Welcome to the Avon Valley Runners Website
Welcome to the Avon Valley Runners WebsiteAvon Valley Runners are a Running club based in West Wiltshire. The club was founded in 1986 and currently has around 200 members of all abilities.
We meet at least three times a week at our training venues in Trowbridge, Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon with typically between 10-40 members running anywhere between 1 and 10 miles in different pace groups.
Avon Valley Runners host
a number of events throughout the year including the
Over the Hills
12K Multi-Terrain Race, the
Conkwell Killer and
assist with the organisation of the
Trowbridge 10K,
the
Around the Common 5K,
the
Shaw&Whitley Stampede,
the
DB10K
and the
Foxtrot 5.
A chance to challenge some local clubs on the "Over the Hills" course. One difference its run in reverse direction!
All the details here
Thank you to all whoo took part in the organising, the reserve runners and those who took part in the race itself - What a great day. A full report will be posted soon.
Thank you for the lovely flowers and chocs - very much appreciated
Captain K, 27th June 2009
Michael Towler
Just over fifty runners lined up in Broughton Gifford for the inaugural Around the Common 5K
consisting of nearly four laps of the boundary road. In first place was Michael Towler on
Avon Valley Runners recording seventeen minutes and ten seconds from Steve Hale of Team Bath
AC and Carl Davies of Avon Valley Runners. Age category awards going to Mike Pace and Sean
Butler of Avon Valley Runners for MV40 & MV50.
The ladies race proved an all AVR affair with Tina Giles leading home in 22:03 from Linda Ladner and Sue MacGregor. Age category awards going to Fiona Price from Westbury and Janice Rambridge of Team Bath AC.
Darren Wrintomore, 25th June 2009
On Sunday 21st June, 14 runners from Avon Valley lined up among the 153 to complete the Warminster Forest 10. The course was slightly short this year due to the 20/20 taking place at the race venue of Warminster Cricket Club.
The course taking the runners up through Shearwater and Heavens Gate through trails and back down mostly on flat tarmac roads.
The race winner was Tom Fisher in a time of 57:20, closely followed by Avon Valleys Michael Towler in 57:29. Avon Valleys Men won the Team prize with Kevin Sparey 1:03:06, Carl Davies 1:03:32 and Alistair Bartlett 1:05:00 making up the 4. Kevin Sparey also won the MV50 Category
The first Lady was Jenny Moore from Wells City Harriers in 1:02:51.
Completing a clean sweep of the Team Prizes AVRs Ladies also came out on top, with Kay Middleton 1:14:46 first home, along with Tina Giles 1:20:34, Ali Atkinson 1:23:15 and Liz Clark 1:24:08.
This event was the 5th race in the Avon Valley Series, with Michael Towler and Kay Middleton earning the maximum 20 points each.
Ali Atkinson, 21st June 2009
“On your marks”, “Get set”, “Scatter” seemed to be the starters orders for the Mendip Mashup. As runners headed off in all directions to explore twenty one miles of trails around the Somerset village of Charterhouse Mendip, in search of scoring flags hidden in such areas as Rowberren Warren and Addlestones Orchard. Using a trail map for guidance around 250 runners took on this unique blend of trail running, orienteering and hashing.
First off for Avon Valley Runners was Andrew Hoddinott taking on the three hour challenge and finding 30 of the 50 flags scoring a total of 640 points. Next out for the two hour challenge were Julia Drewitt, Sue Cook, Debbie Roberts and Christina Davidson, with Sue and Chris tying for first place in the Ladies run category with 290 points. Last out was Darren Wrintmore who scored 250 points to win the Men’s one hour run category. The most eagerly awaited result of the day however was the winner of the Men’s three hour run category, as his weight in beer was to be shared by the field during the evenings post-run celebrations!
Darren Wrintomore, 20th June 2009
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