We can now confirm that we shall be hiring Fisher More High School’s sports hall for indoor training on Monday evenings for the club’s young athletes group.
Training indoors will commence on MONDAY, 5 November 6:45 – 7:45 p.m. and will continue until the middle of MARCH 2013. Athletes using the facility will be charged £2.00. Athletes should meet and be collected inside school, but parents can be assured that an official from the club will remain at the school until all athletes have been collected.
As mentioned in a previous letter distributed to the Young Athlete group all children training with the club must be members; their details are stored on an England Athletics database which ensures they have insurance cover. The club will also then have full contact details, emergency contact details and any medical information which may need to be taken into consideration by club coaches.
It should therefore be noted that after Monday, 29 October, the outdoor Monday sessions for the Young Athlete Group will discontinue until March 2013, when we will return to the track. The Sprints and Throws group remain at Seedhill track throughout the winter and the Wednesday sessions for young athletes also continue at the track throughout the winter.
Just a reminder about the Club rules:
1) To train at Pendle AC you need to be a Club member and have paid your subs for the current year. At present £5 of the subs for everyone aged over 11 goes directly to England Athletics and the rest is used for coach training, to purchase equipment and on insurance above that provided by England Athletics
2) To train at Seedhill Track you have to pay a track fee in reception every time. This money goes to Pendle Leisure who operate the track, and is nothing to do with the Club. The money is used for ongoing maintenance of the track, changing rooms and toilets plus flood lighting.
New members are allowed to train for two weeks before deciding whether to join the Club. Membership fees are kept as low as possible, and are significantly lower than many other local sports clubs. No Club officials are paid. If you have real trouble paying please talk to Christine in confidence.
A number of athletes are currently training without being paid up members. Club officials are in the process of speaking to them and their parents, and they will not be allowed to continue training. This is embarrassing for the Club officials, children and parents; please pay up.
If you train regularly at the Club you will be recorded on the England Athletics database by Pendle AC. This ensures that we have insurance cover, which is vitally important for all parties. It also allows Pendle AC to enter you in competitions and count towards team prizes. Only one Club can have you recorded as a first claim member by England Athletics. Most competitions, such as the Mid Lancs Leagues, only allow athletes to compete for their first claim club; you cannot chose which Club you wish to compete for at an event. These are EA rules, and checks are often made against the database.
Junior athletes are normally expected to be a member of only one club. At Pendle you must advise Christine if you are a member of another Club, and committee approval must be given if you wish to be a member of Pendle but compete for another club. This approval is normally only given in special cases including: being away at University and belonging to a University (or local Club) and Pendle, an athlete of a high standard who is also a second claim member of a Club that competes in higher standards of competitions in different leagues.
To change Clubs you have to go through a formal process with England Athletics, which includes checks that you have paid your club subs.
Apart from the EA regulations it is important that one coach is in “charge” of an athlete, even if some work is undertaken by other coaches including at school. This lead coach would normally be your Pendle AC coach. This ensures that young athletes in particular do not undertake too much training, or competition, which could cause them harm.
Unfortunately the web site was hacked recently along with others. This has taken some work by Brett and colleagues but we finally seem to be back to normal.
Apologies for the lack of recent posts and some of you will have noticed some older articles on the front page.
Alan Plumb has set a new club record in the hammer at the Yorkshire vets meeting, the new distance being 36m 23. He comments that there’s just the discus to go now.
Last Saturday, 29th September, Leah Hillman, Spencer Phelan and Gregan Baker went to the Final Fling Meeting at Wrexham Athletic Club where each of them took part in a Throwathon Event consisting of Hammer Throw, Discus, Javelin and Shot. They each had 6 throws in each event and with the warm up throws they would have thrown a minimum of 30 throws each – needless to say they were pretty tired by the end of the day !
But, as usual, they did Pendle Athletic Club proud. Leah, in the U15 Girls, got herself a PB in the Shot and Bronze Medals in the Shot, Javelin and Discus as well as getting a Silver Medal in the Throwathon Event.
Spencer did exceptionally well in the U13 Boys Events gaining PB’s in the Hammer, Shot and Discus and coming 4th in the U13 Boys Throwathon Event.
Gregan got himself PB’s in the Javelin and Discus and gained Silver Medals in the Hammer and Javelin with a Bronze Medal in the Shot. He also got a Silver Medal in the Throwathon Event.
Gregan not only got a PB in the Javelin but again broke his own Pendle Club Record with a throw of 30.87 metres, quite an achievement to say he has been struggling all season with tennis elbow which now seems to have sorted itself.
It was an excellent day out in the sunshine at Wrexham and it was also nice to see the number one Great Britain thrower there from Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow Athletic Club in the U13 Boys, Jude Compton-Stewart, he really showed us how to do it and was very friendly too.
On behalf of Leah, Spencer and Gregan, we would like to thank Derek for all his hard work with them this season which has seen great improvements in all three throwers.
Lynn Baker
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The PDF gives dates of courses in the North of England this autumn and winter. The course relevant to new coaches for Pendle is Coaching Assistant. The most accessible courses are at Eastlands (formerly Sports City, next to Man City ground), Leeds Met Uni in Headingley and Keighley.
The Club will pay the course fee and Christine can help with the booking. Coach licences require a valid CRB form from England Athletics; again the Club can help with this.
pac coaching courses 2012-2013
Below are details of the cross Country Leagues to which we affiliate. (Fixture list attached). There is no fee required to compete in either of these leagues as the club pays an affiliation fee.
Red Rose Cross Country League
Any U11 athlete who wishes to compete in the Red Rose League must be 8 years old on the day of the race. The U11 age group is part of the league and therefore eligible for awards at the end of the season. Athletes competing must wear a club vest. We do have a small number of vests to lend on the day but it is much better if athletes purchase their own vest.
Presently, we still have vests missing from the stock we loan for the day because athletes who have borrowed vests have not returned them. If anyone has a club vest which they have not purchased please can they return it as soon as possible and if any athlete has a vest they have outgrown and do not want we always welcome them for our loan stock.
Mid Lancs Cross Country League
In the Mid Lancs League the U11 races are used as an introduction to cross country and athletes are not eligible for awards at the end of the season. There is not an 8 year old restriction and Dawn, who organizes the league is happy for younger athletes to run if parents feel their child will enjoy the run (see your child’s coach if you are uncertain). Under 11 athletes do not have to wear a club vest but if there are any spare from our ‘loan stock’ they can borrow one. Alternatively, they can also purchase their own club vest. See Daemon down at the track.
The first Mid Lancs fixture is at Towneley Park on the 6 October and would be a good race to start with as there is little travel involved, the U11 races are the first races of the day so you will have the option to go after your race or stay and watch older athletes from the club compete.
Membership Young Athlete Group
There has been a big increase in the number of young athletes over the past two months and we are presently trying to get up to date with club membership. All children being coached at the club must become members after an initial trial period of three sessions. All membership details are kept on an England Athletics data base (not a club database) and this ensures that athletes and our coaches receive full insurance cover. The club also takes out Personal Accident Insurance based on the number of athletes in membership so it is important that membership is kept up to date. Our coaches should not be training athletes who do not have insurance cover.
Membership U13 age group to Senior
There is still membership outstanding from existing members which should have been paid before the end of April this year. As mentioned above everyone who trains with a Pendle AC coach must complete a membership form and pay their subs. We have athletes, whose main sport may not be athletics, who train on an irregular basis and in some cases they do not pay their membership. This in the main tends to be in the sprint group where athletes want sprint training for their main sport. Again, as mentioned above Pendle AC coaches should not be training athletes who do not have an up to date England Athletics’ registration number and as a consequence have no insurance cover.
Indoor Training at Pendle Vale
We have been informed this week that our regular annual booking of the sports hall from October to March with Pendle Vale Campus Social Enterprise Limited has been cancelled, along with all other local sporting organisations’ bookings. Pendle Vale College Business Manager has informed us that all bookings have been cancelled and no further bookings will be taken; she could give no indication when the facilities would again be open for community use. Presently, we are trying to find alternative venues large enough to accommodate our young athlete group.
Below are details of the cross Country Leagues to which we affiliate. (Fixture list attached). There is no fee required to compete in either of these leagues as the club pays an affiliation fee.
Red Rose Cross Country League
Any U11 athlete who wishes to compete in the Red Rose League must be 8 years old on the day of the race. The U11 age group is part of the league and therefore eligible for awards at the end of the season. Athletes competing must wear a club vest. We do have a small number of vests to lend on the day but it is much better if athletes purchase their own vest.
Presently, we still have vests missing from the stock we loan for the day because athletes who have borrowed vests have not returned them. If anyone has a club vest which they have not purchased please can they return it as soon as possible and if any athlete has a vest they have outgrown and do not want we always welcome them for our loan stock.
Mid Lancs Cross Country League
In the Mid Lancs League the U11 races are used as an introduction to cross country and athletes are not eligible for awards at the end of the season. There is not an 8 year old restriction and Dawn, who organizes the league is happy for younger athletes to run if parents feel their child will enjoy the run (see your child’s coach if you are uncertain). Under 11 athletes do not have to wear a club vest but if there are any spare from our ‘loan stock’ they can borrow one. Alternatively, they can also purchase their own club vest. See Daemon down at the track.
The first Mid Lancs fixture is at Towneley Park on the 6 October and would be a good race to start with as there is little travel involved, the U11 races are the first races of the day so you will have the option to go after your race or stay and watch older athletes from the club compete.
Membership Young Athlete Group
There has been a big increase in the number of young athletes over the past two months and we are presently trying to get up to date with club membership. All children being coached at the club must become members after an initial trial period of three sessions. All membership details are kept on an England Athletics data base (not a club database) and this ensures that athletes and our coaches receive full insurance cover. The club also takes out Personal Accident Insurance based on the number of athletes in membership so it is important that membership is kept up to date. Our coaches should not be training athletes who do not have insurance cover.
Membership U13 age group to Senior
There is still membership outstanding from existing members which should have been paid before the end of April this year. As mentioned above everyone who trains with a Pendle AC coach must complete a membership form and pay their subs. We have athletes, whose main sport may not be athletics, who train on an irregular basis and in some cases they do not pay their membership. This in the main tends to be in the sprint group where athletes want sprint training for their main sport. Again, as mentioned above Pendle AC coaches should not be training athletes who do not have an up to date England Athletics’ registration number and as a consequence have no insurance cover.
Indoor Training at Pendle Vale
We have been informed this week that our regular annual booking of the sports hall from October to March with Pendle Vale Campus Social Enterprise Limited has been cancelled, along with all other local sporting organisations’ bookings. Pendle Vale College Business Manager has informed us that all bookings have been cancelled and no further bookings will be taken; she could give no indication when the facilities would again be open for community use. Presently, we are trying to find alternative venues large enough to accommodate our young athlete group.
These can be found in the original post lower down on this page, or under the competition calendar.
The Club has found out this week that Pendle Vale School is unable to honour our booking for the winter. This is really disappointing and it also affects the other groups using the facility – not what was promised when the school was built.
At this stage we don’t have an alternative but are actively looking.
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