Road Running

Wimborne AC Roadrunners include members with a wide range of age, experience and ability. We aim to provide a friendly and supportive environment to enable our runners to enjoy their running to the full and help them towards their own personal goals, whether competitive or simply to maintain a healthy level of fitness.

As well as road races, many of our roadrunners take part in endurance off-road and multi-terrain events and we also have a few triathletes in our ranks.

There are many social activities over the course of the year, including beach runs, barbecues and our annual Christmas party plus of course the monthly ‘good to talk’ post-run drink held on the first Thursday of each month.

We publish an extensive quarterly roadrunners’ newsletter.  

Latest Road Runners Newsletter

April 2010

January 2010

October 2009

July 2009

April 2009

January 2009

October 2008

July 2008

April 2008

January 2008

October 2007

July 2007

April 2007

January 2007

October 2006

July 2006

April 2006

January 2006

October 2005

On 21 November WAC Roadrunners will stage the annual ‘Wimborne 10’. This rural 10 mile road race is now in its twelfth year. More details of this event can found at   www.wimborne10.co.uk.

Wimborne 10 Photo Gallery   Click here to view images from the 2007 race

Wimborne AC take part in a number of leagues throughout the year, with both team and individual competitions. These include:

The Dorset Road Race League
The Dorset County Championships
Poole Runners Winter series
Poole Runners Summer series
Dorset Doddlers Hill series

The Dorset Road Race League fixtures for 2010 are:

  Broadstone Quarter             January 1   
  Blackmore Vale                   February 7   
  Lytchett 10m                            February 14   
  March Hare 20m                     March 14   
  Purbeck 10k                             May 12 (Wednesday evening)   
  Puddletown 20k                       June 13   
  Portland 10m                           July 4   
  Sturminster Half Marathon    August 1   
  Littledown 5 miles                   September 19   
  Gold Hill                                     October 10   
  Weymouth 10m                       October 23 (Saturday morning)   
  Gilly Hilly                                   November 7  
 

Club members also take part in a number of other races and events during the year.

For more information on these competitions and leagues and the performance of the Wimborne AC Runners over the years and for reports on specific races click on the links below:

ROAD RUNNING COMPETITIONS AND LEAGUE INFORMATION

The road runners have two regular sessions:

On Thursdays  we meet at Wimborne Town Football Club at 6:30pm.  Usual distance 4-7 miles. Come along - give it a go, no session fee. On the first Thursday of the month we meet afterwards for a drink, have a chat and race entry forms get handed out! We generally follow a pattern throughout the Thursdays in the month. Week 1 – Time trial, then jacket potatoes and a drink; Week 2 – General Run; Week 3 – Speed Work; Week 4 – Hill session.

On Tuesdays from QE Leisure Centre at 6.30pm coach Ed Arnold takes a session aiming to put some speed into your endurance running, all ages and abilities are encouraged to come along. Session fee £2.

There are also groups meeting up on different days of the week.
 

The new WAC forum/chatroom is now live. Click on the following to access it.

http://www.wacforum.keepfitwithkelly.co.uk

For the first visit you will need to click on the ‘Register’ button and complete the form.  The information requested is:

Username - This is the name that will be displayed on the forum.  Although this will be a closed forum, in case of any breaches it is advised not to use real names.

Email - Valid email address for forum notifications including acceptance as a forum member.  This will not be displayed on the forum.

Password - For obtaining access to the forum.

Visual verification - To prevent 'bots' from attempting to register.

Name - Real name for verification purposes only.  This will not be displayed on the forum.

WAC Membership No - For verification purposes only.  This will not be displayed on the forum.

England Athletics Affiliation No - For verification purposes only.  This will not be displayed on the forum.

Once registered and accepted by an administrator, you can login and access the full forum. This forum could be a a really useful tool if we use it to its potential. No doubt the full scope of its possibilities will be clear when we start to get your input onto it. It seems like a great place to post up your training runs – start point and time, route, distance and pace so as to find out who is available to to train with.

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