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TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 2nd June 2025  

TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 2nd June 2025  

Thursday Club Night Leaders 

5th June. Walking – Val / 5k – Liz B / 10 min – Arthur R / 9 min – Lizzie W / 8 min – Hannah H/ 7 min – Paul H  

12th  June . Walking – Val / 5k – Jim W / 10 min – Jerry C / 9 min – Jo P / 8 min – Mel W/ 7 min – Ben B 

Tea Rota   

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:  

24/05 Vilnius Half Marathon  
Paul Saville     1:34:22 

31/05  Park Run 
Ben Bohane was 1st at Thornbury yet again and in a PB of 17:27 

In other Park Run news Kevin Arnold reports that he has spent a year as a tourist, taking in 28 different venues.  For his report and list of venues see at the end of the bulletin. 

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 Park Run Results page on the club website. 

 Reminders:.   

  • 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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Thornbury 10K Road Race – Thursday 19th June 2025 – YOUR CLUB NEEEDS YOU!  

We are still short of at least 20 volunteers to be able to run the Thornbury 10K road race safely.  This really is a “many hands make light work” and  “a great opportunity to give back!!”.  I can’t promise it will be sunny.  But I do know that it’s a great chance to cheer other runners on, to get to know other runners at the club, and to support the club in putting on these great events.  If you haven’t marshalled before and are worried that you “won’t know what to do”, just add that into the notes section.  We have lots of experienced marshals who can show you the ropes. 

Please sign up via this Google form!!  Thank you, Colette. 

https://forms.gle/MAYLbjU7jzZ8KhsY9 

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  1. 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  

2. Pete Mainstone Challenge – Next Event Hogweed Trot 2nd June 

 It’s coming soon  – Monday evening.  Another club night out and 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. 

Everyone has entered, over 40, so ‘enjoy’ the race. 

3. 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 

 4. 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 –    
7-     Sarah Newnes 
8-     Hannah Hamilton 
9 –     Ros Rowland 
10-    Zoe RImmer 

Reserves  – Bethan Littley, Judy Mills 

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

Kevin Arnold’s Park Run Tourist year:- 

 Well, I’ve now completed 1 year of parkrun tourism.  

52 weeks, 28 parkruns (28 venues) including 19 venues new to me.  

I had lists of parkrun tours to do over the last year – I’ve completed some lists, new lists have started and old lists have been augmented !.  

I’ve completed some more of the challenges from the ‘parkrunner’ & ‘5k’ & ‘Running Achievements’ Apps, that take data from the official parkrun results pages. These include – Namely, (UK) Alphabet, Stayin’ Alive, 250th run and 3/4 Cowell (75 locations) being completed.  

I’ve only got 2 PB’s but that’s the effect of 19 1st timer briefs !.  

Also x4 volunteers at Thornbury and 6 weeks off with my fractured fibula (in 2 places !!).  

I’ve probably added 50% to the annual mileage on the car and put on 2 stone with the post parkrun breakfasts !!  

I’m still going to be carrying on touring (‘cos I’ve now more parkruns on lists than before I started trying to knock parkruns off my existing lists).  

Here is the list of parkrun tours completed over the last 12 months – 

Five Arches  
Thornbury  
Jersey Farm  
Upton Court  
Dudley  
Y Promenad (Breconia)  
Severn Bridge  
Victoria Dock  
Chippenham  
Three Brooks  
Wotton  
Llanishen Park  
Berkeley Green  
(Little Stoke – “you can take my parkrun, but you cannot take my FREEDOM” ! [parkrun])  
Hereford  
Quakers Walk  
Grangemoor  
Rogiet  
Blaise Castle  
Eastville  
Tremorfa  
Marlborough Common  
Cirencester  
Simmons Park  
Pont Y Bala  
Severn Valley Country  
Worcester Pitchcroft  
Bryn Bach  
Seven Fields   

And I had a nice way to finished off, by getting to see a boomerang in Swindon last week ! (See ’10 Boomerangs South Beach parkrun’ on Facebook !)   

If you’ve any Q, please ask. 

 02/06