Club News

Since we last spoke we have seen many positive signs with an easing of Covid-19 restrictions to a Stage II level, getting kids back to school and a small group gathering being allowed under controlled conditions. For Toowong Harriers members this is good news, as of the 11^th of June, The middle distance training group is back on every Thursday evening from 6.00 – 7.15pm. To enable these training groups our athletes and members must sign in / book a place in the training group via the club website https://www.revolutionise.com.au/toowongharriers/classes/ with the Acknowledgment of a number of rules and processes as part of our Covid Safe Plan. This as our first positive step forward as an Athletics club out of the shadows of this pandemic. We are hopeful of being able to re-open the Sunday Open Clubhouse training for members as part of the government stage III restrictions at some time in July, I will keep you all informed.

Still no news as yet from Queensland Athletics as to the restart of athletic competitions post Stage III easing of restrictions. In saying that, the conversation I have had with QA leadership is very much a glass is half full approach that there may still be some form of winter XC competition at a State level. We will have to just wait and hope.

Virtual Competitions

In the meantime we are continuing with our club virtual competitions, It has been Great to see so many of you getting involved in our Virtual XC Series of events. We have completed the first three of our Short Course Virtual XC with the 4th and final short course race to occur on the weekend of the 20th of June.

If you have been competing that is great, if you haven’t now’s your chance to have some fun, join our free club site via Strava and get involved, Tell your friends to get involved the more the better for good competition I say… You do not need to be a club member so lets have some fun with it.

After the 4th short course this weekend we will have the final in our 5 event XC Series a Long Course XC event (4/6/8k’s) on the week commencing the 4th of July. We will then go into a range of more fun based events through July and August to start getting you all thinking about speed for Spring.

• Tan Track Challenge (handicap event)
• Mile'r Club Triple Challenge (400 + 800 + 1600)

If you can’t wait Athletics Australia are continuing run a series of virtual out of Stadia events https://www.athletics.com.au/keep-fit/virtual-events/ starting with a 3km/10km challenge that week for completion by Sat 20 Jun 2020 00:01 - Fri 03 Jul 2020.

We have Good news from our partners at Grill’d Burgers, Indooroopilly and Toowong, whom have offered up some prizes for our XC Series to continue to support the club.

Virtual Events, Real Prizes, Really Healthy Burgers, that seems pretty good. I have attached a copy the current performances to date in this newsletter and will place it on the website.

We have finalised the capture and compilation of all of our Athletes results from the Summer Athletics season, and though we did not have nationals, we had a number of athletes whom delivered national qualifiers with outstanding PB’s. I will be publishing an update in the coming weeks to recognise our athletes’ achievements for the year, Both Senoir and Junior (Little A’s).

Annual General Meeting

And finally, an important reminder to all members that our AGM will be held on Thursday, 18 June 2020 at 7:30pm at the clubhouse. Please note we have a maximum of 17 persons inside the clubhouse though I think we could quite functionally have members on the patio as necessary, could all members planning to attend in person please RSVP via email to Secretary@toowongharriers.org.au .

To provide some options for attendance there is also the ability to attend via Zoom if that is your preference. The virtual option is at Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 899 9673 3061 Password: Harriers20

This is the forum for the acceptance of nominations and election of all Centre Committee

Please see attached some of the draft overviews of positions and supporting roles within the club, many of these positions can be managed by multiple person to reduce the load, per the link Committee Roles

We would encourage you to get involved in the organisation and nominate for one of these

For further details of positions and roles within the club are available, what is involved, please feel free to contact us;

Ross Anderson, President. Mob.0487 710 101.

Trudy Lenox, Centre Manager/Vice President. Mob.0433 056 991

I take this opportunity to openly ask all of you to take an active part in being involved with and steering the future of this proud club and continue its proud history.

It is important that we get a quorum in attendance on the 18th to vote in our new committee, so even if you are not able to take on a role, we'd really appreciate your attendance to vote in person or via the Virtual option (ZOOM).

Continue train, Run, Jump Throw, getting engaged and being proud of what you have achieved.

Cheers

Ross Anderson

President

Toowong Harriers Athletics Club