Welcome to this week's newsletter! News - No club run this weekend, hopefully you'll all be at Wellington Marathon on Sunday aye? Good luck to all running.
- Good luck also to our junior members running in the Wellington Primary Schools Regional Cross Country next Tuesday at Queen Elizabeth Park.
- Last call for the North Island Cross Country Champs on 6 July. If your name's not Graeme Stevens, Anna Douglas, Judith Taylor, Craig Thomson, Mia Thomson, Alvirg Busa, Finlay Bland or Tom Bland and you still want to come, get in touch by this Friday (respond to this newsletter, the Facebook post or e-mail tpbland@gmail.com) so we can sort the race entry out.
- National Cross Country Champs - Sunday 4 August (not July as I said last week) at Harcourt Park, Upper Hutt. The club will refund your entry fee provided you use the special code for discounted entries for Wellington club members. Get in touch to get the code if you're a club member, then enter online here.
- Details for the Wellington Cross Country Champs at Grenada North on 20 July are available here.
- Singlet buyback scheme (not actually buying them) - If you have previously borrowed a club singlet for interclub relays or any other reason and you still have it, please get in touch to arrange to return it, preferably washed. No questions asked.
- Most of you will have seen an exciting new event coming to Kāpiti in the summer - the Xterra Wellington Festival on 1 February 2020 (including an off-road triathlon - yay!) Stick it in your diary and get out in dem hills!
- The winter club programme is on our website here. Print it out, stick it on your fridge and get along to as many events as possible!
- You can register with the club online now.
Race results - None to report this week.
- I'm guessing there will be a few at Wellington Marathon/Half/10k/Kids' Mile on Sunday. I'm not a fan of scrolling through results looking for club members and I'm even less a fan of people telling me afterwards that I've missed their results, so PLEASE let me know how you get on!
- Please let me know if you've taken part in an event (preferably before Wednesday) so it can be included in the newsletter (we do really like to celebrate performances).
Training article of the week- Each week, we highlight a training article that might be of interest to runners and triathletes. If you've read an interesting training article recently, let us know and we'll include it in an upcoming Training article of the week!
- Big thanks to Mike Keenan for this week's article (the first time anyone has actually sent one in, so thanks Mike!)
- This week's article is an interesting look at periodisation for hill running. It's a long one, but definitely worth the read so stick it in your bookmarks and get through it yeah?
Upcoming eventsClub and interclub events (see our club calendar for more) - There are a number of relay events coming up over the next couple of months - Halcombe Relay (27 July), Bays Relay (10 August), Marton to Whanganui Relay (14 September NOT 7 September as it say in the winter programme) and NZ Road Relay champs (Feilding, 5 October).
- Put these dates in your diary and be ready for the call when we start putting teams together. You won't regret it!
Other events - Check out Manawatu Tri Club's website for details of their triathlons and duathlons.
- Capital City Triathlon have just released the dates for their upcoming duathlons and triathlons here.
- Kāpiti Parkrun is on every Saturday morning, 8am at Otaihanga Domain. A free, timed 5km along the Waikanae River. Head to the Parkrun website to register and print off your barcode.
- The club lists all our events, and some others in the region, on our club google calendar: http://bit.ly/2oNDQUU. You can add the calendar to your own google account and never miss another club event!
- The NZ Running Calendar includes triathlon, swim, bike, run, obstacle course and mountain bike events and even film festivals and expos! And if you see an event that takes your fancy and think it would be a good one for the club to attend 'gang-handed', post ideas to our Facebook page.
Training and club sessions - Wednesday nights - meet at 5.45pm at the Coastlands Aquatic Centre for a social run.
- Sunday mornings - meet at 9.00am for a longer run (90 minutes to 3 hours), get in touch with Peter Ellis for details of location and meeting point (peter.ellis@xtra.co.nz).
- Junior training - Check the website for details of the junior sessions and join the Facebook Group for junior training announcements and info.
- Anyone wanting to publicise a training session or looking for training partners, please get in touch and we can put the word out.
- You can also use our Club Strava Group to create and publicise events (get on the group if you're not already!)
Club membership - We are always keen to attract new members. You can join online here. Our membership flyer is here. If you want to know what else you get from membership of an Athletics NZ affliated club, check out the member benefits here. In addition, you will receive heavily discounted entry (or even free entry) at the majority of our club events, discounted squad fees, be able to run at inter-club events and be eligible for representative teams. We are affliated to Triathlon NZ and have a number of keen triathletes (and accredited coaches) in the club. We also have a number of social functions throughout the year. If you want to train and compete with the club, you can join us here. Any questions, ask one of our friendly committee members.
Other stuff - Call for newsletter items - if you want some company to train with, you've got a flash new bike and want to sell your old steel workhorse or you've just smashed your half marathon PB (or anything else that might be newsworthy) let us know for inclusion in the next newsletter.
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