I am a bit late in writing this up, but that's nothing unusual these days! I must do better! So this run is one of my favs! Oh my goodness, I sound like a puppy dog, every run I do is one of my favs!.....if you had seen an old face book post that I shared, you will understand the reference! Here's that post I shared.
So this year I was right there, either volunteering for something or for running it! I didn't mind which. I ended up as sweep in our group! Our group was actually quite large! There were 57 of us in group A. You see, all the groups were amalgamated in to about 4 groups. Groups 1, 2 and 3 were now one group, 4, 5 and 6 were another 7 and 8 were one more leaving 9, 10 and 11 to make another group. I think that's how it all went anyway, but everyone would be running at the slowest group pace, with a few extra loop backs for those that wanted to stretch their legs a bit more.
We all met at the rec, a little earlier that the 7:30 start so that we could grab a yearly club photo, here, take a look at this. This is just some of us! Not every member runs on a Tuesday, some run on other days! Great looking bunch, don't you think? That's us, the picture at the top of my blog!
But it was soon time to run. We watch as all the other large groups ran out and then we all ran out, all 57 of us. Our halfway destination is the pop up pub, which was going to be in one of our members front garden. With Illustrious leader leading all of us out to Dog poo ally we snaked our way off the green and out of the rec. I don't think I have ever run with such a large group on a Tuesday evening club run. We did look brill.
Once in the woods we turned left to run along by the railway line, all the way to the top of Botany Bay Lane. It was a challenge keeping us all together, but Illustrious Leader did really well in pacing and then waiting for the back runners who are normally in group 1. But as it was still a club run we wanted to keep everyone happy, so Illustrious Leader had devised a cunning plan.......when we got to the little bridge she sent all those that wanted to run at their usual pace off on the left path, which of course will take in Goss Hill, while us more sedate runners continued to run up Botany Bay lane. We will met them again at the top of the hill, well it was almost the top, we still had a little bit left to do.
At the bridge the group split in two, led by Wendy and Sue, who would be sweep for that section of the run. Sue tried to get me to do Goss Hill, but I didn't want to shirk my responsibilities of being sweeper! That is was I said anyway! We ran up to the meeting point, oh my goodness. was it hard, and was it warm! But I managed to encourage Tracy and K all the way to the top! It's a social run, so we just had fun. We regrouped, oh this is us by the way, looking as if we had been there for ages!
We all then ran up the rest of Botany Bay Lane and then passed Coopers school. Our destination not too far now, we had one more quick regroup before we did the last bit. Here, just to show you how many 57 PWR's look like!
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| This is J.J. I think she was putting her order in at the pop up bar! |
We just had to follow the road on the left and run down to Cricket Ground road, what a brilliant name for a road, I guess the Cricket pitch in front helped to inspire that name!
We ran along the road, the pop up pub really close now, one of the faster groups started to run past us, they will probably get there just before us. We turned the corner and there was Woody, our club mascot, showing us the right house! Just behind him was our resident camera man, KevinTwoBalls, and just there, was the pub! I was so pleased! Here take a look at this!
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| Yay, it's the Pub!!!! |
Here's some more pictures of us enjoying al fresco style drinking before we all had to make our way back to the rec. Our group decided to take the exact same route back but we were not longer 57, firstly I think a couple decided that as they live pretty near to where we were, they would go straight home, and then after that, because some of runners were a little two long at the bar and their groups had already gone, others just wanted a nice leisurely one back to the rec! So we really were running along as an all ability running club, from group 1's to, well I don't know who was in the faster groups, but it truly was an amazing evening.
Just a few more pictures of a great PWR Social Run! Mid Summers Eve, Evening Run!
Some of us ended up continuing the theme of socialising and went to the local pub in Petts Wood! A fabulous evening, well organised and so very well attended!
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