Read All About It – Weekly Update 11/10/26 

 

Weather

The forecast suggests that we will continue with the unsettled period but still without the needed substantial amounts of rain. The wind will start moderate westerly from Monday to Thursday but change to a light northerly for the weekend with cooler drier days. There will be rain on Monday and Tuesday and Thursday afternoon and evening. Maximum temperatures 14 to 19, minimum temperatures 6 to 15.

 

Road race results

Sunday saw the Chester marathon take place with 6 WAC members taking part.

Michelle Fryer ran a great race taking nearly 4 minutes off her pb on a course with 700ft of climb finishing 2nd V40 in a time of 3.09.47.

Rob Robertson was 1st WAC male runner in a time of 3.08.57 followed by Chris Shergold in 3.15.47, John Davidson in 3.27.55, George McCallum in a new pb of 3.29.13 and Bill Green in 3.55.38.

 

Susan Duncan took part in the Oxford half marathon finishing 2nd V45 in 1.27.00.

 

4 WAC members took part in the London Royal Parks half marathon with Lesley Bowskill 1st WAC finisher in 2.00.35 followed by Marc Bowskill in 2.01.36, David Hill in a new pb of 2.21.30 and Nicky Baker in 2.38.04

 

Sunday also Baz Hall take part in a further 3.3 mile looped event in East Devon. Baz Completed 4 loops of the course for a half marathon in 2.28.31.

 

Off-Road race results 

No results that we are aware of this week.

 

Multi Event Results 

No results that we are aware of this week.

 

Information and help needed 

 

2026 Cracker beginners’ group 

The 2026 Cracker group started last Monday the 5th of October, and we had our first Saturday meeting on the seafront. There are still one or two people yet to attend their first session so if you have any friends or family who were undecided about joining us it is still not too late for anybody to come along on Monday the 12th. Detail of the 2026 group is now on the ‘Weston AC – Christmas Cracker’ fb page. Please share with any of your friends or relatives

 

 

Gwent League Cross Country

The dates and locations of the first 3 meetings have now been released. The club will again be paying the entry fee for these races, and it would be great to see our numbers attending increase this season. The results are now chip timed and due to the additional cost of the numbers they will only be allocated for members definitely intending to travel to the event. Please let us know if you plan to take part in the second race on the 8th of November in Cardiff.

League Fixtures Before Christmas

Sunday 8th November   – Cardiff

Saturday 5th December – Blaise Castle

Provisional 2027 Fixtures

Fixtures will be confirmed, with venues to be

announced.)

13th February 2027

6th March 2027

 

WAC Club races now open for entries 

Entries are now open for the autumn club races on Race Nation. The prom series and mile races with the second races on the 22/10, Mendip Muddle 25/10 and the Xmas Cracker 13/12.

 

 

Next Championship races

The races for October and November are :

25/10  Mendip Muddle                          Trail              10k

11/11  Wells                                               Road             5k

29/11  Herepath half                              Trail             13.1 Miles

 

Note change of date for the Herepath  

 

TWAC 

The Monday evening TWAC session this week 12/10 is ‘Mendip Middle’

Meet : 6:50 pm Longbottom Road Lay-by, Shipham. W3W: ///soonest.attracts.working

(Please car share as parking is limited)

This session is a social run offering several small groups to choose from to suit your pace  and you will get to do a section of the Mendip Muddle route ahead of the race on the 25th (p.s. have you entered ? if not why not ??. Enter now! you do not want to miss out!).

Bring : Headtorch, Change of clothes,

Pub after : Shipham Inn

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals – 13/10/26  – NOTE START 6.30 DUE TO LIGHT

Location: shelter right side of the Tropicana

Time : Start 6:30pm

Aim : Building speed endurance

Focus : Stride length to help with better extension and power without over striding

Warm up followed by :

10 x 3 mins rpe 7/8  (90 secs rolling recovery)

 

Cool down

 

 

Wednesday Night Swim Sessions 

Swim on Wednesday 14th October.

Swim restarted on Wednesday 9th September.

If you want to see if there is any space left, please email triathlon@westonac.co.uk

You must be a fully paid up member of Weston Athletic Club to access these sessions.

 

 

SportsShoes Code 

We have the October code for the discount and free postage on orders from Sportsshoes. Please note, as of 01/10/26 the code is valid on AW26 products only and will give you 15% off  (exclusions apply, including but not limited to Brooks, Coros, Garmin, Maurten and Shokz), valid until 01/11/26.

This code is on the WAC members social fb page for WAC member use only. Please ask Ness, Jim, Helen, or Julia if you do not access fb and wish to put in an order with them.

 

This week’s schedule:

The Monday evening TWAC session this week 12/10/26 is ‘Mendip Middle’

Meet : 6:50 pm Longbottom Road Lay-by, Shipham. W3W: ///soonest.attracts.working

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals 13/10/26

Location : Meet at shelter right side of the Tropicana for 6.30 pm start

 

Wednesday – Swim sessions restarted on 16/9/26 details regarding payment above.

Swim sessions are only available to fully paid up members of Weston Athletic Club.

 

Thursday  15/10/26 – Group runs from Hutton Moor

Meet inside upstairs at 6.20 for 6.30 start. Route this week club circuit

 

Saturday 8AM Rep/Interval session – See WAC social for confirmation of meeting place and time later in the week.