Contacts

   

General Enquiries:        secretary@runningclubs.org.uk

Michael White - Tel  01306 888886/07900504346

     

                 
Chairman:  Dick Meredith
      chairman@runningclubs.org.uk



 

Dick was Chairman of Garden City Runners in Hertfordshire for 25 years and is now Club President.  He is a past Chairman of the British Association of Road Races (BARR) and is on the Board of ABAC.  Organised the Garden City 10 Road Race for 10 Years.


Deputy Chairman:  Richard Dajda



 

Richard has been involved in club administration for Royston Runners for over fifteen years and is a race director with experience of road, cross-country and trail race management. As a “bad for age” runner he runs for fitness rather than glory and by being on the committee he hopes that he can contribute towards ARC members staging safe and enjoyable races.

               
Secretary: 
Michael White      secretary@runningclubs.org.uk



 
Michael, after military service with the Parachute Regiment, spent the remainder of his working life in the insurance business, latterly running his own insurance underwriting company at Lloyds of London. A keen runner, he joined the Dorking and Mole Valley club in 1976, serving them for 7 years as their secretary. He resigned as the club secretary in 2005 due to the club's support for the Foster Proposals. He became the Secretary of ABAC and now belongs to Cranleigh Tortoise and Hare Runners. He has run 30 marathons including 10 London Marathons and the South Downs 80.
 

Treasurer:  Selina Da Silva



 

Selina has been a keen marathon and ultra runner since 1995 (having now completed more than 200 marathons) and a committee member of the 100 Marathon Club. She was Women's Running Network organiser for 3 years, coaching 80 runners. Currently employed as an accountant for a manufacturing company.

 

Webmaster:  Rod Baron      webmaster@runningclubs.org.uk

Rod has been active in road running in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for a number of years, having maintained websites and produced results systems for several local running clubs and event organisations. He spent many years as the Technical Manager for the Round Norfolk Relay, concentrating on the technical aspects of the race such as online data, results and communications. Rod is a qualified Course Measurer.

 

Tony Martin

Co-Founder of Falkland Trail Runners & pbTiming with Brian Cruickshank. Still a competitive runner Tony represents Scotland in x/c at International Level.  Tony also holds x/c titles for both British & Scottish Masters. Tony is a qualified coach (CiRF) & coaches at Falkland Trail runners, he is also a Triathlon official.

 

Brian Cruickshank

Brian has been running for almost 30 years and still enjoys running competitively in the over 50's age group. He has been organising races, mostly off-road for 20 years and is presently a Coach and Vice President of our club Falkland Trail Runners.

 
 

 Neil May


Co-opted June 2023
 

 
The above named are all members of road running clubs. They are acting individually in response to what they see as the imposition of undemocratic, costly and bureaucratic solutions on the sport. They believe that road running (and related activities – cross country, fell and trail) should have separate governance and no longer be a cash generating adjunct to the sport of athletics. They have set up the Association of Running Clubs so these activities can have an option which the appointed bodies have not seen fit to give them.
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Most importantly, and in stark contrast to other structures which have been set up post Foster, none of these people has any vested interest in, nor earns any money from the sport