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The following message has just been e-mailed to everyone who has entered our Half Marathon & 10k in Dale:
Thank you for entering the Pembrokeshire Half Marathon & 10k in Dale on Sunday 27th September. We hope this e-mail finds you well in these very strange times.
We thought it worth updating on you on the situation with this event. As it stands, the event is still ON. However, you will appreciate that, with the current Welsh Government guidance, we would be unable to stage the event, not least because of travel restrictions and social distancing requirements. There also remains a ban on mass gatherings across the UK.
We appreciate that you would love for the event to go ahead, as would we, and we are working in the hope that it may be able to take place. However, we will need to make a decision before too long to avoid uncertainty for you, and wasted effort and cost on our part.
Therefore, we will make a decision on the weekend of 11th/12th July, after the 21-day Welsh Government review (the next announcement is due tomorrow - we are not expecting significant changes except for non-essential retail to be able to reopen with social distancing).
We have consulted Dale Community Council and we are pleased to say that they are ready to welcome us in Dale if we are able to stage the event. That was fantastic to hear, as we would understand if the event wasn't welcome in Dale this year.
We will write to you again on 11th/12th July.
With all our best wishes,
Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club
www.pembstri.org.uk/events/pembrokeshire-half-marathon-10km/
Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club wouldn’t be the Club it is without the wonderful support of the team of volunteers. During #VolunteersWeek we would like to thank each and everyone of you, past and present. Whether it’s coaching on a weekly basis, being one of our First Aiders, supporting as a committee member or pulling on a hi-viz jacket to marshal at one of our events we couldn’t do it without you. THANK YOU
2020 Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club Events Statement
The following statement about our 2020 events has just been e-mailed to everyone who has entered one of our events, we thought it would be helpful to also post it here. Please support us if you can by entering the Half Marathon & 10k in September, or grab one of the remaining places in the Bluestone Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon for 2021 - it is half full already!
Dear Athlete,
Firstly, we hope this e-mail finds you well and you are finding innovative ways to train in the current climate. You clearly have more important things to think about than our events, but we feel it appropriate to update you on our current position.
This email (following the previous one on 22nd March) and is being sent to all entrants of our 2020 events:
• Fishguard Junior Aquathlon (Sunday 14th June)
• Bluestone Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon (Broad Haven – Saturday 11th July)
• Pembrokeshire Half Marathon & 10k (Dale – Sunday 27th September)
We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate that all these events are organised by Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club and not a large commercial events company. As a Club we are immensely proud of all our events and the fact that, as triathletes ourselves, we understand what makes a great event and what you want as competitors. Each event raises money for local charities and good causes. Any profits made from the events are invested back into the Club to support the development of our senior triathletes and Tristars.
Our current position regarding the events is as follows:
Fishguard Junior Aquathlon (Sunday 14th June)
This event is CANCELLED, as it falls within the period that British Triathlon are not currently permitting any events (up to 30th June). We will be contacting all entrants separately regarding their entry fees which were made via the British Triathlon entry system.
Bluestone Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon (Broad Haven, Saturday 11th July)
This event is also CANCELLED. This has been a really difficult call for us, after 11 consecutive and successful years since bringing this event back to Broad Haven in 2009 (following the original event from 1994-97). It doesn’t fall within the period that British Triathlon have so far announced for event permit cancellations, but it is only just the other side of it. Coupled with the uncertainty that currently prevails and the fact that we haven’t had any entries for a month (the race is currently 50% full) the decision to cancel has been made.
As a Club we also need to avoid any further unrecoverable expenditure. We have already incurred quite a bit that we cannot get back. Finally, we have looked at alternative dates later in the season, but as these are also uncertain and due to the congested nature of the diary in August/September, it has proved impossible to find a viable alternative date that is not also likely to succumb to COVID-19 or clashes with other events.
Therefore…all of you who have entered will automatically have your entry rolled forward, without any charge, to the 2021 date – SATURDAY 10th JULY. We hope you will agree this a very fair way forward. If you cannot race on that date in 2021, you will be able to transfer your place to someone else in the normal way via your Active account, up until the 30th June 2021.
Welsh Triathlon have confirmed to us that this event will form part of the Welsh Super Series in 2021, as it was meant to this year, which is great news.
Whilst we hope the vast majority of you will be happy that your place is being transferred to 2021, we do understand that some of you may be facing severe financial hardship due to the knock-on effects of COVID-19. The Committee of Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club will consider refunds and will review any request for a refund on its own merits. If you fall into this category and would like to request a refund, please email events@pembrokeshire-tri.org.uk by 30th April explaining your reason for doing so. All requests will be considered by the Committee in the first week of May.
Pembrokeshire Half Marathon & 10k (Dale, Sunday 27th September)
For now, this event remains ON. Because it was fairly far away in terms of date when COVID-19 struck, we haven’t had that many entries (58 out of 300, even though the event has sold out the past 2 years – we are used to seeing most entries come in during June to August!).
So even if the event can go ahead if restrictions are lifted, we would need a pretty significant and rapid surge in entries to make it viable. We anticipate making a decision by the end of June, subject to how the wider situation develops. If the event cannot go ahead, like with the Broad Haven event we will roll forward entries to 2021 without charge. So please encourage your friends to enter if they can (entries remain open here: www.pembstri.org.uk/events/pembrokeshire-half-marathon-10km/), they have nothing to lose, and it may just make the difference between the event happening or not!
Many thanks for your understanding and patience at this time, we understand it is unsettling for us all and has provided many new challenges for the Club to consider.
Stay safe, stay healthy and please follow all the Government advice.
Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club
COVID-19 Statement 22/3/20
The message below has just been e-mailed to everyone who has entered one of our remaining 2020 events. We thought it might be useful for a wider audience. The events concerned are:
Fishguard Junior Aquathlon (Sunday 14th June)
Bluestone Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon (Broad Haven – Saturday 11th July)
Pembrokeshire Half Marathon & 10k (Dale – Sunday 27th September)
Firstly, we hope this e-mail finds you well in these deeply unsettling and anxious times. You clearly have more important things to think about than our events, but we felt now was the right time to update you on the position as it stands.
We were very lucky to be able stage the Pembrokeshire Duathlon in Neyland on Sunday 8th March. Most events due to be held since then have not been so fortunate.
We are paying close attention to and following UK, Welsh and Local Government advice, advice from the NHS and Public Health Wales, and guidance issued by the governing bodies for our events, British Triathlon and Welsh Athletics. As it stands, events permitted by these two governing bodies are cancelled until the end of April.
We all have access to the same general information on websites, social media, and the news channels. It seems to us that it is very unlikely that we will be able to stage the event in Fishguard in June, or Broad Haven in July, and possibly/probably the event in Dale in September.
Current event postponements are already causing a large concentration of events later this year, leading to congestion and clashes. Already a large local Half Marathon (& Marathon), due to take place on 5th April, has postponed to 27th September – the same date as Dale. So we could suffer a large reduction in entries, which in itself could easily make our event(s) unviable. Clearly, as a local triathlon club we cannot risk making a significant loss and we have already incurred some expenditure preparing for the events (no event organiser, it seems, has event cancellation insurance that covers this pandemic).
So to the important message: as things stand we are leaving the events in the diary as they are, but we will continue to monitor the situation closely. As soon as anything changes in terms of postponement or cancellation, we will let you know. These decisions will be based on the latest advice given to us, and the need for us to make decisions from a practical event management perspective.
Should we need to postpone any event to a date later in 2020, or cancel and go again in 2021, your entry will be rolled forward to the new date without any further charge. Should you not be able to make the rearranged date, you will have the option to transfer your place to another person.
Stay safe, stay healthy. Look after yourselves, your loved ones and your community, and we hope we will see you very soon.
Sarah Winter, Chairperson
David Astins, Events Manager
Rhys Thomas, Junior Co-ordinator
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