04/09/2026
🏃♀️🏃♂️ DAWLISH COASTERS WEEKLY ROUNDUP 🏃♂️🏃♀️
🍟 Sunday Seagulls 🍟
The Sunday Seagulls took on an impressive 8-mile run to Cockwood and back, with a bonus challenge thrown in for good measure — a hill rep up Strand Hill! ⛰️💪🏻
Awesome running from everyone! 👏🏻
The run was followed by the traditional coffee, tea and cake social at Daisy’s Café in Dawlish. ☕🍰
Well done Seagulls! 🍟🙌🏻
🐦 Cygnets 🐦
On Thursday, the Cygnets enjoyed a lovely, steady and mostly flat run through the town gardens and out to Coryton Cove, where we stopped for the obligatory group photo. 📸
We then headed along to Coastguards before continuing out towards Langstone Rock. With fewer stops than usual, the group covered just over 4 miles — fantastic progress from everyone! 👏🏻
At this rate, there are definitely some Swans in the making! 🦢💯
Well done Cygnets! 🐦🙌🏻
🦢 Swans 🦢
Tuesday:
The Swans took on a 4.5-mile trip to Dawlish Warren, heading out via Exeter Road and Lady’s Mile before enjoying the sea wall on the way back. 🌊
Great running from everyone! 👏🏻
Thursday:
A good group of Swans tackled the Radfords Loop, with everyone putting in a great effort and maintaining a good pace throughout.
Well done Swans! 🦢👏🏻
🐠 Fish 🐠
Tuesday:
The lovely shoal of Fish took on a relatively gentle and sociable route, starting with a short loop around town before heading up towards John Nash Drive.
From there, we enjoyed the lovely downhill breeze of Lea Mount before stopping for a quick photo. 📸 We then stretched our legs along the sea wall, cheering on the Puffins as they smashed out some excellent efforts! 🐧💨
The route back took us via Rockstone, the main road and a little detour through Lanherne.
The front runners were given strict instructions to regularly loop back past the back runners, making sure everyone felt included and nobody was left behind. This gave us a steady, continuous run where everyone could settle into a pace that worked for them.
Fantastic running from everyone, and a warm welcome to Mark on his first Fish run! 😊
Thursday:
Six Fish took on a rather loopy route that even the Run Leader couldn't quite remember by the end! Thankfully, he had sensibly put the route on his watch. 😂⌚
There were a few ups, a few downs, plenty of zipping along the sea wall and, naturally, plenty of looping.
Great effort everyone! 🐠👏🏻
🐬 Dolphins 🐬
What initially looked like an evening destined to attract just one runner somehow transformed into six divine Dolphins, one spectacular Shark and one negative, nimble, naughty Needle Fish. 🦈🐟
The promise was a nice, steady run at a comfortable pace, so we headed off around The Strand before tackling Strand Hill — the first of two hills. We then descended towards Secmaton before crossing the new canal path and making our way towards Lady’s Mile.
From there, we settled into a steady run along the sea wall.
It was at this point that the Run Leader spotted a familiar-looking bright yellow shirt approximately a kilometre in the distance. 👀
The newly branded Coasters Shark had apparently decided they had far too much energy and needed to unleash it with a sea wall sprint. 🦈💨
They eventually returned to the group slightly sweatier than before!
All in all, a surprisingly large Dolphin group enjoyed a lovely evening run.
As for the negative, nimble, naughty Needle Fish who ran considerably faster than the Run Leader and then complained about getting a stitch… we'll say nothing. 🫣😘
🐧 Puffins 🐧
On Tuesday, the Puffins kicked off another six-week training block! 💪🏻
Returning to Dawlish sea wall, they completed 10 × 1-minute efforts at around 5k effort, with 1-minute recoveries between each one.
And because apparently that wasn't enough, they followed it up with 4 × 30-second hill efforts on Lea Mount! ⛰️🔥
Clearly the Puffins had decided that 10 efforts weren't quite painful enough.
Well done Puffins! 🐧👏🏻💪🏻
Another fantastic week of running from across all the groups. Whatever your pace, distance or preferred level of hill-induced suffering, there's a place for everyone at Dawlish Coasters! 💛🏃♀️🏃♂️
Coasters Rock! 🤘
