Club Night

Hello blog lovers.

So, club night, and no, I haven't changed clubs, or changed which nights we meet.  My blog is a day late due to socialising after club runs.  We are a very social club, we may run and run and run but when there is a reason to socialise then we jump at the chance!

Although this social is quite a sad one as our Social Secretary is actually leaving us!  She is going back home with her family in the south west of the country (if my geography is correct!) hence the drinkies at the One Inn The Wood!

Group 0

Anyway, my running!  First off it was Group 0, and there were 7 of us in total.  Three were PWR group 1's! Which means that we could almost have a 1-1 mentoring with the the others!  I chose the undulating route but it does have the options of short cuts.

After our warm up we ran out of the gate and turned left and then left again.  For some reason running up this way seems quicker than running down this way.  You would have thought it would be the other way around, but I think it's because we have just started on the run, the up hills tend to take our minds of distance and we are still trying to get our breathing right, so by the time you come to the allotted stop, a mile away, its all over and done with.

But on the way back of course, you have done that mile, plus and extra three quarters of a mile (I didn't quite tell them it was also our longer winter route!) so a little tiredness takes over.  The road seems to have grown while you have been running through the High Street, stretched out somewhat for the run back.

I think all the runners had a good time, it was good to see Tracy back, her mojo up and went for a walk for a while, but she has got it back and is going to try and keep an firm grip of it. DottieKat is persevering with her running, she is determined to do well. They were all very pleased with the distance that they had covered!

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Group 1

Our group 1 seems to be huge!  There must be at least 20 odd of us.  It's quite heart warming to see this club grow like this!  Illustrious Leader was taking us down Southborough Lane and then around the little loop.  Now I said I was going to do the loops, well the loop at the end of the cinderpath when we go that way next.  But in my mind I was going to do all little loops!  But I didn't do this one.  I had to pop along to the pub for a 'potty stop'!  

Running down Southborough Lane is long, but not only that you know that you have to run back up it again.  Illustrious Leader, however, chooses the other way to go back, via bottom Oxhawth.  A few of us had to play catchup though as another one of us had to pop into the pub as well! Bloomin handy that pub!

There were a few of us that we just having a bit of a struggle, and so we kept together.  Just along Shepperton though I suggested that we needed to run, it could have been the thought of the beer at the end of todays run, but it deffo got me wanting to run!

We all got back to the rec within the alloted time though, did our stretches and then departed.  Some going back to their homes while some of us went down the pub!  Most enjoyable!

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