Following the unfortunate cancellation of the Dick Maxwell trophy race on December 2nd, it has been agreed that we organise a December Virtual 5 kilometres in addition to that envisaged for January. Both will count in the overall Club Handicap competition. Your December clockings should be sent to Tony at tonymtaylor@gmail.com by Friday, December 29th at the latest. This will allow you to indulge yourselves without worry over the New Year’s weekend!!

Weather allowing, this gives members nigh on four weeks to fit in a 5 kilometre blast, which should stand everyone in good stead for the longer challenges ahead. Dave Evans has already drawn up his handicap sheet and forwarded it to yours truly. Thus, given my dedication to the cause, I will put together the scratch and handicap results on New Year’s Eve, posting these on the website on New Year’s Day! There’s a promise! In addition, we are going to include for interest an age-graded percentage in respect of each member’s performance. We did this during COVID and in fact, Ian Hilditch won this year’s AJ Taylor Trophy on the strength of his excellent age-graded effort in the Horwich Masters 5 kilometre championship.

If you’ve got the means or inclination, an anecdote or a photo related to your December effort will be gratefully received.

Impressively John Gordon is the first off the mark. Much appreciated.

A bloody cold one!

My walk details for today – December 2nd

Venue; Cardiff Airport

Time: 11:00am

5K Time : 32min 49 secs

Although conditions were frosty, the roads were surprisingly good. Bit of Sun starting now. Needed a warm-up and the tights were on. Early flights had gone so got roads to myself.