7pm, Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club. Various runs taking about 50 minutes, from 3 miles run/walk to further and faster with a wide choice in between. You will be guided to the right group of up to six runners managed by one of our team of experienced run leaders. For your safety please read www.26point2.co.uk/covid-19-guidance and arrive as near to 7pm as possible. We leave at 7:05 exactly. Bright clothing please!
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Monday Evening Club Run, 7pm, Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club.
All our runs are accompanied and lead by experienced run leaders in groups of 6. The run leader’s responsibility is to navigate a route of a specified distance and pace and to ensure no one is left behind.
On Mondays we do steady runs in groups for every ability. I recommend doing a run you are 100% comfortable with and as you improve, gradually chose faster and longer runs.
In a group of 6 runners there is inevitably a range of speeds, but this is OK because the faster runners run ahead and double back to rejoin the group. The run leader might lead from the front or the back of the group but their job is to ensure the group keeps together.
On Mondays we have a 3 mile walk/run. Jackie Morris is leading it this week. This is ideal for beginners because it is much more fun running with others and becoming part of the club community and running regularly once or twice a week is the key to success at getting into running. This is also a good group for runners returning from injury or recovering from a race.
Lizzie Wilson is leading a run of 3 or 4 miles depending on demand at a pace of 12 minute miles. There will be a number of 3 and 4 mile runs at different speeds suitable for new runners who have completed a few runs.
I shall be leading a slightly faster 4 mile run taking in as many Christmas lights as possible. Paul Wallis, David Pimm, David Pearce, Matthew Prichard, Sue Garnish and Graeme Maissey will be leading 5 or 6 mile runs at a range of paces, and Joe Chang will be leading 7 miles fast, so there is something for everyone.
For everyone’s safety please, no headphones, wear bight clothing and read the Covid guidance .
We’re back to track!
Floodlit private track running tomorrow Friday 7pm Harrier Centre, Poole Rd. Safe and secure.
Club Running week starting 1st November
Four Club Runs following England Athletics Guidance. Please check your health before you set out and make sure you read and follow the COVID-19 guidance above. Please arrive just before scheduled times and join a group of up to six runners to match your pace. We should have a wide range of speeds covered at each run. For evening runs, wear bright/hi-viz clothing and/or lights. No headphones etc. New runners, please read ‘Join our club’ above.
7.00pm Mon 2nd Nov. Various runs (3-7 miles), various speeds from Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club.
7.00pm Weds 4th Nov Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club. Various sessions, this week, handicap.
7:00pm Friday 6th Nov. Track. Harrier Center Ewell. This has been cancelled.
8.30am Sat 7th Nov. Saturday Morning Club 5k Run. Bushy Park (Diana Fountain Car Park). This has been cancelled.
Next track evening
Next track evening is Friday 6th November 7pm Harrier Center Ewell.
The club has hired the track for an hour for a private, free, Covid secure track session. Last week was great fun under the flood lights. There are no other facilities other than the track, but the session is just the right length to kick off the weekend.
All members of any speed welcome. Track is a great experience!
26.2 Alternative London Marathon Challenges
We have had some great submissions for our alternative 26.2 challenge. A selection are below. We will add as many as we can here. For many, you can see a lot of the originals on the 26.2 RRC – We Is Runners facebook group.
Dmitry Selemir (& Family)
26.2 spelled out in the garden…
Laura Griffin
“Plogging” for my 26.2 challenge! The aim was 26.2 bits of rubbish collected but I’d managed that in 10minutes so carried on. Happy marathon day all!
Kate Hancock
26.2 jelly babies that were ready to support the marathon runners today!
Tony Ruff
11k – 26.2 laps
Erica Golland
Re-styling the Waitrose fish counter
Brewer Family
26.2 RRC marathon challenge – 26.2 laps with a ‘water station’ every lap😆🇲🇭
Jacqueline Chang
26.2 malteasers all-in-one…
Daisy Street
“Instead of running the London Marathon today as I had planned to, I ran a gentle 26.2km on my own. Such a hot day today that anyone who had to listen to me complaining after running in the heat in 2018 can consider themselves lucky that today wasn’t race day! 26.2km is also a far more manageable distance. 😂”
Lizzie Wilson
26 pub 2 – a tour of 26.2 pubs of Surbiton
(not all pubs shown…check her facebook for more, plus commentary!)
26.2 RRC Virtual Club Night – 25th March
We are holding our first virtual club night tonight at 8:30 pm. Please do join us using the details below. If you have not used Zoom before, we recommend downloading the app to your device before the session.
26.2 RRC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: 26.2 RRC Virtual Club Night
Time: Mar 25, 2020 08:30 PM London
Every week on Wed
Mar 25, 2020 08:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/849379880
Meeting ID: 849 379 880
SURREY XC LEAGUE – MATCH 4
A reminder that this Saturday, 8th Feb, is the the fourth and final fixture of the Surrey Cross Country League.
Ladies: Richmond Park, 11:00 race info
Men: Lloyd Park, 12:00 race info
On the team front both teams are safe in their divisions.
However, there is all to play for on the individual front!
Ladies: Aimee Stopford U20 is third
Ladies: Maggie Stacey V50 is fifth
Men: Ben Chown Overall is first
Men: David Pimm V60 is second
To run you need to have been allocated a bib number: check
Not there and want to run? please contact your XC captain
Official club kit please and don’t forget your allocated number bib.
Afterwards, post run drinks will be at the Tennis club from 5pm, and if there is interest we will also go for a curry later
XC Captains:
Ladies: Maria Cenalmor / Ann Bath
Men: Paul Keddie
Full Fixture detail including links to Facebooks groups
Southern Cross Country Championships – Race Review
One of the wettest autumns and early winters on record promised to make the Southern Cross Country Championships a challenging affair – and so it proved. But even before getting to Parliament Hill the journey turned out to be almost as arduous as the race itself!
I had decided to drive so I could take the club flag and gazebo, and agreed to give Peter and Dmitry a lift. What a fateful decision that was. The train line going through Surbiton all the way to Clapham Junction was closed for engineering works, and an accident on the A3 meant gridlock around Berrylands and the whole Surbiton area. Along with further road works en route (they’re springing up everywhere!) a nightmare car journey followed. Some others in the team had their own travel problems and delays: Ben and Dom’s struggle to get to Wimbledon, Geoff having to run to Kingston – both also traffic induced. Not ideal pre race preparation!
Over two and a half hours later, I dropped off Peter and Dmitry as soon as we arrived and they just about managed to scramble to the start line on time, as fortunately did the rest of the team. I had to find a parking space which meant I started 5 minutes late. I could see the mass of runners sprinting up the iconic hill from the bandstand where I was frantically trying to get my spikes on and pin my bib number to my chest. The gazebo stayed in the car due to lack of time – so much for that idea!
To the race itself. The course was yet again short, as almost always seems to be the case with SEAA events these days: A mere 13.7km versus the official 15km. What it lost in terms of distance it more than made up for in terms of difficulty. The wet weather, the earlier 10 or so races and the 1,172 senior male finishers (over 1,800 had entered!) combined to create the mother of all quagmires. A veritable kaleidoscope of mud textures and thicknesses (ankle deep in many places), pools of water, and array of squelching sounds (I swear I played the tune of “mud mud glorious mud”) meant that anyone wearing trail shoes or anything less than 12mm spikes could forget running and just take up rehearsing for the next series of Skating on Ice. The mud was so bad it took my shoe off three times, adding to the 5 minutes I lost at the start. The surface condition coupled with the 350 metres of elevation gain created one of the stiffest running tests going.
Ben wisely bought a pair of spikes for the occasion, which seemed like a good idea until they proceeded to tear up his feet in huge blisters and forcing him to drop out after the first lap (5k). Ed continued his unlucky run (pardon the pun) on Parliament Hill with another injury. Happily most others held together to finish the race enabling us to complete a scoring team.
We finished in 71st position (same as last year) out of 81 scoring teams, and scored a mere 63 points less than the Stragglers who finished 69th. We had a stronger team this year than last but just loads of bad luck!
A total of 158 teams took part – 77 of which didn’t have enough finishers to score.
Paul put in a sterling performance turning in a decent time and finishing a very creditable 408th.
The team finishing order was as follows:
408th: Paul Donohoe (1:01:15)
589th: Dominic Woodbridge (1:04:51)
703rd: Dmitry Selemir (1:07:13)
778th: Joseph Gonzalez (1:09:13)
896th: Geoff Tookey (1:12:55)
945th: Joe Chang (1:14:39)
DNF: Ben Chown, Ed Francis and Peter Grecian.
Well done to the entire team for braving a very tough course indeed. We can’t wait for next year’s event, and hope we’ll be able to tempt some of you to join us and take on the challenge.
SURREY XC LEAGUE – MATCH 2
A reminder that this Saturday, 9th Nov, is the second of four fixtures of the Surrey Cross Country League.
Ladies: Mitcham Common, 11am race info
Men: Epsom Downs, 3pm race info
To run you need to have been allocated a bib number: check
Not there and want to run? please contact your XC captain before Saturday.
Also please run in official club kit if possible.
Afterwards there will be post run drinks which all are welcome to:
Venue: Prince of Wales pub, Ewell Road, 6:30pm
XC Captains:
Ladies: Maria Cenalmor / Ann Bath
Men: Paul Keddie
Full Fixture detail including links to FB groups
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