All your very important club news in one place!

 

AGM and Harrier of the Year

AGM

All fully paid-up members have been sent an email invite to the AGM on Tuesday 25th June at Hurn Bridge Sports Club – please RSVP if you have not already done so. There will be a buffet and one free drink for each member and the AGM starts at 9pm. There will also be a pre-AGM run from the sports centre at Hurn Bridge starting at 7pm sharp – more details on this to follow. There will be NO runs from the Littledown Centre that evening.

Any questions about the AGM, please contact Suzanne via secretary@littledownharriers.co.uk

Harrier of the Year

At the AGM our new Harriers of the Year will be crowned! All members are eligible to vote for their male and female Harrier of the Year. To vote you can either CLICK HERE, email your nominations to Barry via barry.telling@yahoo.com or vote on the night. You can vote for anyone who has impressed you over the last 12 months – perhaps their improvement, support, dedication or in overcoming adversity.

 

AECC Neighbourhood Festival

This coming Saturday 8th June we will be at the Neighbourhood Festival at the AECC campus in Pokesdown giving out information about our wonderful club and encouraging people to join us.  It is a free, family-friendly health and wellbeing festival with lots going on; you can find out more information about the event HERE and if you have an hour to spare pop down and check it out! We will be there between 11am-3pm.

 

Captain’s Report

Thanks to Captain Steve for the latest mens’ race report, which you can read HERE

 

Club Visit by England Athletics

On Tuesday 11th of June we will be joined on one of our club runs by Rich Ayling from England Athletics. Rich is the Club Support Manager for our region and is coming along to meet us, run with us, see what we do, share best practice and give us some tips and advice. Please do have a chat with him if you see him and make him feel welcome! (Don’t worry, for those who know it is definitely not like Ofsted coming in!!)

 

C25K Graduation – a big well done!

This week is the final week of the latest Couch to 5k course and the members have been working really hard with Caz and James. A massive congratulations to everyone involved and good luck to those who are undertaking their graduation 5k at the Poole Race for Life event next week – go and smash it!

The improvers course will be starting next week and aims to take runners from 5k up to 10k.

 

Littledown 5 and Littledown Marathon

As always with your monthly updates, here is another reminder that the Littledown Marathon is taking place at the end of this month (Sunday 30th June) and the Littledown 5 will be happening on Sunday 15th September. Please help us promote these events where you can – the links to our event pages to share with friends, colleagues etc are

Marathon – www.littledownharriers.co.uk/ld-marathon

LD5 – www.littledownharriers.co.uk/littledown-5

 

Upcoming Club Championship Races

Our next CC race will be the Puddletown Plod half marathon this Sunday – good luck to everyone taking part! All the remaining CC races are now open for entries (or indeed already sold out!) You can view them all and the links to their entry pages via our Club website by clicking on the ‘Racing’ section of the members’ page HERE

 

Other races you might be interested in

A few other races to share with you which are taking place across our region –

– Moreton Forest 10k and 6k trail run

Beast of Bloxworth obstacle run