Author: G.Smith

Thank you to Hey Girls

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Falkirk Victoria Harrier would like to express or deepest gratitude to Heygirls.co.uk for their incredibly generous donation of sanitary products. Their donation will make a significant difference to many of our athletes at events or at our club premises when needed.

Access to essential menstrual hygiene products is often overlooked, yet it is crucial for maintaining health, dignity, and overall well-being. Hey Girls donation will provide much-needed support to those who may otherwise struggle to access these basic necessities and their commitment to social responsibility is inspiring.

Club Meeting Tuesday 13th February at Grangemouth Stadium 7pm

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Club Meeting Tuesday 13th February at Grangemouth Stadium 7pm


Dear Athlete/Parent/Guardian,
Falkirk Victoria Harriers Committee are asking you to attend a Club Meeting of the Utmost importance on Tuesday 13th February at Grangemouth Stadium 7pm.  Coaches may choose to cancel training or organise training around this meeting.
This meeting is in regards to the Potential Closure of Grangemouth Stadium and Actions that must be taken to ensure its survival.  It is essential you make every effort to attend this meeting as the consequences of stadium closing may result in the loss of training facilities for yourself/child going forward.

We would also like to quickly go over the new coaching structure due for implementation in the coming weeks.  This will primarily effect U11/U13 & U15 athletes.


Kind Regards
Gary Smith
President 
Falkirk Victoria Harriers

🐝⭐️ Summer 2024 Road Race Series ⭐️🐝

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Welcome to the Summer 2024 Road Series. This series consists of 8 different events, and you must participate in at least 5 to count. Your best 5 performances will count towards your score.

We will have 4 different categories, Male 39 & under, Male 40 & over, Female 39 & under, and Female 40 & over. The age that you are on 2nd March 2024 determines your age group (just incase anyone is turning 40😉). Your points will be based on your ranking within your category. For example, if you are the quickest in an event in your category, you will receive 1 point, and the aim is to end up with as little points as possible.

The aim of this series is for us to get competitive, work hard, socialise after the events, and have fun 🕺 Throughout the series I will post reminders of events, but I encourage you to enter into these events as early as possible, to avoid them selling out.

I will keep track of all of the points, and will give an update on scores throughout the series. The winners will be announced at our Club Presentation Night in November 🏆

Niamh Brown

THE RACES:

Allan Scally Memorial Race
📅 Saturday 2nd March @ 12pm
📍 Glasgow Green
🏃🏽‍♀️ 5km (4x5km)
✉️ Coaches will be in touch re entry
🔗 (protay.co.uk) (https://protay.co.uk/asr/)

Scottish 5K Champs
📅 Friday 3rd May
📍 Silverknowes
🏃🏽‍♀️ 5km
🔗 Entries open 25th Feb. Be sharp. I will post the link.

Helix Pond Races
📅 Friday 7th June @ 5.30pm and 7pm
📍 Helix Pond
🏃🏽‍♀️ 1 mile or 3km
🔗 Enter via (https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2024/GBR/helix-p1/)
❓If you compete in both, you only get points based on your better performance (ie, how high you rank against others in your category).

Round The Houses
📅 Sunday 14th April @ 12.30pm
📍 Grangemouth Stadium
🏃🏽‍♀️ 10km
🔗 Enter via (https://www.entrycentral.com/RoundTheHouses10k)

Strathclyde ParkRun
📅 Saturday 20th July @ 9.30am
📍 Strathclyde Country Park
🏃🏽‍♀️ 5km
🔗 Just need your barcode https://www.parkrun.org.uk/strathclyde/

Podfather Stirling 10k
📅 Sunday 8th September @ 10.15am
📍 The Peak, Stirling
🏃🏽‍♀️ 10km
🔗 Enter via (https://www.entrycentral.com/PODFatherStirling10kandfunruns)

Any Half Marathon
📅 This must be completed before 13th October 2024
🏃🏽‍♀️ 21.1km
❗️ For your result to qualify, you must send me your official time
❓ Points will be given based on all of these results combined. For example, the fastest in each category from any HM will get one point. And if you do multiple, you will get your points based on your best performance.

Any Marathon
📅 This must be completed before 13th October 2024
🏃🏽‍♀️ 42.2km
❗️ For your result to qualify, you must send me your official time
❓ Points will be given same way as half marathon

📅 Please remember to add all of these dates to your diary.

I hope this is all explained ok. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at training 😊

HELIX POND RACES 2024

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Exciting new evening of road races in Falkirk.

Organised by Falkirk Victoria Harriers.

Proceeds to be reinvested into grass roots athletics in the area.

New distances.

New venue.

New PB? Fast, flat and corner free.

Taking place on the evening of Friday 7th June, the event will be run round the Helix Pond. Traffic free and without any sharp turns or corners, Falkirk Victoria Harriers are offering a choice of distances on a flat and fast looped circuit.

Officially measured and certified with a SAL licence these races will have electronic timing and will be eligible for inclusion on runbritain rankings and Power of 10.

Perfect for setting a new PB or age graded best.

The 1 mile and 3k road races will be broken into time graded races

The first race, over 1 mile will be at 5:30pm Subsequent timings will depend on the number of entries The plan is to split the entrants in groupings of up to 30 per race, based on predicted finishing time The evening will start with the 1-mile races, then the 3k races The order will be from slowest predicted time to fastest.

Race Information

• Race Fees: £10 early bird entry until 16th April, thereafter £12

• Chip timing by Blast Running

• Free parking at Falkirk Football Club

• Scottish Athletics Licensed Event / Measured Course

• Multi-looped flat tarmac course

• Free entry for spectators

• Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds for this event.

• Organised by Falkirk Victoria Harriers, your entry fee will help the development of running locally.

Entry available at opentrack

https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2024/GBR/helix-p1/

For further information, please contact helixpondraces@outlook.com

Club Championship after event for junior Members

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Hello all! The event for after Club Champs on Saturday 2nd of September is going to go ahead! The party will start at 6:30pm at the FVH hut and will run till 10:30pm. We’ll have food and drinks as well as a mix of indoor and outdoor activities for everyone! Please let us know if you have any allergies. We hope to see you there!

Piper Smith

Youth Committee