LFR’s Lockdown Year

2020 began with so much promise. Our first few months were just as usual. New Year’s Day saw LFR’s at different parkruns; the usual marathon gang were running marathons; Team LFR took to the Cross Country Championship Race; we put on our annual Watchless 5 where Emily took home the prize; and we finished the Three Counties XC league with the best results we have ever had…let’s remind you… Overall league results: Team 7th Men 6th Ladies 7th Category results: Tom Ellerton 3rd 25-29 Martin Crane 3rd 45-49 Mike Clark 3rd 60-64 Paul Thomas 3rd 70-74 Rosie Booth 2nd 40-44 Zoe Illingworth 2nd 45-49 Chris Ayers 1st 65-69 A brilliant team result and some fantastic individual results from LFR! We battled storms at the beginning of the year. First came Storm Brendan, swiftly followed by Storm Ciara (I still don’t know how to pronounce this) in February which caused the first race cancellations of the year, a few trips and slips and gave Matthew Ma Hypothermia at the Brecon to Cardiff Ultra! We were still excited in February for the year ahead, many of us putting in the miles for upcoming marathons, half marathons and other races. We were planning for our own 10K race, The Greensand Ridge Relay. Such joy to be seen everywhere! February was also the month we had three of our members qualify as Run Coaches passing their CIRF course with England Athletics! Superb work Debbie, Annis and Matt! Coaches for Life. Following Storm Ciara (seriously, how is this pronounced), Storm Dennis quickly arrived and cancelled more events: parkruns were cancelled, our favourite XC event the Hardwick X-Stream cancelled and the LDWA Punchbowl was cancelled! At least we were used to cancellations at this point… Things were still somewhat normal at the beginning March. We had our AGM and elected a new committee; we made a donation of £5,289.95 to the 2019/20 club charity (Reclaim Life) and chose our new club charity for 2020/21 which was the MK Hospital Charity. Members were smashing out PBs, coming first in races, parkrun was back, ultras were back, we had our pancake run, we even had our breakfast run. And then the news came. Coronavirus had been in the news for some time and was steadily causing concern until eventually we made the decision to suspend all club runs in mid-March and cancelled our 10K soon after. A week later, the whole country was in lockdown. It was an odd time. Being in lockdown. None of us knew what the next few months would entail. We were all scared, anxious, running out of toilet paper. Someone bought all the pasta. Who bought all the pasta? WHO? What were we going to do? Well…we were still allowed to run. On our own. So run we did! And we shared so many smiling seflies to motivate everyone else to do the same. The Captains put on weekly challenges for all of us: these included bingo runs – going on a run and taking a photo of various different things; rainbow runs; Strava Art; spell your name in road signs; Alphabet challenges; Graph Club; Chairman’s Quiz Run; Pacing challenges; out and back; and many many MANY more. We made sure we still had cake runs and created a method for online donations.  You can still make donations here: Donate to Club Charity    You can still eat cake whenever you want. We started a weekly virtual racing league where people challenged themselves each week to beat the previous times. Kudos to Linda who ran faster week on week and achieved her fastest 5K in 2020! We also had the Lockdown Relays organised by Wellingborough District Athletic Club. Members were given a time slot to run as far as they could in 30 minutes! Everyone enjoyed the first event so much, we had two more! We EVEN managed to squeeze our Annual Awards Night in, this time virtual, with HUGE thanks to Captain JPS for organising this and giving us all a brilliant laugh. Do you remember who received the awards? Here are our winners…. Chairman: John Kirwan Coaches: Ian Bisby, Katharine Smith Captains: David Hanley, Mike Clark Clubman: Will Langdon Couch to 5k: Andy Shadbolt Watchless 5 Mile: Emily McClelland Runner’s Runner: Katharine Smith Golden Boot: Tom Ellerton Special Awards: John Kirwan - for completing 250 marathons. Helen Crossland - for completing 100 marathons. Extraordinary Recognition: Nic Dimmock Photo: Chrissie's Wedding A huge well done to everyone who received an award! And then we were back….July saw the return of the club runs! Following the easing of restrictions, and the go ahead from the government and England Athletics, we started our club runs again. Of course, we had restrictions on these and we started slowly. We implemented a booking system on our website (big thanks to our webmaster, Nic Dimmock, for all his efforts in this!), and eventually we got into the swing adding more and more club runs each week. We would not have been able to put on any club runs without the help and commitment of our run leaders who put their hands up each week. Thank you so much for all you do and continue to do for the club. By the end of the summer, virtual events were filling up the calendar and was the way to race for 2020.  The Virtual London Marathon came; the Virtual Snowdonia; Virtual London Vitality 10K; Virtual Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 10K. Anything you can think of was now a virtual event. Paul Little took to Ashridge to run loops of the boundary for his virtual event. He ran a MASSIVE 105 miles for the Virtual Lakeland 100 , running from LB to Ashridge, ran the loops and continued for 26 hours. We had LOTS of members getting involved in the MK Reimagined Events – Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and Relay. Who could forget Steve running the 10K, getting lost on a route that goes twice around the same lake! The relay saw LFR teams come first in both the men’s and ladies’ races, LFR Go Nuts and the Nifty Fifties! And Katharine Smith. Well. She ran her FIRST EVER MARATHON. We all know Katharine had an inspirational year in 2019 raising funds for charity and this year she went even further. She raised a whopping £3,220 for Young Minds which was matched by Morrisons meaning a massive £6,440 is going to a wonderful charity! Well done, Katharine. We are all so proud of you! Some real life events also took place with members taking on the MK Autumn Half, the Hillingdon Half, the Beachy Head Marathon, a local race at the Long Marston 10K. Even cross country made it’s way back into our lives with the first race of the ATW XC Series. What a glorious sight to see LFR back in the mud! The club were still adding more and more club runs, we started weekend running and doing long trail runs. Then all of a sudden November hit and we were back in lockdown. Heading back into lockdown meant the captains coming up with more challenges: we had an Everesting challenge – who can run the most ascent in their run? – and VC Chris made some scavenger hunts – finding iconic sights of LB and the surrounding villages... We still had a virtual event within Lockdown 2.0 and another horde of LFR took on the local Dirt Half Challenge navigating through flooded fields and mud. ALL THE MUD.  Dawn showing it perfectly here... When this second lockdown ended, we were back club running seeing all the festive displays around the town and back at the last race of the year every year – the MK Winter Half!  New member Alena ran her first ever half marathon during this and we even had some age category results with Paul Thomas winning his and Rosie Booth coming second in hers. We found ourselves in Tier 2. We were running again. Just getting back into the swing of it, organising runs. Then it was announced we were entering Tier 3 and then immediately we were moved into a brand-new tier…Tier 4. And club runs have been suspended again. The whole year saw our members dig deep and keep on running.  There were so many superb performances and results all year and some incredible personal challenges.   There are too many to mention, but a few shout outs now... To parkrun heroes David and Chris Ayers who run on their own Linslade parks run each week, reporting their results and keeping us entertained. Michelle and Tracy, ran walked, swum and cycled to complete their Route 66 Challenge - 2,280.3 Miles in 137 Days! Dan Green ran 1,684 miles in the whole of 2020. VC Emily ran 750 miles in a year she was injured more than she was not! Vicky Green finding solace in her treadmill. Amanda Godden for her array of photography skills week on week.  Here's a brilliant example... Kama Langham for improving her 5K time in 2020 by a massive 8 minutes! Paul House and Gavin Prechner for their beard growth. Adam ran a lot of half marathons and ended his streak with a PB of 1.58. James Bassil who made the ultimate progression chart during eight weeks of running.  48 runs in 54 days.  Looks like this..... Wes and Emma who never stop running. The whole committee for leading the club through the toughest of years and staying sane throughout. The captains for everything they have done.  You know! Every single one of our members for sharing their runs and continuing to support the club through these difficult times. And finally Captain JPS who took it upon himself to run every single road in Leighton Buzzard.  Let me repeat that.  Every. Single Road.  To create this amazing heat map...   This is just a selection of amazing feats in 2020 from our members.  There have been more and too many to list everyone!  Well done to all of us for getting through one of the toughest years any of us have ever experienced. We are heading into 2021 with uncertainty still and Lockdown 3 beginning.  But we know we can get through it.  We already have. See you on the other side, LFR.

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EasyFundraising for LFR!

Did you know you can help raise funds for the club charity simply by on-line shopping and it won’t cost you anything extra by using the Easy FundRaising Link? If you have not already registered with the site, please use the following link, as this will also enable to collect an additional bonus for new referrals: Register for EasyFundraising You may already be registered but please add the LFR link to your list of causes with this link: EasyFundraising Causes - Add LFR How Does it Work? When you are online shopping, start from the easyfundraisng page, view and purchase as normal. The retailer will then make a donation to LFR via Easyfundraising at no extra cost to you. You can also download a “reminder tool” that prompts you to click on the donations link whenever you are shopping if that retailer offers a donation, and of course there is an App you can also use. You can read more about it on the easyfundraising website. We would really be pleased if members made use of this facility, as an easy way to help boost our charity donations!

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This is the week that was….our last week of running….

Following the usual club runs in the week, it was a weekend full of events. parkrun Day saw LFRs at Luton Wardown, Hamstead Heath, Linford Wood, Houghton Hall, Seaton, Buckingham, Rushmere and Dunstable Downs. Emma and Wes took to the track to complete 106 laps and ANOTHER marathon. Nuts!  Jamie Stamp galloping 21 miles through mud at Grindleford in the Peak District. 3000ft of climbing. Wow! And Team Turner in the midst of the current climate decided to run their own half marathon on Sunday rather than the planned Hampton Court Half. They're still getting their medal! Saturday was the return of the Ashridge Boundary Run. Perfect running conditions with plenty of hills and mud for the gang. They all loved it! And Team LFR made their way to the MK Festival of Running on Sunday where we had runners in the 10K and the Half and some superb results inclduing Ian Bisby running his first half marathon event for 14 years and ran a brilliant PB of 1.32! That's all for this week.  We are running in uncertain times right now...stay safe LFR.

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This is the week that was…the Breakfast Run!

And what a run it was! We had three groups heading off to catch the trains. The first group to Berkhamsted to run 15 miles back along the canal; the second group to Tring to run 11 miles back along the canal; and a third group to Cheddington to run 5 miles back.  Of course the wind came back overnight on Saturday causing some damage to the overhead cables meaning the Cheddington train was cancelled! Drama! Not to worry. They still found mud and fun along the canal running an out and back instead.  The canal saw us battle mud, puddles, trees, and included a water crossing.  Thankfully the sun was shining for us all morning.  Shout out to Julie Makinson who joined the Berkhamsted group and ran her furthest ever distance! All in training for London Marathon. She had her own personal support crew on the run from Martin and was greeted by her family at the clubhouse. Superb work.  Thank you to all the run leaders Martin, Andrew, Michelle, Gavin, Dave and Kelly. You looked after us all! And a HUGE thank you to the shoppers, chefs, helpers and supporters back at the clubhouse. The breakfast was super scrummy and the perfect finishing munch after a muddy run.  It was our first event supporting our new charity this year and we raised over £300! Superb! Of course that was not the only running this week. We had our usual club runs including our first cake night with a new Captain leading us! parkrun Day (which coincided with International Women's Day) saw LFRs at St Albans - where Phil Brogam was running his 50th parkrun, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Linford Wood, Sewerby, Houghton Hall - where Matthew Kelly ran a new PB, Aylesbury, Parke, Rushmere, Sixfields Upton and Littleport. We also had some LFRs running at events.  Adam was at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 10K running 59.30! And Coach Matt was putting his training to the test at the Thames Meander Half running a stonking PB of 1.29.10! He also topped his age category and was 7th overall. 7th! Ridiculous. And finally we had a multisport LFR taking part in the Wendover Woods Duathlon. 5K Run.  20K Bike. Followed by another 5K run. Ian Bisby took to the woods where he came 30th overall! Brilliant! That's all for now. Have a great week, LFR!

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This is the week that was…the AGM…and still a bit windy…

AGM The big news of this week was our AGM where we have some new members joining our committee and where we chose the club’s charity for the coming year.   Look out for the AGM minutes which will be published on the LFR website. New Committee Leaving the committee this year was Dan.  Thank you so much for your contributions to the committee and the club as Captain for the last three years.  We are all extremely grateful for all that you have done and continue to do. We have some continuing members and some new members to LFR’s Committee.  Staying on in the roles are: Steve Ellerton - Chair; Sandra Dunsterville - Secretary;   Andrew Heale - Treasurer;  Jennifer Garner - Communications; Caroline Mann - Membership;  Lindsey Rigby - Kit; Tracy Cardno and Michelle-Evans-Riches - Events & Fundraising; Matt Gilbert and Annis Turner - Coaches. James Smith is now Captain James P Smith, moving up from Vice Captain to take on the Captain's role.  And we have two new Vice Captains.  Welcome to the committe, Emily McLelland and Chris Stenner! The website will be updated in due course with confirmation of the above.   Our webmaster is currently having all the fun on a mountaintop with a snowboard. Charity The club charity for 2019/20 was Reclaim Life and LFR are making a donation to them of £5,289.95.  They have also received already £200 via Andrew Heale's fundraising and £635 via Katharine Smith's fundraising.  We donated these amounts to enable their efforts to be match-funded by their employers meaning more funds for the charity! We are also making a donation of £1,000 to KidsOut from the funds raised at Santa Dash. Finally….we are delighted to announce that the club’s chosen charity for 2020/21 is the MK Hospital Charity - Cancer Centre Appeal.  Every family has been affected by cancer and goes through the arduous and emotional experience of treatment. A purpose built Cancer Centre is being built at Milton Keynes Hospital for patients to receive their surgery and treatment. The Cancer Centre appeal is raising money to make the environment and experience much better for patients, families and friends. Many patients spend an inordinate amount of time receiving treatment, so making them feel more comfortable and relaxed is so important.   You can view full information about the charity and their appeal on their website:  http://www.mkhcharity.org.uk/cancer-centre-appeal/ Onto the running.... It was the annual pancake run on Tuesday.  The Pace Groups all set off to the Green Family Kitchen to gorge on all manner of pancakes, vegan, gluten-free, gluten-full.  Scrummy!  Thank you, Greens!  Wednesday had JK on the whistle dishing out the Fartlek fun, lots of spints and regrouping; Smiff was leading the Improvers for 400m reps in the park; and Jenny led another lovely social Friday run along the canal. Glorious. parkrun day was also Leap Day which saw LFRs battle Storm Jorge at Milton Keynes (in reverse), Clevedon Salthouse Fields, Market Rasen Racecourse, Gnoll, Sewerby, Wendover Woods, Aylesbury, Houghton Hall, Linford Wood and Rushmere.   At home in Rushmere, Ria Pugh was running her first EVER parkrun!  Welcome to the parkrun fam, Ria. It was a weekend of half marathons with Jo at the Wendover Woods Half; Nolan at The BIG Half (I don't know why it's so big) and Jen, Paul (and Erin!) and Anna (and the whole Mead gang!) down in Eastbourne for the Eastbourne Half!  He is not in LFR, but he is an LFR friend - Billy Mead who runs for the other club ran the half in a superb time of 1.16...which got him 1st place!  Swift. There was some ultra marathon madness from Paul, Emma and Wes at the muddy LDWA Hannington Hike. And finally Team LFR took to Berkhamsted for the Half Marathon and Five Mile Fun Run.  I'm still unsure why it's called a fun run.  I've done it twice.  There's a mountain in Berkhamsted (this may, or may not, be correct).  And they make you run up it.  It's big.  Anyway....a gaggle of LFRs took to Berko to take on this mountain and..well..they did have a lot of fun...  well done guys! That's all for this week.  Let's all wish for a wind free weekend this week, yeah?  Yeah. Have a great week, LFR!

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This is the week that was…Storm Ciara!

The February Cake Night took a dramatic turn when three...yes THREE...of us hit the deck.  The battle scars are real.  Back to the clubhosue for antiseptic wipes and cake.  Thank goodness it was cake night!  Be careful out there folks, watch your footing in the dark, and don't get blown away in the wind tomorrow! Anne took to the Fartlek whistle on Wednesday with a mischievous grin; Captain Dan and Coach Matt put the Improvers to the test on Thursday; and JK led another glorious trail run on Friday. parkrun Day saw LFRs at Oxford, Milton Keynes (where Ian Bisby ran a PB!), Linford Wood, Sewerby, Houghton Hall, Rushmere and Dunstable Downs (where Jim was testing out the new short course).  At home in Rushmere we had PBs from Joe Bidlake Hill, Jo Green (again!) and Catherine Thackray (again!) - well done all!  And KGL down for a visit again and returing from the other side of the world the day before...came in 1st lady! Another quieter weekend thanks to Storm Ciara (if anyone can pronounce this, do tell) with some events cancelled including the London Winter Run which many LFRs had been training for.    And Matthew Ma called it quits 35km into his Brecon to Cardiff ultra when hypothermia and Storm Ciara came to get him. Think you made the right decision, Matthew. The big, big, BIG, news of this week was our Coaches heading off to be assessed for the Coach in Running Fitness Qualification.  Three of them went.  And three of them came back as qualified coaches!  CONGRATULATIONS Matt, Annis and Debbie!  Excellent work! That's all for this week.  Happy running, LFR!

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This is the week that was…the end of January!

January finally came to and end this week, but before that we had our final club runs of the month.  It was an Out and Back Tuesday with Dan practising his photography skills; the return of a Fartlek Favourtie (Welcome back, Mark!) on Wednesday; Captain Dan's Improver session on Thursday; and JK's social trails on Friday.  A great set of runs! We are still looking for run leaders for all our club runs.  If you fancy giving leading a go, whether it be a pace group on a Tuesday, blowing the whistle of doom on a Wednesday, beasting the Improvers on a Thursday or leading the chatter on a Friday, just let the Captain or Vice Captain know. On parkrun Day we had LFRs at Salcey Forest, Rushmere, Buckingham, Aylesbury, Cheltenham, Houghton Hall, Sewerby, Linford Wood, Kettering, Oak Hill, Milton Keynes (where Matthew Ma came in first….again!), Trelissick (where’s that Len?) and Luton Wardown.  At home in Rushmere, we had a PB from Mike Clark!  Well done!  Great running, everyone! It was a fairly quiet weekend for events this week.  Matthew Ma fresh from his 1st place parkrun, came 2nd at the RSPB Race for Life 10K on the Sunday!  There were just two of us at the Watford Half Marathon.  A very hilly half, Sally stormed round and VC James was an official pacer pacing the 1:50 gang helping many runners fulfil their dreams of running with the most encouraging chap around...an running a 1.50 half too.  Mark B was also running, although supporting the runners rather than running himself!  Excellent. Now....not an event, but SOMEONE quietly ran round Willen Lake at the weekend and casually ran her fastest ever 10K!  Well done, Jo Green! Whilst there have not been many events, this, of course, does not stop us from running and there were many, many, MANY LFRs putting the miles in for their training.  We have runners training for 10Ks, half marathons, and marathons all coming up in the next few months. But first, what will February have in store for us? Let's see! Happy running, LFR!

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This is the week that was…the Watchless 5!

It was the return of the Chartmoor Loops on Tuesday night with some determined running from all.  Great efforts on a cold night!  The Fartlek Six took to the streets led by JK on Wednesday.  Coach Matt did a 1-2-1 session with Andrew on Thursday...lucky Andrew! And Jen led the Friday morning gang for a social run along the canal. Saturday always means parkrun Day and we had LFRs at Luton Wardown, Sheffield Hallam, Milton Keynes, Highbury Fields, Crystal Palace, Linford Wood (where Matthew Ma came in first!), Sewerby, Houghton Hall, Buckingham, Tring, Rushmere, Dunstable Downs, Oriam (where is Oriam, Anne?) and Bear Brook.  At home in Rushmere, KGL on a visit home (and just six days from her marathon PB) smashed round with a PB and came in first lady...5th overall!  Also running a stonking PB was Brendan.  Great running! Wes, Emma and Helen took a wander to Derby for 33 muddy miles ar the Wilmot Wander.  We thought Dunstable was muddy at the cross country.  Just check out these shoes... Great work, ladies.  Brutal.  It's done. Getting some marathon training miles in, we had a gaggle of LFR head to the Gade Valley Harriers 12 mile training run on Sunday.  GVH have two more marathon training runs coming up: 17 miles on 23rd February and 20 miles on 22nd March.  These runs are very popular and they have cake at the finish which rival our own! Full details here: https://www.gadevalleyharriers.co.uk/training/london-marathon-training-runs/ AND FINALLY.  It was the long awaited Watchless 5!  What is this Watchless 5, I don't hear you ask.  WELL. The objective of the Watchless 5 is to guess how long you would take to run 5 miles and, after submitting your time in advance, to race it without a watch. Each runner sets off at a different time according to their predicted completion time, aiming to finish at 11:30. In theory all runners should finish at more or less the same time. The winner is not the first runner to complete the course, rather the runner who completes the course closest to their predicted time, i.e. closest to 11:30. A very exciting morning with the runners all finishing within 140 seconds of each other!  First across the line was Steve Baker, a whole 1.50 quicker than his predicted time.  Last across the line was Gavin Prechner, just 30 seconds slower than his prediction.  But the winner, who was just 10 seconds quicker than her predicted time was Emily McClelland!  Brilliant pacing, even when runners were overtaking her, she stuck to her own pace and won the day!  Full results below... Very well done to everyone who took part.   Big thanks to Dan for organising, Steve for seting up the course and all the helpers involved.  A great start to the Sunday! That's all for this week.  Happy running, LFR!

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This is the week that was…

Storm Brendan was blowing his way across the land this week and almost put a stop to our Tuesday club run. Some hardy soles set out in the wind and came back in a monsoon. Wonderful. LFR Brendan (who may or may not be related to Storm Brendan) took the Fartlek Three out for some intervals. Improvers this week was taken by The Outdoor Fitness Coach. He put our runners through some strength work in the mud and rain. Brave souls! An amazing workout, if other members fancy checking out The Outdoor Fitness Coach and seeing what it's all about, have a look here: https://www.theoutdoorfitnesscoach.co.uk/ The sun arrived by Friday for our social morning run and the gang went out with Jenny for another glorious run. parkrun Day saw LFRs at Salcey Forest, Jersey Farm,  Wendover Woods, Rushmere, Rubbenbruchsee, Aldenham, Cassiobury, Tilgate, Gadebridge, Houghton Hall, Sewerby and Milton Keynes.  Can anyone guess where Rubbenbruchsee is? Taking on another ultra this weekend were Matthew and Paul...30 miles at the LDWA Winter Tanners.  30. Miles.  Paul came in 10th and Matthew came in 1st!  1ST!  Well done, both!  Amazing efforts. KGL - although now running for another club *sad face* - ran herself a great marathon PB of 3.27! Her first ever sub 3.30! No egg outfit this time though! Sam took on the Stowe Winter Trail race. A lovely race she would definitely recommend. 6k and 12k options. And run all on paths so minimal mud! Nice running, Sam! And the final event of the weekend was the Fred Hughes 10 Miles. Slippery and hilly, but Chair Steve, Lindsay and Sally all made it round in one piece! That's all for this week. Happy Running, LFR!

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This is the week that was…the final cross country race of the season!

It was the first cake night, the first Fartlek and the first beep test of the year this week!  A great first full week back with the second Friday Morning run too. Big news from Katharine Smith.  She received confirmation through of her match funding and raised a stonking amount for both our club charity for 2019/20, Reclaim Life, and another local charity, KidsOut by running seven half marathons in 2019. Well done Katharine. You smashed it! On parkrun day we had LFRs at Southsea, Ashford, Milton Keynes (where Matthew Ma came in first!), Linford Wood, Sewerby, Houghton Hall, Rushmere, Ellenbrook Fields, Fire Service College, Dunstable Downs and Bearbrook (where Kerry Garfitt came in first lady!)  At home in Rushmere, Catherine Thackray ran ANOTHER PB.  Is that two weeks in a row, Catherine?  Well done! Getting their own muddy trails in at Cliveden were Mr and Mrs Smith... And finally...the cross countey season came to and end with Race 5 at Dunstable.  It was the muddiest, sloppiest, most brutal, but amazingly fun race. Results on the day: Men 4th; Ladies 8th; and Team 6th. And with the final race came the final results and the best season LFR have ever had!  Results..... Overall league results: Team 7th Men 6th Ladies 7th Category results: Tom Ellerton 3rd 25-29 Martin Crane 3rd 45-49 Mike Clark 3rd 60-64 Paul Thomas 3rd 70-74 Rosie booth 2nd 40-44 Zoe illingworth 2nd 45-49 Chris Ayers 1st 65-69 A brillaint team result and some fantastic individual results from LFR!  Great racing team. We also had some members making huge progress across the season.  Everyone made such an effort.  Well done. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and made the season what it was and of course, a massive thank you to JAne and Tracy - cross country extraodinaires - for looking after us all season! Until next season... See you next week, LFR!

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