Would anyone interested in becoming an athletics coach please get in touch with Tommy Brannon about two forthcoming courses at Gateshead International Stadium.

The first of the courses is an Athletics Leaders Course on the 11th September 2010 more information and booking form here .

The second course is an Athletic Coach Course on the 23rd to 24th October 2010 more information and booking form here .

You may be able to get some assistance with course fees, contact Tommy Brannon and he can give you details.

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For a while now NS Poly have had a group on Facebook where we put up photographs of events and it also gives members somewhere to talk to each other (often about relatively prosaic things like who needs a lift to a race, or whether anyone knows what the training session is that evening). Take a look here

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The following was sent to Heaton Harriers runners, this offer has also been extended to members of NSPoly. If any of you are interested in taking part please contact Tommy Brannon by email here .

Biomechanics screening for runners/cyclists

Please spend a few minutes reading the following and thinking about it.

David Nicholls a qualified and registered podiatrist is interested in doing some biomechanical screening for Heaton Harriers members. David has been treating Jo for over 10 years now and more recently Helen and Dan have also benefited from his advice. David’s interests would be collection of data for scientific research purpose but also to help you runners into finding the possible reason of your running related and recurring problems. He would also look at long term issues if juniors were willing to participate especially those focusing on track and field events as they could be followed through growth and development of their body. For a small fee, David would perform Video Gait analysis and RScan pressure plate analysis on any member.

As David is now mainly based in Hathersage, we require to organise a local venue (to be arranged) so that equipment can be setup for let’s say an afternoon (likely Saturdays). I urged anyone who has been suffering in their running for some considerable time due to injury and niggles to take this as an excellent opportunity to understand their running style. We also hope that once the setup is pioneered with Heaton Harriers we can extend it to the North of Tyne Athletics Network which in return would search for funding to develop a centre and provide financial support for treatment for us members.

In order for this to be viable we need more than a couple of runners to take part. The session would be run in small groups of 5 athletes so as to be more efficient. What I require from you is whether you would be interested in taking part or not and if you could put forwards a few suitable dates in May and June.

As I mention a small fee is necessary to cover the costs of equipments and analysis and £10 to £15 for the session will be required. Think about it as being only a race entrance fee (or only one third of the Great North Run fee!) at the end of which you would gain some hard evidence about your style and way of running and relation to your body mechanics.

For those that are interested the video gate analysis can also be performed on a static bike.

More details on David’s practise can be found here: http://www.footprints-healthcare.co.uk .

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Introducing the latest member of our coaching network. Read here

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Sainsbury's Active Kids 2010 starts soon and our club can benefit this year so please save your vouchers for us. You can find more information about Sainsbury's Active Kids here and the Active Kids Club Zone here.

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In November 2009 a promotional video was made by the Tony Blair Sports Foundation in partnership with the NS Poly and involved a number of our junior and senior club members at the clubs track. This video can be seen on the newly launched web site at:
http://www.tonyblairsportsfoundation.org/sports/pages/athletics/

In appreciation for his part in the making of the video and to the other club members who ably assisted him, Tommy Brannon received the following vote of thanks.

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Subject: website launch

AT LAST – our new website has launched and I thought you’d like to see your oscar winning performance………

http://tonyblairoffice.org/sports/pages/athletics/

thanks once again for helping out with this.

Jeanette Pickard

Chief Executive
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Results and event report for the North East Cross Country Championships held at Branksome School, Darlington on the 12th December can be found here.

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Leah Davison will be taking Pilates classes in the club house on Monday nights from 7:15 to 8:15pm starting on the 11th of January 2010. See here for details

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Paul Dickenson, a former club member and now BBC Sports commentator has kindly provided a list of some former Poly athletes who he remembers from his time with the club. See here

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The Poly now has a blog ! This will feature mainly newspaper reports about our Club and its athletes. To find out more check out the link below (you can also become a follower!) :
 www.northshieldspoly.blogspot.com

There is a link to the new blog in the menu on the left of this page.

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Despite the cold, wet conditions 30 young people from the Poly competed in the first junior handicap race of the winter held at Churchill Playing fields in Whitley Bay.

The 1.25mile course, ran as a 2 lap course, saw youngsters from the ages of 8 up to 18 competing in this yacht handicap event. More here and results here


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NS Poly Newsletter please read and if you can help please do so.

The bi-monthly Poly Patter is available in the clubhouse. It is also available by post to your home if you contact Steve Clark on nspoly@fsmail.net
Read Tommy's story - Focus on Tommy Brannon
Read the full version of Focus on Barbara Ingman from the Poly Patter here.

Coaching in Throwing
We are delighted that Neil Ellerby and Colin Topping have joined the Coaching squad.  They have offered to put on a few sessions on Saturday afternoon if enough people are interested as well as offering coaching on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:15pm.  If you are interested or need more information see Neil or Colin at the Club.


 A couple of pictures of our gym here



North Shields Polytechnic Club Cups and Trophies information here. If you have any further information about these awards can you please let me know at Les@holywell.demon.co.uk