Greetings!

Welcome to the website for The Trunce, one of the largest regular amateur running events in South Yorkshire!

The Trunce is an open fell running event in which runners complete a 4.25 mile course, that both begins and ends at The Wagon and Horses public house, Oxspring, South Yorkshire. The Trunce promotes participation, so runners of all standards and abilities are heartily welcomed!

Fees

Fees are only payable for the particular races that a participant competes in. At the moment, our race fees are one pound per race for adults, and fifty pence for junior participants.

In addition to race fees, we also intend to levy a charge of 20p per entrant on the senior race. The money raised by this charge will be contributed in its entirety to the parish council's fund for much needed work on the football pitch. Given the council's kind cooperation with The Trunce in the past, we were sure that the runners would not object to a small charge to contribute to such a worthy cause.

Race Dates

The upcoming events page has now been updated to show the dates of every Trunce race for the 2006 season. Should any runners or clubs wish to publicise their own events, please let Martin Milan know, and he will take care of the technical side of things... It would be helpful though if you could visit the Upcoming Events page first, so as to be sure that you give Martin all the information he will need.

Sad News

We have been informed that Howard Thorpe, the elderly gentlemen who for many, many years helped organise the car parking for The Trunce, sadly passed away on the afternoon of 22nd October 2007. Howard was ever keen to help out in any way he could, and we have received the news with much sadness. We would like to take this opportunity to pass on our sympathy to all Howard's family and friends.

The funeral is going to be held at Penistone Church on 5th November at 10:30am, and anyone who wishes to pay their final respects are welcome. There will be a celebration of Howard's life held at The Dog And Partridge shortly afterwards...

This website was created by Torque Computing Solutions Ltd, who hold the copyright (2004) for the design of the site. The developers involved in this project were Dr. Paul Barrass and Mr. Martin Milan.