With it being the summer coach James took a well earned break and missed three sessions. The first of these was a social run covered by the beautiful duo of Anne and Sharon. The next two weeks saw the debut coaching of Mike H. An interval session on Palmers Field was followed up last week with a hill session at St Giles Hill. It was a superb debut and one which shows the growing strength and capability of the club. Congratulations and thank you to Mike, and thank you to Anne and Sharon! In September we have Rachel also taking her Leadership in Running Fitness course. 
In addition to the coaching staff growing we have also added to our weekly sessions by starting the Tuesday night social run. These are not formally coached sessions, but social runs with the route and pace agreed by the runners who are able to make it each week. with the track sessions once a month on Mondays, the Tuesday socials, the Thursday coached sessions and our ever increasing presence at parkrun on a Saturday we are really expanding what we offer members. Thank you to everyone who makes it possible!
In addition I would like to congratulate Sarah for her phenomenal performance over the half ironman distance of 70.3 in cracking time of 6:15. The half Ironman consists of a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike ride and then a half marathon to round it off! Congratulations Sarah!In other exciting news Winchester Fit Club is launching a Couch to 5km programme. C25K is an NHS running plan for absolute beginners. The plan involves 3 runs a week with a different schedule for each of the 9 weeks. Couch to 5km works because it starts with a mixture of running and walking to gradually build up your fitness and stamina, with the aim that by the end of the 9 weeks you will be able to run for 30 minutes without stopping. We are aiming to start the programme in September with the graduation being at a parkrun in late November/Early December. If you're interested please contact Mike Day, myself or Sharon Smith.
Dates for your diary:
Thursday 15th August - Meet at River Park Leisure Centre
Thursday 22nd August - Abbey Gardens, drinks afterwards at Number 5 Bridge St
Thursday 12th September - Abbey Gardens, running club 2nd birthday drinks afterwards
parkrun News 10th August
This week we had 27 Fit Clubbers running at 5 different parkrun venues. We had 23 at Winchester, Shelley at Chippenham, Andy M at Basingstoke, Allen at Lowestoft and Simon E at Teignmouth.
Congratulations to Sally Boyden for completing her first ever parkrun in a very respectable time of 29:35. In addition we had three fantastic milestones...
Elise - 50 parkruns - 45 at Winchester, 2 at Lee-on-the-Solent, 1 each at Swindon, Netley Abbey and Hogmoor Inclosure. Elise has a PB of 24:16.
Karen P - 50 parkruns - 46 at Winchester, 1 each at Weymouth, Whitstable, Wimpole and Eastleigh. Karen has a PB of 26:33.
Mike H - 100 parkruns - 88 at Winchester, 4 at Eastleigh, 2 at Basingstoke and 1 at Tooting Common, Rickmansworth, Southampton, Heaton, Moors Valley and Bury St Edmonds. Mike has a PB of 20:03
Look forward to seeing you all in your new T-shirt’s soon!
Despite the windy weather we still had a PB recorded! Allen ran a course PB of 20:13 at Lowestoft. Congratulations!
Here is a link to the consolidated club report: http://www.parkrun.
General Announcements
WFC parkrun Club
Winchester Fit Club Runners is set-up as a club with parkrun. If you go into your profile (there is a link to it on the parkrun results email and newsletter email) you can select your club. Change yours to Winchester Fit Club Runners and you will appear in the consolidated club report that we get each week.
WFC Runners WhatsApp Group
There is a WFC Runners WhatsApp chat group where we generally just wang on about running, races and cake. If you are not already part of this then please get in contact with Coach James or Coach Mike who will add you.
WFC Runners Strava Club
If you are a Strava user there is a Winchester Fit Club Runners club page. This can be accessed here: https://www.strava.com/clubs/WFC-Runners. Request to join and we will approve!
Booking onto sessions
Booking onto our training sessions enables the coaches to plan the session accordingly. You can book on in the following location: https://winchesterfitclub.simplybook.it/v2/
Race Calendar
The race calendar is now stored here: https://wfcrunners.blogspot.com/2019/01/race-calendar-2019-and-beyond.html
Race Kit
The full range of kit available to purchase and instructions on how to order can be found in the following link: https://wfcrunners.blogspot.com/2019/01/kit-details-and-prices.html
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