As we move towards the New Year, we have been considering our ability to continue with our current coaching offer to the Junior section. As most are aware, we run 3 groups (Under 12s and 2 over 12 groups to reflect our increasing Junior membership) every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the year.
Unfortunately we have a limited number in our coaching team and more and more, we depend on those individuals attending and leading every session throughout the year which is a massive ask of anyone when they are all volunteers with other family and work commitments.
We are very grateful for adult helpers who have come forward to assist our coaches with sessions. This has enabled us to safely manage our sessions, particularly over the last few months.
We now need individuals who are prepared to come forward and join our coaching team by taking the LIRF qualification. With help from the current coaching team, this would enable the individual to lead one of the Over 12 sessions. The expectation would be that a newly qualified LIRF would fit into a rota with the other LIRFs to do a session per week; we would have at least 2 persons coming forward to express interest in taking up “the badge.” If you are a Club runner, you would still be able to run the other adult session in the week. Committee are supportive of anyone prepared to help the Club in this valued role and will, on this basis, pay for the qualification course (which takes 1 day) and assist in other ways. You will learn a lot about running which actually helps with your own running as well as having the reward and satisfaction of seeing the Juniors improving and enjoying this great sport – we have a fantastic set of Juniors.
We are in need of your early support and otherwise, unfortunately, we will have to go down to one session per week. We would not want to do this but we cannot continue as we are.
If you are interested, please speak to any member of our Junior coaching team or our Committee, always available in the Hall on any Club night. We will be very grateful to hear from you.