Warm Wednesday Workout
9 GoodGymers made their way to help the Lakeside 5k Race Series in Portsmouth.
- Wednesday, 24th of May 2023
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Led by
Katie Carew-Robinson
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The summer sun arrived today and was still shining this evening when we attended Lakeside to help out at the monthly 5k race series. Dave, Jen, Katie and Wilson arrived early and headed out for a lovely run around the lake and were met by Jo who arrived a little later and ran in the opposite direction to meet up.
Once our run was done we donned our high vis and took positions. Laura and Mel were meet and greet ensuring runners knew where to go to register on the evening and collect numbers.
Judy and Wilson had a pile of numbers and had a mini competition to see which pile would be needed. Jen and Katie mastered the Sharpie and wrote numbers on blanks for those runners who had forgotten to bring theirs from the last race. There was some discussion over the way Jen wrote number 4 but it was very professional. Val demonstrated her street seller voice advertising our very limited supply of safety pins.
Once the race was underway Dave had the very important task of holding the funnel tape to make sure runners went through the finish. Jen make sure runners kept moving down the funnel even when it started to bottle neck. Thankfully the warm weather didn’t bring any vomit but Jen did have a close call with one of the top finishers.
Report written by Jo Kitching
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Run Leader for GoodGym Portsmouth. Health & fitness coach, student, runner, outdoors lover & cinnamon bun enthusiast.
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