What a tremendous turn out for this season’s Framlingham cross country 8k race. It is the first in the series of six events. We had a total of 23 senior runners and 1 junior runner taking part on what was a crisp sunny day. We had representatives in all age categories with this being the largest turn out from the Shufflers in some time – well done team, great effort.
Wow! What an amazing effort from so many Shufflers over the weekend. We had a total of 13 members taking part, either virtually or at the event location, in one of several marathons; London, Hundon and Loch Ness.
We are immensely proud of their amazing achievements and have enjoyed listening to their accounts of the experience.
Well done to –
Check out this amazing video capturing our annual river crossing run! We start the run with a mud run followed by wading through the river Deben to then run 5 miles across the beautiful scenery of Woodbridge.
Come and join us next time…
The Woodbridge 10k was unable to go ahead this following the pandemic; but the Shufflers (never ones to be put off) managed to pull together a celebratory relay race around Woodbridge instead followed by an evening of celebration.
As a team we completed 40 laps around Woodbridge for 40 years of the Club.
The race was an opportunity for the club to don their Woodbridge 10k prize t-shirts, both new and old, and do a victory lap around Woodbridge in pairs.
Our own Dave Alley kindly organised the setting up of a tent (see pics!) in Elmhurst Park and the many tent-manning-volunteers and runners as well.
The relay also proved to be a wonderful way to warm up for the birthday-bash-barbecue that was held later the same day down at the Cruising Club by the river to celebrate the clubs 40th year in action.
It’s been a difficult year for all of us; but as ever the team spirit of the Woodbridge Shufflers shone through from dusk till dawn on that glorious sunny August day.
Hi all
It’s brilliant to see so many of you out with the Woodbridge Shufflers again, after the restrictions we have endured due to Covid.
As the Government and England Athletics advice has changed recently, here’s a quick update on running with the club, and the impact of Covid on our runs.
Covid
There are now no government restrictions on the numbers for outside gatherings, or restrictions on social distancing.But Government statistics suggest people are nervous about returning to normality.
Only 40% of people feel comfortable going to indoor gyms, leisure centres or swimming pools. Although we run in the open air, many people are still nervous about returning to group activities outside.
To help our members feel comfortable about returning to running with our club, we have decided to keep a few minimal guidelines in place.So we’re continuing with our small groups for the moment, but we’ll do our best to put on a number of different runs each time to accommodate everyone – long, short, fast and slow, and back to running.
We’re also recommending that you maintain social distancing of 1m for our club runs and training sessions.
Spond
Using Spond to book runs has been really effective. It helps us to make sure we don’t overbook our groups – under England Athletics rules, each run leader can only take out groups of 12 people maximum. It also helps us in an emergency, as we can quickly find a runners emergency contact details, and any medical conditions that we need to know about.
We’ve therefore decided to make booking via Spond mandatory – to run with us you MUST book via Spond, and you MUST have your emergency contact details filled in.
Unfortunately anyone who has not booked via Spond will be turned away from future runs.Thank you for your understanding, and hope to see you out soon
New Around Here?
We are of course keen to welcome new members and to allow people to “try out” the club” before committing, simply drop us a mail at membership@woodbridgeshufflers.org.uk to arrange.
Your coaches and run leaders.
The Shuffler’s very own Gemma Cannon is not only a runner but a very talented swimmer.
As part of a team of five, she has recently accomplished the incredible feat of swimming the English Channel.
Gemma and her team completed this in the impressive time of 15 hours and 58 minutes with one member of the team always in the water swimming an hour at a time.
The unexpected arrival of a force 6 storm added 8 additional miles to the distance and the team were nearly turned around because of the challenging conditions, but despite this and a bad case of sea sickness, the team managed to achieve their goal.
Planning started back in 2019, and there were doubts due to the lockdown situation, but they managed to organise a qualifying swim whereby each team member was required to swim for 2 hours in water at a temperature of under 16 degrees.
The team have managed to raise a staggering £9,300 for The East Anglian Air Ambulance and Suffolk Mind, with donations still being made.
Gemma has come away from this experience with a feeling of great pride, but is not in a hurry to do it again and would rather run a marathon!! (We shufflers agree!)
Well done Gemma – we are also very proud of your achievement.
Woodbridge Shufflers Running Club 
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