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Hyde Park Harriers

2020/2021 AGM

8th May 2021 - 6:30pm

Zoom

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Agenda

6:30pm AGM

Sign off of minutes from AGM 2020
Constitution amends (All)
Election of new Committee Members (All)
HPH President’s Words (Kay Jefferies - HPH President)
Chairs report (Amy Young - HPH Chair) - covered in Awards Do
Membership report (Clare Evans - HPH Membership Secretary)
Finance report (Becki - HPH Treasurer)
Run and talk (Lucy Rider - Run and Talk Ambassador)
Tri club 2020/2021 Summary (Graeme Miles - HPH Tri Chair)
Competitions Update (Richard Edwards - Committee Member)
Thursdays (Naomi Adkins)
Sessions update (Amy Young)
VMLM ballot (Clare Evans)
AOB (if received in advance)

Summer Mile - Sam

7:45pm - Finish AGM

BREAK

8pm - Awards Do - covers Chair’s report from 2020/2021

Tonight’s agenda and supporting documentation is also available in your email.

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Constitution: proposed amends

Paragraph 5.6 and 5.7 read as follows:

The Committee shall have the power to appoint a Member to fill any casual vacancy on the Committee or amongst the Officers until the next Annual General Meeting. Any Committee Member so appointed shall retire at the next Annual General Meeting but shall be eligible for election at such meeting in accordance with the provisions for Proceedings at General Meetings. Any Officer so appointed shall only remain in office until the AGM at which their predecessor was due to retire.

In addition to the AGM and Open Committee Meeting the Committee shall hold a closed meeting at least eight times each year in person and as often as may from time to time be necessary. Any meeting (including the above six) may be held in a manner agreeable to the committee (including in person, by telephone or video-conferencing).

Proposed to remove the highlighted element for clarity.

The Committee may regulate their meetings and proceedings as they think fit. The Committee shall, prior to the next meeting and where possible within two weeks make available to members abridged notes recording any decisions that it has taken. As soon as is reasonably possible after a meeting, the Secretary shall distribute minutes of the meeting to the other Committee members for comment.

Proposed to amend highlighted text to ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’

The dates of all committee meetings will be advertised to members in advance to allow members to raise items for discussion. Members will be invited to raise points for discussion at meetings by email or directly with a committee member.

Change the highlighted to: ‘Members are invited to contact the committee to raise any issues for discussions at any time. Enquiries and issues will be discussed within the committee as soon as possible, and members will be updated in due course.’

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Break

We’ll be back at 8pm for the Awards Do!

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HPH Awards 2021

Now it’s time for wine and fun

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Chair’s Report 2021

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Thansk you and welcome to everyone, New members since last year has really showed how we must have got something right but we also know we have a lot to go at.

Strategy sessions, reviewed ALL club documents, go again with strategy in June. Getting back to sessions is also on out plan.

Tough year for everyone, thanks to LUcy and the Runandtalk ambassadors for keeping the group alight and checking in.Welfare checks and talks. COmmittee agreed that it’s a lot to put on one person but that it’s a role that all committee members wll support on a ongoing basis.

Coaches have put together a great set of isolation sessions and getting back to running sessions - these are on the website under ‘documents’

60 new people over the past 6 months is probably a record.

101 male and 108 female - spread of age ranges and spread geographically.

April - quizzes, riddles, COVID task force, coaches training plans. LURGY started with Hell on Melville.

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Summer Mile - arathon

Team 1 cumulative time 3:06:22 (1st)

Team 2 cumulative time 3:15:13 (3rd)

Team 3 cumulative time 3:22:24

Team 4 cumulative time 3:07:18 (2nd)

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Daylight saving Minds

Grace’s Sunday race quizzes

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Invent your own parkrun

21 minute challenge

Pancake challenge

Feb/March Here are some facts and figures:

since we started back to running in August, we’ve had 38 new members join HPH. Welcome all!
since August 4th, we’ve hosted 130 different sessions
the total attendance is 670
we reckon we’ve run at least 3500km in these sessions (which is the same as from Leeds to St John’s in Newfoundland. Looks amazing – let’s go!)
18 leaders have led at least one of these sessions – thanks to each and every one of you
We’ve run at 8 different locations almost every week
The most sessions held in a week was 14, with a total attendance of 65!

March - Tri club back to group rides. Tri club zwift races.

April - Membership reduced to £20 this year - £15 to EA and £5 to HPH for renewal - addressing the fact we have a bit of a surplus due to cost savings from not hosting AGMs in person etc. bACK TO SESSIONS - 6 PEOPLE / SLIGHTLY bigger. Tri club back to sessions in May 17th.

Future - sessions are for paid members only due to restrictions on numbers of people. - looking at opening this back up. 23rd May at 3pm for transition pactice at Brownlee centra.Currently no plans for competitions as, in line with our consit

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The Rolf Neugebauer Photography Award

Awarded in memory of Rolf

A photo that best sums up Hyde Park Harriers
Or a great race photo

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Beauty in the Ordinary

Category Winners

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The Winner!

Lizzie Coombes

for her 26.2 HPH portraits, calendar and epic run

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The Sue Smith Silly Story Award

Awarded in memory of Sue

For a story that might be worthy of Sue. It might be silly, hilarious, muddy, mad, daring or embarrassing!

Not awarded this year.

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The Hyde Park Harriers Chair’s Award for 2020/2021

Awarded to an individual for outstanding performance or improvement during the year.

Presented by Amy Young

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Chair’s Award

Shortlist

Matt Armstrong

Curtis Parker Milnes

Lizzie Coombes

Steve Rhodes

John Pratt

Jaz Bangerh

Grace Roberts

Naomi Kellett

Richard Garratt

Honor Baldry

Vicky Houghton

Chris Worfolk

Sam Dooley

Grace Roberts

Despite living in Belfast away from family and friends over the past year, Grace has kept herself a firm member of Hyde Park Harriers, helping us keep active in our brains and bodies. Grace has received her nomination for for the Chair’s award for her fantastic running progress! Following a bit of an injury, Grace has come back to running with a renewed gusto and as part of her 21 minute run has earned herself a very shiny new 5km PB. She’s also achieved marathon and half marathon PBs this year, too, we understand. Well done Grace, all that hard work and fantastic attitude to your training has paid off.

Matt Armstrong

Matt was nominated for a number of reasons: primarily for the motivation he has for running, and for the way he has helped our very own committee member Phil with his own motivation this month. Phil and Matt have been seen out (via Strava!) running regularly together at 6am on long runs, covering great distances and with some fabulous views. Matt has covered quite the distance in January, and we all think he’s a fantastic inspiration. Well done Matt.

Curtis Parker Milnes

Curtis Parker-Milnes was nominated for his incredible (19:44!) 5km PB and training plan from which it resulted. Well done, CPM, you worked so hard for that!

Lizzie Coombes

Lizzie was nominated for her April and October VMLM attempts and all the great training that fitted in between it. It’s been and up and down year of injuries for Lizzie, but we are looking forward to seeing her come back with a vengeance in 2021.

John Pratt

JP was nominated for so many things: vEveresting, for leading the Couch to 5km, for achieving so much in his running, swimming and cycling since he joined Hyde Park Harriers and generally making time for everyone in the club. John has been absolutely instrumental to several club member’s motivation levels over lockdown, ensuring that we are Zwifting, running or attending quizzes – and always doing it with a smile and a great level of care. Thanks JP, for everything you continue to do for the club..

Jaz Bangerh

Jaz started back running after having an operation on her ankle just before lockdown. She started run walking but over the past few weeks has been running the whole 5k and knocking big chunks of time off each time. Jaz has also returned to run club after a long time away and seems to be back enjoying all her running which is just what we like to see. Welcome back Jaz!

Rob Heap

Rob Heap was nominated in July for running 105 miles in a week, in his entry to the Montane Lakeland 100 mile race, the virtual version of the race he physically ran a couple of years back. Not only did Rob have to work out a whole logistical plan for his week in order to ensure he got the 100 miles completed, he also managed to finish it in 185th position out of 682 finishers! Well done Rob and thanks to everyone who supported him throughout the week.

Naomi Kellett

For her amazing, consistent and dedicated approach to training over the past year (and more!) in the face of uncertainty. Naomi has had events cancelled which included her chance to represent GB on a world stage and she's continued to train and to ensure her friends and other club members are engaged with their training.

Richard Garratt

For his 1000 day run streak, general brilliant running performance and support of the club throughout the year.

Honor Baldry

For her 5km PB at time trial but also for amazing improvements in her cycling this year when faced with a slight injury. Looks like the duathlon world had better look out for Honor!

Vicky Houghton

Vicky was nominated for her fantastic and consistent running over the past few months and for motivating others to run, too. Well done for such great consistent improvement in the absence of any competition!

Chris Worfolk

Chris’s nomination was for his consistent and dedicated approach to training this year. Chris has committed to a really comprehensive training plan and has run some really brilliant times as a result (and cycled, too). Chris has a full race calendar in 2021 and I'm sure he will fly through these with his renewed fitness and skill and most recent achievement of raising over £750 for charity and doing 7 standard distance triathlons in 7 days.

Sam Dooley

Sam was nominated for a considerable and incredible improvement in performance over the last year, in spite of a few bumps in the road along the way. Sam has contributed significantly to a number of virtual races and competitions and has also really motivated others to run through his passion.

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The Winner!

Toby

Adkins

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The Hyde Park Harriers President’s Award for 2020/2021

Awarded for contribution to the club during the year from an individual or group.

Presented by Kay Jefferies - HPH President

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President’s Award

Shortlist

Anne Akers

Lucy Rider

Naomi Adkins

John Pratt

Lizzie Coombes

Xeni Perry

Steve Rhodes

Debbie Brown

Toby Adkins

Tom Thomas

Anne Akers

Anne Akers for all of her hard work and great thought put into this year’s virtual panto as well as all of the lockdown arty challenge she ran for us over the cold and wet winter months. I hope you’ll all agree that the panto worked seamlessly on zoom, and everything had been thought of. Anne has such a fantastic talent as a writer, so the panto was also absolutely hilarious, too! Well done Anne, and thank you to sideline hero Noel, for all your tech support! Maybe this year we can do a panto in person! Outside of HPH but still very much integral - Anne has been hosting 2 zoom Virtual Opposite sessions every week to check in on her parkrunning community.

Lucy Rider

Lucy Rider was nominated for the Daylight Saving Minds initiative which got us all out getting all that all important COVID-fighting Vitamin D during lockdown as well as for all the coaching and plans that she helped produce whilst we couldn’t train together. Lucy has also looked after our #runandtalk group over the past year, running regular zoom sessions for those who wanted a chat. The photos and stories shared from the Daylight Saving Minds challenge brought us together as a group and also brought together a number of HPH to run or walk together. Thanks Lucy!

Naomi Adkins

Naomi is a critical piece of the committee puzzle and does so much behind the scenes to help this awesome club running and our members safe and healthy. Naomi was also nominated for the President’s award in 2019/2020 and has received and been awarded many nominations for the same thing over her years at HPH, which speak volumes about her dedication and consistent commitment to the club. Naomi’s part of the team who send out the weekly bulletin, she manages the website, she cajoles our leaders into leading sessions and she has incredible decision making skills. She does this all in a really calm and collected manner. Later this year, Naomi also rebuilt almost the entire HPH Website in the space of a week. Not only that, she’s a top runner and brilliant human being. Thank you Naomi, you’re a star.

John Pratt

JP as more commonly known was nominated for a number of reasons: for vEveresting, for leading the Couch to 5km, for achieving so much in his running, swimming and cycling since he joined Hyde Park Harriers and generally making time for everyone in the club. John has been absolutely instrumental to several club member’s motivation levels over lockdown, ensuring that we are Zwifting, running or attending quizzes – and always doing it with a smile and a great level of care. Thanks JP, for everything you continue to do for the club. If you want to get involved with the next cohort of Couch to 5km (Kay) please get in touch.

Lizzie Coombes

Lizzie has kept us running (or at least out and about) in many ways this year, but most notably by organising the ‘Beauty in the Ordinary’ photography challenge. We have loved seeing all of your entries and hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know your local more as a result of these challenges. Lizzie has also run 1.5 marathons this year: half where she visited loads of HPHs at home to take a brilliant socially distanced portrait and the other which was the virtual london marathon supported by her HPH crew. Lizzie’s 26.2 portraits and visits to the corresponding Harriers’s homes was a highlight of many of our lockdowns.

Xeni Perry

Xeni has kept many of us running (or at least out and about) by organising the 19km in 19 days challenge. Xeni was also nominated for her contribution to the committee and the weekly roundup: managing and writing the content and keeping a really valuable communication channel running. Xeni has also been a one woman welfare band in the past couple of years, messaging and getting out for walks and runs with many of our members and is also the brains behind the amazing CHristmas card this year - where she visited over 100 Harriers at their homes for a socially distanced catch up and check in. Xeni, HPH wouldn’t be what it is without you!

Steve Rhodes

Steve was nominated by a number of you for a series of engaging and informative navigation lessons, getting over his fear of technology by demonstrating all the different elements of orienteering compass-using and map-reading over the wonderful technology of zoom. Steve has also lead several sessions this year, often doubles, covering over 20kms regularly on Tuesday nights. Another way that Steve has got the HPH name out there were his many Fastest Known Times (FKTs) achieved out and about across the country. Well done Steve, and very well deserved!

Debbie Brown

Debbie, as I’m sure most of you know, has done an amazing job of coordinating several teams in the Yorkshire Inter-club COVID-19 relay, and then a VE Day version of the same. She seamlessly organised the teams and coordinated the results whilst running legs herself, too. I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to run for 19 minutes again for quite some time. Thank you Debbie, what a great job getting the HPH name and our eclectic baton choices out there in our droves.

Toby Adkins

The list of things that Toby has done for the club this year is endless. Toby was nominated on several occasions for all his riddles, quizzes, for supporting club members, for leading consistently and representing the club, performing in his own running, maintaining records of all training sessions. Toby has got involved in races and virtual challenges but also championing all of the other various things going on in the club, motivating us all to do the same. Toby’s genius brain has kept us all totally in check this year and his running and his enthusiasm has kept us running, too.

Tom Thomas

Tom’s always been a big part of HPH, but this year he’s taken it to the next level in organising a brilliant series of virtual running challenges in the local area. These LURGY (Leeds Underground Running Group, Yeah!) challenges have allowed Tom to build a great running community and to check in with individuals regularly and look after us all. Tom’s also a regular leader. Thanks for playing a big part in HPH, Tom.

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The

Winner!

Sam Dooley

(Sam at the ‘Sammer Mile’)

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The Hyde Park Harriers

‘Ain’t No Barriers’ award

Awarded to an individual for pushing the barriers and overcoming challenges with outstanding performance or improvement during the year.

Presented by Amy Young

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The Winner!

Grace

Roberts

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The End…

(or the beginning of the party?)