - an alternative event will be advised in due course. 

Congratulations to Tony King in setting an inaugural MV80 5k club record at Ferry Meadows Parkrun in October in a time of 47:01.

Congratulations to Jenny Teachey who set a new overall, and LV35 record at the Manchester Marathon in a time of 3:13:42

Congratulations to Paul Halford in setting a new MV50 Marathon record at the London Marathon last week, beating his own previous record in a time of 2:49:53

Congratulations to Seb Freeman who set a new record at the Track Mile event last week in his U13B category in a time of 5:53.61

Congratulations to Ann Wood on setting a new LV60 track mile record at last weeks Club Mile event. Ann beat her own record in a time of 6:44.73

Club mile results are now available.

Congratulations to our Junior Frostbite Champions;

Frostbite Runners of the year this year are, Ivy Holden and Henry Roberts

Frostbite Handicap Runners of the year are; Niamh Harwood and Sebastion Freeman.

Congratulations to Paul Halford on setting two new MV50 records

• on 23rd March - Thorney 10k in a time of 36:14
• on 13th April - Newport Half in a time of 1:20:57

Congratulations to Mark Turner on achieving the England Athletics Coach Speed Qualification.

This involves a combination of face-to-face contact, online modules, knowledge test and assessment of technical knowledge, physical preparation, planning and coaching practice.

Mark says ‘’ I would like to thank everyone at Werrington Joggers for their support and encouragement, particularly Ros Hamlyn for being my mentor and support coach, Louise Richardson for all of her encouragement, Malc and Ann for their patience, Heather and Laura for providing their offspring as ‘training athletes’ and Claire Curt for her mastery of filmmaking.

The prerequisite for the course was the athletics coaching assistant course that I obtained in 2019. In May 2024, I felt that I had some free time, and that it was the right time to start the Coaching course.

The Athletics Coach qualification not only supports me in working with our junior athletes in a multi-event approach to their development. It also enables me to coach seniors, especially in my chosen specialism of speed.’’

Marks’ qualification is a terrific achievement and he is a real asset to our club: I am sure you will join me in congratulating him on his success.

Rod McDonald

Chairman

The draws for the free places in the Thorney 10K and Eye 10K races were made at club night on Tuesday 25 February 2025.

The draws were open to New Runners champions who attend club night and have not won a free place in any draw in the last 12 months.

The winners were :

Eye 10K            Dawn McLean

Thorney 10K    Mariuza Nankervis

Congratulations to you both.

I will continue to seek to reward club members who attend club night and are New Runners champions / marshall at our summer 5K by offering them the chance to win free race places in future draws.

Rod McDonald

Chairman

The replacement CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 10 mile event  for the cancelled  Sandy 10 mile race has been decided following consideration of all suggested events at the committee meeting on 24 February 2025.

The replacement race is the Heckington 10 mile on Saturday 26 July 2025 (9am start)

Entries are limited to 400 - entries open shortly - keep an eye on website https://www.heckingtonshow.org.uk/10-mile-road-race.html

With the last race of the Frostbite series coming up fast the Frostbite Handicap page has been updated with the target times for this competition-in-a-competition. 

Your results from the previous races are put through the some kind of wizard-of-Oz computer and gives you a target time for this last race. The winner of the competion is the person who beats their projected time by the largest margin. 

Previous winners and results are also on the same page.

Good luck everyone; perhaps this year it wont be blowing a hooley or tanking down with rain :-)

The draw for the GPAN complimentary place in this years Deeping 10K was made at club night last night. The draw was open to members who attend club night and are on the New Runners Rota, and who have not won a free place draw in the last 12 months. 

The winner was Emma Wiles.

Congratulations to Emma and commiserations to the other entrants. 

Rod McDonald - Chairman

Congratulations to Sebastion Freeman for setting new MU13 records 

• 5k on 09/11/2024 at Peterborough Parkrun in a time of 20:01
• Junior Parkrun on 17/11/2024 at Peterborough in a time of 07:36

Today's Uffington Sunday Run route is now available on the website under "About" ... "Sunday Run Routes". 

The Senior Championship page has been updated with the age categories and who is in them.

The perpetual award winners on the 2025 Awards night were;

The background to each of the awards, and previous recipients can be found on the website under the menu "Records and Trophies". Congratulations to all this years winners.

Roll on 2025.

We're adding Garmin route files for our Sunday runs at a steady pace. This weeks uploads are for Nassington 10, Nassington 6 and Edenham 12.5.

Thanks to my community of Garmin enthusiasts for recording and sending these over.

See the "About", "Sunday Run Routes" menu on the website for links.

The fixtures for 2025 have been confirmed as ;

Congratulations to Paul Halford on setting a new MV50 10k record at the Ely New Years Eve 10k in a time of 36:38.

Happy new year !

The draw for the club place in the 2025 London Marathon was made at the Butchers Arms PH on Tuesday 10 December.

The winner was Debbie Montague - congratulations Debbie,  and good luck with the training.

Commiserations to the other entrants in the draw.

Rod McDonald

Chairman  

The Easton-on-the-hill, Nassington and Wansford Sunday Run routes are now available as downloadable GPX files. See the "About", "Sunday Run Routes" menu on the website for links.

Final standings are available for this year's senior club championships.

The draw for the free place in the 2025 Stamford 30K was made at clubnight tonight ( 5 November).

The draw was limited to those members who are on the New Runners Rota.

The winner was David Mackman.

Congratulations David.

Rod McDonald - Chairman

Congratulations to Sebastion Freeman for setting a new MU13 Junior Parkrun record on 20/10/2025 in a time of 7:40

We now have a home for downloading the GPX files for Sunday Runs. Please mail any Sunday Run GPX files to webmaster@werringtonjoggers.co.uk and we can start to build up a catalogue. Extremely helpful for newcomers, or people who never have a clue where they are most of the time, and just follow the run leader.

Latest standings are now available

Congratulations to Paul Halford on setting a new MV50 half marathon club record at today's Great Eastern Run in a time of 1:23:10 knocking over 90 seconds from the previous record.

Congratulations to Sebastion Freeman who set a new Male Under 13 5k record at Peterborough Parkrun on 12/10/2024 in a time of 20:05

It was a very proud moment for me to receive, on behalf of Werrington Joggers, the award for Club of the Year at the East Regional Volunteer Awards event at Bury St Edmunds last night.

I would like to thank everyone at the club who has contributed to this success and supported me as chairman over the past year - committee members, junior and senior coaches, organisers and helpers at our presentation and charity events, marshals at our running events, the members who helped me put our promotional video together, website and MemberMojo administrators - as well as all of you who turn out in all weathers at club night and represent the club at races throughout the year   - we wouldn't be the fantastic club without you  and the award is for all of you.

Also thank you to all who voted (and got others to vote as well) for us in the ''free vote' - clearly we garnered the most votes to 'clinch the deal'  - so our marketing campaign was one that our rival clubs could not match.

Onwards and upwards WJ's - we have a marvellous club here which I am so pleased to be part of - there is a lot of truth in the saying ''a club is only as good as its members'' - and I think we demonstrate that in spades.

Rod

Rod McDonald

Chairman - Werrington Joggers

Congratulations to Paul Halford on setting a new MV50 Marathon Record at Morecambe today, in a time of 3:00:04

As you will know, Werrington Joggers have been shortlisted for Club of the Year 2024 and following the free vote earlier this year, we will find out the result on Sunday 6 October. 

Rod and other reperesentatives of the club will be present at the Awards Event at Bury St Edmunds - the event will be live streamed via the England Athletics You Tube channel and a link will be sent to members before the event so you can follow the action from home.

Fingers crossed! 

Congratulations to Malc Jacklin in setting a new MV60 10k record at West Pinchbeck in a time of 43:57

Congratulations to Martin Stevens for setting a new MV50 Marathon record today in Berlin, finishing in a time of 3:11:41.

Congratulations also to Stuart Crosby who also beat the previous MV50 Marathon record, in a time of 3:19:21 but not quite as fast as Martin on the day.

Congratulations to Gill Holmes in setting a new LV70 10 mile record at the Sawtry 10 in a time of 2:36:55

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE WERRINGTON JOGGERS A.G.M. WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY 12/11/2024 AT 8.30 pm IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM AT WERRINGTON SPORTS CENTRE, WERRINGTON CENTRE, TO TRANSACT THE ORDINARY BUSINESS OF THE CLUB

2. APOLOGIES
3. TO RECEIVE THE MINUTES OF THE A.G.M. HELD ON 14 / 11 / 2023

3 (a).       MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES OF THE A.G.M. ON 14 / 11 / 2023

   (b).    CHAIRMANS REPORT

6. TO RECEIVE AND ADOPT THE ANNUAL ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30 SEPTEMBER 2024
7. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES (OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS)
8. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

PROPOSITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE RULES AND CONSTITUTION AND NEW NOMINATIONS FOR THE ROLES OF TRUSTEES (CLUB OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS) SHOULD BE MADE IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY THE NOMINATING MEMBER TO THE CLUB SECRETARY (SUE MERRITT)

NO LATER THAN 29 / 10 / 2024.

(DATED THIS DAY 02 / 09 / 2024)

Club championships are updated to reflect standings after Race 5.