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Our village club has a great friendly atmosphere. We don't have the top end runners that some of our bigger rivals have but we still managed to top the county Grand Prix rankings for the men and have good representation at the pointy end of several categories in the women's events. But at the same time we welcome all comers and our weekly club runs are designed so that everyone can find something that suits them, and we have plenty of runners slower than you.
Don't give up looking, there are loads of really welcoming clubs out there.
ewanmac
emailed a local running club to see if i could get a bit of training and some company for training. Being an honest chap i explained my parkrun time is about 32 mins at a casual slope or if i push i managed 29 mins and lots of wheezing. Im aware that these arent good times BTW but im just starting again. The bloke from the running club was mad keen to farm my fees until he saw the times. "we dont do a new runner program at the moment and you wont be able to keep up with the seniors who run for an hour"
Kind of sad now, suppose i'll just keep messing about in trainers on my tod. Maybe i can draft the dog into running, the fat git could do with some exercise.