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Croquet drives away the Covid blues MEMBERS of Camerton and Peasedown Croquet Club rushed down to their four lawns to enjoy their favourite sport when restrictions were lifted. The club has now secured planning permission for a new clubhouse, water treatment plant for toilets and an irrigation system to ensure their lawns remain in tip-top condition. Work started just before Easter and by May, when Covid rules change again, the club will be looking forward to welcoming visitors and new members. Club chair, Mo Boys, said: “As we are a part of our local community and once these works are complete, we will be able to welcome even more visitors to our club. ‘If you are looking for a sport with light exercise, opportunities to meet people (under Covid rules) and if you want to improve your health and wellbeing – then think croquet – sport, tactics, skill, team, friends and fun.” The club will be holding the first of a series of four introductory weekly sessions starting May 9th, then 16th,
23rd, and 30th all from 2-4.30pm. The cost is £25 and that is refunded when you join the club. All equipment is provided free – just wear flat-soled shoes.
Details: Mo Boys 07929 733640 or email moboys@talktalk.net
Club expands junior section
CHILCOMPTON Sports Cricket Club is preparing to open up its junior training sessions to youngsters aged five and upwards in June. The club, embarking on its seventh season at Chilcompton Sports Ground, currently offers coaching to children aged seven to 13. Junior training sessions take place every Wednesday evening from 6.15-7.45pm and the club plans to expand the age range from Wednesday, June 2nd. There are professional coaches and facilitators for every session all of whom are DBS checked. The club plans to arrange local friendly matched in June and July and offers a pathway for juniors to progress to the senior teams. The senior side play every Saturday in the Bristol and District League with a Sunday XI playing in the North Somerset League. New players are welcome.
Former junior players Alexandra Baughan and Thomas Scott who made their senior debuts in 2020
For details, contact Dave Travis on 07725 458404 or dave.travis@hotmail.co.uk
New look for this year’s Glastonbury Road Run
THE annual Glastonbury Road Run will return on Sunday, May 2nd but in a new Covid-compliant format and with a revised route. For this year alone, organisers will be staging a single 10km race instead of offering a variety of distances and a fun run and the route will avoid Glastonbury town centre and other key locations such as the West Mendip Hospital. They say the route could be one of the fastest 10km routes in the south west. Race HQ will be at the Strode Leisure Centre and runners will be sent off in “waves” rather than staging a mass start to try to maintain social distancing. The team say they like the new course so much they are planning a new race for the Autumn – provisionally called the “Glastonbury Levels 10K”. l Entries are limited to 1,500 runners. For details, find Glastonbury Road Run on Facebook.
Dawn to dusk cycle challenge
A GROUP of members of Mendip Cycling Club are in training for an endurance challenge with a difference – chasing the sun from East to West in aid of a special needs school in Street. They will set off at dawn from the east coast of Kent to try to cover the 205 miles to Burnham-on-Sea by sunset. The 13 riders will have just under 17 hours in which to complete the challenge on Saturday, June 19th. The club, which has members from Wells, Glastonbury and Street as well as further afield, wants to raise £5,000 to buy a special needs bicycle for Avalon School, attended by the daughter of one of the riders. For details, visit: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mendipcyclingclub?utm_term=xE3ZxeJVn
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(Photography courtesy of Chris Challis)
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