Welcome all!
Welcome tonight’s guest Jason joining g2, please give him a big TRR welcome.
I would like to thank Julia for the club standards report.
Late result from last week.
Tim Huxtable, “Really pleased with my first HM in over 25 years looking forward to more. PB in 02:18:07
Was a little under trained due to illness after New year and not getting in long runs for the last month, but with Sharon pacing me well for the first 5K set me up for a solid run”
Hackney Marshes
Aaron Graves, Warm up for xc later in the day 00:17:40
Harleston Magpies parkrun
Tim Huxtable, 00:29:24
Maldon parkrun
Rob Still, Really enjoyed the run, just a lovely morning for it, 00:23:39
Anna Taylor, 00:35:35
Essex League xc race 5, Ilford.
We field 2 full teams again. The girls finished 4th and the men 5th on the day.
Katy, 20th 28.18 “Great support on the course and brilliant muddy fun!”
Rowena, 32nd 29.00
Simone, 50th 31.10 “Rowena is back! Order has been restored on the XC and she finished ahead of me! Lots of moaning at the start – this was the foulest XC I have done!! I felt like Scotty! Then the course came up short and lots of screaming from everyone at the end and I kept the ladies I overtook behind me. I think they were pretty scared! Fab TRR support as always 🙂
Emma, 86th Completing the girls team in 36.58
The girls finished the season in 3rd position in Div 2, Which means the girls have been promoted to Division 1 for next season!
Aaron, 36th In his 2nd run of the day! 31.15, Great support by the girl’s team and Anne Marie, Mia and poppy
Phil, 150th 40.33
Mark, 189th 44.04
Rob, 191st 44.35
Edward, 207th 47.02
Dave, 208th 47.06, More mud than Benfleet 15! Hard going through the mud but had a good race. Happy with my time. Great support and encouragement from all the TRR team. Great day!
The men finished the season men joint 4th Div 2. Which means we get to do it all again next year!
Cold Norton 10k trail
Zoe Bardell, It was a very wet muddy course, but good fun. 01:57:48
Cold Norton trail half marathon
Bob Bardell, 2nd overall behind Jackie Stretton. 02:05:53
Stacy Hember and Allison Peace, 03:36:47″Lovely route, though very muddy and water logged! At times Alison and I were like Bambi on ice! Also I nearly fell into the water at one point, just like Vicar of Dibley, to the amusement of Alison 😂😂The cakes at the end were amazing!”
Sue long, “This was a navigational trail, Simon and I did just over 14 miles as we went slightly wrong.
I really enjoyed this event, especially listening to Simon swearing most of the way round when he was wading through loads of water and mud 🤣
Great event raising money for Farleigh Hospice.” 03:58:48
Training Thursday
Fox and hounds, Messing with Angela. 6.45 for 7.00 start meet at the school.
Upcoming events
Last race of the season! Ness xc race 5, at Hadleigh Suffolk this Sunday there is a small chance we could still win the league but we need you to turn up and run please.
Orion 15, 23rd March.
Ingatestone 5-mile road race, part of the Essex Champ series. See post on fb.
TRR PARKRUN GET TOGETHER – March 9th Colchester Castle Parkrun
Getting as many TRR together to run at Colchester Castle Parkrun. It will be great to see as many of you there as possible
TRR Park run take over, Great Notley 23rd March.
If you are available to volunteer or Pace, for our first takeover of the year, please reply to fb post or contact Kerry direct.
Howard Williams Trophy.
Tiptree won the best road race in Essex 2023.
We have now won this 5 times.
Well done to Rob and his core team, and to all the members that gave up their time on the lead up, on the day and after the race to make this possible. Give yourselves a big round of applause.