Presentation Evening 2024
The annual presentation evening is held in the Autumn. In 2024 it was held on Saturday November 2, at Aston Wood Golf Club. Official photos from this event, with thanks to Nic Baker and Jo Yarnall can be found here.
Historical records of trophy winners can be found here.
Trophy winners for 2023-24 are shown below:
Historical records of trophy winners can be found here.
Trophy winners for 2023-24 are shown below:
Paul Sebastian Cup and Claire Heaven Trophy
'Members of the Year' are chosen by a vote of the members at the Annual General Meeting. Starting in 2022 the Paul Sebastian Cup has been awarded to the male winner and the Claire Heaven trophy to the female winner.
2023-24 winners: Paul Sebastian Cup: George Brizell and Claire Heaven Trophy: Lynda Elmore.
George's nomination stated: "George Helps at many parkruns with marshalling, and on many occasions has even been Race Director. He is also very supportive at the club, notably organising promotional parkrun takeovers for the Aldridge 10k. At his young age he is very inspiring".
Lynda's nomination stated: "Who can forget watching Lynda finishing the Manchester Marathon? Seeing that pure determination to finish was inspiring to us all at ARC and to so many worldwide. Her exploits have been seen by over 9 million people. We then saw her on BBC News being interviewed in her ARC top. We were all so proud. Lynda is also the most supportive back of the pack person. Lynda has promoted that is is ok to be a slower runner and helps others in a similar situation not to be afraid to enter races. She represents all abilities and all levers at ARC. Lynda has also been this year’s ARC 10K Race Director. This takes an awful amount of time to organise".
2023-24 winners: Paul Sebastian Cup: George Brizell and Claire Heaven Trophy: Lynda Elmore.
George's nomination stated: "George Helps at many parkruns with marshalling, and on many occasions has even been Race Director. He is also very supportive at the club, notably organising promotional parkrun takeovers for the Aldridge 10k. At his young age he is very inspiring".
Lynda's nomination stated: "Who can forget watching Lynda finishing the Manchester Marathon? Seeing that pure determination to finish was inspiring to us all at ARC and to so many worldwide. Her exploits have been seen by over 9 million people. We then saw her on BBC News being interviewed in her ARC top. We were all so proud. Lynda is also the most supportive back of the pack person. Lynda has promoted that is is ok to be a slower runner and helps others in a similar situation not to be afraid to enter races. She represents all abilities and all levers at ARC. Lynda has also been this year’s ARC 10K Race Director. This takes an awful amount of time to organise".
John Floyd Cup
This person is chosen by the Committee for their commitment and achievements for the club and has been presented to a male member from 2011.
In 2023-24 the award was given jointly to Phil Brayford and Nicky Jones. |
Jane Buckerfield TrophyThis person is chosen by the Committee for their commitment and achievements for the club and has been presented to a female member from 2011.
The 2023-24 winner, Roxy Babla, was presented with her award by Dave Buckerfield. 
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Volunteer of the Year
This trophy, awarded for the first time in 2023, is awarded by the committee to a member who has contributed significantly, volunteering on behalf of the club.
The 2023-24 recipient of this award was George Brizell.
The 2023-24 recipient of this award was George Brizell.
Grand Prix
The Grand Prix is a set of races where club members can gain points according to their position within the club. More details can be found on the Grand Prix page and the full rules are here.
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2023-24 Women's winner: Lorraine Beesley
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2023-24 Men's winner: Nicky Jones
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Grand Prix – Age Group and category winners
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2023-24 Women's' winners:
Rachael Jones (V35), Sally Gordon (V40), Jo Stephens (V50), Sue Baker (V55), Anne Kelsall and Wendy Sargeant (V60, tie) and Jane Quinn (V70) |
2023-24 Men's winners:
Leigh Sprules (V35), Chris Boden (V40) and Nick Benton (V50) |
The pothunter trophies go to the members who have competed in the most races without qualifying for an overall or age category prize. The novice trophy is available to be awarded to a member who has not won an ARC award before but has shown commitment and achievement in the Grand Prix. The pothunter trophy was won by Simon Hudson and the Novice award went to Stephen Grice.
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Aldridge 10k
Every year, club members act as stewards and officials for the Aldridge 10k, then we hold our own competition around the 10k and 5k routes the following Tuesday evening.
2024 winners were:
10k: Adam Smith (35.15) and Rachael Jones (46:48), with Alex DIcken (37:07) and Claire Crook (48:21) in 2nd place and Dan Williams (38.20) and Caitlin Barber (48.46) in 3rd.
5k: John Pearce (21.46) and Sarah Close (24.40), with Paul Archer (22:25) and Sarah Lyons (26:58) in 2nd place and Ed Morris (29.40) and Angela Oury (27.03) in 3rd.
2024 winners were:
10k: Adam Smith (35.15) and Rachael Jones (46:48), with Alex DIcken (37:07) and Claire Crook (48:21) in 2nd place and Dan Williams (38.20) and Caitlin Barber (48.46) in 3rd.
5k: John Pearce (21.46) and Sarah Close (24.40), with Paul Archer (22:25) and Sarah Lyons (26:58) in 2nd place and Ed Morris (29.40) and Angela Oury (27.03) in 3rd.
Ron Reynolds Series
Emma Shaw organised the Ron Reynolds races, formerly known as the handicap, which were run monthly from April until August. Awards were presented to the top three points scorers in the final table:
In second place was: Andrew Birkbeck, with Hayden Nicholls in third place.
Sally Gordon was the overall winner.
In second place was: Andrew Birkbeck, with Hayden Nicholls in third place.
Sally Gordon was the overall winner.
Season's Best
Starting in 2018 we award certificates to those who achieved the best results for 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon for the previous calendar year. The table of club records can be viewed here.
2023 record holders were:
2023 record holders were:
- M 5k: Adam Smith and Liam Harrold 16:06 (Walsall Arboretum parkrun)
- M 10k: Adam Smith 33:37 (Telford)
- M Half marathon: Adam Smith 01:12:20 (North Lincolnshire)
- M Marathon - Toby Oury 02:36:17 (Berlin, overall club record)
- F 5k Lisa Wakeman 20:11 (Walsall Arboretum parkrun)
- F 10k Lorraine Beesley 46:27 (Nice Charity 10K, Cannon Hill park, Birmingham)
- F Half marathon: Lucy Farrington 01:53:34 (Birmingham Running Festival, Sutton Park)
- F Marathon: Claire Crook 03:49:12 (Manchester)
Distinction Awards
These awards are made by the club committee, in recognition of noteworthy achievements in running and commitment to the club. 2023-24 winners were:
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also (not pictured):
- Tom Archer
- Leigh Sprules
Cross Country
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The men's team had their best ever season, finishing in overall 6th place in Division 2. Bruce Fanshawe was our highest-scoring individual, coming 8th overall in the individual placings for the season.
Pictured: Toby Oury, Martin Wall, Peter Dimbleby, Philip Brayford, Harshad Patel, Adam Smith, Mark Johnson and Simon Hudson (team captain). The 2023-24 team also included: Neil Brown, Neil Day, Bruce Fanshawe, Liam Harrold, Stewart Jones, Michael Morley, Ryan Noon, Quentin Oury, David Roberts and Andrew Wood. 
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The women's team finished mid-table in 14th place, 7th in the Masters table. Our highest placed individual was Claire Crook.
Pictured: Nicola James, Shelley Nicholls, Nic Baker, Melissa Crowley, Gemma Archer, Abigail Wright, Sally Gordon, Sue Baker, Sarah Lyons, Claire Crook, Louise Booker, Rachel Antoine, Anne Kelsall (team captain), Jo Yarnall, Lynda Elmore and Lorraine Beesley. The 2023-24 team also included Helen Beecham and Katrina Wyke 
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Best of the Vest
Each year we hold a competition for the best photograph of an ARC vest (or vests) in an unusual situation/location.
The 2023-24 award went to Lynda Elmore.
The 2023-24 award went to Lynda Elmore.