Thames Meander

Lot of wonderful photographs of the Thames Meander may be viewed on Anthony Evangelista's webiste here.
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Thanks to you and all the team for putting on such a fantastic event on Saturday. Everyone was so helpful and friendly and on such a freezing day it must have been hard to man the marshalling posts after dark as it was cold enough when you were actually running! Please pass on my thanks to everyone. Once again thanks to everyone for a brilliant day and congratulations on a new course record

I just wanted to thank everyone involved in the event held at weekend for their organisation, spirit and huge encouragement. It was a fantastic day, and I never thought covering 54 miles would ever be quite so much fun. It wouldn't have been possible without the huge dedication and drive of each and every one of you. With enormous thanks,

First of all thanks for organising such a great race on Saturday-I enjoyed every minute of. It was lovely to see the Thames at its best in the sunshine and you all looked after us very well indeed. Thanks too to the mini bus driver who dropped me at the station

Thanks for the race - I really enjoyed it and definitely feel confident for the desert now.

Thanks ever so much for the great adventure along the Thames this Saturday. I enjoyed it a lot both during and afterwards. My hat is off for you organizers and all the volunteers that stood around at the checkpoints in the cold waiting for us.

Just a note to say thank you very much for a great weekend. It was good to see you both and meet up with many other friends (new and old) both before and after the run. Please pass on my appreciation to all your volunteers who without exception were superb. You are lucky to have such good people to help.

Just a note to say thanks it was brill

Just thought i would drop a line to say thanks for a great weekend . The run and Sahara school were great as always. Looking forward to next year already!

Well done It was a cracking event - yes it hurt etc but marshalling and everything were smashing.

Just wanted to say thanks for organising a wonderful race! I really enjoyed myself: you have a great event with such a lovely atmosphere.

Thank you for a superbly organised event and all the friendly, encouraging, smiling faces at the CPs.

Please pass on our grateful thanks to all the marshals, who always had a smile and words of welcome despite most of them being close to hypothermia! They are the ones who truly deserved the medals.

Great event and Sahara School very useful. Recovery going well and back running.

thanks for amazing event.

Saturday was a great day (well in retrospect anyway!) and I'll definitely be back next year. Top marks and many thanks to the marshalls who did a sterling job.

Thank you once again for a great race, my 4th Meander. Everything just spot on again (even the weather). Alex was excellent at the finish, he just works so hard for the runners in the evening and morning and I hope he gets enough in the way of smiling faces when we're all a bit weary. Gary gave me a great rub down on the night, another top bloke. Having many races under my belt now, the Meander and GUCR are stand out events for me from a runners' point of view, there is such a generous spirit towards the participants. Whilst I still can, I will always run or marshall at both events. Thank you, I expect that both of you were far more knackered than the runners. Put me down for 2009.

Many thanks for a brilliant day,

Thank you all very much for such a well organised event on Saturday. Everyone was so friendly and helpful and I will have no hesitation in recommending the Meander as a must do run.

Thanks for a great event. My first 50miler and thoroughly enjoyed (?endured). It has been a fantastic opportunity for our 2009 MDS team to run together and has been successful as a wake up call! Looking forward to repeating next year.

Thanks for a great event and thanks to all the volunteers for making it possible.

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to you Steve and your fantastic team for such a well run event on Saturday. It was my first experience of an Ultra and have now got the bug (just as well as I am doing the '09 MDS!). Brilliant job!

Thanks for a really well organised day out on Saturday. The encouragment from each of the check points was brilliant, and you seem to have booked some decent weather as well.

A huge than you to all of the Thames Meander team for organising a great event. I thoroughly enjoyed myself (??) and appreciated all the hard work that goes into making such an event a success. Very smooth organisation.


















Charlie Stannett (right) at the start




Charlie Stannett showing who won an argument with the towpath at around 40 miles