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16:00 Saturday 04 Feb 2012  Bourne race is CANCELLED.

The race scheduled for tomorrow (5th Feb) at Bourne is CANCELLED. The organisers at Bourne have walked the course today and decided it would be unsafe to run. Snow from earlier in the week has frozen hard and made a very slippery and dangerous course and it's a similar picture in the Woods car park which would make car parking difficult. This, together with the likelihood of heavy snowfall overnight, makes it unwise for us to go ahead with the race.

It gets busy around Xmas and New Year and so here is a reminder of club activities & events :

Mon 19 Dec 2011 - Monthly Handicap

Tues 20 Dec 2011 - Speedwork

Wed 21 Dec 2011 -  Grafham Circular

Thur 22 Dec 2011 - Festive Club Run - Juniors and Seniors together

Mon 26 Dec 2011 - 10m Cobweb Busting run with Phil & KP.  Paxton Pits 08.30hrs

Tues 27 Dec 2011 - Annual Offord XC - Juniors & Seniors

Tues 27 Dec 2011 - Festive Speedwork - just as tough but with Xmas vim and vigour

Wed 28 Dec 2011 - Grafham Circular

Thur 29 Dec 2011 - Club Run

Sun 1 Jan 2012 - New Year Run & Bacon Buttie Extravaganza

Mon 2 Jan 2012 - Club Run

Tues 3 Jan 2012 - Speedwork

Wed 4 Jan 2012 - Grafham Circular

Thur 5 Jan 2012 - Club Run & Club Meeting

Sat 7 Jan 2012 - Juniors Annual Presentation / Meeting  including bowling and nibbles - Bowling tickets £2.50

Sun 8 Jan 2012 - County XC Champs - Priory Park - Juniors to be entered and paid to Maurice by Xmas eve (can take money for Seniors too Jun £2.00 & Sen £2.50) .  Can collect entries at Handicap or Festive Run in envelope please with names and ages on 31 Aug 2011 - Juniors must be aged at least 8 on 31 Aug 2011

Sat 14 Jan 2012 - Seniors Annual Presentation Evening / Meeting / Social / Dance - all very welcome and encouaged to attend.  Tickets £12.00

Sun 15 Jan 2012 - Frostbite at March

More details of all these fun and challenging activities and event s gets posted on Forum Pages.  M

Sunday 20th November 2011

Many thanks to all the runners that came along for the Riverside Runners Half Marathon and the Fun Run.  And many thanks to the organising team and huge number of volunteer helpers and supporters too that put in the effort to put the show on the road.

Results for the Half Marathon and Fun Run have been published.  See "Half Marathon" navigation bar on left.

This Thursday's session is at Paxton Pits and will be a joint Juniors / Seniors fun session.  Meet as usual at Paxton Pits by 18.30hrs.

Please also note that Andy Anderson has volunteered to manage a BBQ after training at the Sailing Club at Paxton Pits for us.  Just bring £3pp plus your own drinks - but please make sure Andy knows you will be joining in by letting him know at the start of the evening session and paying him.  Should be a good training session!

Wednesday Social Run (or walk) Calendar to date :

Wed 11 May - Three Compasses, Upper Dean (nr Kimbolton) - Norma, Sally & Mick
Wed 1 June - Wheatsheaf, Tempsford - Liz Hiner
Wed 8 June - The Bell, Gt Paxton - Ali & Phil
Wed 22 June - The Bell, Stilton - Steph & John
Wed 6 July - Not Kenny's Relay - Phil & KP (joint with Juniors)
Wed 20 July - Brampton Mill - Jo & Nige
Wed 3 Aug - White Hart, Gt Staughton - Lucy & Simon
Wed 17 Aug - The Red Lion, Grantchester - Rob & Helen
Wed 31 Aug - Axe & Compass, Hemingford Abbots - Barbara & Mick
Wed 14 Sept - The Horsehoe, Offord Darcy - Paul & Michaela

The Boothby's managed Riverside Runners RNR Masters Team completed the Round Norfolk Relay in 24hrs 1min 30 secs having had a predicted time of 24 hrs 6mins 06secs.  Well done to the Boothby's, all who competed and to those that came along and helped out and supported in what turned out to be a wide variety of weathers - although mainly clearish skies with a slight westerly gentle breeze.  However, the end of Kevin's run and the start of Nick's also saw very heavy rain and lightening.  The team was :

Stage 1 Karl Hiner
Stage 2 Keith Pritchard
Stage 3 Nicola Jones
Stage 4 Malcolm Pritchard
Stage 5 Paul Ridley
Stage 6 Ian Cameron
Stage 7 Ali Cooper
Stage 8 Kevin Hickling
Stage 9 Nick Scotcher
Stage 10 Maurice Hemingway
Stage 11 James Bolm
Stage 12 Simon Boothby
Stage 13 Sam Windebank
Stage 14 Keith Ritchie
Stage 15 Adrian Jarvis
Stage 16 Mark Forster
Stage 17 Phil Redden

I would like to inform the club that Martyn Blackwell has resigned from the Riverside Runners. I would personally like to thank Martyn for his dedication to the juniors and his hard work for the club over the years.

I must stress that this will not affect our club’s commitment to our juniors. Junior coaching will continue on Thursday evenings for all juniors and our seven club coaches will continue to deliver the best coaching appropriate to meet the needs of all our junior runners. Saturday morning coaching will briefly stop over the holiday period and re-start in the autumn.

Regards
Adrian Jarvis - Chairman

It was announced after the Easter Egg Hunt that the winner of the club logo competition was Katie Ridley.  Katie wins much applause and a £25 sports voucher.

Well done to everyone who entered the competition - they were all great.

There is an Easter Egg Hunt for Juniors at Paxton Pits on Saturday 23 April.  Playful seniors are also welcome.  It has been arranged by Liz and Michaela and starts from the car park area at 09.00hrs.

This will be followed by the unveiling of the 25th Anniversary Logo winning entry.

Helen has so far identified fifteen Riversiders running in the London Marathon on 17 April :

Alison Cooper
Allison Farrer
Barrie-Jane Hagger
Hazel Ferreira
Keith Pritchard
Kevin Hickling
Malcolm Pritchard
Maurice Hemingway
Michaela Ridley
Naomi Goldsmith
Paul Veitch
Russell Scrivener
Ruth Chamberlain
Steve Childerley
Steve Pledger

   ...any more?

Adrian Jarvis has once again taken up the role of Chairman of Riverside Runners.  The new structure has Adrian supported by Helen Liddle as Secretary, Mark Forster as Treasurer and Ali Cooper as Vice Chairman.  Also on the committee are Lucy Boothby, Liz Hiner, Martyn Blackwell, Frank Scutt and Ian Newland (the latter two both being founder members of the club 24 years ago).

Maurice Hemingway was elected as Club Captain, but following a committee recommendation to an EGM that preceded the AGM, it was determined that the Captain role was not a "committee post".

Fifteen Riversiders ran at Sandy 10 (a Club Championship Race) on Sunday.  Ali Cooper was the sole Riverside trophy winner despite the fact that there were some excellent results in terms of percentages. 

517 runners finished in all with the first male home in  53:35 and first female 1:03:12.  John Oakes of C&C won the best age graded performance in 59:31 with 85.27% - John is a MV50. 

The Championship table has been updated and the extract for the Sandy 10m is in the Document Library.

The agenda for both the EGM and the AGM to be held at the Rowing Club, St Neots on Thursday 7 April have been published in the Document Library under Misc Papers.  The draft minutes from the AGM 2010 are also there.

The EGM/AGM will take place on 7th April. The EGM is to propose a constitution change as outlined in the Agenda in the document library. A show of hands vote will then take place.

At the AGM Committee Members and Officers will be elected as per the nominations slips held by the Secretary.   We have two Nominees for Captain :

Maurice Hemingway & James Bolm

They have both been asked to say a few words after which a paper vote will take place.

For both votes, proxy votes will be accepted. These must be with the Secretary or any other Executive Officer no later than 48hours prior to the meeting. To lodge a proxy vote, there must be a valid reason for not attending the meeting.

Eighteen Riversiders ran at Milton Keynes in the Half Marathon on an undulating course (a reasonably flat course with a bit of a hill near the finish).  The Age Related percentages have been calculated and published in the Document Library (2011 Championship).