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Published: Tuesday, 05 December 2023 00:00
December News and Schedule
We hope you caught sight of the fact that we had two guest coaches/speakers who came in November. We had Russell Stockley (physio) come in and he's promised something for a prize draw that we'll do before Xmas and then there was Will Hague-Blundy who coached about 18 of us at Stockwood. We might see more of them if there is interest in 2024.
During November, there were more achievements, more PBS, winners of the Club Leagues and still more races to come to the end of the year including one more XC, a track session, club 5k, Xmas lights run and carols plus several socials including a curry on 29th Dec.
If you have achieved anything during the month, please do let a committee member know, or post on our FB page, and we'll try to include it in our monthly publication.
Please do make time for the Xmas lights run. This is our annual run to look at all the wonderful Xmas lights that are put up around Harpenden. It's a jolly trot around Harpo to see the lights with paces to suit all and we will then head back to St George’s for a few Xmas carols and some mince pies. And a great way for us all to be together before the Xmas break, well worth planning in your diary. If you can't make that, do join us on the 21st (or at the pub) and/or the curry on the 29th of December!
All the best for the festive, Sharon & Spiersy.
November highlights
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Winners of the Club Leagues:
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Early on Jo Davies won the Women’s Club League for 2023, with three races remaining. A wonderful achievement from Jo reflecting her dedication to the Club which has seen her miss only one race this season.
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At that time, we thought for the men it could go down to the wire with Muiris O’Connell, Brian Yates, Mark Pattison and Andrew Bracey all in contention, however, Brian stole it by the end of November with him completing the Hatfield 5m race.
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Well done to both of them - but see what you can achieve before the end of the year (not forgetting you may be able to bag an Arrows award). See where you are here.
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A whole group of Arrows participated in the Hatfield 5 race. Well done to KC Lloyd, Audrey Zilliox Herrbach and Aisling Patterson for winning the Silver County team medals, a brilliant achievement, and for all of the other wonderful running. The usual de-brief took place at The Inn on the Green to share stories and parade medals.
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We had 11 Arrows competing in the St Neots Half Marathon. Congratulations to Paul Goodwin who achieved a time of 1.20.20 and was the first Arrow home and to Claire Watts on her first half marathon in a time of 2.26.11. Well done everyone.
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The Club 5k race took place on the 21st of November. We had 12 runners running the winter course with three first-timers – welcome everyone. Thanks, as always to the volunteers. Afterwards, we were joined by visiting speaker Russell Stoker. He discussed with the group injuries, prevention and cure, strength training, stretching and “not stretching”, perimenopause, women and men-specific injuries and much more. Watch further communication on further sessions.
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We had three Arrows – Taras Huzar, Louise Crosby and Peter Thornton took part in the Victoria half marathon on the 12th of November. PBs for both Taras and Peter – well done guys.
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The XC season continued at Trent Park on the 5th of November. Another great turnout from the Arrows. Well done to everyone who took part and for some great running times. See below for details of future races.
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As always there has been great representation at parkrun. The tourism event took part at the Thames Path in Woolwich (complete with curly-wurly) on the 25th of November with 11 Arrows participating. It was a rather early start from Harpenden on the 0652 train, but a great breakfast was had by all post the event.
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A special mention goes to Scott Clarke, AKA Mr parkrun, on reaching the incredible milestone of 400 parkruns. To put this into context, out of circa 9 million registered park runners, only around 3,400 have done as many as Scott. Even more impressive, only 68 people worldwide have visited more than Scott’s 289 different events. Well done Scott on such an achievement.
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Congratulations to Sharon Stanley and Andrew Livesey on reaching 50 parkruns. Great efforts.
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Jillian Russell organised a charity shoe appeal to One Impossible Thing. Most of the shoes will be given to refugees through Herts Welcomes Refugees. Thanks to everyone who donated!
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Published: Wednesday, 01 November 2023 00:00
November News and Schedule
Wow, yet another amazing month. You are all superstars and all for the love of running!!
Highlights for October were:
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The month started with circa 25 members travelling to Cologne. A great weekend was had by all (hopefully you have all seen the video that Anita posted) - if not - go have a look here on Instagram. We had representation in the marathon, half marathon and team marathon.
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A special mention to Janice Nisbet – 2nd in W70 half marathon, Jo Davies – 17th out of 233 in the W50 half marathon, Lyndon Hearn – 20th out of 289 in M45 marathon as well as getting a PB, Mark Pattison’s – first marathon.
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Not content with getting a PB in Cologne, Lyndon then travelled to South Africa and on the following 2 weekends completed the Coastal AA and Cape Town marathons.
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Throughout the month we also had many members running marathons – Matthew Marriott (Berlin). Matthew runs all his marathons for Children with Cancer and so far he has raised over $10k. There was also Taras Huzar (Chicago), Peter Thornton (Yorkshire), Viddy and Louise (Chelmsford)
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Sunday 8th October saw many Arrows taking part in the Herts 10k. Some great results. Congratulations to Ian Bryson who came 2nd in M40-49 and to Inga Cobb who also came 2nd in W30-39. After the event, many Arrows moved to the Inn on the Green to celebrate. Taras even managed to join via video link from Chicago.
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The XC season started at Cheshunt on the 15th of October with a great turnout from Arrows. Well done to everyone who took part and for some great running times.
See below for details of future races.
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David White and Chas Andrews ran the Autumn 100. This was David’s first-ever 100-mile event.
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Jillian Russell, John Rowlands and Steve Billingham all took place in the London Parks half.
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Jennifer Finlay and her daughter, Isla, took place in the Oxford half marathon. Isla was running in support of Meningitis Now and has already raised over £2,500.
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Ammon Piepgrass has been doing a tremendous amount of guide running. He was running recently with Louise Simpson It was her 82nd marathon and 30th for the year taking her to 1520 miles. Well done Louise, what an achievement.
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As always there has been great representation at parkrun. The tourism event took part at Wardown Park in Luton. Jillian Russell was the Run Director and we had 11 volunteers and 15 runners. Thanks, Julie for organising. We also had parkrun milestones achieved as well – Jillian Russell (200), Julie Horrocks (150) and Steve Green (50). A special note goes to Scott Clarke who was in attendance at the special German Should be noted that so far in 2023, 150 Arrows have completed 1606 runs at 261 different parkruns. The most popular parkruns are Luton Wardown (403 runs), Jersey Farm (202) and St Albans (194).
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