This weekend must have been national run a non-standard distance weekend. Of the three main events club members took part in, one was a fifteen miler and the other two were twenty milers.
The first of them on Saturday 19th March was the combined Fission 20 & half marathon from the site of the now disused Berkeley power station in Gloucestershire. Helen Needs raced around the 20-mile route in a fantastic time of 3:01. Taking on the half course were Helen Prescott in a PB time of 2:01 beaten home by Sally Tuer in 2:00. Simon Rowland also scored a very quick PB of 1:42.
On the Sunday Tanya Lewis and Saz Henderson travelled to Cheddar to take on The Big Cheese over 15 hilly off road miles. Racing at this time of year can bring with it some challenging conditions but the weather in Cheddar was Gorge-eous for running and Tanya zoomed around the course faster than cheese down a hill in 2:35 and Saz came in soon after in 3:02.
The third event was the Ashby 20 in Ashby de la Zouch where Lisa and Simon Denson were guaranteed PBs in their first 20-miler. Lisa finishing in 3:09 and Simon in 2:28. The race is known for the hoodie awarded to all finishers, which didn’t disappoint but was outdone by the Jaffa Cake Donuts in the goodie bag!
In parkrun news, many club members regularly volunteer at local and not so local events and to give something back Running Forever stepped up to take on most of the volunteer roles at this week’s parkrun in Longrun Meadow.
Club members also turned out in numbers to run at Longrun Meadow with 20 taking part there plus four at Frogmary Green Farm and one each at Cranbrook and Minehead.