Do things that you always wanted to

Joining Round Table gives you a passport to a world of valuable and diverse activities you wouldn’t otherwise experience. From the excitement of Skydiving and Rally Driving, to Beer festivals and Clay Pigeon shooting, getting together to share the fun is a big part of the Round Table life.

Ask many Round Table members what it is that they like most about their club, and they’ll tell you it’s the opportunity to have fun and do something different which they would never have the opportunity to try alone. It is like doing the activities that you do at a stag do every other week (by this we mean everything other than being handcuffed to the prom at Blackpool and drinking 20 pints of Lager)

The focus is on fun and experiencies – running the London Marathon; competing in a Triathlon, or completing the 3 peaks challenge – they’re all activities that members have got together to enjoy.

Many members, however, organise activities because there’s something they’ve always wanted to do, and they can’t think of anyone they’d rather share it with than their fellow Round Tablers. Lee Maclaughlan,  did just that when he and a group of mates from Moseley Round Table decided to take part in the ancient tradition of running with the Bulls in Pamplona, in July.

Lee described the “high-adrenaline moment of madness” that came about after a conversation between five members – Paul Walton, Mark Wilkinson, Tony Shipway, James Thompson and himself – in the pub three months earlier:

“Clothed in the traditional white trousers and shirt, adorned with red sash and neckerchief, we waited… and waited… for the first of four rockets to signal the release of the six fighting bulls and six steers.

“At 8am, they were let loose. A shade over 60 seconds later hordes of runners came into view as they turned ‘Dead man’s corner’ pursued by the hulking beasts. It was time to make a run and try to keep out of the way!

“Some runners fell, others felt the urge to touch the horned marauders and some to swat them with a rolled up newspaper as is the tradition. The five of us, who had picked differing points to risk our lives, then joined up for a celebratory drink in Pamplona’s main square, which was still being cleaned from the previous night’s revelries.”

For the Moseley five, the trip epitomised what being in Round Table is all about:

“It was an incredible feeling to have done the run – satisfaction mixed with relief,” Lee said.

“That relief was palpable when within the hour we discovered that one of the bulls – Cappuccino – had inflicted the first death of a runner for 15 years.

"It was a sobering moment, but not one that would have prevented anyone from taking their chances another day or returning to a festival that epitomises the camaraderie and opportunities of being in Round Table.”

We can’t promise that every Round Table meeting will be filled with such excitement, most activities will be local to your area. find your nearest Round Table club and go along to a couple of regular events for free. Join in the banter and do something different. You will make new friends near you and you never know what you might end up doing!

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