As the days grow colder and the nights darker, the fun is just heating up at the Chasers! From spooky Halloween runs to our festive Christmas celebrations, the upcoming cross-country season and the ever-popular Regent’s Park series, there's something for everyone. So, layer up, and get ready for a jam packed season of fun.     Sunday 6th October: Regents Park 10K Winter Series A huge thank you to everyone who volunteered for the Regent’s Park 10k! All volunteers should have received an email from Nick with the instructions to join the what’s app group where more details will follow.  If you haven’t volunteered yet, now’s your chance. Help out once, and you’ll earn a free entry for the next race. If you volunteer in the March series you can get an earlier race free. Win win! The Winter Series dates can all be found on the Chaser calendar, click here to volunteer. Sunday 6th October  Sunday 3rd November  Sunday 1st December  Sunday 5th January  Sunday 2nd Febuary  Sunday 2nd March For those who would like to run or encourage friends and families to run, please sign up here. If you haven’t signed up in advance, worry not as you will be able to turn up on the day and pay on your arrival! There may or may not be some new fancy medals for those taking part. 👀👀 🫖 🚨Tea Rote - HELP NEEDED! 🫖 🚨 We’re sadly still low on tea rota volunteers.  If you love a post-run snack as much as we all do, sign up and keep the squash flowing! We have plenty of biscuits in the cupboard so all we ask is to bring a pint of milk. Click here to sign up, for any questions on what to bring don’t hesitate to ask a committee member in the what’sapp or check the website. Without any volunteers the thought of a nice cold squash and biscuit post Highgate hill is just a distant dream.       5th November: Halloween Spooky run 👻🎃 The chasers annual spooky run is officially in the Calendar! The spooky run consists of a fun headtorch run across Hampstead Heath for all abilitities. Pace of the slowest. 10k, meet at Talacre at the usual time 7pm. This run will be Halloween themed so the more fancy dress the better! Here is some pictures for inspo. A beginners option will also be provided, details to follow. We will then head to the pub after the run for some Pizza's and drinks!    🎄Chaser Christmas party -Save the date 🎄 Save the date for the highlight of the Chasers’ year and the best Christmas party of all your Christmas parties! The Chasers Christmas party is on *Friday 6 December* - stay tuned for more details on tickets and location 👀 Saturday 26th October. Mob Match vs Mornington Chaser Mob match against Queens Park Harriers at Gladstone Parkrun. Grab your vest and lets get a gang together to give the Where's Wallies a run for their money. Points to be scored by highest age grade! The more Chasers the better. Sign up here if you’re interested in giving Queen’s Park Harriers a run for their money.           Cross county season!  The cross country season is officially among us…consider signing up for the Chingford league and (or) met league! Chingford is a mixture of cross country and met league is cross country only. Entry is included in your membership and it is very inclusive and an excellent chaser atmosphere (and the atmosphere is better with a bigger group!). Have a look on the calendar as the first few races are coming up. Personally, I will be trying cross country for the first time, I hope to see some X-Country newbies also join me. We can experience our first times together! (no creepiness intended).       Berlin Marathon - Well Done Chasers!!  Well done to all the chasers who took part in the Berlin Marathon. For those who couldn’t be there, you’re in luck!! Big thank you to Rebecca for pulling together an excellent race report so we can vicariously live through the teams Marathon experience. *warning the following report may make you want to sign up for a marathon…* Berlin – Ich Liebe Dich Potato is my carb of choice and I’ve harboured a love of Germany since 14, from a GCSE German exchange where I discovered culture at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Quite different from Luton, exotic, with rude art. I secured a spot for Berlin in London Marathon ’22 but was banjaxed by a lingering hamstring situation. In ‘23 I discovered bikes, sulkily missed London in Spring and deferred my Berlin place in Autumn. This year Tina Sharkey, Berlin and I were turning 50 together and at last I was able to train. Enjoying every run with an evangelical zeal, I ignored my watch, ran more intuitively and probably scared a lot of you with unbridled enthusiasm around the circle.  Berlin is fast. There was a point in the middle of Berlin Marathon where I turned around to the 2 American guys running next to me and whooped ‘this marathon is so effing flat I feel like we’re running downhill! They laughed.  ‘I live in North London’ I explained, ‘it’s very hilly around Regent’s Park’.. ‘Ohh is it?’  they said, and ‘have a great race’!  Last week a world record 54,280 people finished the Berlin Marathon and a few of them were Chasers. I did have a great race and was finally lucky enough to celebrate my run in stunning Chaser company. I asked some of my fellow club mates about their impressions of Berlin, in the spirit of writing a more well-rounded race report, and here is what they said.  ‘Loved this year's Berlin. The pressure was off and I enjoyed every minute (except between 34-38km 😆).’ Danielle Smreczak ‘I knew I’d done enough to finish but to get a 2min PB was a complete shock. From the perfect weather, to the actual course, (there are quite a few downhills which I didn’t remember from last time), to the unexpected PB and especially for the after party, this turned out to be a dream marathon! Not sure I’ll be back for a third Berlin but it will be remembered as one of my favourites for sure.’ Tina Sharkey ‘Probably the best running weekend away ever.  Great people, mostly decent food (minus the potatoes) and absolutely top-notch post-race celebrations. The marathon was fun too.’ Paul Davies ‘It wasn’t my best race but it was as advertised, a simple, flat course. No thinking necessary, just needed to follow the blue dotted lines. I thought they managed 55,000 runners pretty efficiently for my pace but we were never “alone” out there.’ Susan Adam ‘Loved almost everything about the course including back to nature toileting at the start! However, won't repeat my naïve optimism that I could manage without my hydration pack. Thanks to my lovely fellow Chasers for all their positivity and especially Tina for the massive hug at the finish and sharing her emotional and so well deserved PB! It was a great day followed by a not to be repeated and uniquely German Spa experience the following day. My daughter will never recover!’ Elizabeth Aryeetey ‘We know you ran a great marathon, but I'd like to read a report about what happened at the nudist spa 😈 Dan Biagi Nice try Dan B and till next time Berlin……. - Rebecca Taylor -       A big well done to all other Chasers for your amazing achievements over the past week. If you are taking part in a race and would love some support or want to see which other chasers are running feel free to make yourself known in the what’s app chat! We would love to support and celebrate everyone’s successes.  Have a great weekend.  Emily & Jas  Calendar Here's whats happening over the next few weeks other than our usual Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday runs. You can find our full calendar on the website. 06/10/2024 Mornington Chasers Regent's Park 10k marshalling 08/10/2024 Chingford League- Hog Hill race 12/10/2024 Met League XC - Fixture 1 - Claybury Sign-up to run - deadline 2024-10-11 26/10/2024 North London XC Champs - Wormwood Scrubs Sign up to run - deadline 2024-10-16 26/10/2024 MC X Queens Park Harriers Mob Match Run We are also currently taking names for the following events. 25/01/2025 SEEA XC Main Champs - Beckenham Sign up to run 22/02/2025 National XC Champs - Parliament Hill Sign up to run 04/01/2025 Middlesex XC Champs - Trent Park Sign up to sign 05/11/2024 Spooky Run Join! 👻🎃 Results If you want to upload a photo or your results are missing, log in to our website and update your picture and Power of 10 ID. Vitality Westminster Mile (London), 21/09/2024 1M Myles Preston BA (Hons), CIMA (Cert), GDL, LPC, PGCE, MA, MSc, A* A Level in Government and Politics 4:58, 37 (6) NEW PB   Shaun Lowthian 5:50, 87 (11) NEW PB Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5K (London Hyde Park), 27/09/2024 5K Pete Calvert-Barr 18:26, 22 (5) [71.97%]   John H Grigg 38:17, 142 (1) [72.49%] Parkrun 28/09/2024 Antrim Kevin Gormley 19:32, 9 [70.22%] Bedworth Clare Janew 27:31, 58 [57.12%] Finsbury Park Rachel Rosenthal 20:14, 45 (3, 1) [73.64%]   Andy Davies 22:38, 105 [57.66%]   Tom Hill 25:10, 210 [51.59%]   michele griffiths 27:51, 353 [65.77%]   Jodie Pearlman 27:58, 361 [52.80%]   Rafaele Lamour 30:14, 489 [56.50%]   Eamon Byrne 58:17, 752 [27.39%] Hampstead Heath Rendy Prakoso 21:18, 33 [61.97%]   Daniel Berry 21:44, 41 (1) [74.69%]   Alan Venning 22:23, 55 [61.28%]   Emily Morgan 28:49, 229 [51.24%]   Lorice Mirkin 30:00, 259 [53.33%] NEW PB Highbury Fields Jonathan Wood 22:26, 80 [63.82%]   Lizzy Muggeridge 57:26, 527 [28.76%] Lordship Recreation Ground Marcos Cuevas-Nunez 21:05, 22 (1) [71.07%] Lytham Hall Katrina Kelly 26:49, 89 (-, 1) [55.07%] Morden Gaby Anderson 26:04, 58 [56.65%] Oak Hill Dylan Wright 24:48, 64 [59.95%]   Juliette Westbrook 28:02, 141 [52.68%] Pymmes Tony Him 28:01, 80 [50.74%] Sherwood Pines Hattie Lowe 23:35, 42 (3, 1) [62.61%] Valentines Paul Matthews 30:24, 194 (1) [69.90%] Wimbledon Common Stephen West 32:42, 292 [45.11%] BMW Berlin Marathon (Berlin, GER), 29/09/2024 Mar Daniele Biagi 2:41:54 (2:41:37), 1214 [77.33%]   Paul Davie 3:30:37 (3:14:25), 7648 (974) [68.78%] NEW PB   Rebecca Taylor 3:32:26 (3:16:14), 8133 (994, 52) [78.45%] NEW PB   Tina Sharkey 4:05:37 (3:57:34), 24833 (-, 533) [64.80%] NEW PB   Danielle Smreczak 4:09:07 (3:57:59), 25105 (-, 812) [61.69%]   Elizabeth Aryeetey 4:05:20 (4:02:08), 27184 (-, 105) [75.92%] Folkestone Rotary Half Marathon (Folkestone), 29/09/2024 HM Fiona Russell 1:40:09 (99:56), 89 (6, 1) [78.90%] Middlesex 10K (London Victoria Park), 29/09/2024 10K Shaun Lowthian 42:38, 111 [64.15%] NEW PB Nationale-Nederlanden Warsaw Marathon (Warzaw, POL), 29/09/2024 Mar Callum Gathercole 2:52:54 (2:52:45), 109 [71.17%] NEW PB   Jonathan Gorner 2:55:53 (2:55:42), 148 [69.98%] NEW PB Links Send your stories to newsletter@chaser.me.uk. 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