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TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 21st April 2025

 TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 21st April 2025  

 NORMAL CLUB NIGHT THIS WEEK 

 Thursday Club Night Leaders 

24th April . Walking – Val / 5k – Carol M / 10 min – Arthur R / 9 min – Paul T / 8 min – Martyn G/ 7 min – Nick W 

1ST May . Walking – Val / 5k – Liz B / 10 min – Suzy C / 9 min – Moray S / 8 min – Rob W/ 7 min – Ben F 

 Tea Rota   

 24/04 Natalie Bennett ; 01/05 No tea – Polling Day . room n/a; 08/05 Richard Straw; 15/05 Sarah Newnes 

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

 Results:  

A hugely successful away day at Weston Prom.  Thanks to:- 
Matt Johnstone for setting it all off and helping inspire so many to turn out (34) 
Jo Plumbley for providing us with all the drinks 
Nathan for all the admin, information and refunds 
Anyone else who contributed. 

 One plea from the event.  At least 13 members chose to enter a club designated event as unattached rather than Thornbury Running Club.  This makes it extra difficult and time consuming to compile all the club results.  It involves comparing lists with lists to work out the exceptions and then 13 extra searches on individual names to find the appropriate results instead of one search on Thornbury RC.  Please, enter as Thornbury Running Club.  It makes it so much easier to find you.  Besides which you are missing the discounts for affiliated club members.  Thank you. 

 For the club results follow the link to the Pete Mainstone Challenge results page on the web site to find not only all the results data but initial scores for the series outright and age graded. 

 Reminders:.   

  • Wednesday 23rd April. Start of new Introductory course for New Runners 
  • Thursday 1st May. Polling Day. Centre  not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00 
  • Thursday 22nd May – AGM and Run & Rehydrate. Thornbury CC 
  • Saturday 5th July. Cotswold Way Relay 

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  1. 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 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) 

After a successful staging of our 3 events over the last year – all sold out – the Committee has decided to confirm our donation to this year’s chosen Charity Great Western Air Ambulance.  We will now donate £2,000 and this will be done later this year. 

 Nominations for current year are now closed. 

 3. 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. 

 If you know anybody who may be interested in attending please contact beginners@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk and complete Introductory Running Course Interest (click on the link on the Thornbury Running Club website.) 

 4. 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. 

 5. Riverbank Rollick 2026 – Race Director 

 The 2026 Riverbank Rollick will be on Sunday 18th January 2026.  We finally have a new Race Director – Jim Godden. Thanks for volunteering Jim. We are now looking for 2 or 3 people to form a small team to help Jim. No experience is necessary although computer skills would be useful. 

 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. Upcoming local races – don’t forget to enter as Thornbury Running Club  

  • Olveston School 5k (and 1k) – Sunday 27th April   

 https://www.olvestonschool.co.uk/olveston-fun-run/ 

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