📣📣 Wakey-wakey, it's an early call for pompoms! 🎉🎉

[Cmoi]

Yes, it’s still Thursday, and as you can see, the pompoms are happily snoozing on the couch. However, VRBs, it’s an early wake-up call for you and them this week 📣 as we need to spring into action for a Friday evening race!

Here we go with the roll-call of runners in a particularly varied array of events:

🎽 Getting things underway on Friday 17th February is    SkiMonday , showing off his night moves in the Beechenhurst Night Run - sites.google.com/site/rogue... The route is all on forest fire-track, without muddy sections, stones or roots. They must be very well-behaved trees in the Forest of Dean!

On Sunday 19th we have no fewer than [frantically edits post again] FIVE races:

🎽 First up, Viva    Teresa1632 ! She’s headed abroad for her first international event, the Barcelona Half Marathon: edreamsmitjabarcelona.com/e... on an entirely urban course that’s described as both fast and magical.

🎽 Meanwhile,    Time_Lord will be travelling to Wales with her running club for the fast and flat course of the Rhyl 10 Miler, mostly run along the resort’s promenade: runwales.com/e/lets-run-rhy... Pob lwc!

🎽 Also in Sunday’s line-up of runners is    David_G , who’ll be lacing up for the Local Landmarks 10K: locallandmarks10k.co.uk This virtual event enables runners to choose where they’d like to run, so David’s aiming to tour Bognor Regis in West Sussex and to take in places of interest.

🎽 Now editing to add: the Stratford Sausage Squad! Yes,   Katnap ,   TailChaser and   Shake-and-run will be running up THAT hill again on Sunday, to ensure they stay fed, and in the case of the former two, clothed as well! It's the final 10k race of five in the Tempo Events Winter Series: tempoevents.co.uk/events/wi...

🎽 And another edit: still on Sunday,  aliboo70 is bound for a mud-fest in the Isle of Wight Championship cross country race: rydeharriers.co.uk/club-eve...

🎽 Last but not least in our roll-call is    ArthurJG , who’s opted for a lunchtime 5k on Tuesday 21st. The Meadows 5K in Edinburgh invites runners to enjoy the views of the open grassland and tree-lined paths: letsdothis.com/gb/e/novembe...

Have lots of fun, everyone, and please do send us your event reports and photos!

Anyone else out there got a race over the weekend or coming week? Simply reply to this post and we’ll get those pompoms waving for you too!

The Marathon Team xxx

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[Katnap Marathon]

Hi Cmoi !

We have the final (5th of 5) Tempo Winter Series 10k aka the sausage run this Sunday 19th

tempoevents.co.uk/

Myself

TailChaser

Shake-and-run

🐱 Katnap 🐱

[Week7 Half Marathon in reply to Katnap]

Go get those sausages! 😋

[Katnap Marathon]

Good luck everyone! 👏👏👏💪

🐱 Katnap 🐱

[Shake-and-run Half Marathon]

It is the final 10k sausage race on Sunday. I enjoyed it so much last time I’m joining Katnap and TailChaser again. I will be rewarded with sausages but they are running for the amazing hoodies (colour is still a closely guarded secret).

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Shake-and-run]

Any colour will do so long as it is purple 🙂

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Beachcomber66]

You took the words out of my mouth BC!

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

🙂

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Fantastic! 👏👏 Good luck everybody - look forward to reading the run reports!🙂🏃‍♀️🏃🏽💪

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles]

Pom poms will be waving for everyone, good luck and have fun 😃

[Shake-and-run Half Marathon]

Just want to wish lots of luck to all runners. Barcelona, Edinburgh, Wales and Bognor we really are covering the map this week. I will try and wave some virtual pom poms as I puff and pant my way up the hill on Sunday. Have lots of fun everyone xxx

[Week7 Half Marathon]

Such a great selection of events! Like the sound of the night run 🌙 Good luck everyone 🎊🎊🎊

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon]

What a wonderful selection of heroic racers we have this week! Go out and have fun everyone! Bring home the bling (and sausages) for HU. 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏅 ❤️

[aliboo70 Half Marathon]

Good luck everyone! Loads of races on!Kenny and I have a child free weekend so I have taken advantage of the fact he loves a race and persuaded him to join me in a run on Sunday that is historically very muddy! The fact he doesn't like cross country makes it all the more fun(maybe not for him but for me)! It's club championships so all IOW clubs represented usually! Enter on the day!

rydeharriers.co.uk/club-eve...

Previous year at the Cross Country!

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to aliboo70]

I love the word “persuaded” Ali 🤣🤣

[aliboo70 Half Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

He likes wearing his club vest but that's about it with his cross country enthusiasm! Xxx 🤣

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

What a turn out this weekend! Pom poms aloft! Have fun out there everyone, may the wind be blowing in the right direction!!!

[TailChaser Marathon]

Well that caught me by surprise!! Enjoy that bling David_G , it’s possibly the first time I’ve been tempted to do a virtual run just because of the bling! And Time_Lord , I hope the prom breezes are kind to you! Good luck everyone, have fantastic runs!!! Waving pom poms frantically 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[Mudita11 Half Marathon]

Pom poms waving for you all! Have great runs everyone 🎉🎉🎉

[Cowladyrunning Marathon]

Good luck everyone!

[RunBrianRun Half Marathon]

That’s a great turnout from HU 😀 Good luck to you all! Go out and smash it. 💪👍

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

Oh my goodness! So many races this week! It’s a good job those pompoms have had a wee rest because they’ll need all their energy for our super VRBs.

Good luck to each and every one of you 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 run happy, run with wings and enjoy yourselves 🤗

I can’t wait to read all the run reports.

[David_G Metric Marathon]

Thanks Cmoi good luck to everyone running this weekend!

[Kevin41 Half Marathon]

Best wishes for fantastic runs and results

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

Pom-poms will be waving for you all this weekend.

There will be the lovely aroma of sausages cooking in Stratford upon Avon on Sunday!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Dexy5]

😋

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon]

Have great runs everyone and finish your day smiling 🙂

[Frenc Half Marathon]

Oh dear, I’m rather late to the early pom pom party! However, if you’ve done your race or are just setting out, I hope things are going or went amazingly for SkiMonday Teresa1632 aliboo70 ArthurJG and not to forget the Sausage Squad Katnap TailChaser and Shake-and-run - pass the ketchup please! 😁😁😁

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Frenc]

😋