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Hi all, forms for next week are now up!
Tuesday’s session will be:
2 * 3 min, 2 min recoveries
8 * 1 min, 90 second recoveries
Some quick strides to finish with (use lap button if programming this on your watch).
Thursday’s route is R10 (Hare and Hounds) and is just under 6 miles. There are a couple of shortcuts, which your leaders will make you aware of should you need them.
See you in the week!
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!
October’s newsletter is now available for you all to read with all the updates from the month – including photos for 3 new members; Tara’s race report on the Ladybower Half; An article on our first floodlit DonFaster 5k race; Another bumper crop of mentions for this month; Reports from a couple of Cross Country newbies; and info on three more of our Run Leaders! Remember to let us know if there’s anything you want including in any future issues!
Once you’re registered and logged in you can always find the latest Newsletter on our Newsletter page here.
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!