After a long “lockdown” break, we returned to our Tuesday and Thursday night club runs and it was great to be back. Lots of social distancing taking place but everyone played their part in making the club nights work. We also had our 5 mile virtual challenge with Tim and Charlee winning the men’s and […]
The Weekly Newsletter has come of age during lockdown with lots of activities to report on. With plenty of photos being submitted, there seems to be some friendly competition as who gets their picture as the header. The Virtual 5k goes from strength to strength with lots of new participants and plenty of PB’s being […]
With lockdown continuing, we are trying to keep members engaged and updated on what’s happening. We had a lockdown “escape quiz” which was probably the most successful of all our Zoom evenings. Totally different and a lot of fun. The AGM took place on 12th May 2002 on Zoom. We had the required quorum thankfully […]
During lockdown we have kept busy and connected with different virtual challenges including quizzes, escape rooms and scavenger hunts. We have kept in touch with each other’s running through Strava, Facebook and WhatsApp, where there has been lots of positive encouragement.
This month our runners have competed in the London Big Half, Maidstone Road Run half marathon, Dartford Half and the Lydd 20 miler. However as things quickly changed and we entered lockdown we had members do a “not the Bath half” and some fun individual runs drawing out pictures on the run maps.
February has been a busy running month with Mote Runners competing in Hyde Park, Chichester, Headcorn, Trosley and some did the Valentines Tough Love Challenge.
We would like to welcome many new members to the club in the new year. It’s really great to watch our membership growing and see how people are progressing with their running, Mote Runners competed in the Benfleet 15 miler, Farnborough half and we’ve seen some of our runners abroad. January saw the start of […]
Mote runners were represented for the first time in the Kent VET’s Cross Country Championships, well done to all of those who competed. December also saw the inter club race between Mote Runners and the Dragons Running Club. This was great race and a big success. We celebrated Christmas at the Plough where lots of […]
November gave us the good news of receiving a London Marathon club place, we held a draw for the place and the lucky winner was Dave W. On the 10th November Alan ran a good time at the Saffron Walden half marathon. The following week at Marden Tony had a strong performance in the half […]
In October we said a goodbye to our summer evening runs in Mote Park and hello to our winter routes and lots of autumn races. On the 6th October Charlee, Clive, Mick and Neil all competed in the Ashford 10k and Charlee excelled with a PB. On the same day we had John C & […]
