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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Iiiiiiiit's pompom time! Events 15th and 16th Feb! *Throws stern look at Storm Dennis, lurking round the corner* 😒