London Frontrunners

June 9th sees the 2013 Southend Half Marathon taking place, an event that is usually well supported by London Frontrunners.

“A lovely coastal route along Southend’s seafront, it’s flat, traffic free and ideal for a pb”

The event takes place at 10am and costs £15 for affiliated members (with a £1 online booking fee)

We can setup a facebook event group for people who wish to attend and may want to discuss hotel options for the Saturday night. It is also possible to travel down by train on the morning of the race.

Entry at the following link:

http://www.havenshospices.org.uk/fund_raising/events/Running/Southend+Half+Marathon+2013

Please also see the note below from Hugh regarding this year’s Yorkshire trip;

Dear All
Wensleydale weekend and 14K trail run 26-28 July
Although all the beds at the Dales bike centre are spoken for there is still the opportunity to come on this excellent weekend in the stunning Yorkshire Dales.
I still desperately need drivers with category D1 on their licence to share driving the minibus . (depart London 10am on Friday 26th)
If anyone else is interested we can book into the Bridge Inn in Grinton (where we will be having dinner on the Friday evening) or can book local B&Bs.
Please let me know if you are interested and if you would be prepared to take your own car, especially if you can't leave so early on Friday. If there is enough demand and drivers I can order a 2nd minibus.
The Programme for the Weekend is:
Friday: Travel to Grinton in Swaledale, dinner at the Bridge Inn Grinton
Saturday: Free for mountain biking, hiking etc. Pasta dinner ver generously offered at Mark and Richards (Grinton).
Sunday: Morning race www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=248055&ClubID=254 , pub lunch and return London by about 7pm.

Thanks

Ed & Manue

Race Secretaries

Dear Frontrunners,

We had our first committee meeting of the new year on Thursday 11 April and wanted to feedback some of our discussions. We hope this will help members to feel more informed about the work of the committee and give you a chance to feedback to us your thoughts and ideas for future meetings.

We welcomed new members/ members to new roles to the committee: Nadia Atia as co-president; Pete Hannam as Webmaster; Helen Keeley as female Social Secretary; Clare Weaver as co-publicity officer and Manue Chardon has kindly stepped in to fill the vacancy as co- race secretary.

The committee then discussed:

• Applying for charity status for the Pride Run. The committee heard from David McGuire on the pros and cons of charity status. We will continue to discuss this possibility at future committee meetings.
• Whether the current governance structures are working well for the running of the Club. We are forming a small sub committee to look at procedures behind how club funds are allocated, our democracy and transparency and the ways in which decisions are made in the club. This will feedback to the committee in due course. And of course, to members in turn.
• Pete Hannam updated us on the fantastic work he's been doing on a  new website for the club and on improving how we stay in touch with you all - stay tuned for some changes to our communications, which should give you more power over what kinds of mailings you receive from the club.
• We discussed ensuring the club had a strong presence at Black Pride this year, which we agree is important and are working towards. Black Pride is the same day as London Pride this year and we hope to come back to you with more details about how you can get involved with this very soon.
• Budgets for each part of the committee will be drafted and we will discuss the allocation of funds for specific events at the next committee meeting.
• The race secretaries updated us on potential replacements for the Greenbelt Relay, which has sadly been cancelled this year. It looks as though real replacements will be difficult to put in place at such short notice, but they are working hard on options for the autumn. We look forward to hearing back from them.
• We are looking for a Frontrunner to become an Out for Sport delegate for the club. Dave Maher already sits on the committee, but the club needs one more. An email with more details about this will come your way soon.
• Our incredibly important buddying system is in need of some TLC. We discussed how we might do this and will be emailing to ask if any of you would like to take this on with help and support from Derek Clark, who currently co-ordinates the buddying system.

Our next committee meeting is scheduled for May 13th. Please let us know by replying to this email if you have strong feelings on any of the above, or if you'd like to add anything to that agenda. If you would like to read the full minutes of the meeting, they will be up on the LFR website soon.

With best wishes,

Gavin and Nadia

co-presidents, London Frontrunners

We’ve finally got some lighter evenings, with Regent’s Park open until 21:00. Hurrah!!

We’ll be taking advantage of both Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park – a great place to run – in our Wednesday coaching sessions. We’ll be repeating last spring’s popular mix of hills and flats on alternate Wednesdays.

All the sessions will help you if you want to run faster or longer. Hill sessions are particularly good for building endurance, and flat sessions for speed.  You can opt to focus on the hill sessions, the flat sessions, or both – it’s all good.

3 April                   Flat session

10 April                 Hill session

17 April                 Flat session

24 April                 Hill session

1 May                    Flat session

8 May                    Hill session

15 May                 Flat session

22 May                 Hill session

29 May                 Flat session

Our aim in the coaching team is to help you become a better runner, whatever your starting point. We always have two options to choose from, one more and one less intense: we tell you what’s involved upfront and you choose. If you haven’t joined us for a coaching session, spring is an ideal time to give it a try.

This Easter, the club will be running as normal on the Saturday (30th) morning but will not be running on the Monday (1st) evening.  We'll be back out as usual on Wednesday 3rd to burn off all those Easter eggs!