Read All About It – Weekly Update 25/8/24. 

 

Weekly forecast 

The forecast for this week looks more settled with initially moderate winds falling to gentle by next weekend. Light cloud with sunny intervals is forecast with just a belt of rain during the day on Wednesday otherwise it is forecast to be dry. Max temperatures 19 to 23 and min temperatures 11 to 13.

 

Road race results

Sunday saw the Gordon Old Cleeve 5k relays. We had 21 people in 6 teams representing Weston at the event with 47 teams in total taking part. Weston gained awards for fastest V50 time – Kieron Summers 17.05, Ist V35 ladies’ team and 1st V40 men’s team. No full results yet but Rob Mountford achieved a new 5k pb of 17.32 on what was a windy course.

 

On Sunday 25th Kirsty Dearing ran the Severn Bridge 10k finishing a very windy race which involves running in both directions over the Bridge in 1.02.11.

 

 

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 

 

Club Clothing Shop

Please see more detail of the club clothing on the Weston Social fb page and follow the link to Weston Athletics Club Archives – Karuta Sportswear (karuta-sportswear.com) The first orders have now been delivered so lead times to delivery should be much shorter.

 

2024 Championship

Details of the 2024 championship structure and races have previously been announced and are shown on the website under members/2024 Championship.

The races for August and September are:

26/8             Baltonsborough 5     Short Road (Race full no entries on the day)

1/9               Bridgwater              Long Road

 

Prom Run and Muddle are open for entries 

The Prom run and Junior prom runs together with the Mendip Muddle are all open for entry on Race Nation website. Links to the entries are also via the WAC website for the series and single race entry for both the 5-mile and junior runs.

The first prom runs are on the 12/9 this year so only 2 weeks on Thursday. Please get your series entries completed early to help with the preparation for number allocation on the night.

 

Prom Team entries

Nia Davies is organising the teams for the 24/25 prom series. If you have not let Nia know via fb that you wish to be in a team, please drop her a mail.

 

TWAC 

There will be no evening TWAC on 26/8/24 due to it being a Bank Holiday.

See TWAC fb for more details.

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals   

This week 20/8 with there will 2 effort sessions taken by Nick and Jim.

First session on Hutton Moor Field – Working on consistent pacing

Warm up –

Effort.                    Rolling Recovery

1×1 minute.             30 seconds

2×2 minutes.           60 seconds

2×3 minutes.           75 seconds

4 minutes.               90 seconds

(Repeat entire session starting from 1 min again)

 

Second session – Hill endurance session

South Rd Reps

Meet 6.45 pm top of  Madeira Rd

 

Wednesday Swimming

The Wednesday swim sessions at Burnham-on-Sea pool are currently taking the summer break and will start again 4/9/24.

Update on 15/8/24
The Wednesday night swims in Burnham starting 4/9/24 are now full so a waiting list is in operation. Please message Margaret before transferring any £££. There are limited spaces left for the last 5 sessions. Priority will be given to those who have booked for the first 5 and wish to extend for the full 10. The next payment block of 10 starts on Wed 13 November 2024

The sessions are suitable for beginners to seasoned triathletes, injured runners – develop your aerobic capacity and muscles you didn’t know existed

Sessions starting from 4/9 can be booked now in blocks of five (£32.50) or ten (£55.00) ad hoc PAY as you GO (£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 August code 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.

See fb post about Sportsshoes code change by adding your EA number to your Sportsshoes account for auto application.

 

This week’s schedule:

 

Monday – No Monday TWAC evening session this week due to Bank Holiday.

See TWAC fb for more detail.

 

Tuesday Rep/interval session. Meet 6.50 at Hutton Moor or 6.45 at top of Madeira Rd – see above for details of both sessions.

 

Wednesday – Next swimming session 4/9 – See above.

 

Thursday – Group runs from Hutton Moor – meet inside HM upstairs at 6.20 for 6.30 start – This week is the Hills route.

 

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