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 me know.

Phil

Saturday 17th April       National 12 Stage Road Relays       Sutton Park, Birmingham

6 Short and 6 Long Stages. 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: 35-39 ; 40-49; 50-59; 60+

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 4 runners each running 3 miles. This is a popular event with the club and we normally enter several teams.

Saturday 16th October       National 6 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 12 stage but not quite the same. We missed this in 2009, but we want to be there in 2010.

As we take a slight mid winter break for the Cross Country, I thought I'd take this opportunity to let you know the remaining dates and venues. We have 2 Gwent Leagues left and we need as many of you as possible to turn out at these events, we are Leading the Senior, V50 and V60 Teams, and we are 2nd in the V40, our aim is to Win ALL of these at the end of the season, so please run and support the Club. YOU ALL COUNT, EVEN IN THE YOUNGER AGE GROUPS.

Saturday 13th February      Gwent League 4           Brecon

Saturday 20th February      Welsh Champs             Singleton Park, Swansea

Saturday 6th March            Gwent League 5           Blaise Castle, Bristol

The Cross Country season approaches once again and I'm looking for us to RETAIN the titles we Won last season ~ WE WON ALL THE MALE SECTIONS AVAILABLE TO US !!!

The first 3 fixtures are :-

Sunday 11th October - Bridgend

Sunday 8th November - Bath

Sunday 6th December - Taunton

Please try and support these as we need as many of you as possible to compete in all 5 fixtures, to make sure that we score highly in the team competition!

If you have never run cross country before, why not give it a try? you may even enjoy it!

If you need to know anything about cross country running or The Gwent League, please ask me.

Thanks

Phil

The National 6 Stage Road Relays are being held at Sutton Park on Saturday 17th October. Each leg is approx 3 miles, and I'm hoping to take 2 teams this year, so I need at least 15 names really. If you are available can you please let me know ASAP. Also if you could run one of the Cardiff parkrun's in the next few weeks it will help me pick the teams.

Thanks

Phil

Just thought you might want to know that all PHONE entries before Friday 31st July 2009 for the Cardiff 10k will receive 1 free child place for the 2k fun run, normally priced at £5.00. Its certainly worth doing if you've got children who are going to take part - one member saved themselves £10.

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