The March Newsletter is here for you to take a look at, so go and  read it. 

The March newsletter is now out. Catherine has some interesting news in there, including the departure of our stalwart coach, Carol McLaren. Also a plea for a race organiser to come forward for the long running Deeside duathlon. Also news of a training / fun weekend on 22 April.

Fleet Feet races for 2006

Over 100 runners took part in the Heather Brodie memorial race on 26 Feb 2006. Heather was one of the most able and prolific racers in triathlon, competing in dozens of Fleet Feet organised races over the years. She was killed while out bike training in 2005 in a collision with a car. The race was organised by Deeside Runners and held in Lumphanen.

Your webmaster was there, expecting a fairly casual course because of the nature of the event, " a nice friendly social run, etc", and was horrified to find himself in a full on straight up and straight down hill race, with fellow Fleet Feeter Margaret Anderson showing no mercy and racing him all the way round ( and beating him as well, not with a stick mind you, but it felt much the same.) Quite a few other Fleet feeters were there as well, with Andy Redman and Willie Tulloch well up in the results.

A collection of money was taken for the Sandpiper trust with well over £2000 donated. A huge mountain of cakes and other goodies was also demolished at the post race ceremonies, and well done to Deeside Runners and all of their helpers for their hospitality on the day.

Pictured here are the winners of the various categories, including our Margaret Anderson with her hands in her pockets, but at least she is smiling, which is more than can be said for most of the other happy chappies here. Lucky they didn't get beat. Results are on the www.born2run.co.uk website.

Swimming sessions take place at Stonehaven Leisure Centre. These sessions are coached by Doug Smith, and they don't come much taller than that. Doug also used to do this kind of thing all the time instead of working for a living, and now offers you the chance to benefit from all that knowledge and experience just by turning up and having some fun. All welcome, any standard. Just turn up at the pool.