I’m pleased to report that we have had plenty of interest in the proposed Zoom Christmas quiz, so this will take place next Sunday 20th December at 7pm. The same format as the ones Steve McNealy hosted in the Summer. 20 questions in the 40-minute slot. I can also set up another 40-minute call afterwards…
Arenatopia virtual series – Final round – Hove Park parkrun For the final round of the inaugural Arenatopia virtual series we see ourselves taking to the streets and tackling an existing physical course!!! As is tradition amongst Arenatopians, we shall be running our final festive event at the Hove Park parkrun course (course here for…
Slight amendment to the women’s Arenatopia results. No change to the mens. In the interest of transparency, a little explanation… Sometimes I receive entries as a Strava ‘card’ (an example attached) which rather annoying only shows one decimal place and therefore rounds the distance down. i.e. if you run 5.88km, it only displays 5.8km which…
Arenatopia virtual series – 7th round – 30 minutes For the penultimate round of the Arenatopia virtual series you will need to run exactly 30 minutes and submit the distance you managed to achieve over this time. This round is based on the “Weekly30 Run Challenge” organised by England Athletics. It is not linked to…
https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2020/GBR/eacrosscountrychallenge/ England Athletics has launched the Weekly Cross Country Challenge – a free weekly virtual running challenge, that encourages runners aged 11 or over of all levels to compete throughout each week in lockdown number 2. The focus of this challenge is to see if you can improve over one distrance across the space of…
Arenatopia virtual series – 6th round – Mystery round For this round there will be no set distance, but instead for you to run whatever distance you like… within certain parameters that is… It still has to be a minimum of 4km, and a maximum of 16km to count. The mystery distance shall be revealed…
This challenge happens every weekend and basically you run as far as you can in 30 minutes and log it onto the EA portal as per links below. If you’re not into the virtual London this weekend, which a few of our runners are and we wish them good weather, then this might be an…
Results are all now in for the latest round in the virtual Arenatopia series. This time incorporating the ever popular handicap and Beacon race all in one – what a whopper!! Timmy once again stormed through as winner amongst the men with a time of 20.18. Dani taking the honours for the women with 23.41….
Arentopia/ Beacon 6km entries are now closed – well done to all the participants in round 5 – as always, another smashing turnout of 35 runners! Below is the list of runners. Give it a scan and if you feel you are missing having sent your entry to the Arena email before the cutoff last…
Arenatopia/ Beacon – revised deadline Hello, I’ve decided to extend the deadline for entries to the latest Arenatopia/ Beacon race, with the deadline for you to now submit evidence of run to now no later than 23.59 on Sunday 27th September. So you now have a few extra day’s to have a crack In…