Medal Monday

To beat the lockdown blues…. For a daily exercise our members are choosing to run a route local to their house in our club colours. When they get home we have asked them to take a selfie with their favourite medals…

Here is Lawrence Kaile…

Here is my Medal Monday, Joyous social distancing (left) wearing my favourite technical T (Middle), showing my favourite bling, in my favourite house, in my favourite country village (Right)….

LH Trowbridge 5k “Colourific” 2017 Not a colour run, more turn up in something colourful.. My first ever race and points for the club. Wearing my super bright orange shorts that my fellow couchies will remember well, I seem to remember Helen wearing rainbow colour leggins too. Also in my LH 2 mile swim Last September in the Cotswolds. Those who have read my blog would know I had only ever ran a bath… Then, being a non swimmer and scared of the dark end of the pool, I found myself signing up for, and swimming two miles in a lake…. Truly epic. My right hand… Well it had to be HIM Weymouth, a glorious day and a fitting way to end some hard times in training. The smaller medal is the biggest of them all… My first ever Triathlon…. I only ever started running because I had a bad back, needed to lose weight and get fitter and wanted to make some friends…. Who would of known… Join our running club she said…Would I do it all again? Yes absolutely

We may not be able to race but we can get out our bling!

Medal Monday

To beat the lockdown blues…. For a daily exercise our members are choosing to run a route local to their house in our club colours. When they get home we have asked them to take a selfie with their favourite medals…

Here is Darrell Benge…

New to running, joining our 2019 C25k course, Darrell has gone from strength to strength. The lockdown might have slowed his progression but it hasn’t dampened his determination. Top work Darrell

We may not be able to race but we can get out our bling!

Medal Monday

Stuart Anderson & Sally Shepherd

Stuart has a long running career spanning right back to the 1970’s when he first found a love for the sport. Back then via his PE teacher, and a cross country dash around Windsor Great Park.

Stuart occasionally digs into his scrap book and treats us all with some of his memories.. Today we celebrate some of his more recent achievements…

Running the Relay with Sally after both smashed Half Marathon PB’s.

Run Fest at Bowood House 2019

Both Stuart and Sally started the day by running the half in the morning, both giving it maximum effort, and both crossing the line with club PB’s.

Stuart now sits firmly on top of the clubs HM PB table, and Sally as second fastest lady…. A great day at the races.

As epic as that was, both were due to run the 4x 3 mile team relay at lunchtime…

Richie and Laura although signed up, we’re unable to attend. Team Shrewton were not about to disappoint.

Stuart and Sally dug deep and ground out two laps each.

The relay was quite short, only two or three miles but because it was short the pace was quite fast – and there was a hill right at the end. But I did get to chat to Vasos at the start of the relay and Caroline got to chat with Chris Evans during the half.

All I can say was it was flippin exhausting! Stuart is a good runner and I didn’t want to let him down so I did my best and nearly had a heart attack on the second lap!

We may not be able to race but we can get out our bling!

Medal Monday

To beat the lockdown blues…. For a daily exercise our members are choosing to run a route local to their house in our club colours. When they get home we have asked them to take a selfie with their favourite medals…

Here Is Georgia-May Bodily…

Georgia was enjoying a rich vein of form before lock down and was getting some great early season times, recently coming home first lady at Salisbury Parkrun. Georgia always puts 100% into clubs sessions and as her medal board says… “She believed she could, so she did”. We love that

We may not be able to race but we can get out our bling!

Medal Monday

To beat the lockdown blues…. For a daily exercise our members are choosing to run a route local to their house in our club colours. When they get home we have asked them to take a selfie with their favourite medals…

Here is Kevin Ford starting things off…

My Two best medals. Bronze round one is for the London Marathon in 1987 (The first one) and the Silver one is for Edinburgh Marathon in 2017 (My latest one.) Both are special, for different reasons

Kev has been injured for 9 months, and after a steady return helping our C25k team prior to lockdown, he comes back with a bang with a sub PB time for his first three miler… Top Work.

Kev couldn’t find his Marathon day pics for 1987, but in searching he came across this Bournemouth Half Marathon 1987 training run and noted a scorching 78mins best ever time.

We may not be able to race but we can get out our bling!