News

General news and announcements.

Christmas break

There will now be no regular club training, juniors or all sorts until after new year.

But Toucan Run is on Saturday 28th and all are invited.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Hinckley Running Club!

AGM Report

Last night was the club’s Annual General Meeting which was attended by about 40 members old and new. It is the important occasion when members agree how the club will be run for the next year.The first news to report is the changes to the committee which are as follows:

President

At the meeting Geoff Oliver announced that he would step down as Club President after 15 years on the committee. He explained this was mainly due to difficulties driving at night and being unable to attend meetings, and made it clear that this was a retirement from the committee only and not from the club! We will still have his final president’s speech to look forward to at the presentation night, and that will also be an occasion to give him a proper thanks.

The role of club president is appointed, rather than voted on. On behalf of the committee, the chairman invited Dave Masser to be the new club president and he kindly accepted.

Chairman

Andy Lauder is stepping down as chairman after 3 years in the role. Charlotte Sinclair volunteered to take on the role and is our new chairman.

Men’s Captains

Derek Gordon agreed to become the new men’s captain alongside Simon Wiggins who is staying on, and Greg Pollard is stepping down from the committee.

LRRL Rep

Sanjay Chamund is the new LRRL rep, taking over from Chris Langham who is stepping down.

Publicity

Ruth Mansfield has taken on the publicity role, taking over from Charlotte.

Assistant Secretary

The club has created a new role of assistant secretary to assist Liz with her duties (mainly the techie duties!), and that will be done by me.
All of the other committee members have agreed to continue their roles, and therefore therefore the full committee is now as follows:

PRESIDENT – Dave Masser
CHAIRMAN – Charlotte Sinclair
SECRETARY – Elizabeth Aspden-Mansfield
TREASURER – Odette Foxall
SECRETARY – Richard Pearson
VICE CHAIRMAN – Andrea Earley
CLUB DEVELOPMENT – Leanne Byard
MENS CAPTAINS – Simon Wiggins and Derek Gordon
LADIES CAPTAINS – Céline Guéry and Jenny Green
COACHING COORDINATOR – Jenny Green
LRRL REP – Sanjay Chamund
XC REP – Kate Perkins
PUBLICITY – Ruth Mansfield
ASSISTANT SECRETARY – Nick Moore
In the equally important non-committee roles:

  • Penny Masser has agreed to carry on as kit rep
  • I will carry on doing the website
  • Andy Lauder, Emma Thompson and Diane Wildbur will be welfare officers, both for the main club and juniors. I expect we will hear more about this at some point.

A big thank you to all new members volunteering and to all those ongoing and stepping down for their service.

London Marathon Club Place

For 2020 the club has been allocated one club place for the London Marathon and this has been awarded to Jessica Daly.

Membership fee

Membership fees will remain the same as last year. EA affiliation cost has increased from £15 to £16, but the club will subsidise the extra £1 to keep the price of affiliated membership at £40.

Code of conduct

The club has agreed to adopt a code of conduct setting out what behaviour is expected of members. You can read it here: https://hinckleyrunningclub.com/membership/code-of-conduct

Social Events

  • Liz will be kindly hosting the Mince Pie night again, details to be announced.
  • Also be on the look out for an announcement from Leanne about a Christmas social night.
  • The presentation night will be on Saturday 18th January, once again at the rugby club. Details to be announced in due course.

I have probably forgotten something as this is all from memory. Other things may be announced in due course, and any errors or omissions are all mine! Thank you to everyone who attended last night and here’s to another successful year of the club.

Standard Times 2019

Applications are now open for this year’s Standard Times awards.

For full information, times, and rules see the Standard Times page.

HRC-Standard-Times-Form.xlsxDownload

To apply, download and fill in the form, and email it to standardtimes@hinckleyrunningclub.com

Please include in the form a few words about your running year — highlights, lowlights or stories — and also attach to the email your favourite running related photo of yourself from this year. This is for the year book at the presentation night.

The deadline for applications is Midnight on Thursday, 2nd January 2019. Early entries encouraged.

Looking forward to receiving your applications. If you don’t get a reply to your email within 7 days, please contact Nick Moore in case it was not received.

Bosworth half car share

We will be meeting at the old Leisure centre car park on trinity vicarage Rd at 8.15 to leave at 8.30 sharp.
This will give us time to pick up our numbers etc.

Presentation Evening

Our annual presentation evening will be held on Saturday 26th January 2019, 7pm at Hinckley Rugby Club. Tickets will be £10 and include a carvery meal. Please let Odette know if you (and partners/family) will be attending. Payment can be made through BACS (Sort code 05-04-65, Acc no 47287140) and put in the reference that the money is for presentation night.

Christmas Social

From the social events department:

Christmas social at The Railway, Hinckley.
Saturday 15th December 7:30pm.
Fancy dress/Xmas jumpers optional!
All welcome

Standard Times 2018

Applications are now open for this year’s Standard Times awards.

For full information, times, and rules see the Standard Times page.

HRC-Standard-Times-Form.xlsxDownload

To apply, download and fill in the form, and email it to standardtimes@hinckleyrunningclub.com

Please include in the form a few words about your running year — highlights, lowlights or stories — and also attach to the email your favourite running related photo of yourself from this year. This is for the year book at the presentation night.

The deadline for applications is Midnight on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019. Early entries encouraged.

Looking forward to receiving your applications. If you don’t get a reply to your email within 7 days, please contact Nick Moore in case it was not received.

Tuesday Training – 6 Nov

Training at Barleyfield (off Wheatfield Way)
The one behind the one behind MacDonalds

Relays in groups of 3

6:30 pm at the Leisure Centre, 6:40 pm at the venue.

-Odette

AGM

This year’s Hinckley Running Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 13th November 2018 at The New Plough Inn, 24 Leicester Rd, Hinckley LE10 1LS, 8.00pm for 8.15pm start. Details have been sent to all members by email.

Toucan Run

Our next Toucan Run (#4) is this Saturday, 13th October. What is a Toucan Run? To find out click here…

 

Tuesday 18 Sep – 5k Time Trial

The next bi-annual club 5k time trial will be held this Tuesday. Meet at the Leisure Centre as normal or at Logix park for a 6:45pm start.

Past results and route map: 5k Time Trial

LRRL 2018 Season Report

Last Sunday’s John Fraser 10 race saw the end of the 2018 season of the Leicestershire Road Running League. The results have been counted and verified and here they are. (You can find the full results of every race on our own results page, and the final league tables in detail are on the LRAN website.)

First of all lets look at the season’s races and how many Hinckley runners completed each one:

Stilton 7 (25th Feb) – 12 Hinckley runners
Desford 5 (25th March) – 31 Hinckley runners
Bosworth Half Marathon* (13th May) – 21 Hinckley runners
Kibworth 6 (27th May) – 16 Hinckley runners
Swithland 6 (3rd June) – 29 Hinckley runners
Prestwold 10k (24th June) – 33 Hinckley runners
Joy Cann 5 (1st August) – 26 Hinckley runners
Carl Rutt 10k** (12th August) – 10 Hinckley runners
John Fraser 10*** (2nd Sep) – 26 Hinckley runners

* Also the county half marathon championship
** Also the county 10k championship
*** Also the county 10 mile championship

Team Results

Mixed League (4+4 to count): New for this season is the mixed league, in which a team comprises is the first 4 men and 4 women at each race. Hinckley has begun in Division 1 and came 6th out of 8 so will stay up for next season. (Champions: West End Runners)

Womens League (6 to count): Hinckley women came a respectable 4th out of 8 in Division 1, so staying up for another year. (Champions: West End Runners)

Mens League (8 to count): Alas, the men ended bottom in Division One and so back down to Div 2 next year after two heady seasons in the top flight. (Champions: Badgers)

Vet Womens League (3 to count): Finished narrowly bottom of Division 2 so will be down to Div 3 next season. (Champions: Huncote Harriers)

Vet Mens League (4 to count): Saving the day, the vet men finished the year champions of Division 3 and are promoted to Div 2 next year. (Champions: Hermitage Harriers)

Vet Mens Div 3 Champs is silverware so we’ll take it! The top 4 scorers in the male vets category were Rich Whitelegg, Mark Frost, Chris Rawson and Greg Pollard.

Individual Results

In the individuals standings, the best 6 of the 9 races are counted. The Hinckley runners completing 6 or more races were:

Kate Perkins – 7th Senior Female
Mark Frost – 10th Vet Male 50-54
Geoff Oliver – 13th Vet Male 60+ (age 85)
Liz Aspden-Mansfield – 15th Vet Female 45-49
Chris Rawson – 16th Vet Male 40-44
Odette Foxall – 17th Vet Female 45-49

In all, 75 of our club’s members took part this year with 27 first timers (the number of races in brackets, and in bold are those who took part in an LRRL race for the first time):

Elizabeth Aspden-Mansfield (9) *100% Award*, Odette Foxall (8), Chris Rawson (7), Kate Perkins (7), Geoffrey Oliver (6), Mark Frost (6), Anne Ashton (5), Céline Guéry (5), Greg Pollard (5), Richard Whitelegg (5), Vincent Iliffe (5), William Pither (5), Charlotte Sinclair (4), Chris Simpson (4), Jenny Green (4), Matthew Mann (4), Richard Pearson (4), Rolf Hoelmer (4), Sarah Thi (4), Simon Wiggins (4), Alan Morris (3), Edward Nixon (3), Elaine Barrett (3), Elaine Wischhusen (3), Erica Fisher (3), Gayle Brown (3), Jessica Lester (3), Leanne Byard (3), Lucy Masser (3), Michelle Fowler (3), Nick Moore (3), Penny Masser (3), Simon Birch (3), Andrea Earley (2), Andy Damant (2), Harry Langham (2), Ian Sylvester (2), James Brown (2), Joanne Williams (2), Joe Langham (2), Julia Waite (2), Kerry Wittering (2), Louise Damant (2), Mark Hubbard (2), Matthew Knight (2), Mike Welch (2), Nicola Dutton (2), Nicola Williamson (2), Richard Guest (2), Ruth Mansfield (2), Simon Earley (2), Amanda Knight (1), Andrew Dolphin-Rowland (1), Chris Langham (1), Christine Harris (1), Christopher Anagnostopoulos (1), Diane Wildbur (1), Elaine Doran (1), James McBean (1), Jamie Richards (1), Jane Wheeler (1), Jayne Thomas (1), Jenny Cooling (1), Jessica Daly (1), Jonathan Strong (1), Judy McSharry (1), Katy Mitchell (1), Lee O’Brien (1), Natalie Cheung (1), Philip Chisnall (1), Robert Dimbleby (1), Roy Russell (1), Sally Henderson (1), Stephanie Harris (1), Stephen Penney (1)

Special Mentions….

For the second year running, Liz has earned the 100% award. This will be proudly presented at the club awards night in early 2019.

Kate’s 7th place means she only just missed out on an award from the league (which go to the top 6 seniors and top 3 in each vets age category).

Unfortunately the LRRL does not have an 80+ category but if there was I suspect the winner might be Geoff Oliver.

Finally a special mention to Simon Birch who achieved the race win at the John Fraser 10, which also makes him 10 Mile Leicestershire county champion.

Don’t forget as well the HRC Presidents Shield which is awarded to best performing male and female runner (age graded) …… which our LRRL rep Mr Langham will reveal at a later date!

Congratulations from Hinckley RC to this years overall individual champions Tom Whitmore (Charnwood AC) and Joanna Male (West End), and big thanks to all the organising clubs, the marshals and officials, the LRRL committee and everyone who made it all possible.

Thank you to all the HRC members who represented the club this season, and to all those who came along to support and take photos. I hope you enjoyed it and will be back for more next year. Now on with the cross country season!

– Nick Moore, Mens Captain (bleary eyed with spreadsheets; if I have made any mistakes or missed anyone out, please let me know)