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EA XC Challenge (November 2020)

Growing up in Leeds in the 70s and 80s, school cross country races were a winter Wednesday afternoon rite of passage.

Having just acquired a TomTom (thanks Becky) and having worked out how to operate it, I have become a little bit more competitive with myself, trying to achieve a bit more each time, not sure how much longer that will last.

Spot Prize for improving my time by an enormous 6 minutes in race 5

Thank you, Eynsham Road Runners, for this award, thank you for creating opportunities to run and race during Lock Down, and thank you for providing training and exercises which have helped me to develop.

I have recovered from my surprise at winning something and thought I had better fulfil my side of the bargain and write a report to justify my bottle of wine. I have thought long and hard (a little) about what I would say.

ERR Virtual Motavation – Combe 2                                                                   Thursday 30^th July 2020

I seem to have dodged the responsibility of a race report over the years, however it has finally caught up with me but at least I get a nice bottle of wine to drink!

During lockdown, I have not been running quickly and that has suited me fine!  I have been running because I am thankful to be able to get out there and it is my way of keeping mentally and physically well.

Virtual Motavation Number 3 (25 June 2020) Report – Kathryn Dally

Taking part in the Motavation series has been a slightly surreal experience for me.   I joined ERR in April 2019 and just missed the deadline for entering the 2019 Motavation races, so 2020 has been my first year of competing. It means I haven’t a clue what any of the real-life courses actually look like, but running the series virtually has still been great fun.  When running solo, knowing that other clubmates are running the same distance on the same day, you’re definitely spurred on to run a bit faster than you would normally.