Sam – Page 17 – Leighton Buzzard Athletic Club

After coming back from Lanzarote I was full of the joys of running and ready to get myself some races in the diary. Cross Countries seemed an obvious solution and encouraged by Andy Inchley I booked myself into the ‘Southerns’ down at Parliament Hill in London. It turned out to be in the words of Pepperami “A bit of an animal”.

The kind Amy Farnfield drove me and Jo Sharples to north-west London. It would have helped if I’d known the distance beforehand, funny thing was that I just assumed that it would be a normal cross-country distance i.e. the 9km or 10km. It was only whilst going down in the car that Amy and Jo told me that the men’s race is 14km. I knew at that point it would be a tough day. read more

‘Tis The Season to Be Running

3rd January 2017 Sam

2016 Advent Running Challenge

by Jo Sharples

25 runs in 25 days… you must be joking? Up until now, I had yet to brave the thought of doing a running streak challenge, and merely admired those crazy enough to entertain it. My training throughout November had been okay, but I felt like I had become a little unenthused by running. I had heard of the Advent Running challenge before and decided 2016 would be my year to try it. An advent chocolate and a run a day- what a perfect balance!

The Advent running collective was founded in 2014 by 2 running enthusiasts. They are both an online and actual community and training sessions are based in London. The AR challenge is a free challenge, where the aim is to do 30mins of activity a day from 1-25th December. read more

Perfect PBs in the Puddles

13th December 2016 Sam

MK Winter Half – 11th December 2016

by Maria Williams and Stuart Read

Maria

My worst nightmare occurred the night before when I began to get a sore throat, dosed up with sudafed I went to bed hoping that I would wake up in the morning recovered. “Well?” I hear you ask and the answer is I woke up thinking I’d swallowed a razor blade, my throat was raw. I assembled my kit scoffed my race breakfast of 2 Babybel and a brioche roll then headed out. Outside the cold breeze began to make me gag, I was doubting if I would even make the start line, but Richard told me to do what you can and at least just try. So we arrived with minutes to spare, squeezed into the pen at the 1.40 space, I thought, “should I be here?” read more

Stopsley Hill Won’t Stop the LBAC Ladies!

7th December 2016 Sam

Chiltern Cross Country League – December – Stopsley, Luton

December’s Chiltern Cross Country League fixture came around surprisingly fast since the last one with only 3 weeks since the soggy conditions at Tear Drops in MK.

This month, our usual exceptional turnout of runners was hampered a little by the Lanzarote trip clashing and so we were without a number of the team, but that didn’t by any means stop the performances coming.

In bright, sunny conditions if a little chilly, up on top of Stopsley Common in Luton the crew set up the LBAC gazebo in time for junior after junior and senior after senior to prepare for the third and middle race of the season. read more

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