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Update; 1 August 2019

New Beginners groups launched

The autumn Redway Runners beginners' groups are starting from 31 August 2019 and at the end of the course you will take part in the free Milton Keynes 5K parkrun at Willen at 9am on Saturday 9 November 2019, so do put this date in your diary for graduation.

The courses are free, but you will need to be a Redway Runners member (membership is just £5). These courses are ideal for those wanting to start running or get back to running.

We have seven courses starting with Saturday morning, two daytime courses and four evenings and from Willen area, Woughton and Tongwell all covered.

All the details of the courses and how to join them at:

http://www.redwayrunners.com/train/beginners/

Again, this time we will be having an open evening for beginners and new members at Up & Running on Thursday 19 September from 6pm to 9pm, so keep this date free

Please do pass on this information to anyone who may be interested, see poster below

Beat the Barge - instructions

It’s nearly here! Lots of organising but we’re ready.

Whose going to Beat the Barge? Captain Jen Bates will be racing you!

In the event village we have a cake stall (cake donations welcome), massages, Emily Star tuck shop and BBQ. The Nags Head pub will also be open.

Come along and enjoy a lovely afternoon in Gt Linford Manor.

Full details for the event for runners and spectators can be found on the link below.

http://www.redwayrunners.com/events/beat-the-barge/

Award Nomination

Wow - We have had some great news, Redway Runners been selected by the South East Awards panel as either the Runner up or the Winner of the England Athletics Inclusion Award.

There were over 600 nominations made, read and discussed this year within the 9 regions.  Your efforts and achievements have been recognised, and you have been nominated by someone who already believes you are a winner and is grateful for your commitment to volunteering within our sport. 

This is a fantastic achievement we will find out how we do at the Regional Awards Evening being held on Tuesday 1 October 2019 in Horsham.

Then, a national winner for our category will be selected by a panel in September and winners and runner ups will be invited to attend the England Athletics National Volunteer Awards & Hall of Fame In Birmingham on Saturday 12 October.  You can read more about this at: https://www.englandathletics.org/about-us/hall-of-fame/

Fingers crossed.

Beat the Barge - Bakers

Calling all bakers. We are having a cake stall at Beat the Barge this Saturday. We would like some donations of cakes to sell for the club charity of the year.

Please bring them along on the day or contact Debbie (or reply to this mail and we will forward on). Thanks in advance.

Runs w/c 5 August

Just an early warning that a few of the runs in the club next week are doing the 5 Lakes challenge.
You can check if your run is moving by checking the 5 lakes details on the Pop Up runs page on the web site.
If your run is not listed as moving then that run is taking place as normal
http://www.redwayrunners.com/pop-up-runs-events-2019/

Pacing at MK parkrun

Wow - Wow - look at the times, by our pacers at parkrun MK Saturday. No one was more than 25 seconds out and 4 people were within 1 second of target time - Amazing. Great pacing everyone.

Pop Up Runs up and running

Our Pop up runs summers series of runs have already started:

In the next week look out for:
  • Pub to Run - Friday
  • 5 Lakes Challenge (check for evening runs joining this challenge) Next Week see story below
  • Great Linford Summer of Fun, series on Wednesday night, the 6pm Step Up and Gentle Step up move start location, Wednesday evening
  • Summer of West MK runs are now running on Tuesday evenings
For all the details of these and the extra 'Pop Up' runs go to:
http://www.redwayrunners.com/pop-up-runs-events-2019/

5 Lakes Challenge

We start the 5 Lakes, 5 evenings, Marathon Challenge next Monday evening at 18:30. Hope you are looking forward to it. The programme confirmed below. Please note the change to Tuesday evening and the start location. Don't forget this is aimed at Step Up groups and pace.
Please also note, some nights the normal runs are joining the lakes run see the pop Up run page for details at:
http://www.redwayrunners.com/pop-up-runs-events-2019/

  • Monday 5 Aug. 7.4k at Furzton Lake from the Furzton Lake pub, MK4 1GA
  • Tuesday 6 Aug. 6.5k Tongwell Lake from The Ship Ashore, Granville Square, Willen, MK15 9JL
  • Wednesday 7 Aug. 10.1k Teardrops Lake from Woughton leisure centre, MK6 5EJ
  • Thursday 8 Aug. 9.1k at Caldecotte Lake from Caldecotte pub, MK7 8HP
  • Friday 9 Aug. 11.4k at Willen Lake from The Pub on the Lake, Willen Lake

July / August

Looks like July was a good month for the club, we hope you enjoyed it, with these highlights:

** Need for Speed, morning of PBs
** Beginners graduation
** Newport Pagnell carnival 5K, 96 Redway Runners take part
** Chief Exec visit
** EA Video released of Redway Runners
** Furzton Relay, 65 teams take part
** Drama run, the wedding
** Pacing at parkrun
** Pop up runs underway, Gt Linford summer of fun, Extra, run of the dead, West MK Series
**Winner or runner up of Impact award for SE England with EA

August is looking a busy month as well with:

** Beat the Barge
** Pub to Pub run
** 5 Lakes Challenge
** parkrun Road trip – Houghton Hall
** Biggest parkrun
** On the run special
** Autumn beginners’ groups start

Lot to look forward to

Gato Sports Head Torch 10K

Been asked to let you know about this fairly local event series and for paid Redway Runners we have a discount code, plus they are also looking for volunteers to help

See below and lets support this new local event series
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The Gato Sports Head Torch 10K series is moving closer to MK this winter! We'll have 3 10K races at Salcey Forest on Wednesday 4th December, Thursday 23rd January and Tuesday 25th February. The events will consist of running through the completely unlit forest with just your head torch to lead the way - a magical experience and a great way to lay down a bit of speed in the Winter months. Entry for the event is currently only £15 per event or £39 for the complete series.
 
As one of the local clubs we are offering everyone 10% of the price for individual entries if you use the code "rwgato10".
 
As well as lots of Redway Runners taking part in the events it would be great to have support from your club in terms of volunteers. For all of our volunteers we offer a free entry in to any of our events, a £20 trainer token for Coventry Runner and unlimited running karma! For any Redway Runners (or your friends and family) who volunteer we'll also give a free place to the club to be used by the club as they please. It's great to have smiley happy volunteers - especially when running through the night!!
 
If you'd like to run, please visit bigbearevents.net and if you're able to volunteer please contact Paul at paul@bigbearevents.net

24 Hour Litter pick

Brian H and a number of Redway Runners took part in the McDonalds 24 hour litter pick, Brian, who is a mere 84. gave us this update
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We started at 10am on Wednesday, I decided not to do the Up & Running 5k on Tuesday, this was a good move! Not good on numbers but over 20 of us set out, armed with pockets and rubbish bags with very neat round clamps which held the bags open, told not to pick up glass Serco would deal with that! Oh dear should have read pickers! Off from there through Campbell Park then down to Willen Lake, followed part way round but the main party went ahead so I tried to follow but realised I had gone wrong because there was obvious litter to pick up so got a bus to Kingston waited for the cavalry to arrive a great buffet feast was waiting!

About 2:30 off to Stadium MK, don't remember a lot a lot about it was quite a trip we left sacks at the MacDonald’s or along the way, well backed up by Serco, each stop had a supply of iced water, then on to Brickhill quit a (relatively) short walk but mainly on pavements.

From Brickhill left about 8 30 as it was downhill to Brickhill oh dear uphill back at about 8:30 a tough slog getting dark by the time we got too far Bletchley found that piece hard but eventually Westcroft, didn't like the look of Westcroft to Wolverton so Ken agreed no picker or sack for me I'd did get more difficult in the dark especially with a number of lights out on the redways we had to make a slight diversion, A5 shut!

Think we arrived at Wolverton at about 3:30 then from there to MacDonald’s near MK station not too long a trip but very uphill, I struggled with this bit and Ken booked me a taxi along with another Fellow who could hardly walk up to our final destination Central MK
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Well done Brian and all that took part

Old Money Run 2019

The Old Money Run will be returning to Tattenhoe Pavilion at 10.00am on Sunday 22 September 2019.

There is a choice of two runs – 5 miles (£9.50) or 10 miles (£12.50) and all finishers will receive the fabulous 2019 Old Money Run medal.  You may now enter by logging onto your Redway Runners Love Admin account.

Entries will close on Sunday 15 September, if not sold out beforehand. But be quick, there are ONLY 125 places for each distance.   All profits go to 'Emily’s Star', the club charity of the year.
 
We will need plenty of volunteers on the day, so if you can help, please do log onto your Love admin select event and Old Money run and volunteer

More details and how to enter at:
http://www.redwayrunners.com/events/old-money-run/
 

Longer, Faster and Bigger

We are trying to put together across a week a number of activities, as part of being proud of being a Redway Runners member, during the week we have planned so far

Bank Holiday Monday 26 August  9.30 - Longer
Special 'On the Run' remember last year's prison run, well we are doing something similar - meet at Spoons near Santander/station at 9.30am.
Last year lots of people said this was fav run of the year!
PS If you want to be 'roaming' for those on the run, preferably on a bike please contact me on rr@redwayrunners.com

Thursday 29 August 18:00 and 19:00 - Faster
We are doing the green mile at 6pm and at 7pm the Handicap run, so do one or challenge yourself and go for the double

Saturday 31 August 9:00 Bigger
We want to break a record at Milton Keynes parkrun, so come along bring a friend or bring lots of friends and we want as many people as possible at parkrun, were you a beginner, return to parkrun and run with a buddy.
We want a  massive big green photo at the start area at 8.50
Come along let's make this happen
If every member comes to just this one parkrun we will have already over 2,700 people coming
Lets make parkrun bigger
PS If you really cannot get round the course then please do volunteer

Pub to Pub run

The Redway Runners Friday Social Run and Drinks would like to invite you to join us for the pub to pub run 2019 on Friday 2 August at 6.30pm starting from the Swan .

This run is for all runners and abilities within Redway Runners. It's about having fun and a good time as is always the case with the Friday Social Group.

We will be running between the 4 pubs below (not in order) and staying for 20 - 25 mins at each one so that people can enjoy a drink.
(just to clarify drink are to be purchased by each person and is not included as part of your large £5 club membership fee)

Details at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1161983007318869/
 

Cake Sale parkrun

Neen asked to let you know about a cake sale at parkrun Saturday by Claire
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There will be a cake sale at parkrun Willen Lake this Saturday. India & Gabby (who's mothers are Redway Runners) have volunteered at parkrun 25+ times and are now raising money for Greenpeace via their NCS course. They are doing a cake sale at parkrun and are spending all of next week litter picking in MK with their NCS group. Thanks

Milton Keynes parkrun (Willen)

27 July 2019
 
MK parkrun at Willen with event 486 and 561 finishers with 226 from the club
 
Well done to Janet LETTS and Jemma ROUGHLEY who were first and second ladies
 
Welcome to the 100 parkruns club to Howard BOYCOTT
 
First time at MK for:
James GOSLING
Bethany BARBY
Amanda MCGOWAN
New PB's at MK for;
Jonathan BROWN
Tom CRUSSELL
Jemma ROUGHLEY
Rikki HUGHES
Allan BLACKBURN
Daniel HARDING
Emma GOSLING
James HARRIS
James ACFORD
Paul SMITH
David BATTRICK
Kara GANDER
Melanie THOMAS
Peter CAMERON
Geoffrey CULLIGAN
Amanda TWEEDDALE
Caroline MCEVADDY
Sarah SCARBOROUGH
Toni TILBURY
Alan HINES
Louise LEADBETTER
Zara PAULING
Jim NEWSTEAD
Veronica BOON
Harrison BOWKETT
Katie DUNNE
Nikki ELVIDGE
Cailey WICKHAM
Nicky PEDDLE
Dorothy HINES
Lisa DAVIDSON
Sheryl ARNOLD
 
Well done all and thanks to all the volunteers

Full results at:

Linford Wood parkrun


28 July 2019

Linford Wood parkrun held event 162 with 211 finishers including 47 from the club

Second gent for Thomas Philip REDDALL

First Lady for Lindsay O'KANE and second lady for Julie LOXLEY

Welcome to 100 Parkrun club for: Susan RICKSON

First time at Linford Wood for:

Rob EDGSON
Lisa BROOKS
Steve WINCH
Miranda Louise VOGLER-KOSS

New PB's at Linford Wood for;

Jessica COWLEY
Sheila MCBREARTY
Geoffrey EINON
Jeremy BUREY-ABRAHAM
Lindsay O'KANE

Well done all and thanks to all the volunteers

Full results at:
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/linfordwood/results/latestresults/

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Redway Runners Race discounts

Special discounts have been arranged for Redway Runner paid members – this is the place to find the details

Once you have entered a race let Simon Richards know (e-mail simon.richards77@hotmail.co.uk) and you can be added to the ‘who is racing’ page on the club website. After you have run the event, send a link to the results to Nigel Sheppard and your result will be added to the results section.

If you have any contacts that can offer the club a discount please get in touch with Jonathan who is looking after these for Redway Runners

Up & Running members on-line discount (show membership card in store)
Redway Runners Exclusive code : club-UKPTV
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Other current discount list, shown in date order:

Results Base have provided us with a 10% discount code for paid Redway Runners for their events with Big Cow running and Big Cow Multisport events.

  • The running code is: RR102019 - This can be used for: MK Winter Half, MK Autumn Run, Cattle Creep, Cowman triathlons, Cowman Duathlon, MK City Duathlon, Stowe Triathlons and Rugby 7's.
Gato Sports Head Torch 10K series - 4 Dec, 23 Jan & 25 Feb
10% of the price for individual entries if you use the code "rwgato10". https://www.bigbearevents.net/

Twin Lakes 20 - Sunday 22 March 2020
Redway Runners discount code for the Twin Lakes 20... RRVIP15 http://twinlakes20.com/

MK Marathon weekend - 2 & 3 May 2020
Redway Runners code for the Half & Full Marathon (15%): REDWAY2020. Use this code for the Rocket 5K (5%): ROCKET5K. https://mkmarathon.com/
 

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Results

Results are posted on the results page on our web page (that is if you have sent a link to the results to Nigel)

The latest club parkrun results are at: parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=18005. If you ran and are not listed then please, from a parkrun mail (results or newsletter), click the ‘manage my profile’ and you can then update your club to ‘Redway Runners’

Running Timetable

We have lots of club runs the main runs are listed below and are best ones to for new runners to the club to start with, you can find details of all the runs at:

http://www.redwayrunners.com/train/weekly-runs/

Monday
Main Club Run - all standards 
  • 'Social run' 4 miles, with loop back for those who run 10-minute miles and quicker,
  • 'Step up group' which does about 3 miles at a gentle pace and the
Meet at the Mercedes-Benz Training Centre, Delaware Drive, Tongwell, MK15 8BA to leave at either 18.00 or 19.00 or if you are new please arrive about 10-minutes before the start and say hi to the run lead
 
Wednesday
Main Club Run - all standards
Meet to leave at 9.30 prompt at David Lloyd reception for a max 1 hour run (we mix up runs with Interval sessions or hills).
 
Thursday
Evening Social run or Step up to 10K runs or session work (hills or intervals) meet near the barriers to David Lloyd to leave at 19.00
 
Sunday
Longer training runs, leaves at 9.00 check the web site under 'Train' and ‘Sunday runs’ for details.
 
NON-DAVID LLOYD MEMBERS MUST NOT PARK IN THE DAVID LLOYD CAR PARK
 
Please remember to do your warmup and cool downs before and after the run.
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