Cheers,

Tim

Ideally, I'd like to see someone fairly centrally, and have no idea of the type of appointment costs I'm looking at

Thanks in advance

The club is having some really good race results and I think we should consider letting the Evening Post know (they do a local running club round up) and may be consider a results page on our own website.

The Evening Post sent me the following response.

Many thanks for your email and it is good to hear from the club. I would be only too pleased to get news from Southville Running Club on a regular basis - other clubs already do this.

For your information the deadline for Tuesday's report in the Post is 10am on Monday, so if anyone fom the club has a good perfromance then please let me know.

Anything received after that, plus general news from the club, can be used in my Saturday column and the deadline for that is Thursday 10am.

For the preview pieces in Friday's Post I need copy by 9am Thursday. Obviously that is looking ahead to the weekend's events so if any of your members are off racing then pleasse let me know.

I am happy to pass on this information but its really important runners take the time to post results on the website together with reviews of races.Dont be shy !!

Rob

It certainly does. Please insert name Southville Running Club.Hopefully we wiill see you soon. Please post details of any races on our website. We are particularly interested in Race Reviews

If there are any other queries please post them on the forum.

Rob

After my first Fell run to Fan Fawr decided to compete in the following event

Sugar Loaf 5 miles 1455 fett on 31/10/09 @ 2pm (Abergavenny area)

I will be driving and have 3 places in car

I will be leaving at 12ish and will be running unless poor conditions. Let me know if interested.

Please note this is NOT a speed race. The course record is 37 .12 (M) and 43.26 (F)

Please see www.wfra.org.uk for limited details

Rob

good idea. The forum is the best place for such discussion, so I've created a new subforum specifically for people's reviews of races/events.

Would be great to see everyone post their thoughts if they've taken part in a race...

It would be great to hear about any of the following:

1. Runs completed

2. Areas for improvement for the club

3. New routes

4. Weekend runs

5. Ideas for the club (target races, out of Bristol trips in fact anything)

6. Advice about good local deals on running stuff

Dont be shy . We are attracting more and more runners and its a great way of communicating .

We have some regular regular picture takers and it would be good to include some of these on the web

We are also on Facebook and Twitter

Any comments

Rob

good point with regard to group leaders. I've worked out a cunning plan to cope on a temporary basis as 'my' group expands but once it gets beyond about 18-19 on a regular basis it won't offer as much to the group.. I'm happy to put together an evening's schedule for someone .

With regard to times Sam, I think your right, we need both descriptions .

Chris

Maybe as a club we need to sort out another session where we do a timed mile route, or suggest to new runners to do this themselves? In any case I think new runners soon figure out what group they should be in after a couple of runs - the important thing is that they start off with an easier group in their mind and work up.

On another note, I think we need more people who are willing to lead a group. With the numbers we're now getting, 5 groups can mean 15-20 people running off together.

1 mile route link

it occurred to me with all these new runners joining us they may get confused about which group to join cos' we use different ways of describing the speed our respective groups run at. When I started running with a club I had no idea what a 7.30 minute mile was etc. May be when we announce what we're going to do with our group that night we could start with a sort of standard "my groups for sub 1.42 half marathon speed/ sub 45 min 10km" or whatever race time etc. - all use the same system so it's clear. Or should we just post it on the website we run 5 groups at these sort of pace so people know before they turn up, what do you all think?

How would everyone who comes out with us like us to do it?

Regards

Chris

At this point can I just hijack this thread by mentioning we need more people to turn up for running on Thursdays to really make it work like Tuesdays. A range of abilities are turning up, but we need more of you in order to create a good spread of groups.

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Cheers

I have had a few enquiries about this. Can you let me know how many runners would be interested in some runs/training in the Mendips on a saturday or sunday over the Winter. For those of you who did'nt run through last winter ,saturdays and sundays are the only chance to run in the daylight.

I am hoping to persuade the Charterhouse Centre (www.charterhousecentre.org.uk) to allow us to use their parking facilities and outside toilets.

If you do not know Charterhouse it is next To Beacon Batch (the highest point in the Mendips ??) and certainly a good work out.

I would be looking to run for anything between 1 and 2.5 hours ?? Please note although I am trying to organise it does not mean it will be my pace.

We will leave Bristol about 9 am and run from 9.45 to approx mid day and hoping finish at a pub.

Please indicate on this site if you are interested and prefence of saturday or sunday. We need to think about vehicle(s ) if there is sufficient interest.

Rob

These are short runs on saturday afternoons. It certainly NOT about fast running this is "running" in big hill country.

I would recommend the Kymin as a good introduction. If you do not know Monmouth is an attractive market town on the English/Welsh border (45 mins fom Bristol). For purists its not really fell running.

I purchased a calender for the year. Another possibility is the Brent Knoll run which I have posted in the events section. If you do not know Bent Knoll it is the large hill next to M5 near Burnham on Sea

Rob

I have had a few enquiries about this. Initially I thought about arranging some Fell Running type sessions in Bristol within running distance of the club. The possibilties are :

1. Nightingale Valley (up and down) . Leigh Woods if you don't know

2. Troopers Hill (east Bristol). Long fairly boring run to get there.

3. Dundry Slopes (south Bristol). Long run to get there.

4. Some off piste sections of Ashton Court . Up through Deer Park and up near Zig zag path.

If there is interest I would like to consider some visits to the Mendips (Sat or Sun). Does anyone know some good hilly off road circular routes)

I am considering running some Welsh Fell Races (Fan Fawl 3/10/09 2 miles 1000ft) and Sugar Loaf 31/10/09 5 miles 1455 ft, The Blorenge 28/11/09 2.5 miles 1400 ft)

See wfra.org.uk for details.

These are possibilities . Please note poor weather means navigation skills so it may be best to start with some training runs ??

Rob

I have mentioned to a few people about starting Fell running/ trail running. If anyone is interested please let me know as I am planning to run some fell runs over the next year.

These runs will often be in Wales or the Mendips. Check out www.wfra.org.uk which is the Welsh fell Runners Association. These runs start at 2 miles so its not all about distance although the hills are serious hills. I ran the Kymin Dash in July and found it a totally different challenge to road hill running. I actually got found out by starting far too quickly and totally suffered on the off road sections.

if you are interested slow or fast let me know.Its not about the pace its about getting out in the wilds of the Brecon Beacons and the like

if you like Nightingale Valley type of terrain but fancy a longer challenge let me know

Rob

Well done to everyone who turned up on and even the weather was good.

Rob

I'm currently getting up in the middle of the night (3.45am) to start work every day and not surprisingly I'm really struggling with fatigue levels.

I however, still want to run, but have identified that running after 6pm is no good for me, as the adrenalin is still pumping and I can't sleep.

But more than ever I need the support of a group to encourage me to keep running. It can be hard enough at the best of times to gee yourself up for a run, let alone when your body clock is broken.

I wondered if there were any other shift workers in the club, who might want to run during the day - almost form a 'self help group' as it is such a struggle when you are always tired.

Any takers? Or just anyone who is about in the day, to encourage us poor fatigued runners on. It would be a huge help to me.

Yours, tired of Bedminster. X