With Auntie Linda away the pen has fallen to me, so get a cuppa and get comfy.
It was a great weekend for the boys and girls in red with athletes gracing the roads and trails of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, both racing and parkrunning.
Talking of which, today’s post is going to begin with parkrun, we had 19 members representing the club at our local, Longrun Meadow. Meanwhile, Malcolm Hutchings and Kate Mackenzie were off enjoying Lands End, Ben and Ola Timpson were at my old stomping ground the relatively new Central Park Plymouth event, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.
However, for the parkrun keenos amongst you Claire Allison had the pleasure of meeting Paul Sinton-Hewitt, the founder of parkrun, at California County.
If you’re anything like me, Sunday was a blur but the club managed to fill out the day well. As usual our Club group runs got us going (do try them, they’re great!) and they were accompanied by three separate events.
At Bideford Half Marathon, James Lewes and Hannah Kirkman flew the flag fir the club in what looked like good race conditions. James came in at 1:35:27 and Hannah in 1:50:35
Meanwhile we had five club members at the White Star Running Larmer event with Jules Griffiths-Jones completing the half in 2:24. Our other 4 members taking part in the marathon, Jonathan Newby and Emma Perkins (5:14), Georgina Byrne came one step closer to the 100 club (6:41) while the man who’s flamboyant tight’s fame match his famous saying came in at 7:17.
Finally, our biggest event attendance of the weekend, the RFRC contingent at the Grizzly event.
First back from the club was the annoyingly nice and fast Dean Bennett (2:50:15). Hot on his heels was Ali Bisatt (3:07:19). Chris Grieco (3:33:37) and Simon Denson (3:38:59) were next in for the club, while our first lady in was Tanya Lewis (3:51:51). After this saw a flurry of red and white, Fintan Murray (4:04:27), Sam Wharton (4:11:21), Mark Wilson (4:12:43), Ron Foord (4:14:50), Samantha Cross (4:14:51) and Damon Butler (4:15:46). Our last five bought a successful day to an end with David Loader (4:20:57), Mercedes Thorne (4:30:17), Joanne Gavins (4:30:20), Matt Price (4:30:55), Alex Hughes (4:42:18) and Matt Blee (4:42:21) all crossing the line.
I hope you all recover well from your endeavours and if you’re reading this as someone thinking about trying us, go for it, the most lovely group of people one can meet.