TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 19th May 2025
IT’S ALL UP TO THORNBURY CRICKET CLUB THIS WEEK
After the run we will hold the AGM, a fairly painless and short affair, after which there will be drinks and pizzas for all those who stayed. Now who can turn down that bribe?
Thursday Club Night Leaders
22nd May. Run from Thornbury Cricket Club. Walking – Val / 5k – Caron H / 10 min – Suzy C / 9 min – Rob W / 8 min – Moray S/ 7 min – Nick W
29th May . Walking – Val / 5k – Nigel H / 10 min – Jerry C / 9 min – Paul T / 8 min – Martyn G/ 7 min – Ben F
Tea Rota
22/05 Away Day AGM – no tea; 29/05 Clare S; 05/06 Laura W; 12/06 tba; 19/06 No tea – Thornbury 10K
We need some more Members to step-up to do Tea on a Thursday – looking for cover as from early May.
Results:
11/05 Bristol Half Marathon:-
Peter Cable 1:37:30
Alex Golding 1:40:10
Oliver Brown 1:44:50
Nathan Darkin 1:44:58
Peter Read 2:02:18
Lucy Stevens 2:24:10
11/05 Bristol 10K:-
Jessica Silverthorn 1:12:28
Luciana Mathews 1:18:29
11/05 Scorpion 10K:-
Zoe Rimmer 58:14 1st Female
12/05 Leiden Half Marathon:-
Paul Thomas 1:36:37
To make sure your results are included contact Mel Lloyd at results@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk.
All results are on the members results page on the club website.
All club Park Run results are also on the ParkRun Results page on the club website.
Reminders:.
- Thursday 22nd May – AGM (20:00) and Run & Rehydrate. Thornbury CC 19:00
- Thursday 19th June – Thornbury 10K 19:30
- Thursday 3rd July. Room not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00
- Saturday 5th July. Cotswold Way Relay
- Thursday 10th July. Room not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00
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Kit Donation For Charity at AGM
At the AGM there will be a kit donation for charity. We recently donated surplus TRC kit to support a charity in Kenya. Since then we’ve been in contact with Dursley running club who said they keep a stockpile of old unwanted/unused running kit donated from members which they periodically donate to charity. In the past they have supported causes in Africa and Ukraine and currently trying to support a charity in Gaza. We’d like to contribute to their collection so at the AGM this week Pete Cable will be collecting any old/unwanted kit anyone can donate to pass onto Dursley Running Club. So bring it along.
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Thornbury 10K Road Race – Thursday 19th June 2025
The second of the events in the Club race series will be happening near mid-summer’s longest day again. As ever, we are looking for volunteers to help run the event. If you can please sign up via this Google form, that would be much appreciated. A separate email will be sent as well.
https://forms.gle/MAYLbjU7jzZ8KhsY9
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- Club Captain
As you will have seen in previous bulletins, Nick and Mel have now stepped down from their roles as Club Captains. As such, we now have nobody to host our weekly Thursday club runs, which represents a poor reflection of the club to new and existing members alike.
We are still looking for one or two of you to step into their shoes, and take on the Captain role to keep the club ticking over. No experience is necessary, and the role isn’t particularly onerous and largely entails introducing Thursday night runs and sharing notices, organising the leader’s rota, organising the club championships (which Nick is willing to help with) and generally celebrating the individual and team success at TRC. If you are interested, please do let Nick know and he will gladly talk you through the role.
2. TRC Charity Donation (revised details)
Nominations have been received and the process has now been closed again to further nominations.
3. 2024/5 AGM and New committee for 2025/6 – Club Constitution and Club Rules
The Committee has fixed the date of the AGM for the Financial Year 2024/5 – this will be on Thursday 22nd May and will be at Thornbury CC and we will hold the AGM after a Run & Rehydrate. Drinks and Pizza for those who stay on for the AGM.
The Committee does not envisage any change to the Club Constitution or Club Rules for 2025/6. The Committee also confirmed that there will be no change to the annual subs for 2025/6 and the subsidy for joining England Athletics will remain in place.
If any Member has any issues to raise for the AGM please contact the Secretary Nigel Hale secretary@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk
4. Tuesday Coaching
Please let people in your groups know that Tuesday coaching is for ALL members, inclusive and not scary! Let Carol Mosses know if they need to be added to the Tuesday WhatsApp if you are not able to add them.
Interval Training. We have 3 qualified EA Coaches who lead an interval training session at various locations. We have a WhatsApp group for those who attend the Tuesday sessions and a message is sent each Tuesday morning confirming the location and time of the session for that week. Types of session include:
- Kenyan Diagonal
- 12 * 400m repetitions
- Pyramid sessions
- Hill efforts
- ‘Meet & greet’ session
5. Pete Mainstone Challenge – Next Event Hogweed Trot 2nd June
It’s coming soon – Another club night out – The next event for the Pete Mainstone challenge is the Hogweed Trot on Monday 2nd June 2025 @ 7.00 PM in Yate.
A great local run with beers and cheers provided at the finish by TRC
Course Map here:-
https://hogweedtrotters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hogweed-Trot-course-map.pdf
You can enter here:-
https://www.fullonsport.com/event/hogweed-trot-10k-2025/profile
The club will also subsidise members entries by £10 provided that they finish the race and Thornbury appears against their name in the results. There is always somewhere on an entry page to indicate your club so just look around for it. If you have already entered as unattached you will need to contact the organisers and ask them to put your club in.
Enter now and come join in the fun.
6. Nick Williams’ Cotswold Way Challenge 100km
Some of you may be aware that my Dad was recently diagnosed (in December 2024) with Multiple Myeloma, which is a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow.
Sadly, he passed away last Monday (7th April) after the cancer became more and more aggressive.
Before he passed away, I had vowed to run the above event to raise funds for the charity that is seeking to raise awareness of this awful condition, and also to research the disease and medical advancements that may be able to help sufferers enter into remission, or even to find a cure. I will now be running the event on 21st June in memory of my Dad.
The charity is Myeloma UK (https://www.myeloma.org.uk/), and I would invite you to take a brief look into their website, which will provide an insight into the disease and that if you are able to, to support me in raising funds, however great or small, to support the charity via this link:- https://www.justgiving.com/page/nick-williams-1
I appreciate that I often run events of this nature, however this is double the distance that I would ordinarily choose to run, and it will obviously be a very emotional day.
Many thanks, Nick
7. Cotswold Relay teams for Saturday 2nd July
Thank you to everyone who signed up to join in the Cotswold relay 2025 on Sat July 5th – a great pre curser to the TRC summer festivities on the Sunday.
We have confirmed entries for two TRC teams – 1 Open team – (Quickthorns) and 1 ladies (The Prickles). This is Thornbury’s first ever all girls team and we may yet need some extras!
The legs were allocated in the order of sign up – but if you are a reserve the chances of being needed are very high so please please do keep the date free
We are also happy to have some extra names on the reserve list just in case! It would also be great if one member of each team could volunteer to be a captain just to coordinate inter team coms and photos.
The teams and legs are below – if anyone has any queries or complaints please see Jo Plumbley or message her through the WhatsApp group.
Open – Quickthorns
Leg
1 – Ross Whiting
2 – Ollie Brown
3 – George Evans
4 – Nathan Darkin
5 – Chris Foley
6 – Adrian Wombwell
7- Jim Godden
8- Kevin Cundy
9 – Nick Williams
10- James Marshall
Reserves – Nick Langridge, Alex Golding, John Evans, Arthur Renshaw, Kevin Arnold
Prickles
Leg
1 – Mel Wilson
2 – Clare Watt
3 – Lizzie Williams
4 – Jo PLumbley
5 – Colette Jackson
6 – Laura Orna
7- Sarah Newnes
8- Hannah Hamilton
9 – Ros Rowland
10- Zoe RImmer
Reserves – Bethan Littley, Judy Mills
8. Upcoming local races – don’t forget to enter as Thornbury Running Club
- Dursley Peaks 10.3km – Thursday 29th May 19:00 www.entrycentral.com/peaks25
- Hogweed Trot 10km – 2nd June – Enter 2025 Hogweed Trot
- Bradley Stoke 10k – Sunday 8th June. https://race-nation.co.uk/register/bradley-stoke
- 10,000 metres under the Edge (from Renishaw, Wotton– Sunday 14th Sept 10,000M UNDER THE EDGE 2025 – RaceNation
- Stroud Half Marathon – Sunday 26th October Stroud Half Marathon 2025 – RaceNation
- Free to enter Trust 10K Trail Run Woodchester Park 9:30 every 4th Sunday of month Trust10 Trail Run at Woodchester Park | National Trust
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