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Mornington Chasers Newsletter

16 August 2015

Newsletter 16 August 

IN THIS NEWSLETTER

Club News
- Tom Craggs resigns as head coach
- Tuesdays tea (and other refreshments)
- Volunteer for your club + free entry to 10K
- STRAVA group
- Athletics – Highgate Harriers host a late season open track meeting, Wednesday 9 September

Social Events
- Club BBQ, Saturday afternoon, 5 September, Waterlow Park
- This Thursday after track training, drinks to celebrate end of season SAL and Summer League (do we need a reason?)
- Club Christmas Party, Friday, 4 December

Club activities
- This week's training 
- Club Championships
- Cross country season approaches
- Triathlon England London League – 3 events remain

Race results and reports 
- Southern Athletics League – last meet of the season
- Battersea Park 3 x 1 Mile Relays
- London Triathlon


CLUB NEWS

This weekend saw the last Summer Series event and Southern Athletics League meeting. Results for the Summer League will follow in a week or two. In the meantime many congratulations to Lizzy and Chi who both achieved massive personal best times in their 10Ks and also to Kelly in her 1500m and 3000m and Chi in her 100m in Newham (SAL). And a special mention to Hannah who took part in three field events: shot, javelin and discus. Roll on next summer!

An email was sent out last week to all members announcing that it is with huge regret that Tom Craggs has resigned. Tom headed up our coaching for six years and during that time had a significant influence on the club and individual members. Below is a copy of the post Tom made on Facebook following the email. The tributes from all sections of our membership are a wonderful reflection of the huge respect and love felt for Tom and gratitude for his work and inspiration. We all wish Tom well with his coaching career, which continues to go from strength to strength, and look forward to seeing him at the club when in London. We have all been incredibly fortunate to benefit from Thursday (and in the early days, Tuesday) sessions and know he will be hugely missed. 

‘Dear Mornington Chasers. As many of you now know I have, reluctantly, decided to step down as head coach for the club. It's been more than 6 fantastic years now and you have all supported me to grow and develop to the point now where running coaching is my whole life and job. Since I joined the club in 2008 I could not have felt more supported and encouraged both as a runner and a coach. Having now moved out of London I have felt unable to provide the dedication, consistency and energy I think you all need and deserve. You're all wonderful and I know you'll find a brilliant new coach to work with the awesome Andrea and Avril Riddell.
In particular though I have to say thanks to a few people from those early years, who kept me running and supported me to develop as a runner and professional coach Daren Morley, Sarah, Alex Kitriomilides,  Mark Henrion, John Armstrong, Andrea Sanders-Reece, Tim Taylor, Livi Toye and a bit later Ian Girling. In particular though both Simon Freeman and Wendy Millyard who are a large part of why I still run and coach. Those early years were some of the happiest of my life.
Also thanks to Bernie and Ted King who were both coaching when I started for providing inspiration and guidance.
I will see you all around and still hope to run with you if you'll have me!
Keep in touch - tom@runningwithus.com’

We are currently looking for a new head coach. As the committee member responsible for coaching at the club, Hannah is leading the search. In the meantime Avril Riddell and Andrea Sanders-Reece (who currently lead the Tuesdays sessions) will cover Thursday training sessions as planned and relevant to the seasonal schedule.

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR CLUB!
Tuesday evenings are the main time when we all get together after our runs over tea and biscuits on the mezzanine level and it would be great if you volunteered to make the tea once a year, please. This requires cutting your usual run a bit shorter but we all appreciate the effort and it is a shame to see this tradition disappearing due to lack of volunteers – if we each take a turn that would be wonderful.

The Mornington Chasers Regent’s Park WINTER SERIES 10K is how we raise most of our funds. We need members to volunteer to marshal these races. In return you get free entry to another race in the series. The races are run on the first Sunday of the month from October to March inclusive and we need people to volunteer for October. If you can help, in the first instance please speak with Avril Riddell or email newsletter@chaser.me.uk 

For those of you who are on STRAVA, we have a Mornington Chasers STRAVA group (https://www.strava.com/clubs/mornington-chasers). Members can like each other's activities, comment on them or simply see what others are doing. Thank you to Phil Tysoe for the reference.

HIGHGATE HARRIERS OPEN MEETING, 9 SEPTEMBER
To be held at Parliament Hill with events from sprints to 5000m. Enter on line at www.highgateharriers.org.uk (the 5000m tends to fill up quickly, if you sign-up and then can’t run please let the organisers know so that others can take part).

TRAINING THIS WEEK

TUESDAY
Meet at Talacre Mezzanine Level at 1900 for briefing and 1915 departure.
Coached session with Andrea - suitable for all levels 
Choice of runs from 5 to 6 or up to 10 miles at various speeds depending on who is available to lead the groups.
Potential new members are welcome to try us out on a Tuesday night so are frequently spotted within our runs and at the coached session, please watch out for them!
Tea and biscuits after the run on the Mezzanine Level at Talacre – volunteers required, to bring milk make the tea and wash-up please.

WEDNESDAY
BIKE SESSIONS (Swains Lane reps often at 0630 on Wednesday mornings) please see our Facebook page for updates.

THURSDAY
Coached sessions for all members are designed to develop and inspire excellence whatever your chosen discipline. Please meet at Talacre for easy run to the session venue.
20 August TRACK with Avril followed by drinks at the Gipsy Queen to celebrate end of SAL and Summer Series http://thegipsyqueennw5.co.uk

SATURDAY
Couch to 5K adult beginners programme on Hampstead Heath. Beginners need to pre-register for the programme via the club website. Please encourage non-running friends or colleagues to join-up – they’ll love it!  Volunteers meet outside Hampstead Heath overground station at 9:45. If you would like to help with running these programmes or lead a programme please speak with Hannah McQuarrie (the committee member responsible for training) or John Armstrong (who leads the current programme).

SUNDAY
Long runs from Talacre suitable for experienced runners. Specific runs, distances and speeds are usually posted / organised through our Facebook page.

SOCIAL – DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES
Please sign-up on the club website events page if you are planning to go to these events so we have a good idea about numbers.

Saturday, 5 September, CLUB BBQ at Waterlow Park. An end of season club party in one of London’s most beautiful parks with spectacular views. Eating and drinking implements provided and some food and drink but please bring meat or vegetarian option to cook and share. Rugs and additional portable BBQ equipment also useful. Seb is the main organiser so please contact him if you can help. 

Friday, 4 December, Club CHRISTMAS PARTY at the Grafton, please sign-up on the events page of our website so we can gauge numbers

FIRST TUESDAY of each month is pub night after club runs, tea and biscuits usually at Tapping the Admiral

OCCASIONAL THURSDAY pub nights – including this Thursday, after track at the Gipsy Queen.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
Due to the cancellation of Cabbage Patch 10, our annual Club Championship Race this year is to be the Mornington Chasers Regent’s Park 10K, November 1. Please enter via the Nice Work site as usual and ensure that you include that you are a member of Mornington Chasers on your entry. 

CROSS COUNTRY MET LEAGUE
All the cross country Met League dates are accessible via the events listing on the club website. From September some of the coaching sessions will have specific cross country focus to help you get the most out of the season. Cross country is fantastic for building strength and endurance and provides a great foundation for summer road and track events. 

TRIATHLON ENGLAND LONDON LEAGUE has just THREE EVENTS LEFT with the 6 September Triathlon sold out. The last two are: London Fields Aquathlon (400m heated outdoor pool swim + 5K run) – a fun event perfect for all levels from beginners to experienced triathletes with fab cakes, 4 October; Jekyll and Hyde Duathlon – cycle, run, cycle, tough but great for all levels, end of October. For details about triathlon at the club visit the website or contact Andrea at triathlon@chaser.me.uk

RACE RESULTS
To include your results in the newsletter please email Andrea (newsletter@chaser.me.uk) with the details. A brief description of what you thought of the race and if you would recommend it to others would be great too, but not essential. There is no need to send results from Club races such as Summer League, Southern Athletics League and Cross Country as these are gathered by the team captains / event managers. 

SOUTHERN ATHLETICS LEAGUE (SAL), Saturday, 15 August
The last meeting of the season - perfect conditions and a good bouncy track contributed to fabulous performances and a fun day out. Thank you to Anna Waterman who volunteered for the day, helping with measuring the triple jump, and also ran in the women’s 4 x 100m relay team.

100m Women
Chi Ifeacho 15.8 (pb)
Hannah McQuarrie 17:00 (first time)

400m Men
Jeff Bannister 60.6
Karl Baddeley 62.3

800m Men
Dave Renton 2:27.9 
Ian (Dave’s friend and potential new member) 3:09.4

1500m Women
Kelly Thorneycroft 4:59.7 (pb by 10s)
Andrea Sanders-Reece 5:46.7 (sb and over 90% age-grading)

1500m Men
Jonny Miesner 4:36.8
Jeff Bannister 4:41.9 (pb)
Karl Baddeley 4:56.1 (first time)

3000m Women
Kelly Thorneycroft 10:52 (pb by 14s)

5000m Men
Jonny Miesner 16:58
Shane Browne 18:23
Seb Rule 18:42

Shot put
Hannah McQuarrie 6:53 (first time since school)

Javelin and discus results to come also the Women’s 4 x 100 relay with Kelly, Hannah, Anna and Andrea.

LONDON TRIATHLON OLYMPIC DISTANCE, 9 August
(1500m swim, 40K cycle, 10K run)
Nick Dunwell 2:44:19
Tashia Pillay 3:09:33 (38:21; T1 5:02; 1:29:41; T2 3:04; 53:27)

SRI CHINMOY, BATTERSEA PARK 3 X 1 MILE RELAY, 10 August
MC1 Jonny Miesner 4:47 (5th overall); Will McNulty 4:59; Ian Girling 5:23 = 15:09 (8th)
MC2 Jonathan Thomson 5:23; Dave Glencross 5:08; Neil Kirkham 5:00 = 15:31 (13th)
Andrea Sanders-Reece 6:24 = Team ‘Wing It’ 17:49 (28th)

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