Guests this week, Ben and Lisa will be joining us for a 2nd week.
Thank you to Pete for track session on Friday. Please keep an eye out for the next 1.
Mid week trail, Dark Hart trail
Stuart Peace and Lee Kerrison, were over at Stebbing, 5 mile trail 58:47min
Park run results from the weekend.
Chelmsford Central Parkrun
Dave Cassin “First time at Chelmsford. Great course although very wet and a bit muddy in places.
133rd place of 519 participants. 18th in my age category.” 25:15
Marks Hall
Katy Denny, Over the moon to have gone sub-24 for the first time in my life, first in my age category and third female. Love a rainy run!! Pb and club std in 00:23:32
Hadleigh Parkrun
Simon Gill, at his 3rd different park run in 3 weeks 26:21
Maldon Prom Parkrun
Jayne Vernon, “This was my 197th run and 100th run at Maldon, Nice chatty run with Sharon planning a run session for Tuesday” 00:32.44
Stuart Peace, 00:25:04
Ben Hall, running a SB in 29:35 on a wet and muddy course.
Julia Bawden, in 29:37 “Chairman’s Challenge Total Ascent 89ft – think Prom Park must have shrunk in the rain as the ascent last week was 121ft 🤔🤷🏼♀️!!”
Anita Leaver, 1st in my age category and also my fastest time this year. 00:35:42
Stacy Hember, “Walked/ run the park run today with Anita’s better half, Brian. First bit of running for 8 weeks!” 46:39
Clare Howard, was marshalling.
Great Notley parkrun
Len Marten, I was hoping to take a very steady run/walk but ended up Guide Running for Chris who has Parkinsons. 00:34:26
Mendel Riverbank parkrun
Alex Senko, When you have -14 outside, it’s not easy to breathe during the run and too icy as well, but anyway I’m sharing with everyone, that I was educated in the system of TRR and surprisingly they all knows about Essex🏴 😊 💪 00:20:17
Brightlingsea 10k
Clare Howard, Lots of mud and puddles
Jayne Vernon, “We started along the sea wall with plenty of puddles and mud. The TRR boys both run with Bambi feet ( wrong shoes on ) 🤣🤣🤣”
Alex Hadley, Great fun and lots of muddy——- All run together in 1hr 14 min.
Brightlingsea Challenge Half Marathon
Brian Reed, “Not having run this before was hoping it was more of a road race but worst nightmare, MUD, large puddles of water and more MUD ! and only wearing road shoes. Fell over (again) 3 miles from finish and collided with barbed wire fence, otherwise pleased to get to finish. 4th overall and 1st in age group.” 02:07:10
Craig Vernon, Super muddy route but pleased with my time on a tough course. 02:33:31
Hadleigh Legacy 10K at Hadleigh mountain bike course.
| Position | Time | Name | age group | Comment |
| 25 | 00:50:10 | Mark Lawes | 2 | 25 position 2nd v50. 900ft elevation. Loved it😊 |
| 47 | 00:53:48 | Morven Hurding | 1 | 7th female, 1st in age category What a lovely surprise to see all 4 of the Chairman’s Challenge men’s team!Elevation 874ft |
| 67 | 00:56:27 | Lee Kerrison | 7 | |
| 130 | 01:06:13 | Rachel Newenham | 6 | |
| 165 | 01:10:21 | Chris Harding | 38 | |
| 166 | 01:10:14 | Simon Scott | 16 | Mud and hills – it was grim! |
| 184 | 01:12:45 | Julia Bawden | 1 | 1st in age group on the slippery, muddy, but quite enjoyable Hadleigh hills. Chairman’s Challenge total ascent: 902ft. |
| 258 | 01:25:47 | Len Marten | 28 | Elevation Gain : 309m (1014ft) A tough but thoroughly enjoyable course. Definitely my kinda race. Mud, gnarly inclines and decents and Jaffa Cakes. |
| 261 | 01:26:12 | Sue Long | 12 | Elevation 892 I came 12th in my age category. Which I was surprised and happy about. Great muddy conditions which I really like 🙂 Thank you to my fellow TRR’S for cheering me in at the end. |
Chairmen challenge
Boys Team, Mark, Lee, Chris H and Len.
Girls Team, Sue, Morven, Michelle and Julia.
Boys currently leading 2-1.
| Boys | Girls | |||
| Date | Elevation | Rank | Elevation | Rank |
| Dec | 10875 | 1 | 6320 | 2 |
| Jan | 13317 | 1 | 10408 | 2 |
| Feb | 2875 | 2 | 7310 | 1 |
| Mar | 15788 | 1 | 11705 | 2 |
| Total | 42855 | 1 | 35743 | 2 |
Training this Thursday,
6.45 for 7.00 start, Moneghetthi Fartlek session, please come along and to learn more.
Upcoming events.
Markshall park run take over.
Orion 15
Summer pub trail.
Looking for someone to put on a summer social pub trail on a Thursday evening during summer months. Please get in touch with Angela.
We have a new members/RLS session.
Tonight we’re excited to get our new members together to learn to get more from being a member of TRR. As part of the session, new Run Leader Supports Michelle and Rob will also get the chance to learn the ropes. It’s a great system – everyone’s involvement is helping everyone else and the club to be even more successful. Thanks to all those involved 👍👍