Springburn Harriers XC event - Sunday 27th February

Morning all,

Frances received an email from Springburn Harriers who are holding their XC event on Sunday 27th February in Kirkintilloch with first event starting at 0930 through to last event starting at 1020.

Looking at the link on Q Buster there is events from Primary 1 through to S6 so a big age range which is unusual.

They still have spaces at this event and would rather they get filled then not.

So, building on the success of the LAAA XC at the weekend and hopefully increased people’s interest to race, please feel free to enter your son or daughter via the Q Buster link. The race fees are all £4 and closing date is Thursday 24th February.

https://www.q-buster.co.uk/springburn-harriers-junior-cross-country

Unfortunately, there will be no club representative from Calderglen Harriers able to act as a chaperone. Therefore, you will need to remain there to look after your son or daughter.

Good luck to anyone who chooses to do it, remember to wear your running vest and as always tell us how you get on. Even a nice picture is always good to see.

Best,

Richard

TRAINING CANCELLED WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY

Morning All,

We have taken a risk assessment and due to the high winds through the day and in particular after 4pm today, we have cancelled tonight’s training.

I put a brief post on our private junior Facebook, sent an email to all to this effect.

Kind Regards

Richard Lawton
Junior Coordinator

LANARKSHIRE AAA XC CHAMPIONSHIP 2022

Lanarkshire Cross Country Championships is a club event for running clubs in the area and is individual event with team prizes incorporated.

Entry to the race is FREE.

This event will take place on Saturday 12th February at Kirkland Park in Strathaven. All the races are individual. Ages as at 31 August / 1 September 2022. Details are as follows:

Event	Time	Age group	Distance
Race 1	11:00	U11 Girls	1000m (1 small lap)
Race 2	11:15	U11 Boys	1000m (1 small lap)
Race 3	11:30	U13 Girls & Boys	2600m (1 large lap)
Race 4	12:00	U15 Girls & Boys	3200m (1 small + 1 large lap)
Race 4	12:00	U17 Men & Women	4800m (2 large laps)
Race 4	12:00	U20/Sen/Vet Men & women	6400m (3 large laps)

Age groups are u11 (9 & 10 yrs), u13 (11 & 12 yrs), u15 (13 & 14 yrs), u17 (15 & 16 yrs) and everybody else is Senior or Veteran.

Entries close on Wednesday 26th January.

Please let a Coach know or PM on Junior Harriers Facebook.

Please note info provided maybe subject to change.

2022 Club Training

Just a reminder the club Wednesday training sessions return on Wednesday 12th January. Please be there from 6.15pm and ready run to by 6.30pm. We want to start more prompt for the New Year.

Additional Training - Parkruns

Various 5k Parkruns every Saturday @ 0930 and 2k junior Parkruns for 4 to 14 year olds every Sunday @ 0930.

If you do Parkrun you need register with them to get your barcode so when you run you get your time recorded.

Here is a link to the general site but all runs have their own sites to: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

Richard

Summer Break

This current block of training has 3 more sessions which are on 30th June, 7th July and 14th July.

Then we will take a break for 2 weeks. So no training on 21st and 28th July.

Training will return on 4th August at 6.30pm

Please spread the word if you know other parents in club to make sure everyone gets these important dates.

Thanks

Richard

Trialling a one way traffic system during the school holiday period

 Park information received from SLLC

We are currently reviewing traffic management in and around Calderglen and there are concerns in relation to congestion on the main drive from the main entrance of the park, over the bridge and to the entrance points of both the sports club and K-Park. As your club members will have experienced, the bridge can be a bottle neck with the road as two way. Add to this, there are concerns with the increasing volume of park visitors entering on foot from Colonsay Field or further afield. In the long term, we have raised these issues with the Council in the hope that significant funding can be identified to improve the layout of the entrance road, access from Colonsay Field, and widen the pavement. 

In the short term however, we are appealing to all members of the sports clubs and also K-Park users in trialling a one way traffic system during the school holiday period. Would you be able to send your database of members/users an email to ask if they can exit Calderglen via the exit road and not go out the main entrance road as most probably do? We would like to trial this to gauge the effect it has on the queues at the main entrance and safety aspects for pedestrians. If we collectively think it has improved then we can ask SLC Roads to install signage and road markings to make it a permanent change. If you have any events which are being stewarded, then it would be appreciated if the parking attendants can ensure cars are directed out the exit road via the main car park. We realise not everyone will bother to adhere to this request however if we get at least some of the regular users doing this then it will allow us to monitor the impact on the main entrance area.

 

Many thanks for your help.

Colin Girvan

Recreation Officer

Membership Fees 2021 - reduction

Calderglen Harriers financial year is November to October and from November the monthly fee of £8 goes towards the new membership year.  With COVID restrictions the committee has been looking to see how they can help. Now that training has returned again the following decision has been made:

Calderglen Harriers will give you a 4 month break from paying fees starting on 1st July 2021 to 1st October 2021 for members who paid full membership in 2020.

Please cancel your standing order as of now so your last payment will have been on 1st June 2021.

The standing orders should start again on 1st November 2021.

There are few people this does not apply to and I have contact the relevant parents direct.

If you have a Family membership you need to speak to our club Treasurer Russell Couper / email on russell4@sky.com about your membership fees but you may have done this already.

If you are a new member for 2021, you will need to pay £8 per month after the first 4 weeks your son or daughter join the club.

Kind Regards

Richard Lawton
Junior Coordinator