GariochRR This Week

April 03, 2006Running despatches from the heart of the Garioch
Announcements

Congratulations to all our GRRers who ran the first Garioch10k in Inverurie at the weekend.
We had a great club turnout with a total of 13 runners taking part, and quite a few other club members round the course cheering us on.
Results were as follows:-
Alison Sutherland 58:59
Graham Donaldson 38:03
Duncan Leel 41.06
Neil Bonner 44.02
Mark Hepburn 52:20
Neil Skene 1:00:41
Jams McGregor 38:46
David Blane 39:36
Bruce Taylor 42:31
Grahame Thomson 43:03
Leigh Summers 49:54
Iam Cran 41:53
Peter Stephen 46:44

Well done everyone!

Thanks also to Audrey Leel for taking photos on the day, which have been posted on the GRR website gallery. Click here for a peek.

Full race results are available here

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Congratulations to GRR's James McGregor who was placed 3rd in the House of Dun cross country event on Saturday, the last race in the Round the Castles Series.
James had a time of 38:14.

Well done!

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GariochRR Website Survey

Thanks to everyone so far who has completed the GariochRR website questionaire.
We could really do with a some more responses, so if you havent done so yet, then read on for more details....your opinion really does count!

Do you ever visit the GariochRR club website? (www.gariochrr.freeuk.com)
Sure, it hasnt been updated for a wee while, but we are planning a few updates.
But we first need to find out a wee bit more about what GRR club members would find useful/interesting to have on the site.
So if you could spare a few moments to answer a few questions, then we'll have a better idea what should be available online.
Its completely annonymous, so dont hold back on your comments - this is about what we do to improve things.
Give it a go - it will give us something to discuss a the AGM.
To access the questionaire, click here


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FREE Drink at the GRR AGM!

The GariochRR AGM will soon be upon us, so make a note in your diaries for 20th April at 8.00pm (after a short club run).
As usual the AGM will be in the meeting room at the Garioch Sports centre, Inverurie.

In a departure from the usual tea & cakes refreshments, we've decided to up the calorific intake to cheese & wine; so please leave the car at home if you are planning having more than a tipple.

Please contact Steve ('the sec') Waites with your nominations for office bearers (go on make his day!) and also nominations for the John Sharp Trophy.

Thanks for all who sent a reply to the GRR PB survey. There's still time to respond to this - for anyone who missed last week's request, Charman Pete Stephen wants to know how many runners in GariochRR got PB's in the last year. Its not the actual time for your PB(s) that is of interest here, just if you ran a new PB in the last 12 months. The statistics on our achievements will be included in Pete's big speech at the AGM; so if you could send an email to listing what distance you got your PB at, that would be grand.
Alternatively you can send a text: Simply send 'PB' followed by '10k' or 'half' or 'mar' or 'none' and your name to 07808055382


What's Up This Week
Tuesday Evening...
More daylight in the evening and a chance to run offroad & exercise the dog at the same time with a trail run round the Bennachie rally route.
Meet at essons car park at 6.30pm
Click here for more details on this route and meeting point.

or
there's the first race in the Krunce series (1of6).
3.5 miles of hills and mud - Click here for more details.

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Thursday Evening....
Meet at Paradise wood, near Pitfichie at the usual time of 6.30pm.
A nice mix of road and trail running with some splendid views thrown in for free!
The website will shortly have more details on this route, for anyone who hasnt been on this one yet.

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Saturday 8th
Club run from Essons car park, Bennachie.
Usually start with the rally route (8m) with plenty of options for going a bit further for anyone with the energy.
Meet at Essons car park at 8.00am

or

theres the Clachnaben hill race.
Entry form available here.

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Sunday 9th

There's the Run-4-it Tartan Shorts 5km at Garthdee, Aberdeen at 11.00.

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You could get a couple of lucozade sports drinks out of the fridge, find a comfy armchair & watch the Paris marathon live on Eurosport. The race starts at 0745 gmt.

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Have a great week.

Run Long at Taper.
The GarriochRR team.
Balmoral 10k
This year's Balmoral 10k takes place on Sat 29th April.

For full details click here.


  
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