Yesterday was the culmination of months of training for the present Mrs. Dogsby – Folkestones contribution to Race for Life.
For those of you who don’t know the Race for Life is a ladies only charity run over a 5km course. The event is in support of Cancer Research. I was impressed with the turn out. There were two races in Folkestone on the 9th July. We were at the afternoon event and there were 2400 participants, the morning session was fully booked with even more people. Each runner had a label on their back with the names of the people they were running for, those who had already lost their lives to cancer. Some of the ladies had four names on their backs, but instead of looking sad they seemed enthusiastic knowing that they were raising money to stop others enduring the same.
Mrs. Dogsby had been training for a couple of months (under my supervision until she told me I ran too fast) and could comfortably run the 5km, but decided to walk the event with her mum and the majority of the others. All sorts took part in the race, from the very young ( 7 months ) to the very old. Some went around as a gang of friends cheering as they went, others went around quietly on their own. The important thing was that they all raised money. So, congratulations to Mrs. D and Mrs D’s Mum, they did extremely well and raised 350 pounds between them.
High points of the afternoon were
- The man who ran and pushed a lady in a wheelchair all the way round
- The lady who completed the course in gold high heeled shoes. She said “I couldn’t find any trainers to match my outfit“. She was carrying a very large and very gold handbag.
- The two girls at the back who completed the course three-legged
Tags: Folkestone, Race for Life