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5k Handicap 2024

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Monthly 5k Handicap

On the third Tuesday of the month (unless notified otherwise) we run a 5k handicap race. Its a lot of fun and because we start the slower runners off first the quick people have to work extra hard if they want to win. We meet at the club as normal but try to be a few minutes early so that we can work out your start time etc.

After the race we either have tea and cake or occasionally head down to the Engineer pub for a bite to eat and a well-earned drink. (You can come for/with cake/pub if you didn't run too.)

You can shower at St Georges if you wish.

We run on the Winter circuit from Sep onwards. Please wear high viz clothing. If you can't run please come along and help with the marshalling.

Results from 2023 see 5k Handicap 2023

Results from 2022 see 5k Handicap

Pre-pandemic results see 5k Handicap

Club League 2024

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Arrows Club League 2024

Welcome to the Arrows Club League.

Following the sucess of the Club League re-introduced in 2023 we'll be running it again in a similar manner for 2024. It is provided to give members a fun and interesting way of participating together and competing with each other in a friendly way.

Members are encouraged to participate in League events for fun and to achieve their own running goals, but also to encourage and support their fellow Arrows. As you can see by previous results it isn't always the fastest people that win! Some of the events are also Herts Champs races so there's a chance of extra bling for you and the club!

Its a simple format again this year with Arrows able to earn club league points for racing our external league events (XC and MWRRL) plus nominated races at distances from 5k to Half Marathon. We've picked (mainly) the closest suitable events to try to encourage a large number of Arrows to attend our nominated races. The main difference this year will be that there are extra races at some distances which we've introduced :

a) as a contingency in case some events don't happen,
b) in order to make sure that competion happens throughout the entire year
c) because people asked for certain races to be included this year

To be clear though all races on the list below will score points - even if there are multiple events at a particular distance. It won't be 'the best of'.

As in 2023 there will be just one League (rather than Road and Trail) with men and ladies each competing for thier right to hold the shields for a year.

The races:

MidWeek Road Race League

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MWRRL

The MidWeek Road Race League (MWRRL) finished last week with the traditional finale, the Mob Match. Twenty-one Arrows ran, fed on the buffet and collected prizes for their efforts over the Summer's 4 races.

It all started at Stevenage back in May with the Hitchin-organised race. 26 of us made for two full, strong teams. As a result, we led the Vets combined team competition. Brilliant, but could we hang on to it?

Despite a huge turnout at our Harpenden race Dacorum AC upped their game and pushed us into 2nd. The good news was our boys were leading the Men's Vet race.

Would the Royston hills defeat us? Hell no, we consolidated our 2nd overall combined and 1st men's Vets positions despite being short of a full ladies team.

It all hung on Trent Park! Numbers were a bit down but those who ran smashed it. Both teams finished second on the night, a great achievement.

So where did we finish, did anyone get individual awards and did the Men's Vet team hang on to 1st place?

Answer: Yes and Yes :-) See below.

Cross Country

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XC

There was a welcome return to the XC after the loss of a season due to the Covid pandemic in winter of 2021-22.There are always some stalwart supporters (thank you), some one-timers (thank you) and those that dutifully turn up to support all those others who perhaps take it more seriously than they should (thank you to those too!).

Attendance is typically between 20-30 of us, with the ladies matching the men on numbers. It can be parkland, grassland, woodland, flatland and "hillyland". There may be mud!

We do, of course recognise that XC does seem to be a bit marmite (either love it or hate it) so for those who don’t like it, please take the arm-twisting you may be potentially subjected to with a pinch of salt. We’re ultimately happy that people have the chance to run a race for free – but have to balance that with our desire to do as well as we have in the past.

Don’t forget, we always need a full team to score and everyone always counts – whatever your speed or position as your place will push everyone below you further down the potential for scoring against us.

Full results are available for the past years at http://www.runherts.com/xc.htm, however we also continue to be well represented in the individual rankings too for anyone appearing in the top 5 across 4 out of 5 races.

Parkrun

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Arrows at Parkrun

parkrun is a timed 5k run that takes place at 9 O'clock every Saturday morning across a large number of venues in the UK, and some overseas. It’s for all levels of runners from brand new beginners to those wanting to improve their sprints. It’s absolutely free, just turn up and run ….. but if you register online at parkrun.org.uk you can get a bar code that gets scanned each time you run and you build up a table of your own personal results (your one personal bar code works at all parkruns, even those overseas).

One thing that all parkruns have in common is that they are fun and all involved are really friendly and welcoming to all runners.

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