We have seen a gradual increase in membership over the last few months with over 57% of our members being women. From receiving feedback, one of the key attractions of joining the club is that we really look after new members and guide them to run with a group of similar ability. When we set […]
Whilst Tuesday nights are our main club night, Thursday nights are proving to be very popular. These are slightly less formal than Tuesdays but we continue to run in groups and of course, “no-one gets left behind”. Having a variety of routes and runs with varying abilities helps everyone to make progress in their running. […]
After a long “lockdown” break, we returned to our Tuesday and Thursday night club runs and it was great to be back. Lots of social distancing taking place but everyone played their part in making the club nights work. We also had our 5 mile virtual challenge with Tim and Charlee winning the men’s and […]
Mote Runners virtual 5 mile race is to be held across the bank holiday weekend in August. Members will run their race during the weekend, record race times and submit these to the club.
The Weekly Newsletter has come of age during lockdown with lots of activities to report on. With plenty of photos being submitted, there seems to be some friendly competition as who gets their picture as the header. The Virtual 5k goes from strength to strength with lots of new participants and plenty of PB’s being […]
With lockdown continuing, we are trying to keep members engaged and updated on what’s happening. We had a lockdown “escape quiz” which was probably the most successful of all our Zoom evenings. Totally different and a lot of fun. The AGM took place on 12th May 2002 on Zoom. We had the required quorum thankfully […]
During lockdown we have kept busy and connected with different virtual challenges including quizzes, escape rooms and scavenger hunts. We have kept in touch with each other’s running through Strava, Facebook and WhatsApp, where there has been lots of positive encouragement.
This month our runners have competed in the London Big Half, Maidstone Road Run half marathon, Dartford Half and the Lydd 20 miler. However as things quickly changed and we entered lockdown we had members do a “not the Bath half” and some fun individual runs drawing out pictures on the run maps.
Mote Runners virtual 5 mile race is to be held on 12th July. Members will run their race on the day, record race times and submit these to the club.
February has been a busy running month with Mote Runners competing in Hyde Park, Chichester, Headcorn, Trosley and some did the Valentines Tough Love Challenge.
