Ribble Valley Athletic Club

Congratulations to our U15 girls for being the first Lancashire team home at the National Cross Country Relays on Saturday 5th November!

Millie set the ball rolling on the first leg coming home in a strong 17th in a time of 7min 46secs, handing over to Lucy who ran a very tough leg to take the girls upto 15th in a time of 8min 13secs at the final change onto Georgie who ran her heart out to keep them in the top 25 placings coming into finish in a time of 8min 36sec and the team finishing 22nd overall out of 95 complete finishing teams and top Lancashire team in front of Preston, Blackburn & Rossendale, the only team to beat the girls in both the Lancashire road relay champs and the national road Relays Blackpool did not send a team.

The club would like to congratulate the girls on a fantastic performance! you did yourselves and the club proud.

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By Laura Nerenberg:

early start half 7 breakfast yummy chocolate crossaints, with don enjoying his tea that had to be prefect ;) training whise today was fairly easy, In the morning we had 20 mins steady... everyone was feeling great.
 
For dinner we went to the yummy scrummy Tom Brown's which was imuy bien!, no complainants on that one. 

After having a walk back to the hotel to restore our water we headed back to the track for a run of 20 minutes easy which wasn't too bad to be honest.

Don did some massages, I got one, ouch too painful, but was worth it after a fair easy session we all had a stroll back to the hotel for tea. 

Tea was looking good, nice food all the time pretty much after tea we went out down the road to a bar where we took part in a table football and speed pool tournament. It was a really good night with everyone and the other running club that we know.  After a long day we finally got our heads down for some sleep Good Night Amigos!

By Racheal Calow:

As always, day 3 started ridiculously early and with the added pain of the 4x400m endured only the day before, we were literally lolling at the breakfast table.  Apart from Mark who continuously manages to shovel down platefulls of sausages and beans!  Back up at the rooms, after recouperating from Don jumping out at us from the lift (very scary experience), we all joined in trying to 'accidentally on purpose' wake up the horribly hungover Romans across the hall who had wobbled in at 4 in the morning shhing the loudest shhhs we have ever heard.

So, back at the track for a nice easy day (well as easy as it can get in 28 degrees.) Us girls did 30 minutes 'easy' which, for me, consisted of being dragged by Don around the cross country route up hills that would put the saucer to shame. To say it was easy was a little optimistic. No idea what the boys did but it pronbably puts my pain to shame so i'd rather carry on not knowing. Ps. mobility is so much more enjoyable when theres the opportunity to tan.

We had a nice break in the afernoon; lunch at our favourite place followed by 2 hours on the beach! After 10 minutes of sunbathing the sea just looked too inviting so me, Amy, Jayne and Laura launched ourselves into it, splashing all the boys who were flapping around at the edge like little birds. But we eventually got them all in and jumping off the pier which was AWESOME. And then we buried Sam and gave him boobs. lol.

Drills in the evening really showed just how un-co-ordinated we are! Apart from Doja who beasted them like a machine! There was lots of falling over hurdles and Mark's ninja kicks were just crazy, "and according to Doja" I looked like a sandy jungle woman.

As usual , we all had about 5 plates of food for dinner so the majority of the night was spent nursing our foood babies.

night and day well spent. LOVE IT!

By Amy Bristow:

DAY 2- First full day today, got up at 8am, a lie in, HA. Had some breakfast then strolled down to the track in the lovely sunshine. It wasn't so lovely during our training session though when we all discovered that hot= HARD WORK. The girls started the camp on a nice light session of 4x400m with 2 minutes recovery.

Yep, we were definitely eased into it..! After recovering fron running and rescuing Mark from the collapse of a giant inflatable tower, we did some mobility and some of us (me) were introduced to the joys of physio.
 
It's not fun. A quick stop for water on the way back from the track then straight for some much-needed lunch! One thing we have discovered is that we are hungry aaaaaall the time and their is only so much lucozade you can handle! After lunch it was straight back to the track for our evening training session, a ten minute tempo run for the girls.

It was not cooler in the evening. I burnt one arm and both ears.Thankfully it was a short session in the sun and then we returned to the hotel for a few minutes chill out time before tea. There is SO much choice! I have honestly never eaten so many different meals in one sitting.

After tea there was a FUN QUIZ (...) organised by the Running Crazy reps, and TEAM ALPHA WOLF SQUADRON (me, Jayne and Don) came second. All in all a great second day and everyone seems hip and happy and ready for more of the same in the next two weeks. BRING IT ON!