AGM Eryri Harriers

I was on the phone with Mike, who had organised the Pedol Peris race, when he told me the running club would have its AGM in November, and whether I was coming. I said yes. I had only been a member for a short while, and I was wondering what an AGM would be like. 

My colleague Chris would go too, so we travelled up together. It was in a Felinheli pub. We were early! So we just had a chat and a drink until more people started arriving. 

The meeting would come with food. After quite a while of socialising everybody started going upstairs, where the food would be served. There was lobscouse or vegetarian bean stew. A lot of runners turn out to eat veggie! And on the wall there was a looping slideshow with running pictures. 

After the main course, the actual meeting started. It was quite an efficient event! There were reports from the various officers, such as the chair, the cross-country officer, the road run officer, the youth trainer, the kit officer, et cetera. They were all quite engaging and kept it brief. Several pressed the message home that it is important to volunteer. The club organises races, but it can’t do that without volunteers. And the various trainings (like my standard Thursday) also can’t run without volunteers. And the club seems to have some 250 members! That should be enough. 

There also were some positions to reconfirm and to fill; three positions were open, and some were filled but could do with a new person. And there were some documents to vote in, like a slightly amended constitution, and a renewed grievance procedure. Almost all of that went smoothly! We just don’t have a press officer at the moment. 

There were also some special thanks to people who had made extraordinary contributions, and to top that off we voted in two new honorary members. And that was the official part!

The meeting. Pic from club FB page

The venue

Then we only had our desserts to eat, and then it was done. It was getting a bit late, so Chris and I just left. 

I surely intend to pull my volunteering weight! There seems to be some club race on in January. I should find out about that! I might make myself useful cheering at endless strangers again…