Hey guys

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Well you have been busy haven’t you !  Loads of results below plus some other bits 😊

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Tonight

Back to school session

All welcome, including Thursday nighters.

We will be at Longrun, but still meet at clubhouse at 6.30 prompt as light now fading ☹

 

Christmas party and presentation night…. Woop woop!!

Please save the date it is always a cracking night!

Friday 29th November.

We are booked at the Winchester Arms at Trull (with thanks to Kim who helped source this one!)

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Club London entry

Don’t forget we always do the draw for the club entry at the Christmas do, all we ask for your name to go in the hat is that you have been an active club member for a year, so start thinking!!

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The below is from Jon Gilling who would like some chums to run with !

‘’Is anyone else interested in the winter 5 mile race series at Weston-super-Mare along the prom? I am hoping to do them all and be great to have other Taunton AC runners there. It is a great race series! ‘’

 

The dates are as follows:

19 September

24 October

21 November

19 December

16 January

20 February

19 March

16 April

14 May

 

More info and entry here - http://www.westonac.co.uk/PromRun/. You can enter the whole series online or on the day or enter individual races. Start time is 19:30 and the race is two laps.

 

Prizes – there are spot prizes and age group prizes each race. Plus a special memento to all runners completing all 9 races. Plus prizes for overall and age category winners. There is also team prizes for Senior Men, Mixed (2 male, 2 female), male vet and female – separate entry needed for this!

 

Team prizes are based on all 9 races but individual prizes are based on the best 6 of the first 8 races.

 

Results

 

A huge congratulations to Simon Patterson who has been absent from our ranks for a while to concentrate on his tri training  and who pulled off an amazing sub 12 hours at the Wales Ironman at the weekend.  Congrats buddy, hope to see you as soon as you have recovered!

 

Thea Sanders finished Dartmoor Marathon in 5 hours 15 , as 3rd lady…… cracking, considering she was terrified she would not even finish!

 

We had 3 parkrun milestones this weekend

Liz Heal…..100

Kate Drew …..200

Craig Whitemore…..250 and the dress did it again with a storming PB!

 

Truro Half….. hot and hilly,

Well done Morgan Curry….. 1.44.58

 

Exmouth Tri

Carl Ward….1.25.30, 1st vet 55

 

Yeovilton 5K

Phil Burden…. 15.49

Hannah Taunton …..17.35 , 1st lady

Marcus Albano 18.15

 

Bristol Half

Kate Drew…. 1hr 20.38 PB and 3rd lady wow!

Neil Smith…..1 hr 24.17 PB

James Mulready…..1 hr 23.55

Andy Staples…1 hr 27.16

Emma Kiernan… 1 hr 27.37

 

Keith and I did Mount Edgecombe parkrun on Saturday (Torpoint), hard but stunning if you get chance to do it.

 

Happy running

Shaz x