Bath

So a couple of weekends ago, in events totally unrelated to our #12challengesin12months, we spent the weekend in Bath (late present for Steve’s birthday!!)

Steve’s not been running much as he’s had a poorly calf, so Saturday morning’s Bath Parkrun was a bit of a test and his first in a week. It was cold and wet and foggy (a bit like the remembrance run) but the Parkrun was set round the Bath Skyline walk and it was beautiful. We are, of course, fiercely loyal to our home Eastleigh Parkrun but I must say the route at Bath was beautiful – almost a shame to run round it as there were times I felt the view warranted stopping to look and admire it!! We did go back round the route at the end of the Parkrun to take some photos.

We stopped and had a great breakfast and went on to have a wonderful weekend in Bath, visiting the Spa and eating and drinking far too much!

Now, we are into December. The nights have truly drawn in and the temperature has dropped and our year of challenges has come to an end. The final challenge is a bit of a fun one and it seems fitting that the last event is a Santa run! Most of the already organised Santa runs are organised by and for specific local charities and so it seemed unfair to book onto the challenge and then not fundraise for the charity that were organising the event.

It just so happens that our wonderful local running buddies, Chandlers Ford Community Running Group, also were interested in a Christmas run. So, I have offered to organise the Christmas run…sort of finish the year of challenges with all the running peeps who have been such a source of support this year.

So, Chandlers Ford Community Running Group’s inaugural Santa run is on the 17th December 2017!! By popular demand, the route is 6.4km and is a pub based route with a number of stops for liquid refreshment!!

Watch this space for the last update to this blog. I very much doubt it will carry on past December – the point of the blog was to have a lasting reminder of our very special year and to be able to look back on everything we achieved. I hope there will be a way of printing this off into a book and in the future we will be able to remember with fondness our wonderful 2017!