Spring is finally here and we can start to look forward to running in some warmth and sunshine; bring it on! In this issue we have news on the new hj website, the latest race results and achievements as well as events and activities to get you going into the great outdoors.

Membership subscriptions

Don’t forget that your annual hj subs are now due to bring them in line with the UKA affiliation subs. At just £10 for an individual and £20 for a family (2 adults and multiple U16’s living at the same address) it’s an absolute bargain! You are now able to pay these via the new Member Zone on the website. Just follow the link sent to all current members by email and login to enjoy our web shop. If you can’t login, please let us know via info@hj and we’ll sort it out.

Marathon Minibuses

We’ve had a few members interested the Brighton and London marathon minibuses (9^th and 23^rd April respectively) and one kind volunteer to drive the bus to Brighton and back so we now just need a driver for London! You must have category D1 on your licence and will then be insured to drive. We aim to take the stress out of getting runners there and back for a small donation of about £8. Please email info@hj to express an interest. Buses take 13 passengers and we still need 4 more passengers for Brighton and 6 more for London to fill them both up and make this worthwhile. If you’ve asked for a place on the Brighton bus, details will be emailed to you this week regarding timings.

New Learn to Run course

The next course starts 11th April. Please let your friends know who want to run and follow this link for details. https://www.horshamjoggers.co.uk/learn-to-run/

Website? What website?

After an “interesting” conversation during a group run recently, it seems that some members still don’t know that the hj website is here to provide information, links, documents and payment facilities for all club matters. The chat then moved on to committee matters and it appears that not all members know who is on the committee to represent you! Well, while you are reading this, why not also look up the committee profiles? Just hover over “About Us”, click -> “hj committee” and find out who to speak to get your views across.

Latest Race Results and Achievements

A race round up of some of the highlights from the month of March……

On the 6th Kirsty Anstee Brown ran the Cambridge half marathon smashing her personal best to set a mark of 1.50.30 with husband Matty finishing in 1.18.27.

On the 13th at the local Surrey half marathon just turned 50 birthday boy Mikey O’Grady stormed to an impressive finish in 1.34.09 with a large contingent of Joggers also completing the hilly course. On the track Pete O’Connell took a very fine 4th place in the British Indoor Masters 3K at the famous Lee Valley Stadium in 10.50.

The following weekend half marathons were still taking centre stage as Horsham Joggers continued their marathon build up to Brighton and London in April. At Reading Rob Simmons finished in 1.25.42 followed by Stuart Carruthers 1.41.37 Paul Arnold 2.14.10 Lou Johnson 2.05.43 Sally Arnold 2.28.47 Sue Hensman 2.28.54 Ashley Wilkinson 2.35.41 & Deb Weller 2.36.13. At Hastings in very windy conditions it was Stuart Adesilu beating the elements in 1.34.21 Rob Crocker 1.37.25 Raff Vitale 1.38.28 Paul Aylett 1.40.47 Alan Pettitt 1.44.07 Paul Yokom 1.47.28 Janine Littler 1.50.11 Jane Addams 2.53.40 Victoria Saunders 2.57.26 Jenny Boyd 2.58.56. Smaller contingents visited the Hampton Court, Fleet and Badger half marathons, Neil Clarke 2.01.15 Kevin Elvidge 2.28.00 Phyl Weston 1.48.18 Heidi Chaney 2.41.55 Mal Thornton 1.34.54 Mark Gibson 1.40.28 and Beck Elder 1.55.58 all putting in fine performances.

On the same day Neil Boniface continued his superb start to life in the V40 category with a 1st place finish and 6th overall at the hotly contested Eastleigh 10K in 31.36!

Finally, last weekend at the local Mel’s Milers 10K at Christ Hospital school Simon Perkins stormed home 4th out of a field of 348 in 37.31 with Pete O’Connell 38.19 Lucinda Potten 42.50 Johanna Terry 44.18 Laurence Carpenter 44.24 Phil Liberman 45.04 Guy Gilder 46.15 Paul Windust 46.53 Miranda Huisman 47.39 Tom Gaule 48.29 Jim Hawthorne 49.03 Clive Walker 49.06 Simon Holmes 49.10 Geoff Fisher 49.39 Rebecca Ramsey 49.50 Matt Senior 50.42 Kevin Croker 51.13 Ian Nicholson 53.14 Aaron Baker 53.55 Jo Hopkins 53.56 Fiona Dalrymple-Hay 54.29 Paul Arnold 57.29 Richard Barron 58.01 Danielle Moore 58.08 Steph Charman 62.47 Richard Mullans 67.15 Carol Brown 68.03 Edna Clark 68.14 and Susie Millbank 71.13.

Congratulations also goes to Jane Addams, Victoria Saunders and Jenny Boyd have completed Brighton, Bath and Hastings half-marathons over 3 weeks.

Well done to everyone who raced in March, more next month.

 

Horsham 10k volunteers

We are fast approaching that time when we need your help to deliver our home race on 21st May. It takes over 80 people to set up, bake cakes, marshal, hand out medals and even take chips off the runners shoes! If you can help in anyway, please email info@hj and we’ll be in touch. If you are considering running our 10k, please, please, please make sure that you offer your help before entering.

Also, we are still after a drone to provide some aerial footage of our race. If you have one or you know someone who does, we’d love to hear from you so that we can discuss filming and/or photos on the day of the race. Obviously the operator will need all the relevant permissions etc and most importantly, insurance to fly it above the runners on the rugby fields. Just email info@hj with your details.

Motor Neurone Disease Association and Horsham Junior Parkrun say “Thank you”

We have had a big thank you from Motor Neurone Disease Association and the Horsham Junior Parkrun for our donation to them from the money we raised at the Horsham 10k and Gunpowder Trot in 2016. Well done all who helped make the events a great success!

Dates for your diary

Horsham Joggers Annual General Meeting 25^th April 2017 at 8.30pm in the BBHLC bar.

WSFRL races coming up:

Lewes 10k @ 11:15am Easter Monday 17/04/17

Portslade Hedgehoppers 5 mile @ 11:00am Sunday 07/05/17

Trundle Hill Chichester 10K @ 19:30pm Wednesday 17/05/17

Highdown Hike 3.5miles @ 19:30pm Wednesday 24/05/17

Race Fees: Adult £3.00, Junior £1.00 in advance. Payment can be made through the Member Zone on the HJ website or cash direct to Jenny Boyd WSFRL Rep. Entries must be received 5 days before the race day.

Sussex Grand Prix dates coming up:

Haywards Heath 10m – Sunday 30^th April

Hastings 5 Mile – Sunday 7^th May

Horsham 10k – Sunday 21^st May

Rye 10m – Sunday 28^th May

Summer Pub runs

Summer’s here and the summer pub runs kick off on the 27^th April. Go along and join in, you really don’t know what you’re missing, trail running at its very best. Click HERE for the 2017 summer pub run schedule. The runs and walks follow footpaths, bridleways, byways and permissive paths through our wonderful countryside, through woods, across fields, over hills and beside rivers and canals. The runs are usually between 6 and 7 miles. We hope to have two groups one faster than the other; both groups follow a pre-marked route on maps provided by the route organiser, we have not lost anybody yet!

Itchingfield Time Trials

John Dykes has kindly agreed to put these on again this year. The time trials are a fun club event for all club members over the summer period. They take place on the second Tuesday in the month (except Sept) on club night and start from BBH leisure centre with a warm up jog to the old Itchingfield Primary School. The ITT offer you the chance to see how your performance improves (or not) over the summer and the most improved man and woman will win an award!Dates are below:

9th May 7.30pm

13th June 7.30pm

11th July 7.30pm

5th Sept 7.00pm (Note earlier start time due to less daylight hours)

Please see the new website for further details

Vitality London 10k places with Action Medical Research

The date for the Vitality 10K has been set for 29th May 2017 and members, you can get a discounted place with Action Medical Research

For only a £25 registration fee and with no fundraising commitment, Action Medical Research ask you to raise what you can to support their charity. They will even throw in a free running vest for each runner to write their own messages on. (The standard entry fee is £30, or £28 for club members.)

And the great news is that you can still register your club name and appear on the results for the club. So it’s win – win!

Club members can register for their £25 place using this link:

https://www.action.org.uk/vitality-london-10000

New Trail Running Club in Chichester

A new trail running club in Chichester will be organising regular monthly trail runs and welcome runners of all abilities to join them. It’s free and their runs are delivered by Salomon trained instructors. With runs organised right across West Sussex Karibu hope you might like to run with them as an alternative run to shake up your training and meet new local runners.

To get on their mailing list visit their website (www.karibu.club), hit the Join Us button, select the appropriate fitness level and they will email runs suitable. They also have a Facebook page for updates.

That’s it for now folks! Keep on jogging.

Another jam packed edition of the newsletter this time. We hope you enjoy the read and if you’d like to contribute any articles, please email them to info@hj. Thanks for reading!

HJ’s Gunpowder Trot (WSFRL) 6^th Nov

Thank you to all those who have volunteered to help at the Gunpowder Trot.  We’ve received some great feedback about the new course from those of you who joined Fiona Clifton and Mark Smee yesterday for a trail run.  The course really shows Horsham in a fantastically scenic light, and it’s no push-over either!

Victoria Saunders, the race organiser will be emailing all volunteers this week to let you know your role and when/where to report on Sunday 6^th November.  If you haven’t heard from Victoria by Friday 28^th October, please e-mail info@horshamjoggers.co.uk or speak to Jenny Boyd at a club night.

We still have some roles to fill, so further volunteers are very much welcome.  Fill in the volunteer form here: Volunteer Form – Gunpowder Trot

Those of you who have volunteered to bake, please bring your baked goods to Race HQ, Normandy Centre, Denne Road, by 9am on the morning of 6 November.  Please make sure all items are labelled, and indicate whether they contain any allergens (nuts, dairy etc).  If you want your plate/ container back, please put your name on it. Please do not slice cakes, so we can cut cakes to consistent sizes on the day.  Jenny Boyd, our WSFRL rep has already had a message from another club saying they are looking forward to our cake offerings – we have a high reputation in the cake stakes to maintain, so thank you in advance to all our fantastic bakers!

HJ Hoodies

Order your HJ Hoodie now for Xmas delivery! The ordering window for HJ Hoodies is open again.  Orders have to be placed and paid for by 19th November, to receive your hoodie for Xmas.  The order form is accessible here:  Hoodie order form

HJ’s Legendary Quiz Night – 18^th Nov

Eggheads, start brushing up your general knowledge as, following a slight hiatus from the calendar last year, the legendary quiz night is back on Friday 18^th November (7pm for 7.30 start) with new quiz masters but a similar format. Entry is now open for teams of six (max 14 teams allowed) with at least one person in each team being an hj member. If you would like to enter a team or six, please email info@horshamjoggers.co.uk listing your team members and team name (if known) and pay the £3 per person entry fee (£18 per team) by bank transfer (sort code- 20-23-97 A/C-20523984 Ref- *your name* QUIZ) or by cash on the night if you prefer. You’ll receive an email confirmation and a number between 1 and 14 for your team which means you are in! It’s a great social event with a good few laughs and bit of competitive rivalry to boot! Prizes are awarded to 3^rd, 2^nd and 1^st teams as well as the wooden spoon for the last team!

HJ Winter Handicap – 6^th Dec

For those who have never run the handicap race before, it’s two laps (about 4.5 miles) starting at BBHLC and then around Hills Farm, Blackbridge and Guildford Roads with start times staggered to suit your 5 or 10k time so the steady runners leave first and the whippets leave last! If we get our timings right, everybody will finish at the same time!

Awards Night and pre-Christmas social evening – 6^th Dec

Following the handicap race we will be holding the annual awards presentation and a pre-Christmas drink in the bar. Why pre-Christmas you may cry? Well, it’s a busy time of the year for most and, with venues getting rather pricey with questionable service(!), we intend to arrange something a little bit special for you in the New Year instead of the traditional Christmas party! Better value, better attendance and hopefully better for everyone! Awards will presented for the four Challenge Trophy events, Itchingfield time trial, SGP and WSFRL 8’s, winter handicap and all important draw for Brighton and London marathon places via the club ballot!

Brighton and London Marathon club places

Speaking of the club ballot, if you’d like to be included, please email info@hj and tell us if you’ve met all the criteria included in this link: marathon-ballot-rules

BBHLC Track 5k for Heart UK

Sam has contacted us about her forthcoming run………………… I am the group exercise coordinator for Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre.  I am emailing to let you know that on Sunday 30th October we will be hosting a 5K run around our athletics track to music for the Heart UK charity.  The event will start at 9.30am with a group warm up  followed by the run. The entrance fee will be £5 per person with all of this going to the charity. We are looking to make this a fun friendly family event to raise some money for a worthy cause.  I feel sure that some of your members would fancy stretching their legs a little on a Sunday morning for a worthy cause! Can we count on a Horsham joggers turn out please? Look forward to hearing from you. Samantha Beckinsale 01403 211311 work phone number at Broadbridge Heath Leisure or 07814 541067

Riverside Walk Improvements

We’ve received this appeal from our friends at The Horsham Town Community Partnership…………

The Riverside Walk Project Team have applied to AVIVA for a grant to carry out more work on the route. To stand a chance of being awarded the grant they first need to win a voting competition and your help is needed. Please vote for this project to improve the quality of another section of the Riverside Walk. Also, will you please ask all colleagues, family and friends to add their votes? Thank you. David

Please VOTE for Horsham Riverside Walk Improvements The next project of Horsham Town Community Partnership is to be work on an often muddy 650m length of the Riverside Walk, adjacent to Hills Farm Lane. Our application for £20,000 has been approved for consideration by the Aviva Community Fund but the next VITAL step is to gain online votes from supporters and users of the path. We need about 7,500 votes, by the 18th November. Please register and vote today, using this link to AVIVA We need not only your vote but votes from your family and friends, please. To vote, you first need to register; a simple 3-step process. You will be allocated 10 votes. We would like you to place them all to support this project, please. It should take only a few minutes of your time. After placing your votes, will you please –

1. look through your address book and select those who you believe will help
2. create emails with a personal message
3. ask your contacts to vote using the link to the voting site
4. Note: that you are able vote using each of the email addresses to which you have access

You should be able to forward or copy and paste this email. Then personalise it in the way you think best. Please note: It’s important that you copy the heading “Please VOTE for Horsham Riverside Walk Improvements“ and paste it into the ‘Subject’ line of your new outgoing email. (Just in case the link to vote goes ‘wonky’, here it is in full:) https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/16-3401)

Horsham 10k help

Following the announcement that we will be flying solo next year, we still need to put a new team together by the end of 2016 so if you are able to volunteer for some of the key roles like, Chief Marshal, Sector Marshal, Clerk of the Course, Road Restriction leader, Set up leader, Breakdown leader etc, then please email us at info@hj. There are small tasks and large tasks to be coordinated in the New Year so any offers of help will be appreciated. Many thanks.

Dates for your diary

Sunday 30^th Oct – Steepdown Challenge – WSFRL (final HJ Challenge trophy race for 2016!)

Sunday 6^th Nov – Gunpowder Trot – WSFRL (HJ’s home fun run – Volunteers required!)

Friday 18^th November – HJ Quiz night at Horsham Cricket Club 7pm for 7.30 start

Sunday 27^th November – Crowborough 10k (SGP)

Saturday 3^rd December – Women’s 5 and 10k Christmas Cracker, Worthing

Tuesday 6^th December – Winter handicap and awards night

And finally!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to our blind runner, Mick Duplock. As most of you know by now, Mick has had some pioneering surgery in the hope of restoring some of his eyesight. We wish you well over the coming weeks and months Mick and we look forward to running with you again soon!

Cheerio then!

So much to tell you about, we can hardly contain ourselves! Let’s get started………………

SUMMER PUB RUNS – 21^st APRIL

These will be starting on Thursday 21st April when the run will be from The Lintot in Southwater starting at 7.00pm (see list below). For newcomers these runs are based on pubs in the Sussex area and are cross country routes that bring you back to the pub. There are routes set up for runners and walkers and they usually last about an hour. Runs are typically 6 to 7 miles long and walks around 3 to 4 miles. Attached is a list of the summer runs and if you need any further information contact Peter Dudman 01403 252319.

Pub Run Programme 2016 v3

VLM MINIBUS – 24^th APRIL

If you expressed an interest in joining the club transport to VLM then you should now have an email from organiser, Paul Aylett. The bus is now full but we are making a reserve list should anyone drop out at the last minute. Just email info@horshamjoggers to be added to the list.

HORSHAM JOGGERS AGM – 26^th APRIL at 8.30 pm

This year we have booked the Broadbridge Heath Café to hold the AGM. The Bar will be open and Phil will be giving a presentation of the club’s successes and events over the last year. Included will be the announcement of Jogger of the Year and Newcomer of the Year (the Serena Clements award). Please come along and enjoy the all new format for this traditional hj event!

RUSPER MAY DAY 4M – 7^th MAY

This great local race is always popular with hj’s and this year the organisers are appealing for help and volunteer marshals etc. Please email info@hj if you can help and we’ll put you in touch with the right people.

ITCHINGFIELD TIME TRIALS – 10^th May at 7:30pm

John Dykes has once again kindly agreed to organise this series of time trials and they are open to all abilities. You can jog from BBHLC to the old primary school at Itchingfield, take a number and pace yourself against a 5k, two lap, hilly course finishing back at the start then jog back as a warm down. Ideally you will look to improve your time over the 4 trials, with your best 3 times counting towards your overall improvement. The most improved runners will win a fabulous award at the end of the season. Future trial dates are 14^th June at 7:30pm, 12^th July at 7:30pm and 6^th Sept at 7:00pm

POST MARATHON PASTA PARTY

Is now full! Sorry if you missed the boat but maybe you can join in next year?

HORSHAM 10K – 15^th MAY at 11:00am

May is (unbelievably!) just around the corner and we are building up steam for probably the best 10k race in Horsham on that day! We rely on volunteers to make our home race a success, so if you are a volunteer veteran or a newbie who wants to get involved for the first time, why not email info@horshamjoggers and offer your support. Watch this space or Facebook and Twitter for more details! After the race everyone is welcome to come along to enjoy a picnic at the rugby ground – bring your own food and drink and mix with all the race goers celebrating their success.   BBHLC UPDATE In March, Mr Chowen took time out from his busy schedule and wrote to us to give the following update on the BBHLC affair:

We have just appointed the design team for the new Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre and it’s our ambition that the new centre purpose built to meet future needs, designed with all the new twenty first century facilities will not only match current usage but far exceed them.

The old centre much loved by some is very space hungry with many awkward nooks and crannies. While the new centre should be very efficient and more economical. We have agreed to retain the running track but will be look for a new site with ancillary facilities.  The new centre will incorporate most of the usage of the current Tube but more effectively, however there will be a loss of the very specialist usage including indoor high jumping.   The cost of retaining was felt not a good use of precious resources but this is always open to interpretation.  In the end we felt that supporting sport at a participation and foundation level rather than high performance, while always supportive, needs regional and national support/money which during four years of discussion has not been forthcoming.

However we are keeping an open mind during design to further support athletics as much as possible. Finally we are working very closely with all the clubs and users in this process. Thanks for your interest.

Kind regards, Jonathan Chowen.

If you’d like to let Mr Chowen know how you feel about it, why not email him direct at: Jonathan.Chowen@horsham.gov.uk

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

SGP & WSFRL RACES IN MAY

SGP – Sunday 1^st May 10:30 – Haywards Heath 10m, Victoria Park, RH16 4LU (Part of the mid-Sussex marathon weekend)

WSFRL – Sunday 8th May, 11:00 – Hedgehoppers 5m, Portslade Community College Sports Centre, Chalky Road, BN41 2WS

SGP – Sunday 8^th May, 10:30 – Hastings Runners 5m, Town Hall, Hastings

SGP – Sunday 15^th May, 11:00 – hj10k! Horsham Rugby Club, RH12 5BL

WSFRL – Wednesday 18th May, 19:30 – Trundle Hill 10k, Lavant Village Hall, Pook Lane, East Lavant PO18 0AH

SGP – Sunday 29^th May, 10:00 – Rye 10m, Main street, Peasmarsh, TN31 6YD

(Fantastic value! all WSFRL races cost £3 in advance, or £5 on the day to HJ members.)

‘RUN AWAY’ WEEKEND – NEW FOREST, 9^th & 10^th JULY

The weekend of 9th/10th July sees our first ‘Run Away Weekend’, in the New Forest with the Brockenhurst parkrun on the Saturday morning and the New Forest 10 (miles) the following morning. Entries for the New Forest 10 are now open: http://www.nf10.co.uk/  . Advance entry costs £13 for EA affiliated runners (no entry on the day). There are a range of junior fun runs too. There is plenty of accommodation around the New Forest area from Premier Inn (Lymington Hordle – 19 mins drive from Brockenhurst) and Travelodge (Stoney Cross Lyndhurst – 16 mins drive) to more traditional B&B, guest houses and self-catering.

Some members will staying at Long Meadow Campsite right next door to the race HQ:  http://www.longmeadowcaravans.co.uk/ ,  New Park Farm, Brockenhurst, SO42 7QH Tel: 01590 622489. For any further information or to let us know if you intend going please email info@horshamjoggers.co.uk

EQUINOX 24:  Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, 17&18 September

Last year, Horsham Joggers had a relay team and one solo runner at this 24 hour event.  A few Joggers have already entered the 2016 event, and it would be great to see more of us attending this event, where clubs from all over the country take part. The Equinox24 is a 24 hour mixed terrain race around a 10k loop in the spectacular grounds of Belvoir Castle. The event is open to all abilities: whether entering to run solo or in a team of 2-8. Last year saw teams of walkers as well as runners, and the whole spectrum from people who had just started running to those at the top of amateur ultra competition. You set the pace yourself, doing as much or as little as you want. There is free camping from Friday for competitors and spectators, and there was an incredibly supportive and friendly, festival-like atmosphere last year.  More information is available from http://www.equinox24.co.uk/equinox24/ or speak to Committee members Victoria Saunders or Jenny Boyd.

OUR NEW “GUNPOWDER TROT” – SUNDAY 6^th NOVEMBER

Members will recall that the Committee has been looking for an alternative venue/ course for the Club’s Valentine’s Run, our West Sussex Fun Run League event.  Runner numbers for this event mean that we have now outgrown the old HQ in Southwater, and the course has been posing increased safety risks due to both pressure of numbers, and increased traffic on the on-road sections. We are pleased to confirm that we will be running an alternative event, the Gunpowder Trot, on Sunday 6^th November. This will see us reverting to the Chesworth Farm/ Denne Hill area, where the club used to stage cross-country events in the past. More details will follow in future newsletters, but we would be grateful if members could save this date, as we will need lots of volunteers to host a great race.

WHY THE DEVIL?

Ever wondered why we use a devil logo on club merchandise? Have a look here: https://horshamjoggers.co.uk/category/about-us/history/ to get the complete low down!

That’s it for now so Run like the Devil!

A bumper newsletter for you this month – Enjoy! (Ed)

LEARN TO RUN COURSE

The next Course starts 15th March if anybody has friends who want to join please let them know. Also helpers are needed from this date onwards! Please contact James Munden – munden888@yahoo.co.uk

SPORT RELIEF – SUNDAY 20th MARCH

Each year we provide help for the Sport relief event on Sunday 20th March. We need about 10 – 12 volunteers to help with marshalling the course in Horsham Park and to help with pre registration. Anyone able to help please email the HJ mailbox info@horshamjoggers.co.uk

2015 SGP AWARDS

Congratulations to hj members Janine Littler and Mick Duplock for winning awards during last years Sussex Grand Prix competition. Janine became 10th overall out of 490 women with an impressive 3916 points scored and picked up the award for 3rd in her age category! Mick also received an award for 2nd place in his age category so congratulations to the both of you.   For the past few years hj has done really well in this competition with individual and team prizes being collected by many members. Why not see if you can help “clean up” when the 17 race series kicks off at the Eastbourne Half Marathon tomorrow?

WSFRL – LEWES 10K – EASTER MONDAY 28^TH MARCH

The next race in the WSFR league is the Lewes 10k on Monday 28th March. You can apply to Lewes AC for entry either on line on their website (www.lewesac.co.uk) or download a copy of the application form and send by post with a stamped addressed envelope.

SUSSEX RELAYS – SATURDAY 9^th APRIL

The Sussex Relays are always a fun day – they are on April 9th at Christs Hospital – there are many races for all ages so please everyone let me know if you want to compete , the usual teams m50s Steve Wigmore, Dean Angel and Pete O’Connell + w40s Ali Gormley Val Purnell and Janine Littler have already signed up. Please email  purpledrummer@sky.com or speak to me, Pete O’Connell on Thursday eves at track for any details

LONDON MARATHON HELP

We need volunteers to help with the London Marathon.  Marshals are needed to help on the morning (April 24th) with pre start help for the competitors. It’s an early start, you need to be at Blackheath by 6.45am but lifts can be shared and as many members can testify it is a fantastic morning with guaranteed special memories of being involved in such a special event! Please email Phil Liberman (philipliberman@talktalk.net

MARATHON MINIBUS UPDATE

7 people have expressed an interest in filling a minibus for Brighton Marathon (17th April) and 8 for London the following week. We are happy to provide this for a small contribution (about £8-£10 p/p tbc) as long as we can fill all 16 seats for each race. Therefore we now invite friends, family and other club members to join us. If you would like to be included, please email info@horshamjoggers.co.uk ASAP as seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Price includes early outbound travel to the starting areas and return from the finish area (if required) once all returnees have completed the race or been discharged by St Johns Ambulance! More details will be sent to those who want to join us. We are in need of a driver for the Brighton minibus – please email the HJ mailbox if you can help.

HJ AGM

We are holding our AGM on Tuesday 26th April at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre starting at 8.30 pm after club night. If there is anything you would like to raise at the meeting can you please send an email to the HJ mailbox (info@horshamjoggers.co.uk)  and we will add it to the business items in AOB. Also if you would like to stand on the committee and help us with the running of the club then please contact any of the committee. There will be 2 items on the agenda which need your nominations – Jogger of the Year and Newcomer of the Year (i.e. anyone joining the club in 2015 who you think has made a contribution to the club) – send nominations to the HJ mailbox.

SOUTH DOWNS WAY 100 MILE RELAY –  SATURDAY 4th JUNE

Although June seems a long way off, especially for those of you who are focusing on training for a spring marathon, it would be useful to get an idea of how many people would be interested in being part of a team in the 2016 SDW Relay. For those who haven’t experienced this excellent event before, it is an “invitation only” event for about 50 teams. Horsham Joggers have been invited once again to enter two teams (of six). As the name suggests this is a relay race over the 97 miles of the South Downs Way, starting at  Beachy Head and finishing at Winchester. Each team consists of six runners who each run three non-consecutive legs of the relay. The distance of each leg is somewhere between 4 and 8 miles and you’ll have between 3 and 4 hours between each of your 3 runs. Each runner will run somewhere between 15 – 18 miles over the course of the day, almost entirely off road. The team travel between the start/finish points of each leg by minibus. There is a strictly enforced 14 hour time limit to complete the event, meaning that an average pace per mile of just over 8.5 minutes is required (over the whole distance). In the past we have had teams consisting of a good mix of different paced runners, with some running faster and some slower than the 8.5 m/m average required. Although a fairly tough (it’s hilly!) long day (expect a 5:00am start and 10:30+pm return) it is a great day. Entry cost is subsidised by the club, the cost per runner is expected to be £25.00 to cover minibus and fuel costs. In addition to 12 runners there are vacancies for a minibus driver and a navigator for each team.  At this stage if you would like to take part (or even if you only think you might be interested in taking part) or want to know more e-mail Tony Johnson: tony@roosthole.co.uk now! Full details of the event can be found on the organisers website: http:// www.southdownsrelay.co.uk

RUN AWAY WEEKEND

The weekend of 9th/10th July sees our first ‘Run Away Weekend’. The concept was to find a location not too far away offering a parkrun with a local race the next day. This will be in the New Forest with the Brockenhurst parkrun on the Saturday morning and the New Forest 10 (miles) the following morning, also at Brockenhurst. Those wishing to go will be responsible for obtaining their entry to the New Forest 10 and finding accommodation. The NF10 starts at 11:15am so reachable on the morning from Horsham for a day trip but best to get there in plenty of time because of the traffic. There are also fun runs for all ages from 10am. For any further information or to let us know if you intend going please speak to Paul Chandler on a club night or email info@horshamjoggers.co.uk

RAFF’S HANDY TIPS

This months link – Ways to Enjoy Long runs

Four Ways to Enjoy Long Runs

		Four Ways to Enjoy Long Runs Runners often have a love/hate relationship with the long run. We love the sense of accomplishment we feel when it’s over; we hate the anticipation of actually getting out there.
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