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Toowong Harriers April Newsletter

Published Sun 25 Apr 2021

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Afternoon All,

I hope we are all fighting fit and ready to take on the Winter Cross Country Season which starts with the first event this Saturday at Minnippi Parklands, Tingalpa.

The news within the April Toowong Harriers Club Herald

What’s Happening around the club
Upcoming Cross Country Season
Volunteers Required
New Club Kit
Australian Track & Field Nationals

What’s happening to the clubhouse at Jack Cook Memorial Park

As many of you know and some will not, we have been successful in capturing a couple of grants to support facilities and associated upgrades over the last few months.

So one that has been pressing for a number of years is the condition of our clubhouse patio and useable spaces for storage and the like. Well as of last weekend we demolished the old patio and have engaged various contractors to build a new, larger and improved outdoor shelter for our members, as part of theses works we will be performing some well needed TLC on our home and fixing the odd crack and divit and giving the whole place a new coat of paint to breath a bit of life back into it.

*Render of new works, over 80sqm of covered space*

We will also be conducting the following other major works around the facilities;

repairing the sunken edge beams on Long Jump A pit

Building a new set of storage lockers alongside Shed #S1, this will enable us to remove hirers equipment from the clubhouse, store our grounds equipment more effectively and in the future open the usable space within the clubhouse and put some of our proud history on display.

To do all of these things we will require the assistance of you, our members to roll up you sleeves on a few working bees to get this achieved, as these things that we achieve at our club only happen we get involved.

And a last little positive bit of gossip around the club is True..! We have finally purchased our own event clock/countdown timer for Cross Countries, Toowong Gift, training, and any other events we chose to run.

Upcoming Cross Country Season

As I mentioned at the start, the Winter XC season starts on this Saturday the 24th April at Minnippi Parklands, Tingalpa.

A couple of notes of advice for the upcoming events,

Entry Lists and final timetable are now available for this weekends Brisbane Series Cross Country #1 at Minnippi Parklands, Tingalpa. You can find them on the event page of the website at https://qldathletics.org.au/index.cfm/competition/details/?id=556
Please ensure that any family members and spectators not competing have their attendance registered at https://www.revolutionise.com.au/qldathletics/events/95355/
https://qldathletics.org.au/index.cfm/competition/details/?id=556
Ensure you allow enough time (at least 45minutes prior to event) to get a park, walk the coarse / warm-up and pick up your Bib number.
Athlete Bib numbers will be allocated to all athletes who enter a Brisbane Series event, these will be used for all of the Brisbane Series events and also the Road Walk Championships, you will be able to collect your bib numbers at the venue at your first race, there is no need to check in if you have your 2021 Winter Season numbers. 2020 Competition bibs are no longer eligible to be worn. If you do not have a bib number you are not able to compete.
Individual Points will be awarded to athletes who are registered with a QA/QRun club in the event designated for their age group (see timetable). All Age events (1k, 2k & 3k for athletes outside listed age groups) score 2 points per athlete for their Club.
Anyone who thinks they are registered in the wrong event please contact the QA office via email by midday Friday.

This year we are hosting 2 of the Brisbane XC series, Race #2, and Race#6. We are very proud to have Queensland Athletics make our Race#2 at Richlands the Queensland Short Coarse Championship for U20, Open and Masters, So lets make sure we have a good turn out and have as many members competing and assisting on the day.

Volunteers Required.

With all of this activity this Winter season, it can only be achieved if we all chip in, even if it is just for one event of working bee.

XC #2 - Queensland Short Coarse Championships, CJ Greenfields reserve, Richlands, Saturday 1^st May

Pegging coarse (Min 2of Volunteers) from 3.30pm Friday the 30^th April
Taking maquis, tables, PA etc. from clubhouse out to Richland (min. 2 vehicals/utes) from 10.30 @ clubhouse.
Coarse marshals, MC, canteen, handing out bibs etc. (min. 12 persons) from 12.00pm

Working Bees at Jack Cook Park

Proposed days Sunday 9^th May, 9.00 am – 1.00pm
Proposed days Sunday 16th May, 9.00an – 1.00pm

XC #6 –Fig Tree Pocket , Saturday 12^th June

Pegging coarse (Min 2of Volunteers) from 3.30pm Friday the 11^th June
Taking maquis, tables, PA etc. from clubhouse out to Richland (min. 2 vehicals/utes) from 11.30 @ clubhouse.
Coarse marshals, MC, canteen, handing out bibs etc. (min. 14 persons) from 12.30pm

If you can assist with any of the XC events please email Peter or Wayne at Seniors@toowongharriers.org.au

If you can assist with the working bees please email Darren at equipment@toowongharriers.org.au

The New Club Running Kit

I am happy to say the new club active wear is starting to come in, and will be available for purchase through our club portal at Revolutionise Sport. You will need to login to your Rev Sport club membership and goto shop https://www.revolutionise.com.au/toowongharriers/shop/ look at the sizing charts and make your selections.

At this stage I have only loaded up Hats, singlets and Polo’s, though the Active Running T-shirts and will be available in the next 4-6 weeks.

All of the new club wear is designed and manufactured right here in Brisbane by SCODY Performance Active Wear and is of the highest quality. We also hope to be adding Impi Sportswear to our Summer athletics range for our female athletes this coming Summer Season.

Supply of any clothing purchased can be arranged for pickup at any of the XC events or Thursday night training.

P.S. Hats are available right now is anyone wants one for the weekend and the singlets will be available from next Tuesday.

If you have any clothing questions please do not hesitate to contact Lucia on uniforms@toowongharriers.org.au or Kris on treasurer@toowongharriers.org.au

Australian Track & Field Nationals

One final word, I would like to congratulate the three amazing athletes listed below, They are all members of our Little Athletics Club, and have done great things over the years improving year a upon year performance to now be competing with the best in Australia at our National Athletics Championships last week.

A big round of applause for Tyler, Eloise and Olivia.