📰 August News📰 

How is summer already coming to an end? Being the summer holidays, it was a quieter month in terms of official club runs but club members kept themselves busy in many other ways from parkrun touring to running on holiday, plus lots of different races.

At the beginning of the month, TRC was well represented at Christine Ohuruogo’s track night named ‘Mind Your Strides’. The session involved learning different warm-up drills before completing some circuit training. This was then followed by running on the track with an interval session. After the cooldown, the runners got to hold Christine’s medals and get a cheeky snapshot with them… and with her!

In parkrun news, Will continues his touring streak with just 2 parkruns left before he has completed GardDONE of Kent! This month he toured to Basildon, Mote Park,  Hastings, Shorne Woods and Victoria Docks. Yat has also nearly completed his next parkrun milestone of 100 runs. He has now ran a very respectable 91 parkruns with touring this month to Catford, Barking, Mile End and Southwark. Gemma and Alex have just started their next parkrun challenge with The Full Ponty, visiting Pontypridd in Wales. In fact, TRC was represented several times at parkruns outside of England this month with: Rachel completing Haverfordwest, Wales; Ana to Vandeleur, Ireland; and, a little further afield, Andrew visiting Bishan parkrun in Singapore! The number of different parkrun’s attended between all club members this month have been admirable, well done to all runners ticking off various new locations whether you have been away for work or pleasure!

Finally, despite the busy diaries, committee members met this month ahead of our AGM in September. This included discussing some innovative ideas of how to take the club forward, borne from feedback of our runners. Keep your eyes pealed for more updates soon! Have you got an idea you wish to share? The Committee would love to hear from you! The very definition of “community” requires us all to play to a role in shaping our club and we welcome all new ideas and suggestions.

‼ Club Updates ‼

🌍 Yat has started a new club team challenge: for TRC to be represented at parkrun in every country. You can find this spreadsheet on the same one where we record our individual running distances.

⭐️Run Leaders are due to meet on Wednesday 10th September to review our current running timetable. If you have any suggestions please share them with one of the Leaders so we can discuss them as part of this meet-up.

🎉 Our clubs next AGM has now been confirmed for Saturday 4th October, 4pm start. This is a yearly gathering that all club members are encouraged to attend; we will review the past year and share what’s instore for the next year!

🗓  The next Beginners Group (C25K) will be starting on Saturday 20th September, led by Lola and Debbie. This is a 12-week course FREE for both members and non-members. Please help us spread the word.

🎉 August things to celebrate🎉

We said hello to lots of new members! Welcome Jen, Reecha, Juhi, Alice, Zinora and Ridwan👋

Alessandro, Christos, Tony, Ashley and Jean celebrated parkrun/5K PBs🎉

Tony, Yat, Gemma, Jean and Cassie ran the RunThrough Foundation 10K race 🏅

Simon, Christos, Tony and Suha ran RunThrough’s 10K Chase the Sun race 🏅

Tony, Christos, Suha, Richard and Jean all achieve 10K PB’s during these races 🎉

Ana competed in her next sprint triathlon at T100 🏅

Roger celebrated his birthday with a run at Thames Path parkrun alongside daughter Caroline. Caroline, of course, let her dad beat her through the funnel… on this occasion! 🎂

Andrew, Remi, Simon, Patty, Gemma, Yat, Christos and Alessandro attended the club's latest track session with Track n Core at the London Marathon Community Track 🏃🏽‍♀

Sarah and Emma ran RunThrough’s Regent Park 10K 🏅

Kathryn ran RunThrough’s 5K Women Series 🏅

Patty paced the RT Greenwich 5K, ran RT’s Velo Park Half Marathon and achieved 2nd place female at the Woolwich 10K 🎉

Dee ran ASICS’s new LDNX 10K at Wembley Park 🏅

The club was represented in Singapore 🌍

⭐️A special mention… ⭐️

The Runner of the Month for August was especially hard to select. So, before we announce who it is, a special mention goes to Jean and Suha who both completed their first ever 10K races this month. As relatively new members of TRC, they have both worked up to the 10K distance during training runs and absolutely gave it their all on the day!

⭐️Runner of the Month ⭐️

Now… August’s Runner of the Month goes to our Run Leader Shelley who, just this morning (31st August), completed the 3-Peaks challenge in less than 24-hours! Shelley’s busy schedule involves running her own fitness classes and leading our Wednesday run’s but somewhere in-between she has managed to train for this massive challenge. Shelley, and her group, first ascended Ben Nevis, Scotland, early Saturday morning before travelling to the Lake District to hike Scafell Pike in, what looked like, challenging conditions overnight. Then they finished off with Snowdon, Wales, in the early hours this morning. This was all to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charity, please see WhatsApp for more details. What a great achievement Shelley, well done!! 😀👏