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    Smile Kiss off to running clubs

    Sorry about the title but there wasn't room for what I wanted to call the thread. Basically I've come to the conclusion that my running with a club days are over. I used to run with Skipton AC when I lived in Skipton and have occasionally run with them since - in the summer they would all trot off road over some nice hilly routes dotted around Skipton and, although the winter road routes were kind of irksome, it was a really fine club and they were (and still are) a really nice bunch of people. But....

    I've popped over to Skipton (25 minutes in the car) last Thursday and again last night and I think I'm wasting my time. My plan was to run with them weekly if I could to try and boost my speed (all my running on my tod and non-racing isn't exactly making me any faster) and last Thursday night I did have a really good blow out; we ran a fast off road course, if not a particularly hilly one, but unfortunately of the half dozen off roaders that night, I think they all wanted to run as a social trot along whereas I blasted off and ran the whole route on my own out in front . Doh!

    Last night I was hoping it might be different and I wasn't disappointed. Of the 25 or so runners who turned up at 7 pm at Skipton swimming pool, all of them but me chose to do an 8 mile road run out to Embsay reservoir and back!!! So I'd driven 14 miles to do a frigging road run!!!!

    Anyway, rather than run to Embsay in my fell shoes, I still had a lovely run up to Bog Lane via the caravan site, along the Flasby track and over Sharp Haw and back but I did it on my own. I think Skipton AC have become a road running formation now and, to be fair, they've done an absolutely stirling job bringing in new runners.

    But they're not for me really

    (By the way I can't really run on Mondays or Wednesdays nowadays, well not in any organised way anyway, so Settle Harriers and K&C can't fulfill my running requirements either )
    Last edited by Stolly; 04-06-2010 at 09:50 AM.

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