No Paris or Mondon marathons - but that doesn't stop Borders athletes in their tracks

Members of the Haslemere club's Get Up And Run group

Haslemere Borders members, like those at all sports clubs, have seen their regular training sessions and races cancelled during lockdown.

But this has not deterred them from continuing their training and maintaining their fitness levels, while adhering to the rules.

Weekly training sessions have been provided by the club’s coaches and individual members have attempted to follow them, maintaining social distancing guidelines.

Social media has enabled runners to keep in contact with others, set individual fun challenges and follow achievements in a virtual world.

Despite the cancellation of many races, months of marathon training was not wasted as members set about participating in their own ‘marathon’.

The disappointment of the Paris marathon being cancelled did not deter Caroline Snape, who completed the 26.2 miles by cycling and running. On April 26, when the streets of London should have been full of crowds cheering on the London Marathon runners, Colin Butfield chose to run the ‘VLM’ around Haslemere, and with less support and a few more hills the route was a lot harder.

Others took part in a high-intensity interval training session, with 26 intense anaerobic exercises, repeated 26 times.