Whether its the last Auldhouse 5k of the season or the annual festive pub run, the mention of the word "pub" brings the harriers out in their droves. This year's pub run was no exception with a record turn out last night for the 6pm start. We then ran between 6 pubs/bars covering at least 12k or even more for the "adventurous" duo who finished off with 5k through the glen. From the above photo it looks like there are 38, although inevitably, there must be someone missing. This includes our two volunteer driver and purchasing manager, Billy Buchanan and Alan Cullie, without whom the evening could not have happened. The pubs and bars who so kindly accommodated us were The Crooked Lum, Whitehills, The Oyster Catcher, Auldhouse Arms, Langlands Golf Club and our own East Kilbride Sports Club.
This year's event was memorable for the fact that I can remember it as I was on soft drinks only having driven back to EK from Callander especially for the event but forgetting the keys to my flat. I chose to drive back to Callander after the event despite several kind offers of spare rooms and campervans. Other things that I can remember and that can be mentioned were:
- Eddie's human random number generator used to count the participants before we started. It failed at about 19.
- Being told that cyclists weren't allowed in the Whitehills bar. Fine, as with only a few exceptions, we were all runners and we outnumbered the 2 regulars otherwise occupying the bar.
- The case of Gerry Mullen's vanishing pint in the historic Auldhouse Arms. CCTV and Ghost Busters have been consulted.
- Our advance purchasing party finding that Langlands Golf Club was closed.
- The response from Langland's bar manager on receiving the phone call from Eddie and realising he had forgotten about our event but got there within 5 minutes of the call.
- A practical demonstration from Stephen Phimister of how easy it is to get lost in a dense forest only 100m from civilisation (or the Sports Club).
- Probably the most remarkable demonstration of cat-like reactions I have seen when Ian Hughes knocked a pint of Guinness completely over but somehow managed to lose only a quarter of a pint.
- The revelation (backed up by Garmin) that HSQE professional Martin Howell led Allan McLellan on a 5k time trial through the glen by head torch.
- The fantastic company of so many like-minded friends!
Happy New Year All!
Alan
5 comments:
Fantastic night and report except it was Gordon who nearly turned the table over that caused the drinks to fall lol 😀
And when you got back home to EK Sports Club you didn't half steam up the windows :-)
I’m sure I said “cut through here” only to be told by Coach AD “no it’s the next one”.
I also walked home in the early hours with just a TShirt on. Global warming Mr Trump ?
Great night, great company and for once I got to be ahead of Allan on a surface other than road. Canny beat a run through the glen at night!
Thanks to everyone that turned up to make it a great night on the pub run and thanks to Alan and Billy for organising the pubs orders / Driving/ being sober/ and putting up with all of us . And Thanks to Allan / Anne for having us back to they’re house till some time in the morning. Happy new year to everyone
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