This year's round Milton Keynes relay saw the biggest event ever, with 19 teams and one solo runner entered to take part on the day. As a club LBAC had entered five teams and Stu Blofeld was the crazy soloist who decided to take on the 31 miles of multi terrain on a Sunday morning.

The event is very low key, with no marshals at all and is really set out as an enjoyable navigation round the edge of the city. The four legs are quite distinctly different and there can be something for everyone.

As team co-ordinator Andy decided that he would try to make the teams as even as possible and with teams selecting their own handicap the aim was for all the teams to finish at 1.30pm before heading off to the pub. This meant that the five Leighton teams all started with 15 minutes of each other, although this was over an hour after Stu had set off with the first team. read more

Bank Holiday Monday was a traditional day of unpredictable weather. At 8am, Chris Williams, Steve Orlando and Nick Clay set the stand up in pleasant sunshine, before Nick left to cheer Mandy on in the Watford 10k. At 10am, club members started to arrive to cover their shift.

The stand consisted of two gazebos with information boards, and then the obstacle course at the back of the site. The best arrival were the cupcakes in club colours with little LBAC flags! Every child that did the obstacle course got a free cupcake and a Leighton Tough 10 mug! To coincide with the arrival of club members, the rain decided it would also put in an appearance and then chose to stay for the rest of the day. Thanks goes to Steve and Nick particularly for helping at 7.50am, and to the cupcake makers for the best bit of marketing we could have had! Also thanks to the club members who looked after the obstacle course, in particular Amelia and Theresa who manned it during the worst of the weather, and then thanks to all of you who turned up for an hour but stayed for far longer, maybe because it was too wet to leave!! read more