Jolly good fun with cream tea on the run

Tracey Jolly and Brian Lewis

TORBAY-based runners Tracey Jolly and Brian Lewis have launched a new series of events, with a cream tea at the centre of the first one.

The Cream Tea Caper at Exeter Riverside Park on September 15 and 16 will be the first venture for Jolly Running, which will organise off road running events and weekends in Devon.

Brian Lewis, who has organ- ised running events before through his work and is also a qualified Running Coach, said: “We are very lucky to live in Devon. We have such amazing countryside and coastal paths to explore on foot and we want to share some of these locations with others.”

The Cream Tea Caper will be based at Exeter’s Double Locks pub, and runners or teams of relay runners have six hours to run as many or as few 3.3 mile laps as they want to.

Each runner gets a medal, a T-shirt and a takeaway cream tea.

Tracey, who is a qualified run group leader and a guide runner for the partially sighted, said: “My dream is to organise running events that are fun and suitable for all abilities. We also aim to work with local businesses as much as possible and to be as eco-friendly as we can because respecting where we

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“For the Cream Tea Caper we have sourced compostable boxes, biodegradable knives and recyclable jam jars.”

Jolly Running have also announced a Dark Halloween night trail run at Cockington on October 31 and an Extremely Jolly festive running event around the private Escot Estate in Ottery St Mary on the weekend before Christmas.