The next WJ takeover of Peterborough parkrun takes place on Saturday 2nd March.  If you are able to help then please let Ros Hamlyn know so she can add you to the volunteer roster. Thank you.

Results from Round 1 are now available.

Dear Members

At the most recent Committee meeting it was decided, in light of the number of multi-terrain races being promoted this year, to change the rules of the club with regard to Standards and Records. Until now to qualify as an acceptable race the course had to hold a Certified Accurate certificate issued by the Association of UK Course Measurers (http://aukcm.org.uk/).

The ACM issue two types of certificate;

"Certified Accurate"

This certifies a race as being both accurately measured, and a Road Race (not more than 10% unsealed road surface as defined by the IAAF)

"Registered Distance"

This certifies a race as being accurately measured, but including more than 10% unsealed surface.

Until this decision Werrington Joggers, being a road running club, only accepted races that were Certified Accurate (with the exception of Rutland and Peterborough Parkruns and the Werrington Guesstimate). The Committee have decided with immediate effect to accept claims for races taking place on courses covered by the Registered Distance certificate as well. As a consequence many of the races promoted for Nene Park will now be acceptable for Standards and Records. This decision is not retrospective and no claims can be made for Registered Distance races prior to 04^th Feb 2019. The websites will be changed in due course to reflect this

Final standings now available.

Handicap results from tonights race are now available

At the AGM a request was made for the committee to consider a second club strip, especially for summer races. After investigation into the rules governing races there are no technical reasons why the club could not register a second strip; but in all team competitions there are rules requiring all members competing needing to wear the same strip. For Cambs Road League, Relays and other team races this would be problematic to organise for the team captain and would cause race referees additional work. In addition the committee felt that organising and holding a second stock of kit would also generate additional administration work and cost for the club, so on the whole were not in support of the proposal after due consideration.

If enough members feel strongly that this should be reconsidered, we would do so, but there would need to be a considerable number of requests in support of the proposal to balance both the cost of buying the kit, the administration and complexities with regard to events.

Regards,

Committee.“

From the Frostbite League;

Hinchingbrooke Country Park - PLEASE CAR SHARE LIMITED PARKING NEAR TO PARK 
 
Race HQ: Countryside Centre, Hinchingbrooke County Park, Brampton Road, Huntingdon, Cambs PE29 6DB  Both junior and senior races are within the park and are traffic free. 
 
Car parking: Parking at following locations:  • Ample free parking at Hinchingbrooke Hospital.  o Permit must be shown, issued by marshals at entrance.  o Car park 1 – enter the car park and just park up. Leave when ready. o Car park 2 – enter the barrier. Retain the yellow chip coin and before exit take the coin to the parking hut or the main reception desk where it will be validated.  o 5-minute walk to race start. • 150 free spaces in main car park.  o Permit must be shown, issued by marshals at entrance.  o Normally full by 10am. Please do not park at Huntingdon race course, Hinchingbrooke Business Park or the Schools as we don’t have permission. Huntingdon race course has horse race meeting on the same day!
 
Toilets: Within Visitors & Countryside centres  Race HQ - Countryside centre:   • Meeting & seated area  • Refreshments including: Tea, Coffee, rolls and cakes. 
 
Course Terrain: Both races cover a mixed terrain surface including grass, un-surfaced muddy tracks, compact gravel and tarmac footpaths. Not suitable for spikes. Recommend: ideally trail, or normal road shoes.  Start & Finish: On grass field at front of countryside centre. Junior starts at 10:15am, Senior at 11am. 
 

All dates are now in the diary and available from the Senior Club Championships page.

Senior handicap results from 15/11/2018 are now available.

This new race on the calendar is round our favourite haunt of Ferry Meadows. Its organised by LivingSport and is chip time and officially measured. To reiterate the chairman's Tuesday notices, please be aware that as a multi-terrain race this is not eligible for club standards or records. I'd love someone who takes part to volunteer to write a Race Report for the website. If you have entered it; good luck and happy racing.

Its that time of year where we start getting the Standards Triplet and Super 6 trophies engraved. Please take the time to look at the standards website page here http://werringtonjoggers.co.uk/Standards/Claims/AnnualAwards to make sure your achievements have been properly recorded.

If you are not listed in the Annual Awards list, please contact me soonest to make sure your claims have been entered correctly; if you are not on this list you are not getting a Triplet or Super 6 this year. Final claims must be made by midnight 30th November, as the system closes down to allow enough time to get the trophies ordered and engraved.

Please double and triple check the wording on the Annual Awards page - the section in Blue with your name and age group etc on it is exactly what will be engraved on your award. Name spelling errors should be notified to me as soon as possible please, and no later than 30th November.

Congratulations to Paul Halford for breaking the MV45 10 mile record at the Fenland 10 with a time of 57:01

Please see the Article "Frostbite Parking - Guidance" below for details of how to access the discounted parking rate for Sunday's Frostbite race.

Congratualtions to Malc Jacklin on setting a new MV55 5k record at Peterborough Parkrun of 19:59.

Check out the club diary for details.  These sessions are run by Ros Hamlyn

Congratulations to Paul Halford for breaking the MV45 Half Marathon record at the PGER at the weekend with a time fo 1:15:41

Members who have joined this year and are therefore eligible to be nominated as Newcomer of the Year are

Congratulations to Jude Thomas for smashing the existing LV60 Half Marathon record at the PGER yesterday in a time of 1:53:00

There was some concern last week about the number of club members in dark clothing going out for the Tuesday evening run so we have bought a stock of "one size fits most" reflective bibs

They are £5 each and Tim will have them tomorrow evening. If you'd like one please bring your £5 then you can put it straight on for the Tuesday run

Tim has received 10 x £10 vouchers to be used against the purchase of running shoes from Advance Performance (excluding sale shoes). They are valid for a month, expiring on 2nd November 2018. If you would like one please let Tim know via the wjchairman email address and he'll have it for you next Tuesday

Congratualtions to Thomas Fairclough who has repeated last years feat and beaten his own MV65 Marathon record with a time of 3:50:02 at the Loch Ness Mararthon.

Riverside Runners have managed to provide some more dedicated parking this year. Please see here

http://www.frostbiteleague.org.uk/Race1-StNeots-2018.pdf

for details of the off street parking arranged in addition to the normal locations.

Just a reminder that our Juniors season starts again on Tuesday 4th September.

Congratulations to Ken Popple who set the MV75 5k record at the Barney Memorial 5k last wednesday in a time of 29:38

Updated following the Werrington Closed 5

Senior championship standings are now updated after the Heckington 10.

Please share to all your members, thanks in advance

Lisa Richardson

Bourne Town Harriers

Hello Clubs/athletes

Could you please forward to all facebook pages/athletes via email or however you contact all your members - Grimsthorpe Castle10k/3k is back!

We have been steadily bringing this race back from the brink since Grimsthorpe Castle estate stopped having their family fun day with the 10k/3k attached. Each year, we aim to make it bigger and better, so little by little we are getting there.

The date for this year is Sun 16 Sep and we have new bespoke medals for the 10k! The start and finish is directly by the entrance to the house so a spectacular photo opportunity as you go through the line. Prizes for individuals and teams (4 men, 3 women to count).

If you’ve never done the course - it is picturesque, multi-terrain and has elements of elevation! Trail shoes are advised.

Entries are via www.entrycentral.com/grimsthorpe2018.  

3k race starts at 10.15am and family members have free entry to the estate from  10.30am only but it then for the whole day - so why not bring a picnic and enjoy what the estate has to offer www.grimsthorpe.co.uk - castle, park and gardens plus a tea room and shop.

10k race starts at 11am. 

The castle is situated on the A151 PE10 0LY - north east of Bourne, Lincolnshire.

A couple of errors crept into the original posted Guestimate results, these are now corrected and updated.

Unfortunately today's Heckington 10 wasn't.

I mean it wasn't 10 miles. It was about 150m short of the published distance becasue the race officials directed us off the track one lap too soon when we started. It seems they put in part of a lap at the end to try to make the distance up, but it was still short. Although 150m sounds a trivial amount after 10 miles, depending on your finish speed, it could be 20-50 seconds of running.

This means that, although the race had a license and the route was a measured 10m, the actual race today cannot be claimed as a Standard or be used as a Club Record. Of course, the club championships do not require a measured route, so all the points and positions are unaffected.

latest standings after the 5k now available

2018 Guestimate results are now available on the Seniors pages

An up to date new runners rota is now available

Volunteers required

Get Fit for the Eastern Sessions start on 11^th July and will be held fortnightly so on 25^th July,  8^thAugust,  22^ndAugust,  5^thSeptember,  19^th September and 3^rd   October.  GPAN would like runners from the local clubs to come along and take part in a 50 minute run (25 mins out and 25 mins back) on  route from the Athletics track.  You can run at whatever pace you like, please be prepared to say what pace you will run at. 

If there is anyone attending the sessions that wants to run at this pace they will run with you. 

There is no track alternative for volunteer club runners so there is no free Track session for club runners. 

Try the Track stops on Wednesday 20^th June and restarts on 17^th October. The Get Fit for the Eastern track sessions are being run for beginners. All lanes will be being used by the groups at the track so there is no facility for club runners to do their own thing.

BRJ would like to invite members of all the Frostbite League clubs to a social 10K run on Tuesday 17th July.

The run is from the Three Jolly Butchers pub in Houghton/Wyton, in between Huntingdon and St Ives

3 Huntingdon Rd

Wyton

PE28 2AD

There is only limited car parking at the pub so car sharing is encouraged, there is space on the street nearby to park as well.

Start time is 7pm, the 10k route will go through St Ives and the Hemingfords before returning to Houghton.

BRJ members will accompany different pace groups to guide all around the route - all then welcome for a drink in the pub afterwards.  

Details are on the BRJ website http://www.brjrunandtri.org/activity/brj-invitational-run

https://www.mapmyrun.com/sc/victoria-english-river/pub-run-3jb-route-15294670

Until today the website incorrectly showed the Sunday Run on 8th July as Ferry Meadows.  It has been corrected now. The run is from Morrisons.

New details on the Xtreme Guestimate now in the diary.

Latest standings after race 3 are now available.

Latest standings after Race 5 are now available.

Mixed Juinor and Senior mile results are on the Senior Club Championship Mile page.

The senior club championship results are updated following Round 2

Senior club championships are updated with the results from Belton House

Coming to a Cukoos Hollow near you, on the 24th May it the "Return of the Senior Handicap".

1.5 miles chase with the fastest runner having the biggest time penalty, with everyone chasing down everyone else (or just enjoying a run round the hollow).

See Diary for details.

Read the writeup of teh Pactrac Duathon at Peterborough Telegraph here.

Congratulations to Sadie Boor for getting a podium place as third lady, and a huge congratulations and thankyou to Wendette Christian who raised a massive £1,400 for the club charity on her first Duathlon outing.

Greetings fellow joggers and lovers of beer. Welcome to the latest WJ social event. Some details to confirm, but the basic premise is a handicap run from the brewery (approximately 5k, tbc) followed by BBQ and beer at Xtreme Ales, hosted by Mike and Gill Holmes. £2.50 per head, limited to 50 people. A list will go up on the board on Tuesday, with more confirmed details to follow.

Sarah Brown.

A flood of new race reports have been submitted; Paris, Newport, Greater Manchester and the Pactrac Duathlon. Thanks to all contributors.

Congratulations to Jane Brown for setting a new LV65 marathon record at Blackpool this weekend in a time of 4:49:23

Latest Junior club championship standings are now available.

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Sunday club run survey. In total 89 people completed the survey. In terms of time change, 51% voted to keep the times as they are at present, 27% for all starts at 9am and 17% for all at 9.30am. In terms of whether the start time influenced whether people chose to join the run, 66% said made no difference. 

Therefore, the committee agreed to keep the start times as they are at present. All other comments about the runs have been duly noted and we hope to see you at one very soon!!

Thank you to everyone who completed a survey, the committee find this way of obtaining your views really helpful and therefore appreciate you taking the time to take part

Thanks

Tim

Marshals required. Please add your name to the list on the noticeboard or speak to Tim Cook.

This will take place at the Ploughman Pub after the run on Tuesday 1st May.

You can apply for membership of England Athletics from 1.4.18. Your membership will run until 30.6.19. If you don't apply and are currently a member then your membership lapses on 30.6.18. An application form can be found on the join and renew section of the website. The fee for 2018 -19 is £15.  Please give your completed form and payment to Tim Cook on a Tuesday night.  It should be noted that in order to be included as a member of a team for the Cambs Road League, for example, UKA rules apply and these state that you should be an individual member of England Athletics. 

See https://www.ashby20.co.uk/ for details

WJ Frostbite Handicap results are now available on the Senior and Junior Frostbite pages.

Fixtures now available and updated.

The GPAN Strength and Conditioning Workshop that was caneelled due to the snow will now take place on Wednesday 11th April at 7pm at the Embankment Track.  Open to all WJ members. No charge. 

The Sleaford Half, Grantham Cup (Belton 10k), Nottingham Half Marathon and Heckington 10 are all open for entry.

If you are able to help Tim with the Primary School Relay, this Saturday 10th March at William Law School then please meet on the playing field to the rear of the school at 9:30am.

SNOODS (not buffs!!)

The new Werrington Joggers order of snoods has arrived this morning. For everyone who preordered one I have reserved yours, but I do have a small number (10) left for anyone interested but wasn't quite so organised!!

They are £8 each please and I will have them for sale at either the Primary school relay on Saturday or next Tuesday at WJ. I will not be at Frostbite on Sunday

Thanks

Tim

Unfortunately tonight's strength and conditioning session has had to be cancelled as Vivacity have closed the Embankment Track due to the weather.

4 dates for the Quadkids competitions added to the Club diary.  May 14th, June 11th, July 16th and September 24th. Please speak to a Junior coach if interested.