YOU KNOW WHAT FRIDAY MEANS! IT’S POMPOM DAY!! 📣🥳

[Irishprincess]

We have races over the two days of the weekend for a change so those pom-poms will be a bit tired by Monday. But give them a rest and a bit of TLC today (well, they do work every weekend!) so they are ready to go first thing on Saturday.

⭐️ The first of our fabulous weekend runners is  Dendev75 who will have an early start on Saturday taking on the Loggerheads Trail 10K in Wales. She’s had a bit of bad luck and this will be her third time trying to get to the start line of an event. We wish you and your friend all the best of luck Dendev and hopefully the recent snow in Wales won’t impact the race 🤞

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EDIT: SADLY, Dendev75 ’S EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS BUT WE WILL KEEP THE POM-POMS READY FOR THE RESCHEDULED RACE 🥳

⭐️ Next up and another Saturday event, this time we’re heading to London where the marvellous  MarmaladeJane will be running the Battersea HM as part of her London Marathon training. The atmosphere will be pretty electric (see what I did there ⚡️⚡️) so watch out for the static on all those fluffy pompoms MJ 😂

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 ⭐️ We’re into another day now and the first of our Sunday runners is the awesome  Hedgehogs123 who will be burning up the miles in the Burghley 7 Miler, a scenic and beautiful looking run around the Burghley estate and surrounding area. That’s a great distance right there and it looks like a fab backdrop for some photos Hedghogs!

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 ⭐️ The second of our Sunday runners is the race-demon  Time_Lord who will be running the Stafford HM. Spectacular-spectator-support is promised and will, no doubt, help to carry you over the finish line TL.

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Good luck and Bon Courage to each of you 🍀🍀 🍀🍀 Lots of pompom waving coming your way!

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From The Marathon Team xxx

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[TailChaser Marathon]

Whhhoooopppp! Big fluffy pom poms shaking here IP! Have loads of fun everyone, ignore the weather, it’ll be fab whatever! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[Dendev75 Half Marathon]

Thank you Irishprincess I’m hoping it will go ahead but looking at this snow and weather warnings it has a high chance of being cancelled. I’ll keep you informed 🤞🏻

[Dendev75 Half Marathon]

Just had an email to say it’s cancelled. These running gods are not happy with me 🙈😂 oh well let’s hope 4th time lucky on my next event booking. 🤞🏻

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Dendev75]

What a shame. Wales appears to have been hard hit with the snow. I’ll edit the post but keep your details so the responses make sense to anyone new seeing it!

Let’s hope you have a beautiful spring day when the race is re-scheduled 💐🌷

[Dendev75 Half Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

thanks 😊🤞🏻

[Frenc Half Marathon]

I’ve defrosted my pom poms and with much flapping gusto (is that even English) good luck to Dendev75 MarmaladeJane Time_Lord and Hedgehogs123 . 😁😁😁

[Dendev75 Half Marathon in reply to Frenc]

thanks Frenc but mine’s cancelled - just had an email - damn snow ❄️

[Frenc Half Marathon in reply to Dendev75]

Grrrrr how annoying! But it might have been very slippy. Hopefully they can reschedule. 😊

[Dendev75 Half Marathon in reply to Frenc]

Hoping so and I pray for a lovely spring day 😊🤞🏻👍🏻

[Frenc Half Marathon in reply to Dendev75]

I think we’re all doing that at the moment running or not! 🤣

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Frenc]

I normally love winter running but even I’m getting a bit fed up with it all now. The other day I was fantasising about shorts and vest weather 🏃‍♀️😎

[Frenc Half Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

Same here, it’s weird really, last year I couldn’t get enough of cold running, but very much over it now!

[RunWillie Marathon]

Cheering for you MarmaladeJane Time_Lord & Hedgehogs123 😍

Sorry about the cancellation Dendev75 😔

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Woohoo! A very fine turn out this weekend. Pompoms at the ready. Good luck everyone and ENJOY!!!

[Dendev75 Half Marathon]

Good luck to MarmaladeJane 🎊 good luck to Hedgehogs123 🎉 and best of luck to Time_Lord 🎊 I hope the weather is kind and you enjoy your events 🏃🏽‍♀️ 🏃

[Mudita11 Half Marathon]

Good luck to you all and anyone else running this weekend 🏃🏼‍♀️🥳🎉

[Oldfloss Administrator]

Fluffy ones are waving madly..with snowflake sparkle...🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Run safe, Run well , Run Happy! Xxxxx

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

We are throwing snowballs instead of pom-poms to all you lovely runners this weekend. Now isn’t a horse mandatory at Burghly? 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🐎

[Oldfloss Administrator in reply to Dexy5]

Soft snow I hope x

[Dexy5 10 Miles in reply to Oldfloss]

of course, light as a feather.

[Cmoi Marathon]

Waving warm, wet, windblown pompoms for you MarmaladeJane , Time_Lord and Hedgehogs123 - enjoy your respective events! Sending sympathy to Dendev75 too, such bad timing.

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Good luck everyone - enjoy your runs and bring home the spoils!🏅🏃‍♀️🏃🏽

Hope you run gets rescheduled soon Dendev75 .🙂

[Time_Lord Half Marathon]

Good luck MarmaladeJane & Hedgehogs123 have a great run. Have never been called a race demon before Irishprincess .

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Time_Lord]

🤪🤪

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Time_Lord]

You too!!🏅🏅

[RunBrianRun Half Marathon]

Good luck to all running this weekend. Dendev75 I’m sorry your race was cancelled. That’s just bad luck but the stars will align for you at some point soon I’m sure. 👍

[Cowladyrunning Marathon]

Pompoms defrosted and ready to go! Sorry yours was cancelled Dendev75 Good luck everyone else!

[Dendev75 Half Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

Thanks 😊

[aliboo70 Half Marathon]

Have brilliant races all of you! 💪😁xxx

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles]

Waving away and proud of our racers

[O505k Half Marathon]

good luck all. 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️👏

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon]

Thank you all not sure about the 'awesome' Irishprincess but I'll take it!!😂. Someone at Parkrun this morning was warning where the hills are, so I'm preparing for the finish where apparently you think it's downhill and then another uphill jumps out!! Well, it's my first time running a 7 miler, so I'll be giving it my best shot!!😂😂

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Enjoy it!

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon]

Best of luck MarmaladeJane , have a great race!!🎖️🎖️

[MarmaladeJane Half Marathon]

Thanks so much @Irishprincess and VRBs for my fluffy pom-poms. They did the trick. I finished!! Yeah. 👍 And have been walking around for the rest of the day with my medal. It was my first HM in 18 years and I ran all the way at a pretty even pace. Overall pace was 11.29 min/mile which is my fastest long run pace so far (this time around not 18 years ago, I was more like a 10 min / mile pace back then. Anyway I don’t think I need to make that comparison. The key for me is that 19 weeks ago I could only run for 1 minute without stopping. Now what I can’t get my head around is having to double the distance in 6 weeks time. It doesn’t seem possible. I think I will need some advice on race strategy and may need to consider run / walk to get around comfortably. Also need to think about fuelling. I will pop back for some advice when I’ve rested. Right now my brain and body are only just functioning!

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to MarmaladeJane]

Well done and congratulations! That’s brilliant. We waved the pompoms, you did the hard work 😂

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to MarmaladeJane]

Well done, absolutely brilliant work!! You must so proud!!

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon]

Hi everyone, thank you so much for all your good wishes!! I had a brilliant run at the Burghley 7 on Sunday. It was tough I will say, couple of hills that kind of just crept up and seemed to go on forever, however as I'm attempting the Yorkshire 3Peaks challenge in May, I've been doing a lot of strength , hill and trail training, which definately helped.

Its the first time I raced at a 7 miler so wasn't sure how it would go. Like all races, I love the excitement and nerves at the beginning of the race, and the banter and support both from other runners and the crowds cheering. Its a beautiful course, starts in front of Burghley house, out through Stamford and then up through beautiful countryside and then back into the grounds. Lovely medal, quite big and very heavy!!

I love this picture, it looks like I'm leading the pack, haha I wish!! Anyway I finished in 1:02;9 and 5th in my age category out of 36, so I was quite pleased. 😀 🏅

running through stamford

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

Whoop whoop! Look at you, in full flow with hair flying! I love it 😍That’s a great action shot.

Well done and congratulations to you not just for the race but for coming 5th in your group. Yah 👏

If you wanted, you could do a separate post about this. I’m sure folks here would love to read about it.

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon]

Didnt know how to attach 2 photos, so further to my race report, here's the medal! Big and very heavy!! 😀

medal

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to Hedgehogs123]

It looks HUGE! Great bling 🏅

[Hedgehogs123 Metric Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

It is indeed!!!😀