Weekly Update 17/7/22

 Weekly forecast

You will all have seen the extreme heat warning for Monday and Tuesday. Suggested 35 degrees on Monday and 30 on Tuesday before a change leads us back to more normal 21/25 max with min 14 or 15. Light to moderate winds and light cloud, sunny intervals, and a few showers before next weekend.

Due to the heat the planned TWAC session Monday night has been cancelled with a social meeting at Marine Lake instead. The forecast for 7.00pm Tuesday is 24/22 degrees but watch WAC fb and Westonac.co.uk website in case the heat changes and we need to cancel that too.

Another extremely busy mid-week and weekend again.

 

Road race results 

Tuesday 12th saw Nia Davies take part in the Newport Rose Inn 4-mile series race. Nia finished 7th lady and 2nd LV50 in 26.15.

 

Wednesday saw 3 club members take part in the Yeovilton 5k. Chris McMillan finished fourth overall just outside his newly set pb in 15.17, Kieron Summers finished third in his age group in 16.45 and Louise Davidson set a new pb winning her age group in 21.36.

 

Wednesday also saw 2 members take part in the Castle Coombe 10k. Katie Gormley was 1st lady overall in 42.17 with Rob Robertson seventh overall in the race in 38.50

 

Continuing the mid-week races Thursday saw the Championship race the Thornbury 10k. Susan Duncan ran an excellent race in the heat to finish 1st lady overall in 38.51. Kevin Bale finished 3rd overall in the race in 35.52, Bradley Smith finished in 41.45, followed by Vicki Wilkins in 52.22 and Rob Osment in 56.30.    

 

Off-Road race results 

Saturday saw Clare Harvey and Kevin Bale take part in the Rat races along the South-West coast path finishing close to St Austell. Clare took part in the Black Rat race 32 miles and finished 8th in her age category in 7.48.48. Kevin took part in the Red Rat race covering 18.5 miles and 4200ft and finished 2nd overall in 3.17.37.

 

Saturday also saw Guy Bradford and Rob Mountford travel to North Wales to take part in the Snowdon International Mountain race covering 9.5 miles and 3130ft of climb. Rob finished 82nd male from 301 in 1.39.58 with Guy finishing 15th in his age cat and 141st in 1.53.46.

 

Sunday saw one of the Somerset series races the Piddlewood Plod just North of Taunton.

 

Multi Event results 

Sunday saw the GWR event take place with several different distances on offer to cycle from Bristol to Weston seafront. Apologies for missing people but Sarah Wheatley, Laura Fricker, Gerry Metcalfe, Mark Bowskill, Jo and Owen Thurlby, Helen and Stuart Diamond, Nia Davies, Nick Cook, Matt Wheeler, Steve Lovell, Rob Robertson are among the people to take part with a few 100’s thrown in.

Congratulations to the club members who were part of the Team 22 LEJOG. They successfully completed the journey on Monday last week with a final 80-mile stage to John O’Groats. Rachel and Pete Stacey, Margaret Sills, James Wotton, and Gary Bowden were amongst the members of the group.

 

If we have missed any results, please let us know so that we can share them

 

Information and help needed:

 

Social event planned to include Mini 2021-Awards night Thursday 21/7

The Axbridge Amble will take place on Thursday the 21st of July and following the run the food at the Oakhouse we will have the 2021 Mini Awards evening.

Tickets for the Oakhouse are now all taken but you can of course come along to run and there is space outside for afterwards.

Meeting at Axbridge reservoir car park at 6.30 to depart at 6.45pm. All abilities welcome-different options to suit preference. After the run (around 8ish) we will be heading to the Oakhouse for the mini summer awards ceremony

If you are running your running attire will be absolutely suitable for the WAC summer mini awards. If you are not running, then regular clothing is also fine!

 

Sodbury Ballot

Reminder that the Sodbury Slog ballot closes at midnight 17/7/22.

 

Championship 2022

Unfortunately, the Minehead RR Seaview 17 race which was due to take place 31/7 has been cancelled due to lack of entries and difficulty with marshals. We will find a new long multi to replace the lost trace in the Championship.

 

The latest points position and details of the races for the remainder of the year are now on the website

(Please find this by looking at the website/races/handicap races and clicking on handicap results 2021 202. Then look at the tabs along the bottom of the sheet for 22 championship and marathon 22 results)

 

With Burnham not having their 5k series (as far as we are aware) there will be no separate 5k section but 2 parkruns included in a miscellaneous section.

Your best scores from 2 x Miscellaneous, 4 x Prom runs, 2 x 10k’s, 1 x 10 mile and 2 x half marathons plus any marathon will count for the road championship.

Off-road championship will be your best 3 short and 3 long off-road races

 

Nailsea have confirmed that their popular Friday night road race the ‘Beer and Banger 10k’ will be back this year on Friday the 12th of August at 7.00pm. We will add this race in addition to Thornbury 10k taking place 14th July to the list of 10k races that form part of the championship.

 

The Monday night TWAC session 18/7 has been cancelled due to the extreme heat expected on Monday. This has been replaced by a social meeting at Marine Lake at7.00 See TWAC fb group for full detail and W3W address.

 

Remember Tuesday sessions are now at HUTTON MOOR

This week’s Rep/interval session on Tuesday the 19th meet 6.50 for 7:00 on the field at the rear of Hutton Moor. Sheryl, Carol, Nick, Jason, and Jim will take the sessions.

Session suitable for all abilities. Please check fb or website on Tuesday for announcement about conditions.

 

The Wednesday swim sessions at Burnham-on-Sea pool. These sessions need to be booked and paid for – please email Margaret and Charlotte at westonacmultisports@gmail.com

 

Thursday – Social run and mini awards. Meet Cheddar reservoir car park 6.30 for 6.45 start – see notes above

Saturday 23rd July 8.00am – Saturday’s session is tba – suitable for all abilities.

We now have the July code for the 10% discount and free postage on orders from Sportsshoes (min order value £30). This code is on the WAC members social fb page for WAC member use only. Please ask Jim, Helen, or Julia if you do not access to fb and wish to put in an order with them.

New members can pick up their kit after training on Tuesday night at Hutton, come along at about 7.45/8.00 and find Jim Wotton. If you cannot get to HM let Chris Loach or Jim Wotton know and we will see what we can do. Ladies kit comes in sizes 8, 10, 12 etc.

 

This week’s schedule:

Monday – TWAC session cancelled due to heat. Social meeting arranged for Marine Lake at 7.00pm – See above and TWAC fb for more detail.

Tuesday session – Meet from 6.50pm on the far side of the field at Hutton Moor for rep/interval sessions. See above

Wednesday See above– Swimming session at Burnham pool

Thursday – Social runs from Axbridge – meet 6.30 Cheddar reservoir car park see above

Saturday AM session – 8.00am – TBA