Tell us your Running Stories!
Hello Serpies,
We are all runners, so how about sharing your running stories with everyone?
Fellow Serpies Jerry Lockspeiser and Andrew Roberts are putting together an illustrated book that tells the story of why people run. It will feature up to 100 individual stories covering the huge diversity of reasons and experiences. We are looking for people to send us their stories. Please consider this an invitation! All profits will be given to charity.
We would really like to hear from runners of all ages, genders, backgrounds, shapes, sizes, and speeds. No one is too slow, or too fast. No one runs too little, or too much. Fun runner or marathoner – we want to hear from you all.
What should you write? Anything special to you associated with running. This might be why you run, about the first time you ran, achieving a specific target, people you run with, a place, race, or event that is special to you – or a hundred other things that stand out in some way. Proud successes and heroic failures, we love them equally.
Your story can be as short as you like and up to 1000 words. That is from a paragraph up to about 3 pages. We cannot promise to use every submission, but if your story is selected, we will be in touch.
Please send your story as soon as possible – and a photo if you can – to Jerry at Lockspeiserj@hotmail.com by Monday 29th June 2020.
The book will also have a section on the things new runners most need to know. Please tell us what you wish you had been told when you started running. No holds barred on this one! Whether you are submitting a story or not, please email us those by Monday 29th June too.
Last but not least, we are delighted to give 100% of the profit from sales to The Running Charity, a brilliant team who deliver running and fitness programmes to homeless young people.
Please pass the baton by sharing this email with other runners so we can hear their stories too.
Thanks to Jerry and Andrew for this excellent initiative. Look forward to hearing your stories!
Happy running (and writing!)
Participation Representative
Submitted: 18 June 2020