Running Injury Oracle

Peter Rudzinski received an e-mail from Running Injury Oracle which is reproduced below and is self explanatory.
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Dear Peter Rudzinki,
My name is Gavin Burt, I’m a club runner with the Serpentine and the Mornington Chasers running clubs, and I run a sports injury clinic in North London, Backs and Beyond (www.backsandbeyond.co.uk). I specialise in running injuries and have recently set up a free online resource for injured runners called the www.runninginjuryoracle.com which I thought might be of interest to you and your club members.
Just as a brief introduction, the www.runninginjuryoracle.com is an online service that gives injured runners the advice they need to get back on their feet. It helps them figure out what their injury is and then offers expert instructions and videos tailored to their specific injury that will aid their recovery.  The www.runninginjuryoracle.com is featured on the serpentine running club’s website (http://www.serpentine.org.uk/pages/advice_health.html), and has been used by Runners World for their injury pages.
I personally created all the content and recovery plans based on my 15 years’ experience as a runner's Osteopath treating the numerous injuries that plague all of us.  It’s a website where injured runners can quickly and easily get accurate, professional advice that they could trust and that would help get them on the road to recovery, whether they are just starting out or have been running for years. Runners can access the site and all its content absolutely free of charge.
I have attached a flow diagram that shows you exactly how the site works. Please feel free to try it out before recommending it to your runners!
I hope you will see the www.runninginjuryoracle.com as a useful tool for your runners and that you will share it with them either on your website or in your regular newsletters. If you do decide to have a link on your website, I have attached a thumbnail for you to use that will make it easily visible to those visiting your site.

The Last Roundup!

Allan Sharp and I are organising a Dinner and Social Evening for runners of our own generations. Guys who ran in the Edinburgh to Glasgow or the SAAA Championships at Meadowbank or who ran cross-country when there were barbed wire fences (with or without sacking wrapped round!) - you get the idea. We will also invite former athletes from other local clubs. The date will be finalised very soon but it will be the very end of March or the very start of April next year and possibly held at Buchanan Castle Golf Club at Drymen. The club used to go to club dinners and presentations outside Clydebank - the Commodore in Helensburgh, the Blane Valley Hotel at Strathblane, the Loch Lomond Hotel in Balloch, etc and they were always very successful. We will be contacting club members of that era - the Charlie McIntoshes, the Paul Rosses, the Mark Rudzinskis, etc who ran in the E-G but any other male athlete of that generation who is interested, please contact either of us. If it really goes well,then the 'men only' situation might well be altered.

Two Things

I noted with interest that scottishathletics was using the facilities at St Peter's High School for coach education courses: they seem so pleased with it that a course was transferred there from Scotstoun. The good side is that it makes it easier for club members to do coaching courses without having to travel at all. When they last for the best part of two days that is no small advantage. The down side is that many people from many other clubs will now know a lot more about the track and be wanting to use it. For instance I heard recently from a senior member of the Glasgow Athletics Administration that two clubs are constantly bickering over who gets what equipment and when. With the knowledge that there is an excellent track just down the road, I can see one or the other deciding to use it. All good stuff for the children of Clydebank but if one of the nights next summer is a Tuesday or Thirsday then we ourselves will have problems. I would suggest that we book it for both Tuesday and Thursday next year. The Tuesdays this year have been very successful and - to some extent - the track itself has generated use by club members. Track and field athletes need at least two track sessions a week, in all probability they will need more than that as they get older but two club nights would be very good. Bear in mind that if they can only train once a week at Clydebank and have to travel to Scotstoun there are several disadvantages: first, the cost - seniors travelling by public transport to that venue have to fork out £7 a session; second, younger members have to be transported which is a disincentive for parents to take them there nd then stand or kill time for 90 minutes while they train; third, at a time when we seek to recruit against other sports if it is easier to get football training in locally than it is to get athletics training, then we will lose out on that front as well. I'm suggesting that the club books St Peter's twice a week next summer. It will pay off in terms of recruiting and fitness.

Allan Scally Road Relay - Saturday 29th October

Bobby Young has sent some pictures taken during this event - see below

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