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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

Team photo and cake photo from the cross country race at Launde Farm today.

XC race info for newbies!

Just a reminder to everyone that you have the opportunity for a cross country race at Launde Farm this Sunday. For those new to the club I thought I would explain how it all works. Unlike most races, you don’t wear a number and there is no chip timing. Instead, everyone just lines up at the start and you get given a number token at the finish (a bit like parkrun). You then hold on to your token and bring it to whoever from our club collating our results, which is usually Kate our XC rep.
The course for this first race is advertised about 5 miles (the distance is never exact so don’t be surprised if your Garmin says 4.5 or 5.5 at the end….)
All you have to do is bring your money (cash please, £6 for this race) and running kit. Best to have trail shoes with a grippy sole. The rules say everyone must wear the club colours (i.e. club vest/tshirt).
Another important rule is “no jumping the queue” at stiles or gates.
Some tips:
– The “changing facilities” will consist of our club tent in a field. Best to come layered up with your race kit already on underneath. There will be toilets though.
– Speaking of the club tent, that’s where you can keep your bags etc. during the race.
– Bring warm layers, as we will be hanging around outside for some time and it might be cold.
– You might well end the race muddy so you may want to bring a small towel to wipe the mud off you (so prob not your best bath towel…), and a plastic bag to put any muddy stuff in to take home.
– Bring a mug as we will have hot water urns and tea/coffee. I think there may be cake too (feel free to bring some….)
– Bring a sense of humor and a sense of adventure too
– Everyone in the club is welcome and encouraged to take part no matter how fast or slow.
– There are 30 clubs in the league from across Leicestershire and Derbyshire, so you will get to meet loads of other runners from the region. The league itself consists of both a club competition with league tables, and individuals competition including age group categories.
– Parking is always limited at XC races and car sharing is the norm, minimum 3 to a car is required by most of the organisers to be allowed in the car park. (See our car share post in the event below.)
– Aim to get to the venue before 10am to allow time to prepare, warm up etc. The juniors race will be at 10:15 and the seniors race at 11am. Our juniors would love your support during their race too.
– Also don’t forget the clocks go back overnight before the race.
Club members can co-ordinate car sharing in our Facebook event which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/events/328393117965650/
Don’t worry if you can’t make this weekend’s race, there are plenty more XC races from now until March. You can do as many or as few as you like. The full list of dates is here on our website here: https://hinckleyrunningclub.com/results/xc-2018-19/
Hope to see you there!

Categories XC

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

Club flag at Conti Thunder Run 2018 (A. Earley)

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)

Tuesday Training – 11 Sep

RUGBY ROAD LAY-BY LOOPS
Working in 3’s as ABC 2 Laps on one lap off.
Depart from LC at 6:30pm or meet at lay-by (top of Rugby Rd just before the roundabout for the Sketchley grange turn) for a 6:45pm start

-Jenny

Presidents Shield Update – 17 Aug 2018

As some of you may know, each year we award a presentation called the Presidents Shield. This is Presented by our very own esteemed Club President, Geoff Oliver.

It is awarded to HRC members, individually for men and women, and is based on their age graded times for each LRRL race.

So as to make it harder for those among you who are gifted at math I have only given the results as far as the Joy Cann 5 race.

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