2020 News
T50 Relay - New Fastest Times
Congratulations to Wrekin Road Runners who have set a new time for the relay, running last Saturday (October 24th ) they had a open team and ran in 8 hours 6 minutes and 18 secs. This is faster than the fastest known solo run and so is the fastest known completion time. Congratulations too to Shropshire Canicross who ran as a mixed team on October 11th in 9 hours 20 minutes and 6 seconds taking almost 40 minutes off their previous time.
2020 AGM Friends of the Telford T50 50 Mile Trail
The 2020 AGM was held by Zoom on October 13th. We welcomed 2 new committee members. The papers for the meeting can be downloaded from the file share. There is one vacancy on the committee, we are particularly keen to strengthen our representation from South Telford. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to develop the use of the trail.
Shropshire Way Festival
We contributed a walk to the Shropshire Way Festival on Monday 21st September.
Full details on the events page.
The full programme for the festival is here
Walk 3 on the programme also uses the T50 , others are in the Telford area.
New Record times
Congratulations to Dave Ufc Stevens who ran the T50
on 26th July 2020 in a new record time of 8 hours 25 mins
raising money for Birmingham Children's Hospital
and to Phill Birkett who ran on 8th August in the anticlockwise direction in a new record time of 8 hours 24 minutes 30 seconds raising money for The REME charity
T50 heroes
On July 5th, Iris, 85, the oldest, Will, 8, the youngest, Matt, the fastest (11 hours 13 mins) on the clockwise route, and Chas, the walker to have walked the whole route the most often (6 times) were kindly photographed by Derek Houghton at the sign. There are more photos on our Facebook page.
The Relay Challenge 2020
We will now be running the challenge just once in 2020
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Clockwise in July to October
New for this year- an open class (minimum 4 runners) , the original is now called the mixed class and needs a minimum of 3 females and 3 runners aged 50+ (so a minimum of 6 runners). See the relay challenge page.
Circular Walks
Spurred on by the Covid 19 restrictions we have made progress on circular walks based on the trail, there is still more work to be done but you can see our progress here.
New File store for the GPX files and new mapping
Spurred on by developing the circular walks we have made a file share available so that all the GPX files are in one place and there is no need to visit the OS site to download them.
Also we are trying RunGo to give turn by turn directions for the circular walks. These can, and will be, customised. So far it seems to be very good, it has a facility to reverse the route, would have saved hours of work last year.
Jim Cox
We are very sorry to announce that Jim Cox, one of the original group, died on Saturday March 7th after collapsing while acting as a marshall at an LDWA event the previous Saturday. Jim was one of the team of 2 that surveyed, waymarked and described sections 6 and 7 of the route. His quiet contribution will be sadly missed. Our thoughts are with his family
Anne wins a national Ramblers award
We are pleased to announce that Anne Suffolk has been awarded a national Ramblers volunteer award for her work on the T50 , particularly on the guide book and also her other work for the Ramblers nationally. See https://www.ramblers.org.uk/…/rewarding-our…/innovation.aspx
Water on the trail
We were told that there would definitely be a water fountain near Telford Town Centre visitor centre by Easter. This is now on hold.There is a list of refill stations on or very near to the trail here
Getting Telford Walking - Not now on May 24th 2020
Following last years' successful event we were planning another in May. This has now been cancelled , or possibly postponed to the autumn.
See the GTW page