Time Trials
The club holds Time Trials every month throughout the summer and also during the winter periods. The Summer Time Trial series runs from April to September and the Winter Time Trail runs from October through to February.
The idea of the time trials is for runners to see their improvement with training throughout the year.
Adding fun to these trials, we will be looking to highlight time improvements runners achieve each time. The men and women who improve the most off their time trial results compared to their previous best from last year, (or from this year if they did not record a time last year), will receive recognition and a small prize.
We also do a random spot prize every time trial which all runners and helpers on the night are included in.
Time Trial Information
- To ensure that we stick to the latest Covid rules we will be setting people off in groups of 5 at 5-minute intervals. Please do not arrive at the Green until 5 minutes before your start time. You can then use the Green to do your own warm up exercises and drills, remembering to keep your 2m distance from others.
- You will need to pre-book for the time trial and we will then allocate you a time. The plan is for the first slot to start at 6pm. If you need a later slot to give you time to get back from work, please let us know – we are planning for the last slot to be at 7pm unless all the other slots are full (in which case we will look to extend this).
- We need to ensure that runners are spread evenly across the allocated slots so if we don’t get enough interest we will consider adjusting the timings.
- PLEASE NOTE: you will time yourselves and then give us your time straight after you finished.
- Please feel free to catch your breath afterwards but don’t hang around in large groups afterwards and make sure you are social distancing during the run and at the end. Please depart a maximum of 5 minutes after you have given your result in.
- Please be mindful of the public when running the route and give them space. Also be careful of crossing the roads, particularly when it gets dark and ensure that you wear high viz clothing.
As always, we will have the biggest female and male improver each month and the randomator. These prizes won’t be given out on the night due to the time slot system so at a later date or at the next time trial for the winners.
(The route is well lit but there are a number of safety points which will be briefed on the night before the start of each wave).
The Time Trials are held once per month and dates are announced on our closed, members only, facebook groups.