Arrows Running News and December Schedule
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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!