KR KRistmas Party this Sunday
Steve Kibble
Greetings KRew
This Sunday is the Annual KRistmas Party at Clark Park in Lavender Bay, from 12pm onwards. As always come when you can and leave when you must, bring you own food and drink. Share some food if you would like. Bake a cake and enter the Great KR Bake Off!
This year we will have the annual KR awards presentation around about 2 to 2:30pm or so. Big news this year is that we have a new perpetual trophy and we have changed the award to be the ‘KR Club Member of the Year’. Make sure you come along to see who will be the first recipient of the brand new shiny trophy.
As the fun does not stop, next Thursday will be the last KRClassic before KRistmas and we will hold our annual Santa Run. So come along, wear you fun Santa hat and dress up, ring the bells, and deck the halls… This will be a group run with some stops for photos. Sadly, I don’t think there are any markets this year, so no mulled wine… ☹ but lots of KR Cheer 😊
On Monday 23rd, Brian will be hosting the annual KR10k Beverage Run, with stops as a few pubs along the course. This was done last year for the first time and was great fun. Stay tuned for more details.
The good news is that, as always, KR will continue over the KRistmas season. KR10k will be held on Monday’s as usual and KRClassic will on Thursday. BUT as Boxing Day is on a Thursday this year we will do a morning edition of the KRClassic and allow everyone to spend the rest of the day with their friends and families. I’m thinking of meeting at 7:30am we can run the Classic and maybe get coffee afterwards.
Upcoming Events
Many local and Australian 2025 races are now open for registration and if you think you will run any of them, I encourage you to sign up straight away as they will sell out. (Both Gold Coast marathon and half marathon, along with Melbourne marathon have already sold out.)
Sun Run opened this week with early bird entry, always a great way to kick off the year of racing with a quick 10k dash from Dee Why to Manly. https://www.sunrun.com.au/
Canberra Marathon 2025 registration is now open. I’m expecting a big contingent of the KRew will be heading to Canberra for this beautiful Autumn Day run through our Nation’s Capitol. The Canberra Times Marathon Festival 2025 | Sole Motive
The Hoka Half in May is now open and you better be quick as the 10k race has already sold out. https://runawaysydneyhalf.com.au/
Of course, there are many many races throughout the year that the KR will do, such as those out at Sydney Olympic Park and around the foreshore. We will highlight as many was think of, but if you have one to promote you think the KRew will love, let us know!
If you want to find some for yourself, I highly recommend using The Running Calendar website which lists just about every race in Australia. https://www.runningcalendar.com.au/
Tuesday Speed Sessions, every week as most of you know we hold a speed session on Tuesday nights at Gore Hill Oval starting at 6:30pm. It is great to see about 14 or 15 people coming each week to work on their speed and push themselves on the various sessions that we do. All are welcome and for more details please message me directly.
If you are bringing bags tonight, Evelyn Lengua has volunteered to be there with her car to hold them whilst you run. (But please pick them up as soon as we have finished the run!) Thank you, Evelyn, very much appreciated!!
That’s a wrap for this week; remember to take care of yourself and others.
Keep running @everyone and happy trails,
Steve
Director
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