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TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 28th April 2025  

TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 28th April 2025  

 ELECTIONS THIS WEEK – ROOM NOT AVAILABLE 

 MEET IN TOP CAR PARK AGAIN 

 Thursday Club Night Leaders 

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

8th May. Walking – Val / 5k – Jim W / 10 min – Jerry C / 9 min – Jo P / 8 min – Hannah H/ 7 min – Ben B 

 Tea Rota   

 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:  

 London Marathon   27/04/25   Jo Plumbley   3:59:04 

 Berkeley 10K   27/04/25   Nick Langridge  47:23    1st MV70 

 Newport Half Marathon   13/04/25     Paul Harrod    1:26:54 

 Reminders:.  

 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 
  • Thursday 19th June – Thornbury 10K 
  • Saturday 5th July. Cotswold Way Relay 

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Congratulations to our latest international:–  

 Our esteemed leader Arthur has qualified for the World Duathlon Championships to be held in Abu Dhabi later this year and he will be taking up the challenge. 

 Anyone organising a supporters’ coach? 

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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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  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. 

 Due to a total lack of any nominations whatsoever nominations have now been reopened until the AGM on 22nd May.  Contact Nigel Hale with any nominations that you want to put forward. 

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

This is now in operation 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 

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