Awards Special.

Josh and Ben Harrison Apologies for the slight delay in sending this week's newsletter out. It's been a bit stressful putting it together. We start with an inspiring and heartwarming story from junior members Josh and Ben Harrison. There is a detailed report on the recent Senior Members Annual Awards. Many thanks to Sarah Bland for her help with this. Finally there is yet another initiative from our volunteer Age Group Leaders in their efforts to inspire and put smiles on the faces out our U13's. Apologies if this newsletter a little difficult to read. If it is I am a loss to understand why. Technology is not my strong point. Take care Best Wishes David Jones Josh and Bens Lands End to John o' Groats Challenge Junior club members Josh and Ben Harrison are running and cycling the equivalent of from Lands End to John o' Groats for Multiple Sclerosis Society because It’s a charity close to their families heart. Josh and Ben's Story. During lockdown in January we were thinking about how we can raise money for charity at the same time as continuing our training. We decided to run or cycle 874 miles, which is the distance to travel by car from Land’s End to John o’ Groats between us! So far we have run/cycled a total distance of 138 miles. We are tracking our progress, running and cycling around where we live on Strava. We are challenging ourselves to complete the distance before the end of summer. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/josh-and-ben-harrison?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=josh-and-ben-harrison&utm_campaign=pfp- Thank you very much for supporting us. Josh (11) and Ben (9) Harrison Stratford AC Juniors After the strangest of years in which we have all done things a bit differently, this year’s club awards night was no different. Whilst some of the awards were not possible to present there has been, throughout the year, a huge number of us out running and cycling and the committee felt it would be absolutely right to recognise this. So after due consideration we decided to do a zoom presentation for anyone and everyone to join in and in fact many did join in and I have had lots of positive feedback on the format perhaps because it was speedily over inside an hour! The night was opened by Emily, who paid tribute to all of the members for pulling together and making a difficult year great, with juniors and seniors racing virtually against each other and in local virtual leagues. Following on from Emily our revered Mayor and club secretary Tony Jackson presented the next two awards: Chris Claxton Trophy Cancellation of the Shakespeare Marathon meant we had to revise the criteria for awarding this trophy. Originally the intention was always to encourage greater female participation in the longer distance events.The Committee were therefore unanimous in awarding the trophy to Annie Threadgill for her first ever marathon, at the Isle of Wight Marathon in a time of 5hrs 34m Female Athlete of the Year Fern Hordern. Fern was 6th in…