The Three Shires Midland MINI Run - Sunday 21st August 2005
Hi everyone!
I have been saying to people for a while now that I should do a run instead of just gatecrashing everyone elses so now finally I have put pen to paper.
The name is fairly logical really as the run will take us through the countryside of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire and maybe if some of us get lost Oxfordshire
It will be approximately 120 miles but quite a few of the roads a fast sweeping B-roads so progress can still be swift
I have chosen quite a long distance to make it worthwhile for people travelling from quite a way away.
The main problem at the moment is the date. I personally only have time to organise after June (coz of Uni
) and after consulting the MINI canlender July is busy and people are away in August, September is Bonette or Bust then October Missano Italy
so don't want the date to clash. Therefore the only sensible weekend is
Sunday 21st August 2005
I have planned the route and done various bit over the past few days and my car is filthy
so many puddles!!! Below is a few highlights of the route for us more cultured MINI peeps
1. Passing through the grounds of Althorpe (hopefully its open) where Princess Diana is buried.
2. Going through Ashby St. Ledgers where the gunpowder plot was plotted.
3. Visit Stanford - apparantly England's nicest village (don't quote me!)
4. Pass Naseby where a famous battle was fought in 1645.
5. Have a whizz down the Fosse Way roman road
6. Explore the countryside around Silverstone.
Due to this and stress levels on the day I will be doing full pace notes with comprehensive instruction so if people want to stop or go at a more leisurly pace they need not worry
I will put these up nearer the time.
The start point will be the same as the Ball Run at Sixfields Stadium in Northampton. Again nearer the time I will post exact directions to it but it is basically approx. 2 miles from M1 junction 16 and J15A. The finish will be in the village I live in called Barby near Rugby as the landlord says that he can reserve the restaurant for all us lot if we wish. This is about 3 miles from the M1 junction 18 and 2 miles from the A5 so good location for getting home. I have a lunch stop in mind but firstly would like to get an idea on the number of people attending. If 5 turn up it will make a big difference to if 50 do!
Start time will be around 11am - will confirm when I know how long the whole route will take.
If anyone wishes to come down the night before please pm me and I will provide details of local hotels. If people do come down the night before I'm sure we can organise a night out with Soggy pointing us in the right direction!
Anyway enough of my waffling!
Hope you can all come on this and hope to see some of the SCNM and MMM club there. It really isn't actually that far north honest Arron!
When I have an idea of the numbers I will conduct all my research and put up the pace notes, hotel info, directions to get to the start, distance of the run, lunch stop and so on.
Hope to see you all on the run!
Attendees
1. Matt18
2. Soggy
3. Harpo
4. Dora/Max
5. tnoy66
6. MINI Poser
7. Stu2
8. Matrog
9. Col
10. ScoobyDoo +1
11. wibbly
12. BOYR4CER
13. Hickster
14. notts04chillimini
15. JUSGT
16. wigley (mebbe)
17. MINISHEL
18. M.2
19. minibee +1
20. Minnie Mouse (please come!
)
21. MINI-Martyn
Apr 13th, 2005, 09:21 PM
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