Arrows Running News - April 2024

April News

Another fun month of running and many achievements as always. Please see below under section 1, the highlights of the month. But for now, some announcements:

Arrows Club League Update:

After the unfortunate cancellation of the Royston XC race, we have no league races until May. 

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:

  • 15th May – MWRRL Stevenage
  • 19th May – Wheathampstead 10k – entries open here.
  • 6th June – MWRRL Royston
  • 9th June – St Albans Half Marathon – entries open here.
  • 19th June – MWRRL Harlow
  • 27th June – MWRRL Trent Park
  • 7th July – Ware 10k – entries open here. (NOT the 10 mile!)
  • 10th July – MWRRL Welwyn (mob match)
  • 4th September – Hatfield 5k series Race 2 – entries open here.
  • 24th November – Hatfield 5m – entries open here.
  • 29th December – Buntingford Year End 10m
  • Dates TBC
    • October – Herts 10k (if it runs this year)
    • 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 our website.

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Arrows Running News - March 2024

March News

Well, what a fabulous night we had at the AGM / social event which took place on Saturday 3rd of February at Aldwickbury Golf Club. 57 Arrows attended (some were still there at the end to see out Mr Brightside) and I’m sure they will all tell you it was a brilliant night – great food, music and company as well as making new friends and spending time with old ones. If you’ve not seen the photos then please take a look on FB or Instagram.

It was also an opportunity to acknowledge all of our 2023 winners with our special awards. Congratulations to the following:

  • Club League – Jo Davies / Brian Yates
  • Top Trail Runners – Janice Nisbet / Tarus Huzar (based on top scores within the Sunday League XC)
  • Distance Awards
    500 – Djerk Geurts / Claire Watts
    1000 – Phil Dean / Nick Herbert / Tarus Huzar / Nick Screen / Peter Thornton
    2000 – Lyndon Hearn
    2500 – Terry Atkinson
  • Full House – Louise Crosby / Graham Harper / Aisling Patterson / David Green / Mark Pattison
  • Ultra – Ammon Piepgrass
  • Rocket – Tracy Carr / Janice Nisbet / David Green
  • Club Award – Brian Yates
  • Club Bronze – Phil Dean / Julie Horrocks / Djerk Geurts
  • Club Silver – Graham Harper / Audrey Zilliox / Nick Herbert / Nick Screen / Janice Nisbet / Andrew Bracey / Claire Watts / Mark Pattison / Jo Davies
  • Club Gold – Terry Atkinson / Louise Crosby / Taras Huzar / Peter Thornton / Aisling Paterson / Lyndon Hearn
  • Club Platinum – David Green
  • Outstanding Achievement – awarded by Scott Clarke to Mark Pattison for his endeavours on the parkrun reporting and running in 2023.
  • Committee Award – Ammon Piepgrass in recognition of his overall sporting achievements but also for the extensive guide running he does.
  • Members Award – Julie Horrocks for her parkrun tourism efforts.

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Arrows Running News - February 2024

February News

We hope that as we go into February your New Year's Resolutions are still on track, any dry Januarys were successful and you're planning your year ahead with Arrows.

As a quick recap at the end of December, we had the annual end-of-year drink/curry (Ed's Curry). We had a good turnout of members starting at the Inn on the Green and then eating a lovely curry in the Cinnamon. Also, just for those not aware Dean Murley was the lucky recipient of the EA place in the London Marathon which will take place on the 21st of April.

January has had a few events including a bumper number of members at Fred Hughes and also one of our largest turnouts at the club in a while with 27 people!

Into February and we have the AGM / social event on Saturday 3rd February at Aldwickbury Golf Club. We’ve had a great response and we look forward to seeing everyone. The AGM will start at 6.30pm (members only) and the social event at 7.30pm. Thanks to Sharon and Anita for planning everything so far!

At the event, we'll be drawing a raffle for the Physio session donated by Russell Stocker, won by me and then by Audrey. It would appear that there were only a few people who saw this being promoted - so Audrey kindly put it back into the raffle to potentially raise more donations for Sport in Mind. Raffle 'tickets' are achieved for each £5 donation made at a Just Giving page https://www.justgiving.com/page/james-lenaghan-1700820481398. Let me know if you've made an anonymous donation, otherwise we'll use the donation page to work out who's in the draw. Further tickets can be bought on the night and we'll do the draw at some point during the celebrations.  

A point for your consideration: We are going to change the format of the Club 5k as numbers have been dwindling over the past months. What, if anything, could replace it until the Spring when it should return to the Nickey Line? We're considering a set-piece tempo run (Tempo Tuesday / Thursday) for everyone to join in, but would welcome other ideas too. Please let Simon know – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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