March 2010 Newsletter

ANNUAL DINNER & PRIZE GIVING

Please see the delicious menu from the Green Dragon in Haddenham for 27th March, our Thame Runners Anuual Club Dinner and Prize Giving event spectacular ! Start time 7pm of 7:30pm to be seated.  Please email Pete White to reserve your place then select your food and post payment with your selection back to Pete to the address he provides.

Price is £25 per person, Cheques made payable to Thame Runners, closing date for orders is the 21st March.  There are still plenty of places available, but not very long to book your place, so if you are planning on coming, please act swiftly to save disappointment.

Vegitarian Option:  Please contact Rupert direct at the Green Dragon on 01844-291403 and he will be able to discuss your personal menu, for you to let Pete know your selection.

Pete White, Events Secretary

AGM

This year's AGM will be held at 20:00hrs on Wed 7th April, at Thame Barns Centre. All are welcome.  

The run that evening will start from the leisure centre at 6.30pm, to allow people sufficient time to change and eat before the AGM starts.   The most important agenda item being the election of the committee.  There are 2 open positions going into this years meeting as the temporary Events Secretary and Club Treasurer will be standing down.

It is important to have as many people there as possible, so that the committee can take questions from the floor and get a good sense of what people want from the club.  It would be great to see more than the regular AGM attendees there.

Steph Cook, Club Secretary

MEMBERSHIP

We now have 102 members !!  and I would like to welcome our 102nd, Ian Grant from Whiteleaf to the club and would ask everyone to look out for him on club nights and make him feel welcome.  

It's that time of your again when our Membership Secretary Steve Graham will be contacting all members for annual subscriptions.  At only £15, including membership to UK Athletics we continue to be the best value club in the region.  Coming into the spring is also a great time of year for new members to join.  Here is the latest renewal form for 2010.

Steve Graham, Membership Secretary

CLUB KIT

The committee have decided to change the Club Kit supplier and we have seen excellent samples from our new supplier.  We will be purchasing vests only and we hope that the new singlets will become available to club members in the next few weeks.  The Vests will be priced at around £16.50.

CHAMPIONSHIP

The Club Championship got off to a fantastic start in February, with the early events very well attended this year having 15 runners setting ther stalls out and notching up good points already.  The gold standard is being set by brother and sister combo Nick & Bev Mauger, plus Duncan Marsh with all securing P.Bs to take to the them to the top of their tables.

The next few championship races are as follows, but unfortunately the two Half Marathon events are already full.  The Marlow 5 and the mid-week Charndon 5k are always good sharpeners for the Summer race season to come.

TRAINING

There is light at the end of the tunnel and the winter training route doesn't have too many more weeks to run.  That means we are starting to plan our Spring and Summer training schedules. 

Our request for a volunteer as club coach has generated a number of ideas if not an actual volunteer and we are planning to have our first Track Night at Stoke Mandeville Stadium at the end of April.  There will be nominal subs to cover the hire and floodlights, but we are hoping that with a bit of support the cost will be spread widely and that this could become a regular training event.

Soon after that on 5th May, we will be starting our SWET (Summer Wednesday Evening Training) schedule. Last years SWET season was a success and immensely enjoyable.  Subject to confirmation the May schedule is shaping up as follows:

 5th May - Pink & Lily.
12th May - Fox & Hounds, Christams Common.
19th May - Tring Running Club open evening which was really enjoyable last year.
26th May - The Eight Bells, Long Crendon. 

following May we are looking for volunteers to pick a pub, recky a 5-6 mile circular route and take the lead on one of these Wednesday events, so if you would like to help please let me know using This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it :  

Our Sunday morning long run is still going strong, despite a few casualties (Old Whitey, Lord Byerley and Mick Oak are all crocked).  We typically run distances of 10 miles at a comfortable 8-8:30 minute mile pace to this schedule, with faster runners completing hill reps and loops along the way. If you would like to find out more, please ask Richard Slater to be added to his distribution list for notifications.

For anyone interested in Triathlete training, we also have swim sessions 9-10 pm at Risborough Pool on Thursday evenings.  A session of around 2,500m in the hour in lane 1 with occassional members in the adjacent lane, doing their own thing, and we have regular chats on their stroke technique/program/etc so that they can join Lane 1 in due course.

Andy Byerley, Chairman