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Train and Race in the beautiful surroundings of the French Pyrenees mountains!Photo: Bournemouth Athletic Club - March 2010 |
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| John Boyes
has been running competitively for over 35 years. His best times range
from 3-57.9 for 1500 metres, to 2-13-20 for the marathon, at which
he has represented England and Great Britain. His marathon victories
include Glasgow, Westland (Holland) Miami and Cherbourg. He moved
to France in 2004 and still retains his enthusiasm for the sport and
would love to pass on his years of knowledge and experience. He is
also a keen cyclist, completing Lands End John O’Groats
in 2003 and gradually ticking off the famous Tour de France climbs. |
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During the past 2 years we have run several successful running training weeks. These are mostly based on marathon build up...We offer half board accommodation, which leaves plenty of time to train, eat, rest, stretch, train, eat and sleep. All runs and sessions are organised to suit all standards, with the speed sessions and time trials organised on a handicap basis. Notable visitors have been Steve Way, Bournemouth Athletic Club, who in 3 years has gone from 5 stone overweight smoker and drinker to 2-19 marathoner and England international. In his week here in March he completed 153 miles, including 2 races, a time trial and 2 speed sessions. Helen Ambrosen, Poole Runners, had a disappointing Berlin marathon last September, in 3-38. Following a new year training week, and a further week at the end of February, she went on to win the British Masters over 50 title in Lochabar, in a lifetime best time of 3-18, despite having had to drive up from Poole due to the Volcano. She has just returned for another weeks training, in which she ran another lifetime best total of 100 miles, some of it at over 6,000 feet. She will be running the Toulouse marathon in October, hoping to improve still further and beat the 3-15 barrier. We can organise training weeks for up to 6 people at any
time of year, please contact us for details. |
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| Kath Boyes met John at a spring training camp in Portugal in 1990, and they were married 3 years later in St Lucia. Although unable to run with John, she still joins John and Robbie on her mountain bike. On the other days she uses her road bike. She is also a very keen walker, and loves gardening and cooking, a fact much appreciated by our guests. | ||||
| Robbie is a 6year old Border Collie who we adopted from a French farm for the princely sum of one bottle of wine. Robbie is tri–lingual, understanding English, French and bones. Since the age of 6 months he has accompanied us on all of our runs, and on one occasion he took a guest around a 10k loop by himself, ensuring he knew the way and crossed the road safely (the guest). |
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