NEWCASTLE Athletics Club swapped the winter chill for the Lanzarote sunshine as a determined squad took on the island’s famous endurance festival at the weekend.
When the trip was first mooted, there was a lot of enthusiasm. In typical fashion, this dissipated quickly with all but the stalwarts fading one by one.
The club chairman was a definite to the bitter end until he realised that he had to source a diamond-tipped spark plug for the Jag, thus rendering him unavailable.
Others could not leave their underlings to manage change and transform lives, and so they could not go, though the ‘FOMO’ was hanging out of them.
With a strong Irish and British presence, the event delivered top-class racing and unforgettable moments, made better by two days of relaxing and running (some more than others) in the bearable winter sun.
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