To Liberal and back: Weekly update 1
Posted by on 22 February 2021
To Liberal and back: Weekly update 1
Great running everyone! In our first week of the Olney Runners’ Pancake Challenge, the club has already run 1552 miles! This excludes Monday’s mileage before the challenge began, and adds mileage from the non-Strava runners.
This means we’ve already driven the 58 miles down the M1, taken the shuttle bus to Terminal 5, and boarded our flight at Heathrow. Let’s hope no one got stopped at security for packing too many energy gels...
Let us welcome you aboard the OR Airlines flight 1552 to JFK. We hope you have had a smooth flight so far - we are currently cruising at about 35,000 feet, and we are just under halfway across the North Atlantic. In a few moments, the flight attendants will be passing around some light refreshments (these will be pancakes, of course…!). The Captain has also turned off the Fasten Seat Belt sign, and so you may now move around the cabin, to stretch off after a long week of running. We would also like to congratulate one of our passengers today, Kian Nicholson, who has been bumped up to First Class for recording a whopping 14 runs last week, putting those frequent flyer miles to good use. We hope you enjoy the rest of the flight!
Will we make it to Liberal and back? If we continue to run 1552 miles per week until Good Friday, we calculate that we should make it back to Olney in time! So let's keep running, stay safe, and get ready for the descent into New York sometime next week...
P.S. Some people have been asking about whether you need to use a certain hashtag to make sure your Strava run counts towards the total - there’s no official hashtag, as everyone’s miles will count, but feel free to keep the excitement of the challenge alive by throwing in the odd pancake pun or ‘To Liberal and Back’ comment!
