Arrows Running News - June 2024

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Published: Saturday, 01 June 2024 00:00

June News

Well, another month has gone by - who can believe June is almost upon us? We're just so thankful that the evenings are now lighter and occasionally mild enough to just wear a T-shirt.

Please see below under section 1, the highlights of the month. But for now, some announcements:

Comrades, South Africa

Some of you may be aware that our long-standing members Louise and Viddy will be undertaking the Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa on Sunday 9th June. The event will start in Durban and finish in Pietermaritzburg. The route distance is 85.9km with a 12-hour cut-off period. This year the event is being run uphill.

We wish them all the best and look forward to hearing about their adventures in the next edition of Inflight.

Track Night / MWRRL

PLEASE NOTE that the Track Night scheduled for Tuesday 4th June is now CANCELLED due to the date of the Royston MWRRL being rescheduled to this date.

St Albans Half Marathon

Good luck as well to all Arrows running the St Albans half on Sunday 9th June. Look out for potential announcements for refreshments at Inn on the Green...

Club League

The latest standings after the Stevenage mid-week race and the Wheathampstead 10k:

1 - Lynne Parnell
2 - Audrey Zillox
3 - Cathy Jeremiah

1 - Mark Pattison
2 - Steve Green
3 - Graham Harper

Welfare

As a Club, we take the welfare of our members seriously. If there is a welfare question that you would like to raise then please refer to the Arrows website and submit the request form. or send an This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Our Welfare Officers are Djerk Geurts and Anita White.  

We would like to highlight that if anyone is struggling with the membership fees on renewal, a case can be made to the Welfare team for consideration for assistance. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or use the welfare request form on this site.

Lastly

If you have achieved anything during the month, please do let a committee member know, or post on our FB page, and it will be included in our monthly publication.

We look forward to seeing more of you in 2024 at one of the events we run as a Club - we've made a start putting a schedule together with the standard runs - and will put the club league events, etc on soon.

All the best, Sharon & Speirsy.

Arrows at Wheato 10k - collecting their League points. See the current podium standing above and how you are faring here.

For now, this issue contains:

1. What's been going on?
2. What's coming up?
3. This Month's Club Timetable
4. General Notices and Reminders

As ever, please do join the Facebook group as we may have missed something and post updates about any proposed Parkrun tourism or other festive events.

1. What's been going on

Highlights for May were:

• Salzburg Marathon weekend.
  Hopefully you will have seen the photographs and write-up from John Rowlands regarding the weekend. 22 Arrows and 1 supporter enjoyed a wonderful weekend.  See the FB notification for more details.
  
  
• After a Tempo Tuesday run, even in the appalling weather, Russell Stocker joined the Arrows for a great talk and interactive Q&A on Tendinopathy. He can be found at Stocker's Physiotherapy - Expert Physio in Harpenden. He seems to know his stuff and talked a lot of sense to the 25+ attendees at the talk.
  
  
• 18 Arrows ran the Wheathampstead 10k, great running everyone.
  
  
• After Wheathampstead Arrows de-camped to the Marquis of Granby to celebrate Brian's "special birthday. Refer to FB to see the lovely photos.
  
  
• The first of the MWRRL took place on Wednesday 15th of May in Stevenage. Large turnout of runners on a lovely evening. 
  Results put the mens team in 7th (vets 6th) and our ladies in 4th (vets 1st). Overall we are in 6th position. Thanks to all Arrows who came along.
  
  
• parkrun tourism took place at Wimpole Estate with 5 Arrows in attendance. This was an out-and-back route with a small hill about halfway. Lovely refreshments afterwards in the cafe.
  
  
• Saturday 11th of May saw the joint highest number of Arrows partaking in parkrun (45).
  
  
• Congratulations to Anita White on reaching 50 parkruns and to Lyndon Hearn on reaching 200 parkruns (with a very neat time of 20 minutes). Great achievement.
  
  
• 12 Arrows took part in the Milton Keynes half and full marathon. Great results everyone.
  
  
• Giles Horridge ran the Pembrokeshire half marathon. Congratulations on 7th place and first vet. The course is run over a beautiful stretch of coastline.
  
  
• At the time of writing Inflight, Nigel Douglas is participating in the Cape Wrath Ultra. This is a 400km 8-day ultra-running adventure through the stunning Scottish Highlands.

2. What's coming up

A number of things to take note of for the coming months!

1. WMRRL #2, Royston – Tuesday 4th of June. Please do come along as we need 12 for a men's and 8 for a ladies' team.

2. Oval run, Fun Run and 5-mile race – Saturday 8th of June.
   
   The 1-mile Fun Run will start at 9:30 and the main race at 10:30 am. Sharon Neeley would love to see you forfeit a parkrun to run, or perhaps help at this race and visit the 'best cafe in Harpenden' for post-run refreshments. Please do let This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. know if you can help.
   
   
3. Unofficial Arrows pub run - details on Facebook or with Mark Pattison - Wednesday 12th of June.
   
   
4. MWRRL #3, Harlow - Wednesday 19th of June.
   
   
5. Club 5k / Social - Tuesday 25th of June.
   
   
6. June Rowlands also has a milestone birthday. We will celebrate this with a social event post-Club 5k. Watch this space for further details. – Tuesday 25th of June.
   
   
7. parkrun tourism. The venue will be Wardown Park, Luton. This is John and June's 250th parkrun each and there will likely be cake. Please wear your Arrows top - Saturday 29th of June.
   
   
8. Track nights
   First Tuesday of the month
   
   We are expecting to be back at KWS on Tuesday 2nd of July. PLEASE NOTE THAT 4TH OF JUNE IS CANCELLED in favour of the moved MWRRL. The one after that will be on the 2nd of August.
   
   Please aim to arrive for 6.45 pm for a prompt start at 7 pm.
   
   
9. St Albans Stampede - Saturday 7th of September. This is a 12-hour enduro event. If you've not done this before it's a great event - you can run solo or in a team.
   
   
10. The Stevenage Marathon only comes around once every 10 years. There is also a Half Marathon for those who prefer that distance. The date is 20th of October 2024, and you can register now so don’t miss out and register ASAP if you are interested.
    
11. Hot off the press - 2025 Marathon Weekend. Next year Arrows will be travelling to Vienna so please make a note in your diaries: 4th - 7th of April 2025 - further details to follow.

Please feel free to suggest impromptu socials post-event or even attempt a pub visit post-run - which has proven successful in these past months.

Arrows Club League

Mark Pattison has very kindly put together a list of several of the races, highlighting which are now open to enter so please see below an update on the year’s remaining races:

• 4th June – MWRRL #2 Royston (was 6th!)
• 9th June – St Albans Half Marathon – entries open here.
• 19th June – MWRRL #3 Harlow
• 27th June – MWRRL #4 Trent Park
• 7th July – Ware 10k – entries open here (NOT the 10 mile!)
• 10th July – MWRRL #5 Welwyn (mob match)
• 4th September – Hatfield 5k series Race 2 – entries open here.
• 6th October - Herts 10k
• 24th November – Hatfield 5m – entries open here.
• 29th December – Buntingford Year End 10m
• Dates TBC
  • October / November / December – various XC races

No registration is needed for WMRRL or XC races. And don’t forget to use the ATW discount code where applicable.

As always full details of the club league can be found here on this site.

3. Club timetable for June

As ever, a combination and variety of running is available. We're trying to offer 4m, 5m, hills and/or speed sessions. Is there any interest in a shorter 5km run? Please let us know. All combinations rely on RunLeaders taking care of existing, new and potential joiners to Arrows. If you don't feel you have the confidence or skills to do this... we'll help. Please let us know.

REMEMBER

1. Once we go back to the darker nights, remember to wear high viz and head torches (don’t forget to charge them up).

2. Any new members - please pre-register on RunTogether, this will help the admin to register you just at the start of each run.

Start times:

St G's club runs: 7:15 arrival for 7:30 departure.
Track: start at 7:00

Track Nights at Stockwood

Please aim to arrive by 6:45 pm for a prompt start at 7 pm.

4. General Notices

Free t-shirt for RunLeaders

We've distributed a few and got a few more on order - but we're always on the lookout for more run leaders to share the load of helping people out with their runs.

If you're good with a route or two and would like to lead runs for Arrows, please let us know! We are always looking for more people to join our core team, either as occasional helpers or as regular run-leaders. All you need is confidence and we'll give you more of that and some of the knowledge to keep everyone safe - it's not onerous and a lot of it is common sense.

If you're interested in leading please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and ask for more info.

Kit Shop: The club shop can be found here:

https://www.iprosports.co.uk/club-zone/harpenden-arrows/

The range of available kit includes club vests and t-shirts, hoodies, jackets, caps, beanies, and a new line of colourful hi-viz t-shirts bearing the club logo.

All kit can be personalised with names or messages on the front, back or both – so no more melting your t-shirt trying to iron on wonky letters (or was that just me)?

If you would like to see or try on any of the kit samples, please come along to our monthly 5km, Kit and Cake night, and speak to our kit secretary, Rowland Hughes. (email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

10% OFF SPORTSSHOES.COM - June code

If you haven't found what you want from the Arrows online kit shop, we have secured a 10% discount code specifically for Arrows, plus there's free shipping for orders of £30 or more from www.sportsshoes.com.

This is redeemed via a unique discount code, which is changed monthly.

Please do not share the code with non-members. Any Arrows in receipt of the code must not share it on social media or any public websites.

This month's code valid for July 2023 has been sent by email to paid-up members. 

Active Training World 10% off race entry with the code ....

(Sent by email to all paid-up Arrows Members)

We have some exciting news for you - Arrows have obtained a 10% discount for members on all ATW races. Why not use it for entering the Hatfield 5-mile event this November? Fast, flat and local race with PB potential. (Webmaster - and Arrows League points too!)

Just enter the code at the checkout to obtain your 10% Arrows discount. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS FOR ATW ORGANISED EVENTS (there will be a big banner on the site when an ATW event. Please do try to avoid confusion as occasionally ATW provide the booking system/support and the 10% fee is not available on these occasions).

Please do not share the code with non-members. Any Arrows in receipt of the code must not share it on social media or any public websites.

Can you marshal for an ATW event?

Earn £20 and free race entry, or £10 per hour, in exchange for marshalling at ATW events. 

If you're interested in marshalling, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

#JustTurnUp - St George's runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays

If you want to attend any of our regular run groups at St George's, please #JustTurnUp on the night. No pre-booking is required for our regular runs from St George's. 

We will also always adapt any run groups to those that turn up on the night, or if possible form additional groups to suit varied paces. Nobody will be left behind and we operate a *looping policy if we happen to have a wide pace range in the group.

*That means that faster runners are asked to loop back to keep the group together.

Safety reminder for Arrows Club 5km events

Please note, for the safety of all members when participating in the Club 5km event, the following advice applies:

No headphones. For your own safety and to ensure you can hear instructions from marshals and cars on the road, headphones are not permitted whilst taking part in any club activity. If you are seen wearing headphones during the Club 5km event, you may be disqualified!

Wear high visibility clothing and/or your Arrows vest - this makes it easy to see you running on the dark roads.

Stay safe everyone, and stay well!

Thank you for supporting your club. If you have concerns or suggestions please get in touch.

Harpenden Arrows Running Club

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