Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC

New starter programme for absolute beginner runners!

Thursdays, 7-8pm at the clubhouse, 27 Jan - 17 Feb.

A free 4 week course, to help you start running. At week 5 you then join the club and continue building to 5k on our run-walk social run, training guidance provided.

Email [email protected]

Hi all,

Our club activities rely on volunteers, and the membership have a fantastic track record of chipping in and sharing the workload.

One way to continue this is for members to become LiRF’s and then take further courses to become CIRF’s. We have members that already have these certifications and are keen to add more to our roster.

There is however a cost to this (where members have paid out of their own pocket for personal development). Another option is the requirement to put forward a ‘business case’ to the board outlining the planned use of this certification to contribute to regular / future club activities. Please get in touch if you have any questions on [email protected].

If you’re interested in our new online Leadership in Running Fitness (LiRF) course then don’t forget to register your interest using the following link: https://bit.ly/EALiRFinterestform

Once you’ve registered, we’ll send you an email alert when the courses are launched for online bookings. Please note, we’re currently delivering this course to the waiting list of candidates who had their bookings cancelled during the pandemic, after which we plan to launch course dates for general sign-up from January 2021.

Whether you are a complete beginner wanting to run 5k or looking to improve your running and run 10k, we have a course for you! Run for you is our complete beginners 5k course; Run for you improvers is our course to help you build from 5k to 10k. Find out more and sign up below.

https://vphthac.org.uk/runforyou.html

We are proud to announce the launch of the
VPH 2020 London Marathon fundraising page, supporting "The Running Charity"

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For 2020, VPH has decided to support a local charity The Running Charity, of which some of our club members already volunteer their time. The charity’s Programmes Coach Claude Umuhire came to visit the club to introduce the charity's roots and the work they do with young people who are affected by homelessness.

Some charities do not receive official fundraising places for the London Marathon, and rely on the goodwill of individuals who already have a race number to commit to representing them. We as a club, have a fantastic opportunity to stand behind a local initiative and pool our individual fundraising contributions. The modest donations from our collective networks would undoubtedly grow into a significant amount and have a meaningful impact for the charity.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/trc2020vph

Please share with your friends, family and work colleagues to donate and support our cause together. Every little helps. If you have any specific questions about the charity itself, do get in touch.

Read VPH&THAC's story VPH&THAC is raising money to help The Running Charity

Thursday 29 August - just to let any new runners know that the clubhouse will be closed as there is an Assembly League race in Beckenham.

(Next Welcome Run, Thursday 12 September!)

Well done to all the new runners who came down last night. Hope you all enjoyed it and that we'll see you again soon - especially anyone I persuaded to do Project V!

If it gets you running, great, but if you don't want to pay all that money, why not come along to your friendly local running club?

(And how lovely is the weather right now? Get out and run!)

Running is the hot new fitness trend – only now you pay for it It’s ClassPass’s fastest growing category and Peloton is selling a $4,000 smart treadmill. How did it get so expensive to go for a jog?