LFR choose their new charity for the year!
Each year, LFR nominate a charity at our AGM and we hold regular events throughout the year to try to raise as much funds for the charity as possible and promote awareness of them. Funds are raised through events such as our monthly 5caKe night (we run 5K, we eat cake), our annual breakfast run […]
Beds and Bucks AA Cross Country Championship by Captain Dan
Not another Cross Country Race I hear you ask! Not more mud, hills, wind and rain! Not more cake! Well no, not this time, it was a new adventure for Leighton Fun Runners. As a club we have never signed up to the County Athletics Association until this year. It enables us to attend three […]
How do you measure running achievements?
For me last 6 months of running have been pretty pants and by October I was seriously considering jacking it in. I’d gained weight, my running buddy was AWOL and unlike everyone else I was getting slower not faster. I had signed up to a Half Marathon in the Summer and as the New Year […]
New York Marathon by Duncan Watson
I am pleased to say that I survived the New York Marathon with a time of 4.44.49. It was an amazing experience that will never be forgotten; wondering around the Big Apple the day afterwards with 50,000 others wearing your medal is a fabulous feeling as everyone is saying “Con-grat-u-lations” I did struggle due to a […]