I think all of those who ran the February 2020 handicap will remember it as being pretty grim weather – which makes our thanks to Karen and Ian for timing and photographing even more heartfelt than usual.

As is now traditional, the January handicap is run on the last day of the month to give the RED (Run Every Day) participants a chance to complete their challenge by running round together. Apart from David Henderson who chose to use his RED derived fitness to speed round – this is exactly the sort of thing I would do, so big kudos to David for choosing speed over his friends

The final handicap of the year was probably also the wettest – which makes our timers Claire and Sam even more deserving of our thanks than usual.

By Naomi Stanley

A dull, grey, damp Monday marked the November handicap.  So as I headed out in full waterproofs with a huge OS umbrella to time with Kat, I was struggling to understand why 26 brave OS Runners were already so keenly waiting in the drizzle to run the monthly handicap…

On a somewhat windy day (who knew you could have a headwind the whole way round the course), just 9 OSR’s took to the start line, including first timers Phil Clayton and Ray Marr. My thanks to Alan P and Keith who ran with them throughout to ensure they didn’t get lost (& hopefully made their first handicap more enjoyable). 9 is also our lowest attendance this year and lowest since August 2014.