Club News

UEA Trackday 4 July 2010

 

A Winning Run For Cancer Fund

This year's Roger Wing Memorial Race raised a record £4,219.33 for charity. It was held at Broome on Good Friday, and it was at The Artichoke at Broome on Tuesday evening 18th May, that the Bungay Black Dog Running Club presented the cheque to the chosen charity, Cancer Research UK.
Club captain and race director John Wharton thanked all the runners, more than 300, who took part and said all gave amounts in addition to the entry fee towards the charity, while there was one anonymous donation of £200, and £300 was raised by selling cakes baked by club members and friends.
Club Chairman Christine Muttitt and Treasurer Mark Lowther presented the cheque to Paul Fleet, area manager for Cancer Research UK, who said it was an incredible result, and thanking everyone for the fundraising, said the money would go towards local cancer research. "We have fantastic work going on in Norwich and it will go towards helping us save lives," he said.
Christine said: "It is lovely to think we are doing some good. We enjoy the races and we are doing good for charity at the same time." And she thanked John Wharton for organising the event. Also at the presentation were Dorinda Starling and Phil Griffith, from 4 x 4 Response, who supplied the emergency response support vehicles for the race.
Two trophies not presented on race day, to the two Black Dog Runners home first, were presented to Simon Blackburn and Helen Hornsey.

Clubmark Accreditation Success for Running Club

Bungay Black Dog Running Club has recently achieved accreditation to the UK Athletics Clubmark - the result of an 18 month project led by Margaret Burton, supported by the club committee.
Achieving Clubmark accreditation status gives structure and direction to the club which in turn leads to more efficient organisation and a greater understanding of issues and responsibilities in the important areas of safeguarding children and equal opportunities. In order to achieve accreditation status, the club has been required to meet specific criteria set for athletics in the Clubmark categories to show they are a safe, effective and child friendly club. These categories include club management, member welfare, event organisation and operation of a junior section. Development of the junior section has been the vision of club coach John White, and under his leadership a thriving and dynamic junior membership has developed in the past year.
As a part of this development the club recently ran a series of “Come and Try Running” sessions after school for young people in the Bungay area. This Sport Unlimited project was funded through Suffolk Sport. The club has seen the benefit of other increased funding opportunities through the award of a £7,500 grant from Sport England for the Bungay Community Running Project. This project aims to increase the number of people participating in running in the Bungay area by encouraging all ages and abilities to take part as well as to develop opportunities for those who wish to achieve excellence. The club plans to do this by using funding to increase the number of qualified coaches within the club and investing in equipment so that members can participate in a well structured and safe environment.
The club has also received £1,108 funding from the Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS through the Waveney Community Forum CVS which aims to produce results for the NHS Trust goals for lifestyle changes for people, by organising some “Come and Try Running,” taster sessions for adults in 2010/2011. The next of the eight week introductory courses commences on Monday 5th July at The Maltings Sports Centre, Ditchingham. Sessions will run from 6pm - 7pm. Adults only. Cost £1 per session. All abilities are welcome to come along to this friendly and supportive group offering a gentle introduction to indoor and outdoor exercise. Club coach Bobbie Sauerzapf says, ”Our aim is to persuade people that they never actually lost the ability to run, or to have fun while getting a little fitter.”

Jogging and Fitness Course for Complete Beginners

INSPIRED BY THE LONDON MARATHON?
BBDRC always welcome those wishing to try their hand at running. We believe that anyone, regardless of age or ability, can enjoy running. If you would like to try your hand at a new sport you would be most welcome at any training session.
We hold beginners Jogging and Fitness courses from time to time. The next eight week course will start on Monday 5th July at The Maltings Sports Centre, Ditchingham. Sessions will run from 6pm - 7pm. Adults only. Cost £1 per session. The course is led by qualified instructors and is designed to be safe, supportive and, most importantly, FUN.
We are grateful to Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS for funding towards these courses.
For further information please contact Bobbie (01603 438862) or email: novice@bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.uk

Suffolk County Cross Country Championships

Five Black Dog juniors took part in the postponed Suffolk County Cross Country Championships at Newmarket on Sunday 14th February. The weather was cold but otherwise fine. The course was uninspiring and a bit disappointing after the excellent Stowmarket event the week before. First up was Ruby Oldman coming home in 15:26, 15th place in the 3k U13 Girls event. Next to go were the U13 Boys (3k), Ted Oldman was first Black Dog back in a respectable 12:46, 11th place, followed shortly afterwards by William Oldman in 14:53, 18th place.
The U15 Boys had a longer 4k run. Kieran McMorran came home in an excellent 4th place (16:00) beating several of his regular competitors for the first time. Miles Kingston managed to complete the course in 22:25, 14th place which was an excellent effort considering the amount of training that he'd missed in the last couple of months.

GRANTS

The committee is pleased to announce that the club has recently applied for, and received three financial grants that will be used to work towards our goal of increasing and sustaining the number of people participating in running in our area by encouraging all to take part. The club also wishes to develop opportunities for those who wish to achieve excellence.

In order to do this, we need to increase the number of qualified coaches in our club, purchase some more equipment and develop policies to help ensure that members can participate in a well structured and safe environment.

• The club’s Bungay Community Running Project attracted a grant of £7,500 from Sport England for the year January to December 2010. The grant will be used to purchase equipment and pay for coaching course fees. Please note that none of the money will be used to pay coaches as all our coaches are volunteers. All coaches receiving training courses funded by the club/grant are expected to stay with the club for coaching purposes for at least one year post training.

• The club received a grant for £322 for a Sport Unlimited project to lead a series of 8 sessions to encourage young people under the age of 19 to take part in running. These sessions are being run in February and March straight after school. The money is being used for facilities hire and publicity materials.

• The latest award was £1,018 from the NHS small grants programme which aims to improve health and wellbeing in our community. The club will run three sets of 8 “Come and Try Running” sessions between April 2010 and March 2011. The money will be used for facilities hire, publicity materials and a pool of hi-vis vests to loan to participants. beginner@bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.uk.

I am sure that you will join me in thanking all members of the committee who have been involved to enable these grants to be achieved and who are now working really hard to follow through and deliver on the projects. Through their efforts and dedication the club can look forward to increasing and sustaining a membership of all ages and abilities in the future.

Information about the grants may be found by emailing:

NHS small grant: novice@bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.uk.

Sport Unlimited grant: semisportykids@bungayblackdogrunningclub.co.uk.

Sport England grant or any other questions about any of the above: susan_potter_57@hotmail.com.

If you are interested in training to be a coach and assisting with some of our training sessions, please contact John White on: johnfrederickwhite@yahoo.co.uk.

Sue Potter

10k Handicap Results 2010

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Suffolk Winter League -Cross Country 2009-10

Latest Results - click here for Junior results and click here for Senior results

Summer Series

Club Results - click here to download as a PDF file

Juniors Watford Trip 12 August 2009

A number of Junior Black Dogs accompanied Club Chairman John White to a summer trackmeet in Watford on August 12th. This high quality open event was a chance for some of the juniors to experience running on a proper track and to compete with and watch the very best runners from eastern England. All runners achieved personal bests. Rory Lacey ran the 100m (13.82) and was narrowly beaten in his heat in the 200m (28:06). Amongst the 17 heats in the 1500m, were two Black Dogs - Kieran McMorran (5:04) and Miles Kingston (5:44). Rhys Spencer finished the 3000m (11.57) which didn’t start until 10.30pm!.

Juniors Trip to Watford

We left Bungay Sports Centre at 4.30pm and fortunately had clear traffic all the way to Watford arriving at 6.45pm into a packed car park. First event was off at 7.00pm, so by the time we'd parked up and registered Rory only had 5 minutes before his 400m race to prepare. The temperature was in excess of 25 degrees as well, so not the ideal start. Rory ran a slightly disappointing 1:08.5 which was undoubtedly down to the rushed preparation.

Kieran and Miles both had more time to soak up the atmosphere and warm up properly before their races and both ran really well. Miles ran 2:48.8 beating his PB by 7 seconds and Kieran came home in 2:30.9 knocking 9 seconds off his previous time. Unfortunately there were nearly 200 runners entered into the 800m resulting in 17 heats, so the 200m started over half an hour behind schedule, but Rory ran a very creditable race, taking it easy over the first 100, then powering through the final 100m to come home in 29.03.

We left Watford at 9.30pm and arrived back in Bungay at 11.30pm.

Injury Prevention Course by Clare Carrick from Back in Motion Physio

The information received as a result of this course is available to all runners as a downloadable document, for individuals to read and familiarise themselves with the correct procedure should an injury occur

Injury Prevention Course Word Document - click here or Injury Prevention Course PDF file click here