Meeting Monday 22 September

M&T meeting Monday September 22 at Donore 8pm. All welcome to discuss format for winter and summer leagues to come and the setting up of small committee of maybe three - secretary, treasurer, race co-ordinator.

See below for interesting comments from Christina of Blackrock AC:

I think that it's a great idea to incorporate the Sportsworld 5 and the
mini-marathon into the series. Also, I've been to some BHAA races
outside Dublin (including one in Maynooth and one in a little town in
Kildare) and don't see any reason not to bring the M&T outside Dublin from time to
time - it's definitely easy to get out early on a weekend morning, I'm sure
there are lots of us who are willing to give lifts to people from our own
clubs & other clubs, and it would add a whole new level of interest to the
races.
(Could be an idea to check with club members & see if our informal
transport arrangements work for everyone involved in the league, or whether a
car pool system organised via the website might be useful? I don't know, as
transport isn't a problem for me...).
It would be fabulous to do the track events again - I absolutely
loved that, and Crusaders were fabulous to organise it. Maybe we could get more
volunteers like yourself/Paddy/Duncan organised in advance so that the
Crusaders girls don't have to miss out so much. I can't be the only
one with a husband/boyfriend/friend able to help out once in a while.
As regards the difficulty of finding suitable roads, could the Summer
league include some cross country or beach runs? The main thing we're all
looking for is a good race - I don't think the surface matters all that much.
Lots of people prefer running on grass anyway... There was a cross country
that we did in Malahide Castle one summer (May, I think), and the ground
was so good it might as well have been a road race.
Duncan suggests Howth summit as a potential race venue - could be
interesting as we never do hill runs - but I'm guessing the league might
have difficulty getting access to it.
Can we piggy-back on some of the charity runs that occur during the
year, too? M&T is one of those things that can be happening in your back
yard & you just don't notice - if teams came out to those races, we would
raise the profile of the M&T and give the charities that organise those races a
boost with the extra runners the M&T would bring out. To be honest, I don't
know much about the non-M&T, non-BHAA races, so I don't know if that's a
viable option...
Thanks,
Christina.