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TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 10th March 2025

 

Thursday Club Night Leaders

13th March . Walking – Val / 5k – Caron H/ 10 min – Hugh M / 9 min – Kevin W / 8 min – Martyn G / 7 min – Nick W

20th March . Walking – Val / 5k – Nigel H/ 10 min – Mike B / 9 min – Lizzie W / 8 min – Rob W / 7 min – Ben F

Tea Rota 

 13/03 Mel Lloyd; 20/03 ??? ; 27/03 Natalie Bennett;  03/04  Paul Reeves ; 10/04 No Tea. Room n/a;

We need some more Members to step-up to do Tea on a Thursday – looking for cover as from late April.

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Results:  Lisbon Half Marathon 10/03/25

  • Melanie Wilson 1:45:15
  • Ashleigh Davidson 1:49:49
  • Jo Davidson 1:49:50
  • Chris Foley 1:57:23
  • Paul Thomas 2:11:22
  • Mary Thomas 2:11:22
  • Sarah Newness 2:16:01
  • Mike Bennewitz 2:19:14
  • Suzy Cundy 2:23:27
  • Kevin Cundy 2:23:27

Reminders:

  • Sunday 23rd March. Bristol Running Show.
  • Sunday 30th March. BST – clocks go forward one hour
  • Tuesday 1st April. Renewal of annual subscriptions for another year.
  • Thursday 10th April. Meeting room not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00
  • Thursday 17th April. 19:30 Weston Prom Run (5 Miles).
  • Wednesday 23rd April. Start of new Introductory course for New Runners
  • Thursday 22nd May – AGM and Run & Rehydrate
  • Saturday 5th July. Cotswold Way Relay

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  1. TRC Membership Renewals (Membership Year 01/04/25 – 31/03/26)

2025-26 Club membership is due for renewal before Monday 1st April. See separate e-mail

  1. Club Captain

As you will have seen, Nick and Mel will be stepping down from their roles as Club Captains at the end of the month. We are looking for one or two of you to step into their shoes, to take on the Captain role and to keep the club ticking over, particularly on Thursday nights. 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.

  1. Cotswold Way Relay 2025 – Saturday 5th July

The Cotswold Way Relay is a 10 stage relay race covering all 103 miles of the Cotswold Way from Chipping Campden to Bath Abbey. This is event is organised by Team Bath and has a limit of 100 teams.

The event is very popular with TRC members and for 2025 we intend to enter a Women’s team and a further 1or 2 teams.If we become oversubscribed, we will work on a first come first served basis, subject to the requirements of each team entered. A vets team must all be aged 40+ and a mixed team must contain at least 4 women.  Save the date and if you wish to run, or be a reserve or can help with on the day marshalling then please sign up here!  If you have any questions please see Jo Plumbley who is organising the event this year.

  1. Weston Prom Run Race 8 (5 miles) – Thursday 17th April 2025 19:30 start

Matt Johnstone is organising a Club supported run at Weston in April and wants to try and get a big turnout from the Club. Enter individually and the Club will refund your entry fees. Entries open 21st March. More details on the link below.https://westonac.co.uk/races-2/weston-prom-run/

  1. New Running Shoes?

SportShoes.com discount

The club have negotiated a 15% discount off in season products with  SportsShoes.com, currently SS25. To obtain the code, which changes monthly, please complete this form.

  1. TRC Charity Donation

After a successful staging of our 3 events over the last year – all sold out – the Committee has decided to increase our donation to this year’s chosen Charity St Peter’s Hospice. We will now donate £2,000 and this will be done at the next Run & Rehydrate event in March – date to be confirmed.

We are now seeking nominations from the Membership for the choice of Charity for the coming year 2024-25. Please submit your nominations to the Secretary, Nigel Hale by the end of February. All Nominations submitted need a brief justification.

  1. New Runners course – Wednesdays 23rd April to 11th June

Now open for people to register for the next course starting on Wednesday 23rd April at 6:45pm for 8 weeks until Wednesday 11th June at 6:45pm. We meet at the top of the Thornbury Leisure Centre car park. We aim to run together at a parkrun on Saturday 14th June to celebrate your success. The whole course costs only £10.

  1. 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 chance 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.

  1. Riverbank Rollick 2026 – Race Director

The 2026 Riverbank Rollick will be on Sunday 18th January 2026.

Kevin Wood did a fantastic job organising the Rollick for the last two years and he will now be stepping down so we need an individual or group of individuals to take over the organisation. If anyone is interested please see Arthur Renshaw (chairman@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk)  Full training will be given.

  1. Bristol Running Show – Sunday March 23rd

The Bristol Running Show 2025 will take place again at the BAWA Leisure centre, Southmead Rd in Filton on March 23rd 2025. The show will feature local clubs and running groups, local and regional businesses and services, fitness and health professionals, personal trainers. There will be guest speakers. https://bristolrunningshow.com/

  1. Jessica Harrison Physiotherapy

Jessie is a new (again) member of TRC, and also a MSK physiotherapist specialising in womens health, mainly around postnatal/menopause, and her passion is getting women back into fitness/running following childbirth.

Jessie is hoping to be able to offer a return to running ‘C25K’ run for postnatal women, who would also be seeing her to focus on strengthening pelvic floor, imbalances and dealing with symptoms like incontinence. In order for these women truly be able to get either back to running or into running it is important to focus on personalised programmes throughout her Mummy MOT assessments, which she does privately.

Please take a look at her website (www.jessicaharrisonphysiotherapy.com) and the attached leaflet for more details, and please do get in touch with Jessie for more information.

  1. Upcoming local races

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