Aldridge Running Club - About Us
Committee
Fees
New Members
Stick & Wicket Club
Travel
Club History by
Tony Jones
Club Nights
Aldridge Running Club meet on Tuesday evenings from 7pm at the Stick & Wicket Club Aldridge.
There are also informal sessions on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings
Training Schedules
The emphasis of ARC is 'sport for all' and aims to support and encourage all levels and abilities.
We offer 4 categories on club nights:
1,2,3 miles - Multiple laps to encourage beginners
4 miles
6 miles
9 miles
Each group will be accompanied by a nominated member(s) who will ensure that no one runs
unsupported.
Routes
Routes vary and are dependant on the seasons, Spring/Summer sessions use rural tracks and
country lanes, while Autumn/Winter sessions are on well lit roads. We try and vary our routes
as much as possible.
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Club Fees 2008
Tuesday, Club Night 50p
Fees include ARC membership, Stick and Wicket membership, UK Athletics affiliation and
Insurance. Members are also receive discounted entrance fees to most UK races
In addition to the UKA Public Liability Insurance, members are also covered by the Club's Personal
Accident Insurance Scheme upon payment of their annual subscription.
Club Colours
People interested in joining can come along on Tuesday nights at 7.30.
Alternatively, email Steve Woolley and we will
arrange a member to greet you and select an appropriate group to run with.
The Stick & Wicket Social Club
The Stick & Wicket can be found adjacent to Aldridge Parish Church at the far end of The Green off
the Little Aston Road.
The club has changing facilities and showers and a licensed bar and members will often stay for a
drink and a chat after runs.
The club arranges coach travel to several UK races each year and has traveled to many overseas
destinationsincluding marathons in New York, Paris, Barcelona and Amsterdam.
TWENTY YEARS ON.
It's a too often repeated "witticism" that Aldridge Running Club is a drinking club with a running problem, but the origins of that remark lie in the formation of the club twenty years ago, in October 1988.
A group of friends, keen on running-to-keep-fit, decided to form a club in order to run together, keeping each other company as they pounded the pavements, drenched in sweat, linament & endless good intentions based on faintly remembered new year's resolutions.
Very soon it became clear that mutual encouragement allied to some serious socialising was a benefit to all, aided by the fortuitous choice of the 'Stick & Wicket' as the weekly venue; the starting point for varied 4, 6 & 9 mile runs, good hot after-run showers and a well-stocked ( & heavily used ) bar, all contributing to a custom of Run-and-Fun that endures twenty years on.
ARC members have motivated & supported each other in a vast number of races on four continents (Antarctica is still being considered!!) from fun runs, through marathons & ultra runs, some serious, some fun,all injected with a little bit of ARC togetherness & celebrated afterwardsin keeping with the tradition conceived all those years ago.
Tony Jones (class of '91)
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