15th July Cancelled at Crich


No it isn't what you feared. I haven't joined the increasingly growing list of people who have become the latest victims of WOKE cancel culture after having said, done or even thought something that the politically correct police deemed politically incorrect. 

Rather I have just discovered after a chance checking of my e mails that the Crich monument race that I was due to take part in this afternoon as been cancelled due to danger from falling branches, lightening strikes and flying gazeebos!!

Run as part of the annual village fete, the weather forcast has been deemed too unpredictable to allow for the safe running of either the race or the fete itself. This is the second time in two years that I have been unable to do this local event, last year I had to pull out  because I managed to catch Covid the week before. 

So the chance to see if I could better (or even get close to) my 2019 time will have to wait for another year. Some say today's cancellation wasdivine intervensions, me I say its just my 'fete'

 


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