Incoming message from our team captain:

Now that the Winter Cross Country season is over you’ll be looking forward to a bit of sunshine and warmer weather and also some fun events to compete in.

As well as the trail runs, the famous river crossing (!) and structured coaching sessions, that we hold on Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings, we have many team events to look forward to. 

Sun 16 Apr – Suffolk Road Relay Championships

Our ladies’ team of Kate, Aimee and Lottie will be hurtling around Colchester. 

I’m sure they’d appreciate some encouragement if you’d like to cheer them on.

https://suffolkathletics.org.uk/road-relay-championships/

Sun 21 May – Our very own 10km!

Clearly the entries have now closed for this, but there are plenty of marshalling positions available if you wish to help. 

Contact Pat for more details.

Tue 20 Jun – The return of the Shufflers Sports Evening! This year held at Martlesham Heath with refreshments to follow at Sheridan Manor.

Sun 23 Jul – The Ekiden – join us for a fun day at Ipswich High School where mixed category teams are competing in relay races of varying distances.

This event is on Spond so please pop your name down if you’re interested. We need runners of all ages and all abilities. It really is a fun day.

Sat 28 Aug – Outrun 23 – a 12 hour or 24 hour continuous team relay event. 

Details below –

https://hare-tortoise-running.eventize.co.uk/e/outrun-2023-

Again if you’re interested please pop your name on Spond and we’ll populate teams nearer the time.

If you’re looking for some summer evening entertainment, many Shufflers take part in the Friday 5 series which consists of a 5 mile race in different picturesque locations on 6 Friday evenings in late May through to early July. 

The entry fee is £13 per race (with your England athletics number).

Enter here –

Fixtures

Finally there’s many other events throughout the summer from 10kms to Ultras, these are always shared across the club by email or WhatsApp.

That’s all for now. Feel free to contact Sarg with any questions.

That’s it then, the 2023 Woodbridge 10K is sold out, there are just a few Junior race places left. Thank you so much for all your support.

Those of you who got in :

Congratulations!, very much look forwards to seeing you and hope you love your race with us.

For those of you who didn’t get in : Commiserations – Maybe next year? … why not come along and cheer on the 21st? There is always a carnival atmosphere and the cheering the runners helps so much.

Thanks to all our sponsors, we should be able to donate £12,000 to local charities this year

For all of you wanting to enter the ever-popular Woodbridge round the town race (or Woodbridge 10K as its often known), the race will be held on Sun 21st May, race entry opens at noon on Saturday 18 here . It sells out quickly, in tens of minutes rather than days so please be quick if you are keen to take part.

For more information please see the 10K FAQ page

Female Shuffler

Out of these nominations Helen was voted the winner

Male Shuffler

Mike won with the most votes

Well done all !

COUCH TO 5K COURSE

I am pleased to announce that I will be offering another 8 week C25K for 12 lucky people.

This course is open to anybody; you may be a Shuffler who hasn’t run for some time, or you may have friends or family who would like to take up running for friendship and fitness. We will be using the Zen fitness app which is downloadable on your smart phone. (Orange icon)

Commencing: 28th March 23 to 16th May 23

Venue: St Mary’s Primary School Field – accessible via The Windmill Car park on Burkitt Road

Start time: 1830

Price: Free to members, £16.00 to non-members with the option of an additional payment of £19.00 upon completion to become a full Shuffler member with England Athletic affiliation.

To secure your place on this course and for more information please email Kate at juniors@woodbridgeshufflers.org.uk

PLEASE DO SHARE THIS WITH ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED!

I look forward to seeing you on the 28th March.

We are very excited to announce that planning for this years 10K race has started, there are lots of details to iron out …. but we are in a position to confirm that 21st May is the confirmed date.

We’d like to introduce the man with the toughest job in the club, huge thanks goes to Graham Bush for agreeing to be our Race director

Here is our main 10k web page, answers to common questions can be found here, they will be updated as details are confirmed.