Last Monday night, I attended the monthly AJS & Matchless Owners Club Fenrunners section meeting and among the various things discussed and announced was the “Clubman of the Year 2008″ award (shown to the right).

Just so you are aware, this award is exclusive to the Fenrunners section of the owners club, and although I’m sure other sections of the club have equivalent awards, this one is for the Fenrunners section only.

As you can see, the award has been given to various people over the years, beginning in 1990. The more recent names are engraved in a plate on the back, due to a lack of space on the front.

So anyway, as you may have guessed from the fact that I’m writing this post, I’ve been given the award!

There are actually two trophies associated with this award; the trophy with everyone’s names on, which gets handed from person to person each year (shown above, on the right) and the trophy with just my name on, which I get to keep for ever (shown on the left).

From what I can make out, all of the people who have been awarded this trophy in the past have contributed to the club in some way, and although I don’t personally feel as if I’ve had a chance to contribute a great deal yet, I guess I have!

The reason for the award being given to me, I think, is a combination of two things…

First of all, I was told at the trophy handover, it was due to me basically being so young, so enthusiastic and for basically attending every single event since I joined the club! I guess I’m exactly what the club needs, in the sense that the average age of club members is relatively high, and the club therefore needs people like me to keep the whole club going in years to come.

The other reason, possibly, is that all of the people who I think have contributed a lot more than me this year have already been awarded the trophy at some point in the past, and therefore can’t be awarded it again, so by some token, it was possibly awarded to me by default!

Nevertheless, I am honoured to have received the award, and given that I don’t remember ever having been awarded a trophy for anything in my life ever, it’s quite a nice surprise to suddenly have two, so thank you to all voting members of the AMOC Fenrunners section!

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