Eden Runners Membership
Good News everyone! 2011-12 Subs are the same as last year ,£15 and are due on (or before) 15 October.
Download a Membership Form and hand it to Alan on wed night training or post to the address on the form
If you want to pay by standing order please download the form Doc
Membership can now also be paid online via PayPal.You can use your PayPal account or use a Debit or Credit Card.Click on the link below.Unfortunately paypal now charge us 80p per transaction and this will be added to the £15. If you are a new member or have change your details from last year please fill out a Membership form.
Eden Runners – Road Race Championships 2011
There will be 9 races in the series. You can run as many, or as few, as you wish. The more you run in, the more points you will obtain..
The Ladies and Mens Championships are scored separately. So at the end of the series, there will (hopefully) be a Mens Champion, and a Ladies Champion.
Points are scored as follows:
- 5 points for completing the race.
- 15 Points to anyone achieving a personal best within the series at a particular distance. So for example, if you run the 2nd 10k race in the series faster than you ran the first 10k, you win an additional 15 points. If you do that again in the 3rd 10k in the series, theres another 15 points. Similarly you could do the same with the 3 x 5k races, and with the 3 half marathons. Obviously you cannot win pb points if you only compete in 1 race of each distance in the series.
- Points according to your finishing place in the race, relative to other ERs. If there are 5 female Eden Runners in a race, the first finisher gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4, 3rd gets 3, etc. Same principle, obviously, for the blokes.
So to take an example, lets look at Runaround Sue. She turns up for the Wesham 10k in Nov. She is a fully paid up member of Eden Runners, and has remembered to bring her green and blue ER vest. Some of her club team mates have turned up too, there are 8 blokes and 6 lasses. Sue has a stormer of a race, and finishes impressively in 48.27, a good 53 seconds faster than the time she ran at the Richmand Castle 10k in Oct. She was 3rd female Eden Runner to finish. All of her team-mates manage to finish in one piece. Fortunately, she has brought a calculator to work out how many points shes got from the race:
Completing the race 5 points.
PB Points 15 points
Place points 4 points. (6 female ER finishers 6 points for 1st place, 5 for 2nd, so Sue gets 4 points for 3rd)
So Sue wins 24 points from this race (5+15+4)
Some important points though:
Points awarded will be based on OFFICIAL RESULTS ONLY it doesnt matter what your own stopwatch says.
Club vests MUST be worn.
Only fully paid-up members can take part in the Club Championships.
About US
Where we run
We meet for a club run every Wednesday evening at Penrith Rugby Club, Winters Park..
In winter we start our session at 6.45pm with a warm-up and stretch indoors. Then we organise runs of varying distances and speeds around the streets of Penrith. There are excellent changing and shower facilities at the Rugby Club and we then meet informally in the club bar.
On summer evenings we are more likely to go out into some of the glorious countryside nearby or further into the Pennines and the Lakeland fells. Then we usually find a pub.
What we do
Eden Runners have many different interests, including:
- fell running
- road running
- cross-country
- orienteering
- mountain marathons
- adventure racing
- triathlon and other multi-sport events
We also organise a number of successful events through the year, including:
We are also a very sociable bunch - after our Wednesday night run we wind down with a drink at the Rugby Club. At the weekend meny of our members can be seen taking part in many of the local road and fell races in and around the area
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