Pompoms aloft! GoooooooooOOOO Team! Events for the 8th and 9th Feb 🎇🎇🎇

[Sqkr]

Looking out of my window now, all the weather warnings pinging onto my phone seem a bit farfetched--it's lovely out there! Crossed fingers it stays that way 🤞

On Saturday we (might!) have acebiros in the Chichester Harbour 15k trail run. Hope you're feeling super well and strong, acebiros! A bit of muddy medicine might be exactly what you need... ukrunningevents.co.uk/chich...

And then on Sunday, deep breath... it's a biggie.

Having a royal good run, it's Irishprincess in the Wiltshire 10! stampedesports.co.uk/?page_...

AbiPa is keeping it toasty in the Nottingham Winter Warmers 10K! thefixevents.com/the-nottin...

An off the record run but definitely the one with the best name, aliboo70 is running the Lord Pikes XC Castle Half Of Awesomeness!

Back to the wind, and front to the win--it's pianoteacher doing the Hastings Runners Pier2Pier run!

A first daylight road race for tiggs1 in The Hurtle! Hurtle by both name and nature, I hope. runningforever.club/humdinger/

Another first, this time a trail for Time_Lord in the Cannock Chase 10 Mile, though presumably not leaning too hard on any Gallifreyan tech..? nice-work.org.uk/races/Cann...

And of course, a super massive turn out for Team HUMRARS at the London Winter Run! Iiiit's linda9389 , Joster , O505k , Hidden , JaoJao , Sandraj39 and David_G . Oof, talk about REPRESENTIN! londonwinterrun.co.uk/

Have a brilliant day everyone! Come back and tell us about it 😄

The Marathon Team xx

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[roseabi Ultramarathon]

Run, groovy people!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pianoteacher Marathon Half Marathon]

Pom poms cancelled for me I'm afraid. The weather warning's been upped to Amber and it's just too dangerous to run along the coast ☹️

Good luck to everyone else - have fun 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

[Sqkr Half Marathon in reply to pianoteacher]

Ah noooo, rubbish! Though better to be safe than sorry. I hope not too many people will have to pull out of races this weekend 😔

[pianoteacher Marathon Half Marathon in reply to Sqkr]

I was really looking forward to it as well - if 16.1 miles is ever some that you can look forward too 😂 - but safety first.

There's been a fair few races down here that have already been cancelled unfortunately x

[Hidden]

London Winter Run depends if it’s cancelled or not. Gale force winds predicted

[Sqkr Half Marathon in reply to Hidden]

I've been keeping an eye on Twitter, they seem pretty optimistic! A wee bit of wind will help you along nicely I reckon 😄 Harness the elements!

[Hidden in reply to Sqkr]

Haha, yes if it’s behind us 😂

[Sadie-runs Half Marathon]

All the best to our plucky runners! Go go go! And enjoy. 😊 x

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon]

Wowsers, what a fantastic HU turnout this weekend! 👏👏👏👏

Go crush those races guys. Wind? What wind? You’re all made of strong HU stuff. 👊🏃‍♀️🏃👊

Be safe though, and have an absolute blast. Looking forward to reading all the race reports. 🏅 🎉 💪

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

There'll be no decency once the wind gets up those poodles' skirts!

I wasn't too happy when LWR suggested bag drop may not happen in case the wind blows the marquee away .... but then when they said temporary toilets will be affected too I went into panic mode - well, I told everyone what happened last weekend, that's still a very raw memory 😨😨😨. Here's hoping it will still be fun; thanks for the shout out 😍. Good luck to everyone racing this weekend - and for those of you racing on Sunday (as LWR put it) you will be able to wear your badge of honour with pride 🥇

[Granspeed]

Best of luck to all you runners! 🎉👏🏼🎉 Bad weather is almost unbelievable at the moment, so hope that’s right and the forecasters are wrong for once.

[tiggs1 Marathon]

My race is still planned for Sunday but we have had an email to say that they may decide to cancel on the day depending on how bad thing get. If it does go ahead I am going to be going slow and steady and use as a recovery run as now I am doing a 20 miler in March my running plan has changed and tomorrow is a 13 mile long run for me.

Good luck to anyone running and stay safe

[tiggs1 Marathon in reply to tiggs1]

Ok, just had notification that my race is cancelled..... extra rest day for me so I may use this for gym and swim

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

Thanks Sqkr ! The organisers are going to make a decision tomorrow whether mine is going ahead. At the minute I’m planning that it does but who knows..... 🤞🏃‍♀️🙂

Good luck everyone and let’s hope there will be some races done!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

LWR cancelled too!

[Sqkr Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Oh goodness me, the pompom list is getting shorter by the minute! 😬🌪️🌩️🌨️

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Sqkr]

I'm quite pleased to be honest. I was only doing this one for the fun of a big London event. It would've been memorable, but not in the way I'd been hoping.

[Bluebirdrunner]

Good luck to anyone whose events are still going ahead. Stay safe everyone if you do run ....😊xxx

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

Deal Half Marathon also cancelled, new date 1st March.

[aliboo70 Half Marathon]

Mine cancelled but my local trail running group still doing the route (it was an informal race!) But they are the speedier ones so a group of the slower ones are doing it in reverse and crossing over ! Unless the weatheris toooo crazy! Will report back! Good luck at all who are still racing xxx

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Pompoms waving in the wind for anyone still able to run on Sunday. 🤞 👍 No London Winter Run for us on Sunday, unfortunately - so back to the muddy trails tomorrow for me. Have a good weekend, all!🙂

[Decker Ultramarathon]

Wow you are certainly having your share of rough weather there! Please take care everyone. And best of luck to those still able to race!

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

Mine has been cancelled too ☹️ I’m really disappointed because it was going to be a good test run for the Bath HM and it was a 10th anniversary for the event so there was a specially minted medal. But they’ve agreed that we can claim our medal by running a virtual 10 mile run anywhere in Wiltshire before the end of March. I was going to head out today but realised I run mostly in Gloucestershire 🤔 ..... mmnnn....