Oh dear (Part 1)

Conor has hurt his leg.

We are saving up for one of these...

Money, money, money

Give us your money:

http://www.justgiving.com/bedrace2009

Do it.

Do it.

Do it.

Do it.

Do it.

Thar she blows

The bed has arrived, the bed has arrived. And it has a STEERING WHEEL!!!! Get in.

Here it is:

Ah, if only...

Running up that hill

Castle Ings.

No problem.

Honest.

Another fine effort on Thursday. New boy Neil, one of our much appreciated reserves joined us and led us all the way. Good work fella. Apparently it's the cycling that means he can fly up hills.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/knaresborough/328124051437689927

Mr Cook was absent due to seeing Keith Floyd, or something. Mr Wood was given a note.

So glad you made it...

We have a theme - it's The Blues Brothers. Good, yes?

Did a good training run 
http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/gb/knaresborough/706124022942365709 at a good pace. We also experienced our first insults from members of the public (thank you boys) and had our first potential kidnapping. Luckily Big Steve managed to scare off the van that was shadowing him. For now anyway.

The big vote was an exciting affair. If politics was this exciting everyone would vote.

The top 4 (I believe) were

1. Blue Brothers

2. The Wall/Nellie the Elephant

3. The Wurzels

4. ZZ Top

Something like that anyway. So now we need 6 black suits, shades, hats, trumpets...oh yeah and a full scale model of  a Dodge Monaco sedan made out of 2 by 4 and paper mache to fit onto the bed we don't have. 

Most entertaining bed

Andy, Conor and the 2 Pauls put in a very fine display for most entertaining bed on the Thursday before Good Friday (is that OK Thursday?). 

Sadly one of the WAGs has since informed us that "Most Entertaining Bed" is judged solely on the display in the paddock and the march down the high street on the actual day of the bed race.

Apologies for this misunderstanding.

New blood

A meeting was held post-run to bring everyone up to date on our ideas for themes etc. I will let you know when the minutes are out, but we met one of our replacements last nigh - "Big John".

He has taken on the role (or should that be roll) of nutritional expert/coach. Good to have someone with such an obvious love of their subject on the team.

Welcome aboard.

Actually up and actually running

Messrs Head, Wood, Kingston, Clark and Young took part in the first training run last night. Paul said he knew a nice 2 mile route to get us going - turned out to be this 
http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/gb/knaresborough/511123874516766718Oh lordy!

It went brilliantly well, we started as a team and finished as a team, setting a good pace all the way.

3.5 miles, 35 minutes. Wood and Kingston also had extended runs to get to the start and finish - so hats off to them.

Mr Mooney, the fitness coach, was absent due to work commitments. He actually said he was in Waitrose, but we are giving him the benefit of the doubt.

More of the same next week.