Thursday 3 March 2011

March Update

It's March!

That happened pretty fast.

Some new club stats for you all:

1. MEMBERSHIP:

We now have 26 members on the books, of whom 18 have attended at least 1 session.
This includes staff from Labour, Conservative and the Lib Dems, as well as 3 House of Commons staff.

7 new members have attended since Christmas.

As we started with only 4 members last summer, this is excellent progress!

2. MILAGE:
Collectively as a club, we have run 399 miles since records began (last October that is, not the stone age).

That is almost precisely the distance between London and Edinburgh!

Good work, team.

3. THOUGHT

Running thought of the day:
Thought a long Running Club session was a big challenge?

Try the SPARTATHLON.. 153 miles long, based on Herodotus' description of the route taken by Pheidippides when he ran from Athens to Sparta seeking reinforcements for the impending Battle of Marathon.. which as we know, was the birthplace of another famous race.

The course record is 20hours 25minutes.