This last week has been a relatively quiet one for RFRC at events. We start in Street with the November edition of the monthly night time 5k run taking place on Wednesday. Ben Timpson cruised around in 19:35 while Nigel Baker finished in 24:53, winning him the first MV70 award for both races in the series so far.
The weekend saw Georgina Brice back on the trail at the Remembrance Marathon on the Thames Towpath near Hampton Court. This was her 50th Phoenix event, earning her not just a poppy-themed medal for her 5:27 finish but also her Phoenix gold wings.
Meanwhile, Scott Weetch and Andy Burgess headed south to the Starcross Shuffle, on the Exe Estuary trail near Powderham Castle. The Shuffle gives you 7 hours to complete as many 6.6 mile laps of the course as you like (or can). Scott Weetch notched up 4 laps to make up the marathon distance in 4 hours 23 minutes while Andy Burgess managed one more lap to take him into ultra territory, completing his 5 laps in 5 hours 24 minutes.
We were well represented at the Longrun Meadow parkrun, with 29 members completing the course. There were plenty of sightings of RFRC at park run events further afield too, in Torbay, Minehead, Seaton, Exeter, Burnham & Highbridge, at Edenbrook and, further again, at Nansen Parken near Oslo in Norway. Back in the UK, eagle-eyed viewers of BBC Spotlight might have spotted Malcolm Hutchings and Kate Mackenzie at the Children In Need edition of the Heartlands parkrun in Cornwall, with Pudsey himself sending the runners on their merry way.