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The Paddock Wood AC Newsletter February 2011 The Stopwatch Times For copy e-mail [email protected] Please put Stop Watch Times in the Subject Box Deadline for the Next Edition is the last Friday of the Month www.paddockwoodac.co.uk CHAIRMAN’S CORNER I do hope that you feel that this is a fair system, please contact "Cross Country: no half times, no time outs, no any Committee member if you need any further clarifcation. substitutions. It must be the only true sport" – Anon. Paddock Wood AC Mugs – Birthday Presents!!!! We still have some coffee / tea mugs with our club logo I think I’ve seen the frst signs of Spring already, no not the frst available for purchase at £3.00 each. cuckoo but the Track & Field fxtures are now starting to be A good idea for a birthday presents during 2011. Please contact published – can you believe it there is only 12 weeks to the 1st me if you’d like to buy any – [email protected] or see event…..soon be time to get the shorts and t-shirts out again! Alison at training. 10% Discount for PWAC club members at The 2011 Brooks 22nd Paddock Wood Half Cotswold Outdoor stores – just show your PWAC club Marathon – Sunday 27 th March 2011 membership card. The entries are coming in thick & fast, as at 25th January 2011 we have had 712 entries for our Half Marathon on Sunday UKA Membership Numbers 27th March 2011. Your UKA Membership number should be quoted when entering races, you will fnd it on your PWAC 2010 / 2011 As usual The Joe Cartwright Fun Run over approx. 1.25 miles membership card. If you can’t fnd your number please contact (which is open to all ages ) will be run alongside the main event. Penny Roberts our Membership Secretary. Full details of how to enter are available on our website PWAC Website www.paddockwoodac.co.uk . Please keep accessing www.paddockwoodac.co.uk it’s full of useful information and please keep sending in any articles, We will need an army of volunteers to make sure it runs photos, results, ramblings, etc. or comments on improvements smoothly so if you aren’t planning to run we will need your help to me either at [email protected] or and assistance, don’t be shy, volunteering is fun !!!! Contact our [email protected] . Race Director James Ridger for details. If you have any problems accessing the PWAC Members Only Kent Cross Country Championship Entry Fees Pages or have forgotten the password then please e:mail Once again we had a number of “no-shows” at the Kent Cross [email protected] with details of the Country Championships in January 2011, this has cost the club problem and we will try to sort it out for you. a lot of money in the past in “wasted” entry fees. So to avoid any future confusion over the entries for the Kent Cross Des White Country Championships (Junior, Senior & Veterans) I just want to state the following:- PWAC will pay for entry fees for Kent Cross Country APPEAL FOR RACE ENTRY FORMS Championship events BUT the athletes must pay the fees Could club members attending races please pick up an upfront to the team managers when they agree to compete assortment of RACE ENTRY FORMS that may be on display (which is usually about 6 weeks before the events). The money and pass them on to me on training evenings will be held by the club and returned to the individual athletes when they turn up and race at their event. If an athlete cannot Thank you compete for valid reasons, e.g. illness or injury then the fee will Jenny Perman be refunded by the team managers as long as they are given prior notice. PAGE 1 The Paddock Wood AC Newsletter February 2011 CLUB MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS their friends and family - a special request goes out to those of you who have taken up the guaranteed Club places for the Please wish the following club members a very Happy Marathon to get your friends and family involved (after all, we Birthday for their birthdays in February only get the number of entries we do because of our support at the water station). Laura Burton Richard Christian Peter Cockcroft Hannah Dace This day is hard work and over the years we have had to Andy Exall Mickael Hegesippe contend with all the different types of weather imaginable, but Matt Hendley Thomas Hendley above all else it is thoroughly enjoyable and a good day out - Hannah Howe Kirsty Jones you might see more of the actual race by sitting at home Melanie King David Lindsey watching it on the tv, but you certainly don’t get the Margaret Poole Mick Reidy atmosphere you experience by being in amongst the action James Ridger Jackie Riggs (and you can always set the video or Sky+ and watch the Julian Seal Des White highlights later anyway!). Free coach travel is provided (paid for by the London Marathon organisers) but an early start is needed, so be prepared to leave SOUTHERN MENS LEAGUE Paddock Wood at about 7.30 am (returning late afternoon) - Below are the dates for the Southern Men's league this more details to follow nearer the day. If you haven’t been summer :- before, it is not a day for young, small children, but if you need more details please telephone me. May 7th June 4th July 9th July 30th August 13th As usual an advance party of “strong young men” (and women!) will be needed to travel up at about 5.30am to deal with the The league has re-structured (again) following 30+ teams delivery of the water and equipment. withdrawing from the league and setting up a new joint men's and women's league. We are now in Division 2 South. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED - PLEASE CALL ME AT HOME ( 01892 836483 ) OR MOBILE (07771 612380) OR PREFERABLY BY E-MAIL The teams are :- [email protected] STRAIGHT AWAY. Bracknell (B) Crawley It is ESSENTIAL that you let me know the names, East Grinstead Epsom & Ewell addresses, and phone numbers of all the Hastings (A) Haywards Heath / Lewes volunteers as this is a requirement imposed on the Herne Hill Harriers Horsham Blue Star organisers by the Metropolitan Police for your Invicta East Kent Kent AC security and safety . Medway & Maidstone Paddock Wood South London Harriers Sutton & District Thanks Swale Tunbridge Wells Peter Cockcroft There will be 5 matches of 4 teams competing on each day Please put these matches in your diary and I look forward to seeing you throughout the season. MICK’S MEANDERINGS National Junior League James Ridger - Team Manager Calling all U/17’s and U/20’s – If you are 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 years of age during the coming track season, I need to hear from you. The National Junior League is the stepping stone between Junior (U/18) and Senior (18+) male and female VIRGIN LONDON MARATHON - 22 MILE WATER leagues. We have been competing in this league since 1996 with STATION - SUNDAY 17 th APRIL 2011 varying degrees of success. Following several changes to rules Yet again, PWAC will be manning the 22-mile water station for and re-organisation, the whole league below the Midland, the London Marathon, which is going to be in The Highway as in Northern and Southern Premier divisions is very well previous years, directly opposite the 13 mile halfway point, regionalised. This means that we compete in the Medway making it an ideal location for watching the race. Division against Ashford AC, Bexley AC, Cambridge Harriers, Croydon Harriers, Dartford Harriers, Medway & Maidstone AC In past years we have had over 120 volunteers travelling to and Tonbridge AC in just 4 matches, all on Sundays and all in London to help at the water station and play their part on this Kent. Sometimes we compete at Croydon which is in Surrey fantastic occasion. Our group is made up of Club members and but only every other season. PAGE 2 The Paddock Wood AC Newsletter February 2011 We also compete as a composite team with Invicta East Kent have enough money available to (a) demolish the Olympic AC and as such we compete under the name Invicta’s Paddock Stadium, (b) Rip up the track and (c) Build another stadium in with our own Red & White vests. This is because we have its place just for football they have enough money to build their traditionally had only a few eligible athletes for this league and own stadium in the frst place. Invicta East Kent have had a lot but could not get a place in the league. The competition in this league is very good standard and Don’t get me wrong, I’ve nothing against Tottenham having a I would like as many of you as possible to compete. Teams are new stadium, but why there, in a place their fans don’t want selected on merit but those who don’t actually get into the them to go to, which is way outside their territory, and will be scoring team can do non-scoring events so they can prove that the death of an Athletics facility which we have been crying out I was wrong not to select them for the scoring team. for ever since Sport England took over the use of Crystal Palace and then found they couldn’t justify spending millions on There is a full programme of events with all the four Throws themselves to upgrade the track and the associated facilities (Shot, Discus, Hammer & Javelin), all the four Jumps (High Jump, there.