Joanne receiving her medal after completing the Help for Heroes Run recently
Me with 2 out the 800+++ calendars we have sold in aid of Make A Wish
Hazel, George and Ian with members of 1990 (ELLON) Squadron
HELP FOR HEROES 5 and 10k
Well as i write this i still cant quite believe it, we have been chosen as the Jogscotland Group of the Year, and i have been chosen as the Jogscotland Leader of the Year for 2008!!!
Thanks to everyone who took the time to nominate me it has been quite overwhelming the level of support the group and myself have had from all quarters!!
As you can imagine we had a really memorable night and meeting Paula Radcliffe made it even more special.
We really love being part of Jogscotland, and we have made so much special friends since we started Peterhead Jogscotland. A special thanks to all our wonderful jogscotland leaders we couldn't have done it without you and really appreciate your support and enthusiasm in making a big impact in the blue toon and beyond.
We have lots more photographs and i will try and get them all on the blog as soon as possible.
In the meantime please join us tomorrow night even if the weather does not allow a jog we will be celebrating!!
To see some photographs of our special night simply click on http://picasaweb.google.com/stephenpeterheid/AwardsNight#
Thanks to each and everyone of you
Stephen and Roselyn xxx
John Ross During His Last Tour Of Duty In Iraq
Hazel's son John leaves for Basra in Iraq on the 22nd November. John is a diver in the Royal Engineers and is being posted to Iraq for 6 months. This will be his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq. Please pray that John and his colleagues all return safe and well from their tour of duty.
As a result we have renamed our 5 and 10k on Saturday 6th December Help For Heroes 5 & 10k. We have purchased 100 Help For Heroes wristbands and we are inviting you to wear a wristband on that day to show your support for John and our wonderful troops, who give up so much that we might enjoy our freedom. Hazel will be jogging the 10k in aid of Help For Heroes (a charity which looks after our troops should they be injured during the current conflicts). Why not sponsor Hazel or simply give a donation in return for a Help For Heroes wristband. Even if they are not a member of Peterhead Jogscotland why not invite some of your friends to take part in our Help for Heroes 5 or 10 k i am sure they will enjoy it, and we will have lots of eats afterwards. Simply give their names to me or email me at stephen@peterheid.freeserve.co.uk by Wednesday 26th November. Everyone completing the Help For Heroes 5 or 10k will get a medal, and eats afterwards at Living Waters Church. Wouldnt it be wonderful if all our Help For Heroes wristbands were used on the day!! To learn more about the Help For Heroes Charity simply click on this link http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/ If you wish to take part in this event or have a
Thanks for supporting John, Hazel & Family and all our wonderful troops,
Weather Forecast for tomorrow is better i promise!!! As a result what about a leisurely jog on Sunday Afternoon!!!
I have made a number of Peterhead Jogscotland 2009 Calendars if you would like one the cost is £4, and all money raised will go to Make A Wish, the charity i am running/jogging/ walking or even crawling the London Marathon in aid off.
Last week i was searching the web when i came across this site for making routes and keeping a log of your runs looks really easy to use.
http://www.runningsmile.com/designRoute.php
Diane is on a real fitness craze just now!! As a result she has been speaking about joining the Waterside Inn Leisure Club!!! They have informed her if she can get 20 members from Peterhead Jogscotland to join, they will get it at the reduced rate of £169 per year, instead of £450. If you are interested give your name to Diane asap.
Only condition of joining is you will not be allowed to go out to the Leisure Club between the hours of 6.30-7.30 on a Monday or Wednesday night!! Ha Ha!!!!
Best Wishes to Angela who leaves for Australia on Friday. Everyone at Peterhead Jogscotland will miss you, and we look forward to you re- joining us in a years time, with your Aussie boyfriend????Lol xxxx
p.s You could start a JogAustralia!!!! and finally remember to send some photographs for the blog!!
Well all the mad hill runners have returned to sea level after there heroic efforts today. Well done to Fred for his efforts in raising money for Make A Wish.
Joking aside (for a change) i am really proud of our Peterhead Jogscotland hill runners they all did brillant, and believe it or not we had a real fun day!! To see the photographs click here http://picasaweb.google.com/stephenpeterheid/BennachieMadness#
Good luck to Fred, Stephen C, Stewart S, Adam and yours truly. Believe it or not tomorrow afternoon we are taking part in the Bennachie Hill Race (or probably in my case the "Bennachie Crawl"). When Fred said to me early this year that his annual funding raising event this year in aid of the Make A Wish Foundation was to be the Bennachie Hill Race i immediately agreed to do it with him not thinking much about it!!!
However today its a different story -looking outside, and after 4 weekends of hill training on Mormond hill (which is about half the height of Bennachie) i think we are MAD!!!! IF we survive full details will appear in the blog in due course.
Well done to Fred The Make A Wish Foundation is a fanastic charity see http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/about/ourpurpose/ each year he raises £100s for it!!! Why not show him your support by bring along another £ on Monday!!
To see a few photographs of us training on Mormond Hill simply click on http://picasaweb.google.com/stephenpeterheid/MormondHillMadness
Well thats over 5 weeks since we started our Charity Weight Loss Challenge and the results so far have been great. Our group has lost 5stone 5Ibs in total since started which is fanastic, one gentleman who shall remain nameless at this time has lost just over 8Ibs, and lady has lost over 6Ibs which is amazing in only 5 weeks. Remember we not dieting we are trying to eat more healthy and get more active, and to date it seem to be working well. I have lost about 5Ibs so i am really pleased, and i have managed to overcome the temptation of the dreaded sausage sandwich for our works canteen for a few weeks now which i am really proud about!!! How are you getting on why not email me and let me know, or have you any healthy eating recipes you would like to share with us??
Last weekend Diane and Katrina went down to London for the weekend, and need i say they took part in the competition to see who can get their photograph take in the strangest place with their Peterhead Jogscotland T Shirt on, the results were hilarious!!!!. Why they didnt land up in Scotland Yard i dont know!!. Joking aside they were great sports, but can their photographs be beaten.
By the way if you havent got a Peterhead Jogscotland T Shirt we have ordered another 50 cost is only £10 each
To see Diane's and Katrina's photographs simply click on this link http://picasaweb.google.com/stephenpeterheid/DianeAndKatrinaStartAJogScotlandLondon#
Just a very quick note to say that we are jogging tomorrow morning at 10 am from Catto Park, we were going to use the running track, however the fitba pitch in the middle is being used by the schools football so we will probably just do some of our usual routes. Both beginners and intermediates are welcome to come along, beginners will be doing the same as we did on Monday but a different route. Brillant night on Wednesday i hope to get the photographs on tonight!! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!!
I hope you will manage along to our first Health Fair/ Run 4 IT Party on Wednesday night from 7pm to approximately 9pm. There will be lots to see and do!! Run 4 IT will be selling all there running gear at a discounted rate (cash, cards and cheques will be accepted). Steve Barret the Store Manager in Aberdeen an experienced runner who recent completed the Peterhead Triathlon will be there with his team to give you advice on the best type of footwear/clothing that will suit you , and you will even get a chance to try out the footwear on a running machine if you wish. Kerri a Physio who is also employed by Run 4 iT will be in hand to give any advice on any aches and pains you might pick up whilst jogging.
Ingrid Penny a Health Information Assistant with NHS Grampian will also be along to give you/ me advice on Health Eating. We are also hoping to have a Health Eating Bar, where can try out several types of smoothies, fruit kebabs etc.
Dont forgot take your free prize draw vouchers along on the night (and again we will be giving them out on Monday night ). We are hoping to have some good prizes on the night!!
The Health Fair/ Run 4 IT party is taking place in Living Waters Community Church Windmill Street Peterhead. Directions are as follows- pass the Balmoor Stadium turn off (were we meet ever week), head towards the town centre- take the second turning on your left onto Victoria Road, then take the first turning on you right into Windmill Street, Living Waters Community Church is just on the left 50 metres down the street. Please be considerate to local residents and park on the same side as Living Waters Church or slight further down the road on the right hand side clear of the houses.
Available for a jog on Thursday lunchtime, then why not join Fred on Thursday at 12 noon. Fred will be going for a jog from the ASCO Security Gate along the front of the Lido to the Kirkburn mill and back. This will take about 30 minutes.
Fred told to me about this website ages ago and i forgot to put it on, its fanastic for runners/joggers. You can keep a record of all your runs on it and has so much information
Fetcheveryone is a fast developing site for runners, catering for over 17000 registered users. It provides COMPLETELY FREE facilities for runners to keep a record of their running activities, and the opportunity to read about the activities of their fellow runners. There goal is to continue to develop the site to meet the needs of our growing community, and to keep these facilities free for runners.
As a user, the best place to begin is to build a portfolio of your past and future races. The site automatically calculates your personal best times over a variety of "standard" distances from 5k to marathon.
If you don't compete in races, you can also use our site to track your training. You can either enter your times and distances as you run them with our training log, or you can plan weeks in advance with the training planner. You're not restricted to running either - the site also captures basic information about a variety of cross-training types. When you need inspiration, have a flick through the community training diary.
You can track the mileage on your trainers, so you can work out when it's time to replace them. With our knowledge base, they provide an arena for you to discuss your running issues with your fellow runners.
To register simply go to http://www.fetcheveryone.com/
Please join us on this free night you will enjoy it, i promise!!!!
Being a former fisherman i'am on a seafood diet, i see food and i eat it!!! Just joking!!!!!
Welcome to your blog it was fanastic to see so much beginners coming this week, and joining Peterhead Jogscotland. We now have believe it or not 130 members of Peterhead Jogscotland and we are growing all the time!! Leigh Forman and Hazel Lillie are both down at Stonehaven training as Jogscotland leaders tomorrow, and Steven Campbell and Stewart Chalmers are going to Inverness in September. Its fanastic to think that we only started last February and we have 14 leaders trained, without all their help and dedication it wouldnt be possible to do what we do.
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Since we got our new Peterhead Jogscotland Shirts i have had a lot of comments from people outside the club on how smart they look! I know a lot of you are going holiday over the next few weeks so come on send me your photographs with your Peterhead Jogscotland shirts on from different parts of the world, and i will publish them on the blog. At the Agm next year their will a prize for the best one sent in i promise!! Hope you like this one of Roselyn, Stephanie and me taken at Epcot in April this year.
Here is the route for Monday 7th July. Hope you have had a good weekend
Some one sent me this photograph anonymously today. You can see its one of our group as he still has his medal from Hazelhead around his neck???? Least he not sleeping this time!!!! Wonder if he will provide the entertainment at the Christmas Party this year!!!
Plans are firmly in place for a fun night for all the family on Monday 21st July from 6 to 9pm during Scottish Week. We have been busy finalizing the plans for the night with the help of many other groups ,and organisations in the town. After the success of last year one of the main attractions will be the Peterhead Marinathon in aid of the Lifeboat and the Fishermens Mission, . This event which takes place at 7pm from the Marina Carpark, and is a 3k walk, jog or run for all ages, children under the age of 13 years must be accompanied by an adult. Registration takes place on the night from Peterhead Sailing Club at 6pm to 6.45pm and only costs £2. Everyone completing the Marinathon will receive an medal, goodybag, and will be entered into a free prize draw for a bicycle, ipod or watch which will take place just before the Marinathon starts at 7pm. Only 300 places are available for the Marinathon, so tell your freinds to get there early to avoid disappointment.
