Couch to 5k programme postponed due to wintry weather
The start of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council’s Couch to 5k programme has been postponed as a result of the current weather conditions.
Designed to give those interested in taking up running the support and guidance they need to train up to the 5k distance, the council-run programme was due to start on Monday, January 16 and is being run from three locations for eight weeks.
The three locations of the programme are the Mall in Armagh which will see sessions take place every Monday and Wednesday from 7pm to 7:45pm, Dromore Community Centre every Monday and Wednesday from 6:30pm to 7:15pm and Portadown People’s Park every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:45pm to 7:30pm.
At a meeting of the council’s leisure and community services committee on Monday, January 16 members received an update from sports development manager, Gillian Dewart who explained the programme has been postponed for a week as a result of the frosty weather.
“We were due to start our Couch to 5K programme tonight (Monday, January 16) but the weather has put a stop to that,” she said. “We will start that again next week”