Arrangements for Junior Groups.
Meet 10:10am by Lakeside Cafe.
Come a few minutes earlier if you’re wanting to use the toilets before your run.
Please wear appropriate clothing and shoes – it may rain and some of the footpaths are a bit muddy.
Please sign in if you want your run to count towards your 25/50/100 medal.
Presentation of awards at 10:15.
Split into groups:
- Main group (middle speed) will do the marked route 3.4km with group photo at D
- Slower/younger group will do the marked route to D (and a group photo), then either continue along the lakeside path to J or will go sharp uphill to H and then back to J (both 2.7km, one flat, one hilly)
- Faster older group will do the marked route to G, then either a lap of the junior parkrun route or some hill reps from the arena up to the Mansion
Everyone comes back to J for Valley Striders Relays “Cafe or Lake”.
If numbers are smallish we will keep groups 1 and 2 together until point D.
All groups / all runners should follow the instructions of the leaders, including
- keep on the RIGHT hand side of the path (i.e. away from the edge of the lake)
- slow down for puddles
- slow down or stop for dogs
- slow down or stop for groups of walkers, particularly groups with young children and/or prams
- take care when passing fishermen (their rods may obstruct part of the path)
- don’t annoy swans
- (these last two added as a result of my “risk assessment” this morning
Group 1 and 2 will be doing a “lifebelt” run round the lakeside. At each lifebelt we’ll stop and regroup. The leader will then decide whether the path to the next lifebelt with be a jog or a run (depending on the width of the path and “traffic”). If it’s a run then a leader will try to keep ahead of the children! When the children reach the next lifebelt, they should turn round and jog back to the rest of the group.
Please could as many parents as possible run – even if not in the same group as their children.
Please could non-running parents take it in turns to walk up to the field where the relays will be held to ensure that no-one steals the marker posts
Hope to see lots of you there. And to the rest, “Happy New Year” and hopefully see you on 3 January.
NB don’t worry if you’re not on the list, you can still come!
Indi Banerjee | Possibly |
Bertie Bell | 50-50 |
Jasper Bennett | Probably |
Jenson Bennett | Probably |
Francesca Booth | Possibly |
Milly Booth | Possibly |
Abigail Bottomley | Highly Likely |
Conor Butterworth | Highly Likely |
Isla Butterworth | Highly Likely |
Gus Cawcutt | Probably |
Chloe Deak | 50-50 |
Emmy Deverill | Possibly |
Thomas Deverill | Possibly |
Leo Freer | Highly Likely |
Benjamin Gostling | Possibly |
James Gostling | Possibly |
Thomas Grosvenor | Highly Likely |
Caitlyn Hartley | Probably |
Reuben Herbert | Possibly |
Alice Hirst-Sewell | Highly Likely |
Harriet Hirst-Sewell | Highly Likely |
Caleb Keene | Highly Likely |
Samuel Keene | Highly Likely |
Abigail Kingston | Highly Likely |
Rebecca Kingston | Highly Likely |
Austin Lyons | Possibly |
Eaden Lyons | Possibly |
Edward Nabozny | 50-50 |
Søren Pailor | 50-50 |
Emily Parbutt | Probably |
Harry Pick | 50-50 |
George Redmond | Highly Likely |
Sam Redmond | Highly Likely |
Ewan Reid | Highly Likely |
Kirsten Reid | Highly Likely |
Kyle Reid | Highly Likely |
Zak Reisman | Possibly |
Ruby Richardson | 50-50 |
Henry Rollings | Probably |
Jess Rollings | Probably |
Isaac Rugg | Possibly |
Ella Shanks | Highly Likely |
Lucy Sheen | Possibly |
Thomas Sheen | Possibly |
Reggie Smith | Highly Likely |
Joseph Urquhart | 50-50 |
Arthur Venning | 50-50 |
Mary Venning | 50-50 |
Dora Walmsley | Possibly |
Natalie Ward | Possibly |
Isabelle Watt | Possibly |
Joseph Whitehouse | Probably |
Sammy Whitehouse | Probably |
James Whittle | 50-50 |