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| Tony Ireland Holden Townsville Marathon Australia Townsville Marathon August info@townsvilleroadrunners.com.au http://www.townsvilleroadrunners.com.au/index.cfm " The Townsville Marathon Club was formed in 1972 by about a dozen runners to promote distance running in Townsville.Initially all club members had to be registered with QAAA. After a couple of disagreements between QAAA and the Townsville Marathon Club, the committee decided that the club could function quiet well without QAAA and so withdrew in about 1975.At the inception of the club, there were not a lot of distance runners in Townsville and so the ""marathon"" word was seen as a challenge. However, the running boom was just starting and the word marathon in the club name frightened a lot of potential members from joining the Townsville Marathon Club. In the early 1980's the name of the club was changed to the Townsville Road Runners." |
