An Important Update on ADMF and Our Future Charity Direction After more than 15 years of pride, commitment, and generosity, Great Western Runners has made the difficult decision to wind down the Arthur Dagger Memorial Fund (ADMF). Since its...
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Over the course of summer 2025, I had the amazing privilege of organising our first year of the GWR Club Championship! This was very successful, with a total of 21 men and 18 women taking part. Our first race was a very sunny May evening at the...
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Welcome and Opening Remarks The meeting opened with a warm welcome from the Chair, Mark Watts, who thanked everyone for attending and for their continued support throughout another successful year for Great Western Runners. Charity Update –...
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October 2025 By Mark Watts Welcome to October’s edition of the GWR monthly newsletter! This is the place where you can hear all about the latest club information including races, save-the-dates, ADMF good-news stories, kit updates, and more… all...
Read more On Sunday 14 th September, we had our fifth race of the Club Championship at the one and only Wotton 10K. This was a slightly cooler and the most overcast of our championship races, with a total of five athletes running the undulating 10K course...
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On Saturday 16th August, we had our fourth race of the Club Championship over in South Wales at the Chepstow 10k. The morning started off quite chilly but warmed up very quickly as soon as the sun came out. We had a total of five athletes run the...
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There we go! Another year of the Towpath series draws to a close and another fabulous 4 races in mostly glorious sunshine completed. The tent survived another year! Overall numbers for the series have been excellent: 249 for race 1 (10k) Race...
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August 2025 By: Mark Watts Welcome to August’s edition of the GWR monthly newsletter! This is the place where you can hear all about the latest club information including races, save-the-dates, ADMF good-news stories, kit updates, and more… all...
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July 2025 By: Mark Watts Welcome to June’s edition of the GWR monthly newsletter! This is the place where you can hear all about the latest club information including races, save-the-dates, ADMF good-news stories, kit updates, and more… all in...
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Nailsea Beer and Banger On Friday 27th June, we had our third race of the Club Championship at the one and only Nailsea Beer and Banger. This was a very humid evening with 19 athletes from GWR in attendance. We all persevered on the hills...
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Halfway through the series already, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! June 20th saw the second instance in 2025 of the towpath series. A gloriously warm night that provided a much-reduced field of 134 runners taking on the course...
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Race 2: Blaise Blazer On Monday 2nd June, we attended our second race of the Club Championship at Blaise Blazer. It was another lovely evening, this time with an amazing turnout of 25 athletes! I think that we could all agree that the...
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