SEDS This Weekend

[Lard]

Please remember to bring a sleeping bag this weekend, you can hire bedding if you forget, but you pay.

There are a few spaces still available in the hostel and in cars leaving from Edinburgh and Stirling.

If anyone is interested in joining the other 20 people please contact Jason by 7pm this evening.

Please come prepared to do three quality training sessions (including a small, but meaty Fell Race).

Talks: Making the Grade - Jon Musgrave, Physical Training - Andy Kitchen and general discussion about where SEDS is going in 2005.

Jason

[PorkyFatBoy]

Is there any chance of notes from the talks being posted in the Coaching Forum?

[J.Tullster]

Should be a good weekend. Fell race looks tough, 6miles, 2000ft climb with the guys record being 51min. Bring on the pain

[Gillian]

I'd be really interested in reading notes of the meetings. Please do post them somewhere.

Have a great weekend - looks fab! I'm off to see how many people are running in shorts and vest in the snow at the Braids this weekend!

Gillian

[Kitch]

My notes will be available in a few weeks - after the British Squad Inaugural

[gross2004]

well not only on the secret BOF website I hope

[SIman]

Results and photos from Meall a' Bhuachaille race.
Congratulation to Scott and Mhairi who got a mention in the Scotsman and to Kitch and Rocky would have done so if there had been a proper report.

[Wattok]

Some more pics fro the weekend:
http://www.wattok.fotopic.net/c348934.html

Kids, pay particular attention to these:
http://www.wattok.fotopic.net/p9361472.html

http://www.wattok.fotopic.net/p9361473.html

...learn from them

[Becks]

I know it's a funding issue, but we should really have an English Elite Development Squad. SEDS sounds like just what those of us who are lagging a few mins behind the GB lot should be benefitting from. There's a lot of us and nowhere for us to go to try and close that gap!

[gross2004]

This was discussed a few years ago when BOF started to miss out on lottery funding. Result was that a 'development' squad for those just outside the BOF Senior Squad was formed in England to be run along the same lines as SEDS. It recieved a basic amount of funding from the BOF. I'm not sure if it still exists - Chris Poole & Mark Saunders were in charge I think.

The key to NEDS / SEDS has always been the enthusiasim of those involved in the set up and not the funding.

If you have a dedicated bunch of coaches etc that are committed to the project it'll work and the athletes will return the same levels of enthusiasim.

Good luck to Jason & Jannine on taking over SEDS from me.... after 10 years of running the thing it was hard to give up but I started feeling stale and with moving out to LTU it was the right time to retire.

LONG LIVE SEDS

[brooner]

Becks just get out there and do it, all you need is a few people willing to put some effort in, you get out what you put in after all. All you really need are some maps and people who want to get out there and improve their orienteering, it doesnt have to be expensive either so don't get caught up in the lack of funding.

Find a free weekend/week
Get a carload of people together
Get some maps & exercises together
Go orienteering.

yeah its usually better in a big group, tell everyone who might be interested about it and invite them along, sure if you put a post on nopesport you'll get quite a few interested folk, as jon m said at the weekend "how far are you willing to go to reach your aims" (or something to that effect)

[Becks]

Yeah...that would be great if I wasn't already teaching one Outreach session a week, planning a large scale race, upping my own fitness training and trying to fit in a medical degree at the same time! I would love to try and get something similar started but really, I'd be stupid to try and put yet another thing to do on my plate.

[brooner]

I'm not suggesting organising an equivelent of seds, but organising a weekend's training doesnt take a lot, get a group of people together and if a few people plan one session each it isnt too much effort really - the hardest thing more than likely would be finding a free weekend to do this on!

or just let BEDS take the strain
sadly we're fully booked for BEDS #2 though.

[Becks]

Hmmm - takes more time than I have at the moment! The rest of OUOC will vouch for that...

[gross2004]

There's a lot of us and nowhere for us to go to try and close that gap!

You won't close the gap if you don't put the effort in & you won't put the effort in if you don't find the time. It's about priorities - if you are serious about closing the gap then you devote some of the time used for something else to training. No pain, no gain.... you only get out what you put in.... etc etc