The Chaldon Creakers!

I've been running with the Chaldon Creakers for about 4 months now and I'm really enjoying it.

They're a friendly running club based where I live in Caterham, and the nice thing about them is that there's no joining fee compared to other local clubs I looked at, and you can dip in and out of runs as you like.

We meet every Wednesday at a pub in the area, do our run and then have a drink afterwards sometimes. Each week there's a 3-4 or 5-6 mile route on offer, so again you can see how you feel on that night.

I take the opportunity to use the run as my tempo (or "comfortably hard") run. It's not race pace, but it's still much faster than my long run - put it this way, I'd be happier if I slowed down! That's because the group I usually run with are much faster paced than me and I stay at the back, trying to catch them up! We also run up some fairly steep hills, and this has all stood me in good stead with the recent races I've been doing.

After a nice hilly 5 mile run, our head Creaker Phil always provides donuts as a reward - they always go down well :)

Details about the Creakers can be found at http://www.creakers.co.uk/