Hi everyone!
Well, I've had a fairly busy week, but I've had a very busy Sunday. If you live in or near the town I live in, then you may probably of heard of an event (ran by my mum and her wonderful committee) called Royston in Blue. And well, thats what has taken up my Sunday as well as one of my blog posts!
Well, I've had a fairly busy week, but I've had a very busy Sunday. If you live in or near the town I live in, then you may probably of heard of an event (ran by my mum and her wonderful committee) called Royston in Blue. And well, thats what has taken up my Sunday as well as one of my blog posts!
Background information
Royston in Blue has only been around for 3 years now and it is a 3k race around The Heath. The reason for the run is to support and make as much money for a famous charity in the UK called Teenage Cancer Trust. Just by this one run once a year, they have managed to raise thousands of pounds for the charity.
The day of the run:
Over the period of three years, I have only took photos/videos for the run. But this year, I decided that I may just go and do the race with my friends as well as filming it along the way!
I got up there a bit too early, but decided just to stick around and wait for all my friends to turn up. My mum was panicking (as always) because things went too smoothly for this race. But like I said, its better to be prepared! So everything was sorted about 2 hours before the race was initially meant to start, so I played the waiting game until people started to show up.
All my friends arrived quite early, because my "team" for the run still had to sign up. Whilst busying around with photographs & sorting out other things for the race, time went by really quickly and before we knew it, we were starting our warm up!
I got up there a bit too early, but decided just to stick around and wait for all my friends to turn up. My mum was panicking (as always) because things went too smoothly for this race. But like I said, its better to be prepared! So everything was sorted about 2 hours before the race was initially meant to start, so I played the waiting game until people started to show up.
All my friends arrived quite early, because my "team" for the run still had to sign up. Whilst busying around with photographs & sorting out other things for the race, time went by really quickly and before we knew it, we were starting our warm up!
I didn't warm up very well (too busy filming!) but it was great fun get pumped up before we all started! At this point in time the famous "#SELFIE" song came onto the stereo for the crowd and we were all instructed to talk a selfie. As you can see on the left, this didn't go to plan (one of my friends face being cut off, whilst another was laughing to herself…)
And then we were off! Now, like I said I was filming this whole event so I wasn't in the mood for running the whole thing. Because of this we stayed back and let all the runners go first and complete the course without us getting in the way! Then our group split as two of us walked and two ran (we weren't very successful in staying as a "team"!
However, we caught up with each other and then realised we were near the back, so we began to speed walk our way through the crowd, well we attempted to at least. However, even though we were walking our way round, the marshals of the race were lovely and cheered us on!
We got to the final leg of the course. Hot, sweaty and annoyed due to the realisation that we had to do 2 laps (sorry girls for mistaking that bit) we decided to run. I'd like to think I'm okay at running, but with a camera bag, DSLR in your hand (I'm definitely investing in a GoPro) and wearing a pair of converse its a VERY different story. My friends all zoomed off whilst I was struggling to carry 100 things at once BUT we all managed to finish together (kinda…)
And then we were off! Now, like I said I was filming this whole event so I wasn't in the mood for running the whole thing. Because of this we stayed back and let all the runners go first and complete the course without us getting in the way! Then our group split as two of us walked and two ran (we weren't very successful in staying as a "team"!
However, we caught up with each other and then realised we were near the back, so we began to speed walk our way through the crowd, well we attempted to at least. However, even though we were walking our way round, the marshals of the race were lovely and cheered us on!
We got to the final leg of the course. Hot, sweaty and annoyed due to the realisation that we had to do 2 laps (sorry girls for mistaking that bit) we decided to run. I'd like to think I'm okay at running, but with a camera bag, DSLR in your hand (I'm definitely investing in a GoPro) and wearing a pair of converse its a VERY different story. My friends all zoomed off whilst I was struggling to carry 100 things at once BUT we all managed to finish together (kinda…)
My mums failed selfie of the crowd..
I haven't done the course for years and I'm not as fit as I used to be, but besides that it was great. The event went SO well and I'm really pleased for the Royston in Blue committee that it went really well! We were all worrying that it would rain again like every other time but it was glorious sunshine (3rd time lucky I'd say!) I had an awesome day and I beginning to sign up for next year and I strongly suggest you should too!
If you'd like to see my view on Royston in Blue 2014, you can view it just down here!
Thanks for reading, I'll see you all in the next blog post!
If you'd like to see my view on Royston in Blue 2014, you can view it just down here!
Thanks for reading, I'll see you all in the next blog post!
Grace x
PS, have you noticed the new layout? Thought I'd switch it up a bit to prevent me from sticking to a purple colour scheme! Let me know what you think!
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