Les Croupiers Running club

I know that you all enjoy being involved in Relay events for the Club, and below are dates for our most popular and well supported Relay events, please make a note of them. If you are interested and available for any of them can you please let Yvonne or Liz know.

Saturday 17th April       National 6 Stage Road Relays       Sutton Park, Birmingham

The Club Running version of the FA Cup. This is a week before the London Marathon, so the perfect chance to sharpen up before hand.

Saturday 15th May        National Masters Road Relays         Sutton Park, Birmingham

For those of you over the age of 35. We would like to send a full quota of teams to this event so please support it. The Age Groups are: 35-44 ; 45-54; 55+

Sat/Sun 12th/13th June      Welsh Castles Relays

20 Stages over 2 days, 10 Saturday and 10 Sunday. The length of the stage varies from 8.6 miles to 13.3 miles, there are 6 Mountain stages (3 each day). Run as 20 mini races and the times for each stage added together to find the total time.

Wednesday 14th July       Cosmeston Relays              Cosmeston Park, Penarth

This is an off road event which is a Fig 8 course around Cosmeston, the teams are made up of 3 runners each running 3 miles. This is a popular event with the club and we normally enter several teams.

Saturday 16th October       National 4 Stage Road Relays       Sutton Park, Birmingham

This is another big event for the club to be involved in. It is a similar course to the 6 stage but not quite the same. We missed this in 2009, but we want to be there in 2010.

Congratulations and well done to Katie Beecher, Libby O'Duffy, Jen Salter and Liz Ashton for their victory in The U.K Clubs Cross Country Trials in Liverpool on the weekend! The ladies have secured us a place in The European Clubs Cross Country Championships to be held in Bilbao, Spain on 6th/7th February 2010, where we will be representing the U.K. What an achievement!

I know the title's awful! Well done again to all of the ladies who turned out for the 2nd Gwent League at Bath on Sunday - 24 of you. We did really well. The senior Ldies were 9th on the day but are 5th overall, over 35's were 2nd on the day and 2nd overall, over 45's were 2nd on the day also and are 2nd overall and the over 55's are coming 1st by a very large margin. Our B team are leading the way in the reserves competition. Hope to see you all, and more in Taunton on 6th December. If you have never run cross country before or not for along time come and give it a go!

Happy running

Yvonne

Well done and thank you to all the ladies who turned up for the first Gwent League fixture on Sunday - it was a really good turn out from our ladies, 26 in all. Hope we can maintain this for the rest of the season! In the team competition the Senior Ladies came 5th, 16th, 21st & 38th, Masters 35 were 2nd, Masters 45 were 2nd and Masters 55 were 1st.

A great result!

I have some very exciting news - As Welsh Cross Country Champions, we have been invited to represent Wales in The U.K Clubs Cross Country Trials in Liverpool on 28th November. We will be sending a team of 4 ladies to this event. If you wish to be considered for selection please contact Yvonne ASAP.