It was the CompassSport Cup first round at Longleat today. We were expecting minor chaos as a result of the change in parking but in reality, dropping Christine and the children off at assembly and then getting the minibus back from the house worked very smoothly. Christine was running first and I took the children round the Dr Who themed string course. I have to wonder how many of the participants actually know who Dr Who is but at least Emma was able to understand the world’s worst knock-knock joke afterwards! It also has to be said that they did have a very impressive Tardis stationed at the start.
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Failed Safari
January 16th, 2011Farewell run
January 11th, 2011It was Neil’s last Tuesday night run before departing back to the southern hemisphere and consequently he got to choose tonight’s route. It was therefore fairly predictable that it would be the wettest and muddiest of those available: Lordsdale Greenway. The temperature must have nearly been a balmy 10 degrees but for some reason I felt cold for much of the time we were out. Suspiciously, the turnout at the pub afterwards seemed to be much larger than that on the run.
Farewell Neil – Tuesday nights just won’t be as much fun without you!
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Blue Skies at Lucas Castle
January 11th, 2011
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Two Ponds
January 5th, 2011It being the first Tuesday of the month, it had to be Sainsburys. Just for novelty, Neil took us on a detour to a pond in Rownhams (I forget the name) to make it the ‘Two Ponds Run’.
Cold but quiet
December 8th, 2010First run of the month – must be Sainsburys. Even the ice on the pavements wasn’t enough to put us off (although the less brave of us declined the scating rink that is the underpass on the Avenue taking our chances with the traffic instead). The cold did, however, seem to keep everyone else off the streets and we missed our usual supporters club as we ran through Lordshill.
Frosty Fritham
December 6th, 2010As we left the end of the M27 on Sunday morning the fog cleared and we arrived at SOC’s Fritham event under beautiful blue skies. There was still some ice around but it had generally softened sufficiently so as not to be dangerous. Christine took Emma and Duncan round the white course whilst I did the brown. I really enjoyed the course. It was well planned with a good mix of long and short legs and well chosen control sites. Fritham is a delightful area to run round and Steve Keyes (at least I think that’s who it was) pushed me round the second half of the course which added to the fun. Typically, I finished to discover that Jonathan Crickmore had taken nearly five minutes less and the gap between us was then filled by the usual suspects as the day progressed pushing me down in to fifth place in the final results.
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Playing catch-up
November 30th, 2010I was on time for tonight’s run but as we set off, realised I’d left my watch sat on the dashboard of the car. I don’t mind running without the watch but I’d rather it wasn’t left in the car on display. The run therefore started with a sprint back to the car and then chasing up Glen Eyre Road after the others. Thankfully they were stopped at the lights for a while so hadn’t got too far ahead. We had a short finish to the run as there was talk of a beer and a curry afterwards. Sadly I was destined for IKEA instead…
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Running with supporters
November 23rd, 2010It was busy getting in to Southampton for tonight’s run which was a good indicator that the Saints had a match on. We ran Itchen Bridge which meant dodging the supporters on the way over the bridge (and a road closure meant we took another detour this week). I don’t know if Brighton is an unruly bunch but there seemed to be a large police presence as we headed back up through town.
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