• This is the week that was…LFR’s Birthday!

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 18 February 2019

    …LFR’s birthday!  Picture the scene.  14th February 1983.  Valentine’s evening.  In a Leighton Buzzard pub.  It’s cold.  It’s dark.  A group of men meet up to celebrate the day and their passion…for running.  Leighton Fun Runners was founded there and then and here we are today.  36 years later.  A

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 11 February 2019

    ….a busy weekend of runs! The calendar is filling up with many races and events with LFRs everywhere showing off the red and black.  David, Fiona and Jo were at the second Stoke Winter Trail Run.  Julie came third in her age category at a wet Welwyn 10K.  Mother and daughter

  • This is the week that was….snow!

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 4 February 2019

    The small flurry of snow we had this week caused schools to be closed on Friday, our own Friday morning run was called off, parkruns everywhere on Saturday were cancelled, the Watford Half Marathon on Sunday was cancelled as was the club’s recce of the new 10K route.  It was

  • This is the week that was…the final race of the Cross Country Season!

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 28 January 2019

    On a cold, cold Sunday morning, 27 LFRs made it to Wootton to finish the season in style!  We had the best turn out we’ve ever had this season resulting in the Ladies team finish 6th, the Mens team 8th, with an overall team position of 7th.  The best ever

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 21 January 2019

    Our pace groups returned on Tuesday with everyone enjoying their runs about the town and Ian’s headtorch run through the woods.  Shout out to Gavin’s 09.30 min/mile group creating a chicken map on their run… Pace group leaders – I challenge you to beat this at the club’s next group

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 14 January 2019

    ...still 2019 and our first full week of club runs following the festive period.  We had a huge turnout for our first 5caKe night of the year with some great runs and happy runners.  Shout out to Claire who ran her first sub 40-minute 5K!  Karen led the first Fartlek

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 7 January 2019

    2019!New Year's Day began with a parkrun at Rushmere.  Jim was completing his 250th parkrun - he's been running at parkrun since 2012.  250 parkruns in that time - incredible.  Also celebrating at NYD parkrun was Keith who was volunteering for the 50th time. We even had some NYD PB's

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 31 December 2018

    ...Christmas!  We swapped our usual club runs for the Christmas week with various runs out and about.  On Christmas Eve, Ian and Jen took two groups out for a trail run starting from Little Gaddesdon.  A beautiful day for a run followed by a drink in the pub to set

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 23 December 2018

    ....almost Christmas.  The annual LFR Christmas Quiz Run fell on Tuesday...as did the rain.  Still 28 runners came out to pair up and head out to answer the questions!  We had a tie breaker for the win between Matt and Ash and Dave and Kevin. Matt and Ash came out on top! 

  • This is the week that was…

    Posted by Emily McClelland on 17 December 2018

    The Captain set us off on a new out and back route on Tuesday taking a tour of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade to see the Christmas lights with the occasional hill thrown in.  Sparky was out running again on Tuesday running his furthest yet since coming back - excellent work,