Blog – Pebble Dash

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PD Report #6

Pebble Dash & Pick. Tuesday 1st October 2024. Not quite first light but not far off it, the light bouncing back down off the clouds, not yet pink. Running on pebbles (as opposed to tarmac) gives your whole being a work out. From the stabilising muscles in your feet and…

Stuart18/10/2024

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PD Report #5

We Are A Sea. Sunday 29th September 2024. Today Pebble Dash edged into the realms of legitimacy: we got t shirts printed sponsored kindly by We Are A Wave - a festival? A sponsored project? Whatever it is it celebrates local people practising active hope in the face of adversity.…

Stuart17/10/2024

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PD Report #4

Pebble Dash & Pick. Wednesday 25th September 2024 The new normal autumn is upon us and with it the Pebble Dash takes on a more heroic looking and slippery character. Not cold enough yet to turn rain into needles - that won't come until March most likely with the rapid…

Stuart25/09/2024

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PD Report #3

Pebble Dash & Pick. Thursday 29th August 2024 Planets align on the horizon above the pier this morning just before the sun comes up and overwhelms their light. The sea is blissfully still after probably the most perfect evening of this summer when the community en masse came onto the beach…

Stuart25/09/2024

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PD Report #2

Pebble Dash & Pick. Monday 26th August 2024 Pebble dashing as a zen exercise and other musings. Like many seafront denizens I am drawn to the flotsam that comes ashore and ways of repurposing it. Not the numerous plastic discarded consumer items that we sadly have to gather on the…

Stuart27/08/2024

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PD Report #1

We did it! Seven dashers made it out bright and early for the inaugural Pebble Dash run this morning and we were rewarded with glorious sunshine and lots of flat sand. None of us knew what we were doing exactly but it worked. We found our way to the harbour…

Stuart24/06/2024