LADIES CAPTAIN’S REPORT

I am going to start this report as I finished the last one congratulating the girls on the relays at Stanley Park even though the marshals sent our new runner the wrong way and our experienced runner the same. This meant that our ‘B’ team got disqualified. We had a great day; the weather remained dry just about, though for me it was dry inside sorting the registration and the results whilst getting a bird’s eye view of the start and finish. It was nice to see Carmel doing her first race without any serious after effects.

On a personal note I am glad to have started running again albeit not very far and certainly not fast but it is just nice to get out in the fresh air rather than marshalling. I did the Rudolph Run in December, in fancy dress of course but as a run with Tracey no racing as the back is still far from okay but ‘slowly slowly catchy the monkey’. I just hope 2010 is kinder.

Since the last magazine the girls are getting back up to strength with Sarah flying up the hills and Tracey pounding the roads and both achieving fabulous results. I must also welcome the new members April, Stacey, Tanya and Cathy - it is great to have you aboard. I hope you enjoy doing your training with us and achieve what you want from your running. Feel free to ask any of the members for help and advice if you want it. Someone will always have an answer for you.

Stacey Elston

April Scott

Tanya Hillis

Cathy Waterhouse

We have now had our main event of the year the Wesham 10k which was a great day. The weather was kind, windless and dry except for the bit of rain we had at 7.30am whilst putting up the tents, typical! It was a fairly busy day for me which started the night before making butties for the marshal’s bags but with the help of Tracey we had it done in double quick time. It was my first appearance at this race and I had no idea just how much organising went into it on the day. It was incident free except the bottle neck I was causing giving the freebies out to the finishers with the help of Julie, Pauline and little Becky. The funnel kept getting full - too many finished at the same time. The day was long but it didn’t finish there we had to get the glad rags out for the party at Ribby Hall which was a huge success thanks to Derek and Celia.

I would like to say that although we showed our appreciation to Dave and Brenda in the form of gifts, bought with donations from the members at our presentation evening in our 25^th Anniversary Year, I would like to thank all the other non runners for the time they give freely to marshalling and setting courses up. Without people like you, and you know who you are, there would be no races for us to run and, more importantly, no races to run that are safe so from myself. I am sure I speak on behalf of the rest of Wesham Road Runners THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

On a personal note I would like to say I am honoured that our Chairman would consider me worthy of the ‘club member of the year’ award which I was delighted to have received, it did come as a shock because I never even considered that I would be a candidate for such an item.

Until the next magazine, bye for now.

Written by Kerry Eccles, Ladies Captain.

Submitted: 31^st December 2009

Edited by: Brenda J Earnshaw WRR Editor