Canterbury Social Connections

Christmas Coffee, Cake and Natter

The venue is acessible for those with limited mobility.
With a wide selection of food on offer to suit everyone's dietary requirements and preferences.
Not essential, but your welcome to dress for the season

Parking is avaliable- please remember to register your parking on arrival.

Buses from Canterbury bus station:
No. 16
Nearest departure time:
No.16 at: 6.07pm Bay: D1
Arrival: 6.11pm

Everyone welcome, both new and pre-exisiting members.

All levels welcome :)

The centre has spare rackets, so no need to worry if you haven't got one. We'll bring some nylon shuttles along with us.

Please wear suitable clothing and white soled trainers. There's a water fountain at the venue, but you'll need to bring your own bottle.

The college charges £25 for two courts per hour, so if there's eight of us it's about £3.10 each. I will pay this and them if everyone could pay me back on paypall or in change that would be great. Paypall: @mattshaw98

Please note we have switched over to using Heylo instead of this meetup group to schedule our runs and we will no longer be updating the location each week on here.

If you'd like to come for a run with us, please join our community here: https://www.heylo.com/invite/5a9def90-b445-4636-8ba7-3de38ac4c647

We are a friendly group of people who love a mid-week adventure and enjoy running off road on new footpaths and trails every week, socialising with others along the way and in the pub afterwards and we are always happy to see new faces at our Wednesday runs :)

Our runs are aimed at experienced runners who don't shy away from uneven single trails and going up plenty of hills. We usually run at a steady pace around 6:15min/km but always wait at corners and gates for slower runners to catch up (if you are able to run a 10k off-road in an hour you should be fine with our pace). Our routes never stay the same and we always start from a different country pub every week (usually confirmed 1-2 days before) where we have a well deserved drink afterwards and sometimes even dinner :)
So if you enjoy running off-road on (during winter often pretty muddy) trails, don't fear the hills and don't mind not knowing what each week's route will throw at you, then this is the right run club for you! You should come and join us for some trail fun through the Kent countryside! 😁

If you are new, please feel free to contact us in advance to ask any questions you may have.

THINGS WE RECOMMEND YOU TO BRING:
- head torch or some other form of lamp
- reflective/hi-viz clothing/accessories
- warm clothes to change into for afterwards when you cool down
- clean pair of shoes for the pub (especially when the trails are very wet)
- spare pair of socks
- plastic bag for your dirty trainers
- and a good sense of humour ;)
BE AWARE you sometimes can get quite muddy and wet during our runs!! But this is all part of the fun!! :D