Category: Training Runs

‘Tis The Season to Be Running

2016 Advent Running Challenge

by Jo Sharples

25 runs in 25 days… you must be joking? Up until now, I had yet to brave the thought of doing a running streak challenge, and merely admired those crazy enough to entertain it. My training throughout November had been okay, but I felt like I had become a little unenthused by running. I had heard of the Advent Running challenge before and decided 2016 would be my year to try it. An advent chocolate and a run a day- what a perfect balance!

The Advent running collective was founded in 2014 by 2 running enthusiasts. They are both an online and actual community and training sessions are based in London. The AR challenge is a free challenge, where the aim is to do 30mins of activity a day from 1-25th December. read more

Senior Training Runs

Wednesdays

This is the main club training night and aboslutely everyone is welcome. We meet at Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre at 7.25 for a 7.30 prompt departure. The runs are generally between 4 and 10 miles. During the winter the meeting point is at the end of the corridor next to the sports hall.

On the first Wednesday of each month the "Stag Trophy" race takes place from Parsons Close Park in the town centre. The details are on the Stag Trophy pages, but on those nights either come to Tiddenfoot for around 7.20, or go straight to the park for 7.30. A location and route can be found here.

Sundays

For many people, their longer runs of the week tend to take place on a Sunday. Rather than doing them seperately we are trying to give people the option of getting together for these runs. A different person will lead each week on a route chosen by them. It may be from their house or just somewhere they like running. The distances will be from 8 miles upwards and is entirely at the discretion of the leader, but the distance, location and meeting time will be posted here. The only pre-requisite is that you can comfortably run the distance stated. We are constantly looking for volunteers to lead these runs. Please e-mail Andy (Andy_inchley@hotmail.com) to volunteer.

Tring Training Run

Wednesday 19th May will see our annual trip over to Tring for their excellent training run, where all the local clubs are invited. It is always an extremely well organised event that caters for all runners with four groups of varied standards that are very sociable and have lots of regrouping points.

The meeting point is Tring cricket club, opposite Tesco's and the routes are usually very scenic and take in various sections of the Ridgeway. Everyone is welcome, and all are encouraged to stay for a drink and a bite to eat afterwards, with the food laid on by Tring Running Club. There are showers available to all and the meeting time is the same as our own in Leighton. Nick will co-ordinate lifts, but we do need to let them know approximate numbers, so please e-mail him to confirm on nickjclay@aol.com read more