Club Nights

Good morning everyone, forms for next week are now up! As usual, please ensure your name is down if you’re coming to any of the sessions.

On Tuesday we’ll be working from the Hub again. The set is ~2km repeats (will measure just under – 2 laps of track), walk recoveries between them. Number of repeats to vary, see guide for more info.

Because the track is (nearly) 1km per lap, it’s easy to work out what pace you should be doing each lap according to your target time. In case of 10K pace, just divide by 10 (and take off a few seconds to account for it being ~40m per lap short). So if your target 10K time is 50 minutes, you should probably be aiming for 5 minutes per lap (or 4:50 ish to account for it being a bit short).

Anyway, while we’re rambling about the 10K – Thursday’s route will be a recce of the Doncaster 10K course, slightly modified to keep off roads and leave from / back to the Hub. You’ll get the rough idea of where you’re going on the day if you’ve never raced it before.

Because of the start and end point change, the route is 7.65 miles. There is a shortcut at the bottom of Bennetthorpe (skipping Leger Way), which will take the run to approximately 4.5 miles.

See you next week!

Evening everyone, forms for next week are up. Please remember to put your name down if you’re coming along!

Jim has made a couple of tweaks to the Doncaster 10K Training Plan and the revised file is here. When he put it together, we hadn’t booked the track and now we have – so the sessions needed adapting from what we would have been doing at the Rail College.
Anyway, Tuesday we’ll be doing full laps of the track followed by shorter reps.

Thursday’s route is R8, which is ~6.6 miles. There’s a shortcut back down Bawtry Road, which will probably make the route around 4 miles, and another at Lakeside which would take around a mile or so off.

See you in the week!

Dear Harriers, it’s the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), Awards Evening and Xmas Party at The Dome on Saturday 9th December. More information on the timings and schedule to follow in the coming weeks, but for now we need your….

Award nominations!

During the awards section of the evening we’ll be presenting the Club trophies for 2023, and this will culminate with the awards for Runner of the Year (Female) and Runner of the Year (Male), and Harrier of the Year. This is where we ask you for your nominations. The criteria are as follows:

Runner of the Year (ROTY) – a trophy awarded to the Male and Female ROTY. In your opinion which male and female runner you think have had the best year running. This can be success as in trophies, personal bests, success as in their own personal running journey, or the most improvement in their running.

Harrier of the Year (HOTY) – one trophy awarded to the person (female or male) who you feel is representative of the Club and demonstrate true “Harrierness”. They may have gone that extra mile for the club or fellow club runners, or perhaps they attend every session they can, and turn up for every club event. The choice is yours!

To help you make your choices it might be worth reading some of the “This Month’s Mentions” in the previous newsletters.

You can make your nominations online by accessing this link (you’ll need to be registered and signed in to access it). Here you’ll be able to select your nominee(s) and importantly your reason why, as it’s great for the recipient to know why their fellow club members have voted for them. You don’t have to make all 3 nominations at the same time (so you can come back to add another), but once a nomination for an award has been made it can’t be changed!

The closing date for nominations is 20:00 on Sunday 19th November so get nominating!

Good morning all, forms for this coming week are now up. As always, please remember to put your name down if you’re coming to any of the sessions.

Tuesday’s interval set is an 8-6-4-2 progression/regression (decreasing time, increasing pace) on the track at the Hub!
No social scheduled for this week.

Thursday’s route is R7. This is ~5.7 miles long. There’s a shortcut available off Stoops, which should make it around 4-4.5 miles.

See you in the week!

Hi everyone, form for this coming week is up. Please put your name down if you’re coming to either of the sessions. Shouldn’t have to keep reminding about this, but we are still having to do this for people on a regular basis, which adds unnecessary overhead on top of what we already have to do on a club night.

David Langford is taking a social run on Tuesday.
Scully will be taking a hill reps session from the Cenotaph.

A reminder that it’s the Cadeby away run on Thursday and that chip butty orders need to be in by Monday lunch time. The post for that is in the announcements on Facebook, and key details are in the Calendar event.

Have a good week!