The weekend of the 13th and 14th April 2019 saw a festival of running descend on Brighton, with a whole range of different race lengths to suit all FrontRunners – who were also out in force over the weekend taking part.
The whole thing kicked off on Friday night, with the first Tug-o-Run, a friendly cheeky run pitching Brighton against Hove, as participants ran a 5km loop on Hove lawns in opposite directions and the best average time of all runners in a team being declared overall winners. Brighton and Hove FrontRunners opted to run for Hove – who, despite Brighton going on to claim the first three finishers – clocked up the best overall average time and were declared winners. BHFR Sonia also claimed first overall female, bagging herself a pair of trainers for doing so. Check out the little video the sponsors of the run put together to spot a few of our FrontRunners doing their thing.
Saturday saw our routine parkruns, with FrontRunners representing at most of the city’s courses, whilst our co-chair Paul took part in more competitive racing at outdoor track in London.
However, Sunday was the main event with 12,000 runners taking part in the annual closed road Brighton Marathon. Three of our very own FrontRunners were taking part, from a first timer to a seasoned Brighton marathon runner, with the BHFR cheer-squad out with our rainbow flag cheering everyone on the route. We will soon have a race report up and pictures from those taking part, but congratulations to all those who completed the 26.2 miles in nice but very windy conditions!
At BHFR we are about supporting runners in whatever type of running they want to take part in, whether it is a friendly 5km parkrun, competitive road or track racing, or just getting out and challenging themselves on a marathon and raising money for charity in the process. If you were inspired by last weekend’s events come to one of our sessions to find out a bit more about who we are and what we do.