Read All About It – Weekly Update 24/12/23.

Xmas Greetings

The committee and coaches wish all our members a Merry Xmas and Happy and Healthy New year.

 

Weekly forecast

The forecast for the week shows that the unusually warm and unsettled weather will continue with some sunny intervals but rain and longer periods of rain every day. A westerly wind flow will continue to fluctuate between gentle to gusty and strong with particularly high wind speeds on Wednesday to Thursday. Maximum temperatures 7 to 13 with Minimum 4 to 8.

 

Road race results

Thursday 21st saw the December Prom run take place on the 3-lap course in very windy conditions. Thank you to everybody who helped and supported in any way with what we think was our largest post pandemic entry. The windy conditions did not stop 224 runners from finishing.

Darren Stacey was 1st WAC man and 1st MV40 in 28.02 followed by Ben Haines as 2nd MV40 in 28.20 and Chris Selman as 3rd MV40 in 29.02. Rich Goddard was 1st MV60 in 33.39.

Laura Fricker was 1st WAC lady in 32.04 followed by Alice Smith in 33.03 and Hannah Keating in 35.47. Pip Stephens was 2nd LV50 in 35.53 and Rachael Vincent 3rd LV60 in 40.58.

 

Off-Road race results

 No races that we are aware of this week.

 

 Multi Event results

No races that we are aware of this week.

 

Information and help needed.

 

 South-West XC Championships 7/1/24 RNAS Merryfield Ilton

 The South-West XC Championships are taking place next month with entries for individuals and teams. Closing date for entry is 27/12/23 and you need to be affiliated to England Athletics to take part.

 

Date for your diary Friday 9th Feb 2024

 The Weston awards night will take place at the Grand Pier on Friday 9th February 2024. There is an event on the WAC fb social site for you to confirm you intention to come (or send mail to Georgie Ford or Jim Wotton) Further detail will follow shortly.

 

Thursday Night Training times

 Following requests from several members about the idea of bringing the start time forward we are currently running a fb poll which can be found on WAC fb Social. There are three options: 6.00pm, 6.30pm and 7.00pm So far, after 51 votes 6.30pm is leading by some way. We wish to get a decision quickly so that we can commence any change from 4/1/24 so if you wish to vote please do so quickly on the poll or if you ‘don’t do’ fb please drop Helen Diamond or Jim Wotton a mail with your vote.

 

Championship 2023/2024

Remaining 2024 championship race.

26/12            Clevedon Boxing Day 4 miles (miscellaneous) -Entries on the day available see Clevedon website.

 

2024 Championship races

10/1             Street 5k                 Short Road

28/1             Slaughterford           Off-Road

10/2             Exeter half              Long Road

25/2             Babcary 7               Long Road

 

TWAC

There will be no organised TWAC session this Monday 25/12/23 – Merry Xmas

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals  

 There will be no organised reps/intervals session this Tuesday 26/12 – See above re Clevedon 4-mile run at 11.00am

 

The Wednesday swim sessions 20.20 to 21.30 at Burnham-on-Sea pool is on this Wednesday 27/12 as usual.

Over winter is the ideal time to brush up and develop your swimming technique, ideal prep for next season. Suitable for beginners to seasoned triathletes, injured runners – develop your aerobic capacity and muscles you didn’t know existed

Sessions can be booked in blocks of five (£32.50) or ten (£55.00) ad hoc PAYG (£6.50) sessions occasionally available, for PAYG – please ask if there’s space prior to session

Contact Margaret Sills, Rachael Vincent or Nick Cook for further information.

You need to be a fully paid-up WAC member to access sessions.

 

We have the December and January codes for the 10% discount and free postage on orders from Sportsshoes (min order value £50). 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. (NB Now includes Brooks shoes again)

 

This week’s schedule:

No TWAC session this week – see above.

No Tuesday session this week.

Wednesday – Swimming sessions Burnham poolside 20.20 – See above.

Thursday – Group runs from Hutton Moor. Meet in car park at 6.50 for 7.00pm start, the route this week will be Hills.

 

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