GariochRR This Week

March 17, 2008Running despatches from the heart of the Garioch
Announcements
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Tartan Shorts 5k race at Haddo House on Sunday; once again there were some great times posted:-
Tamsin Morris 23:05
Cameron Leel 19:03
David Blane 18:35 (7th overall)
Dave Roberts 20:02
Duncan Leel 20:24
Richard Ingram 23:05

Well done everyone!
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Summer Schedule starts next week
Contrary to the current weather conditions, the GariochRR summer schedule (for training runs) starts next week on the Tuesday 25/3 with a run round the Garioch 10k route. The full schedule is available here ====================================

Steve Waites has been busy checking out locations for a GRR road trip, and would like to gauge interest in a trip to Groningen in the north of Holland.
On the 21st September there will be a full marathon, half marathon and 10K, something for everyone, and I'm sure there will be plenty of cafe's open for those who don't even want to run!
You can check out the city and marathon site here and here.

The marathon site is mostly in Dutch but there is a link down the left hand side for "Foreign Information"

Steve has only briefly looked into costs but the days of cheap air fares are long gone. We can fly to Groningen directly from Aberdeen with BMI, which is part of the attraction, and Expedia quotes flights and 3 nights in a hotel for £330 so I guess it would be somewhere in that region.
Can anyone interested in going please get in touch with Steve (subsea@virgin.net)

He has also set a date for our AGM - Thursday 17th April at 8.00pm at the usual place, Garioch Sports Centre.
What's Up This Week

Tuesday Evening...

Club Run round Inverurie.
Usual Meeting time of 6.30pm at the foyer in the Garioch Sports Centre.
There's a choice of distances including 5m/6m/7m & 8.6m & even the odd hill for added fun.
GRR also has an arrangement with the sports centre for free use of their changing & shower facilities (just say you are with GRR at reception).
Click here showing the meeting point (use the zoom to find your bearings).

Thursday Evening...

Club Run round Inverurie.
Usual Meeting time of 6.30pm at the foyer in the Garioch Sports Centre.
Last chance for a blast round the streets of Inverurie, before we head out into the country next week!
Click here showing the meeting point (use the zoom to find your bearings).

Saturday 22nd

Club run from Esson's car park, Bennachie.
Meet at 8.30am for an off-road run on our favourite hill.
We managed to catch the best weather of the day on last weekend's run; blue sky, light winds, & a bit of heat from the sun on our backs.....

Sun 23rd
There's the Tri-Changing Gear winter Duathlon, from Kellands Park, Inverurie, starting at 11.30.
5k run/21k bike/5k run.

Have a great week.

Run Long and Taper.
The GariochRR team.
Help Wanted: Garioch10k
The folks that organise the Garioch 10k have been in touch asking if anybody would like to help out with the marshalling of the Garioch 10k on the 13th of April.
They need about 20 in total but if we could provide any it would help. They are using timing chips this year and will need a few people at the end to remove the chips from the ankles of knackered runners.
GRR's Ian Cran is your contact if you can help out. Ian also tells me that a couple of us are needed to go out on the course early on race day morning to mark up the course.
  
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