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The 2024 PCCCT season will commence on April 14, starting with the Penguin 4x5km Teams Relay! Whilst the full programme is still being finalized, the race schedule will be as follows:

14-Apr-2024 4x5km Penguin

21-Apr-2024 6 km Romaine

28-Apr-2024 7 km Port Sorell

5-May-2024 10 km Paine Memorial

19-May-2024 3 x 2 x 3.5km Turners Beach

26-May-2024 7km Don Reserve

2-Jun-2024 8km Stanley

16-Jun-2024 10km City of Devonport

16-Jun-2024 10km Mens 10km Championship

16-Jun-2024 10km Womens 10km Championship

23-Jun-2024 7 km East Devonport

30-Jun-2024 17 km Mountain Classic

14-Jul-2024 21km Half Mara

14-Jul-2024 2×10.55km Salty & Stevo Teams Half Marathon

21-Jul-2024 10 km Back Cam

28-Jul-2024 8.5km Wynyard Trail

4-Aug-2024 25km Ironman/Iron Trail

18-Aug-2024 4×10.55km Terry Watson Memorial Teams Marathon

25-Aug-2024 13 km Gunns Plains

30-Aug-2024 7km Devonport

8-Sep-2024 17.6km Feature Race

This years Annual General Meeting of the PCCCT was held on Tuesday the 5th of December 2023, at the Dial Park, Penguin.

The following appointments were made:

Patron: Barry Ling

President: Jason Scott

Vice President (2 positions): Brendan Burr and Ellen Burgess

Treasurer: Rod Viney

Secretary: Hayden Bishop

Handicapper: David Ridderhof

Committee Members (2 years): Emma Burr

Cameron Bissett and Howard Crispin to continue on the committee for a further year.

There are still positions vacant for Publicity Officer, 2x Committee Member (2 years) and Committee Member (1 year). If you’re interested in filling one of these positions, please contact us.

We would like to acknowledge departing committee members Darlene Jacques, Pat McMahon, and Greg Smith for their work over the years.

The Minutes, Presidents Report, and Audited Financials are now available to view.

The 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held at Dial Regional Sports Complex in Penguin on Tuesday December 5th, starting at 7pm.

The following committee positions are up for re-election:

• Patron
• President
• Vice President (2 Positions)
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• Publicity Officer
• Handicapper
• General Committee Member (3 positions)

The committee meets every month at 6:30pm in Penguin, with meetings ranging from one to two hours. Attendance can either be in person or via Microsoft Teams. We also communicate between meetings on Microsoft Teams. Attending meetings every month is not required, so if you feel like you want to help out then we would love to have you! If you have any questions, you can email info@pccct.org or contact us on Facebook and we’d be glad to chat.

If you would like to nominate, please fill out the attached nomination form and return to hayden.bishop@pccct.org by Saturday 25th November.

As is tradition, we will be running a calcutta on the Feature Race. Please buy your calcutta books at the Club race on Sunday 20th and Sunday 27th, at Ulverstone (Marathon) and Spreyton Cidery respectively. The books, sold or unsold, with any sale proceeds will need to be returned at Race 16 on Friday 1st at The Bluff, or over that weekend (to any committee person).

Please read the full rules and information here and join in the fun.

For all PCCCT members, it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming season. In the lead up to this season we are encouraging all members to get out there in your club shirts and singlets at your local events. We are aiming to make the club’s presence known in the local community and hopefully attract a few new runners to our club.

As an added incentive we will be running a random prize draw each Monday between now and the start of the season for members. Get out there, run an event in your club gear and post it to Facebook. All members whose photos are posted each week will go into the draw for a pair of running socks available from Bitumen 2 Bush.

Bitumen 2 Bush are our sponsors for these prizes and are a wonderful source for all your running needs, both on and off road.

Terms and conditions of the prize draw:

• To be eligible entrants must be a current (2022 and/or 2023) member of the PCCCT
• To enter:
  • Partake in a running event in your PCCCT running gear (shirt/singlet/warm-up top) and have your photo taken
• • Post the photo on Facebook with the runner(s) name(s) and event name included, and tag The PCCCT – Running Club and Bitumen 2 Bush. Facebook posts must be set to “public”
  • All posts must be made to Facebook by 12 noon of the Monday each week
• One random entrant will selected each Monday afternoon and receive one pair of running socks available from Bitumen 2 Bush
• Eligible events include:
  • All Tasmanian parkruns
  • Tasmanian running events
• Entries go to the runner(s) in the photo, not the photo poster; each eligible runner in a photo will be entered in the draw
• Eligible runners will receive one entry per event; multiple events per week allowed

This years Annual General Meeting of the PCCCT was held on Tuesday the 6th of December 2022, at the Ulverstone Surf Life Saving Club.

The following appointments were made:

Patron: Barry Ling

President: Jason Scott

Vice President (2 positions): Brendan Burr and Darlene Jacques

Treasurer: Rod Viney

Secretary: Hayden Bishop

Handicapper: Patrick McMahon

Committee Members (2 years): Ellen Burgess, Cameron Bissett, Howard Crispin.

Greg Smith and Narelle Jacobs to continue on the committee for a further year.

There are still positions vacant for Publicity Officer and Committee Member (1 year). If you’re interested in filling one of these positions, please contact us.

We would like to acknowledge departing committee members Gerard Leary, Malcom Nutting, and Kelly Baxter for their work over the years.

The Minutes, Presidents Report, and Audited Financials are now available to view.

The 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Ulverstone Surf Lifesaving Club on Tuesday December 6th starting at 7pm.

Nominations for the committee must be received by Saturday 26th November and can be emailed to the Club at Rod6369@gmail.com or haydenlbishop@gmail.com.

Relevant documents are below.

Sales above $100 were:

Chris Talbot $140

David Murton $120

Steve Tammens $200

Gerard Lowry $140

Jean-Christophe Bonneville $180

Josh Febey $420

Andrew Winkel $140.

The PCCCT Inc. conducts a Calcutta on the Wynyard-Burnie Feature Race to be run on Sunday 11 September 2022.
How does it work?
The Calcutta is divided into two stages:

1.The Ticket Draw
Tickets are sold for $2.00 in the weeks leading up to the race. On Tuesday 7 September. The Calcutta commences with one ticket being drawn for each runner in the Feature Race. If your ticket is drawn you are then the “drawer” of that particular runner. The result of the draw will be published on the website All proceeds of the ticket draw go into the prize pool.

2.The Auction
Following the ticket draw we get down to the business of the auction. This will take place at the The Point, West Park commencing at 7.30 pm on Friday 9 September
Each runner will be auctioned to the attendees at the Calcutta, who have the opportunity to bid for that runner.

After the hammer fall on each runner:

• the person with the highest bid becomes the owner of that runner
• 50% of the sale price goes to the person who drew that runner in the ticket draw
• the remaining 50% goes into the ever growing prize pool
  After the race on Sunday 11 September, the prize pool is divided as follows:
• 65% to the owner of the winning runner
• 15% to the owner of the second placegetter
• 10% to the owner of the third placegetter
• 10% to the PCCCT to cover printing costs of tickets
  and the Calcutta permit fee.

Handicapping runners is a daunting task, endeavouring to be fair and just to all competitors.

A Handicapper is appointed at our Annual General Meeting. It is a voluntary position and it requires a considerable amount of time dedicated to the task each and every week.

It should be noted that there are notes on the PCCCT Website (found here) in reference to Handicapping. That article stipulates that each and every handicap is at the Handicapper’s discretion which means no other person will have a say in handicaps.

A Base Handicap is allotted to each runner over a 5 km distance. That handicap is just a guide to set handicaps for a particular race which enables adjustments to be made taking in all scenarios as outlined on the Website. In essence your handicap may vary from week to week .

If a runner is competing at his/her best and doesn’t take the opportunity of winning when it arises you may miss out in obtaining that accolade as other competitors may have a better opportunity going forward . (No holding back or you might miss the boat)

A note of interest. We endeavour to get 30 runners within 3 minutes of the finish time each week. 

Your Handicappers,

Pat McMahon

Greg Smith