WFC Runners - C25K Graduation, parkrun records, Gosport Half, AGM

News

This week the big event was the Couch to 5km programme coming to its conclusion.  Starting on Thursday night the group completed their final training run, week 9 run 3.  This comprised of a 5 minute walk followed by a 30 minute run.  To support the group we merged the normal Thursday session with the C25k group with the runners providing support throughout the run.  It was a huge turnout and the group celebrated appropriately afterwards at the pub with drinks and cake.

The graduation run was held on Saturday at Winchester parkrun.  After the fireworks last week and heavy rain during the week it was touch and go if the run would go ahead.  Fortunately the call was made the day before to go ahead with the run, much to our relief!  And what a run it was!!  

We had decided that all of the regular parkrunners would support the C25K'ers on their graduation run and so each of the graduates had an entourage around the whole 5km!    

Once they finished we had arranged for a presentation ceremony with speeches, cake, bubbles, certificates and medals.  It was a fitting end to a fantastic 9 weeks.  

None of this would've been possible without the leadership and support of Sharon "One R" Smith.  Sharon was the driving force behind setting this programme up and getting the volunteer support network in place.  Thank you Sharon, from Fit Club and from all of the graduates.  

See below for more detail on the Graduation parkrun!

After the excitement of Saturday we had 5 members at the Gosport Half.  This coastal route is park of the Hampshire Road Race League and always very popular due to it's fast and flat nature. Despite a cold start, Sunday saw the runners blessed with perfect running conditions and so it showed in the stunning results from the day.  Well done to all of our runners on a fantastic performance!  

The results were as follows:

Mike H 1:37:17 PB

Anna H 1:41:03 PB

Jenny L 1:45:34 PB

Sarah H 1:45:43 PB
Katie J 1:50:34

parkrun summary – 16th Nov

To celebrate the graduation of our C25K group we had a record breaking parkrun week! We had 35 registered Fit Clubbers at 3 different parkrun venues. We had a massive 32 members at Winchester, Alice at Salisbury and Stefan and Lucy at Wycombe Rye. 

Our C25K heroes (in no particular order) were as follows:

Maggie Hastie - 36:42 (new PB)

Debra Cotgrave - 34:38

Ian Cotgrave - 34:48

Rob Truscott - 30:31

Zulfiha Truscott - 30:31

Sam Nicolaou - 36:30

Yvonne Spikes - 37:33

Felicia Green - 31:19

Jo Marshall - 32:56

Should also be noted that Alice bagged a course PB of 22:44 at Salisbury. Well done Alice!!

Congratulations to everyone who ran and thank you to everyone who volunteered.

Here is a link to the consolidated club report: http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=26888&eventdate=2019-11-16

AGM

Here is the agenda for next Thursday’s AGM. It is from 7pm at the Cart and Horses in Kings Worthy and everyone is welcome.

1) Welcome

2) Apologies from committee members

3) Chairman’s Annual Report including C25K

4) Treasurers Report

5) Committee Nominations and Vote

      - Mike Day – Chairman
      - Laura Day – Treasurer
      - James White – Member secretary and Head Coach
      - Sharon Smith – Welfare and DBS
      - Anne Richards – Secretary
      - Karen Parker – Deputy Secretary
      - Simon Holman – Member Representative
      - Rachel Mills – Member Representative
      - Alex Humber – Social secretary

6) Subs proposal
7) Marathon Draw
8) Tina Jury Belly Button Award

Any questions, please shout!

General Announcements

WFC Running Club Calendar

Dates for your diary:

Thursday 21st Nov - Winchester Fit Club RC AGM - 19:00
Thursday 28th Nov - Dean Lane Park - 19:00
Saturday 30th Nov - Shelley's 1 year streak parkrun and team breakfast - 09:00

WFC parkrun Club

Winchester Fit Club RC 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 RC 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 Facebook Group

There is a WFC Runners Facebook page where we put the blog posts, news and race pictures.  Follow the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/976444695871618/

WFC Runners Strava Club

If you are a Strava user there is a Winchester Fit Club RC page. This can be accessed here: https://www.strava.com/clubs/WFC-RC. 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