Mornington Chasers Newsletter

20 December 2015

- London Marathon club places
- Christmas closure
- Indoor track season
- Winter Series, help needed 
- Sessions this week
- Race results & reports

Newsletter 20 December 2015

FOR DETAILS ABOUT ALL CLUB ACTIVITIES, DATES ETC please go to the club website http://www.chaser.me.uk

LONDON MARATHON CLUB PLACES - CLOSING DATE TOMORROW!  

It's that time of year again where members can apply for a club place in the London Marathon in April.  To apply, send an email to Alice at A.Sullivan@ioe.ac.uk by the end of Monday 21 December with a supporting statement which should include the following: 
1. Proof that you applied for a ballot place 
2. Length of club membership (must be at least one full year to be eligible) 
3. Service to the club (marshalling, tea, volunteering, etc) 
4. Participation in the club (e.g. racing in club events such as xc, summer league, athletics, attending social events).

You must also be fully paid up first claim Mornington Chasers member and not have used a club place within the last three years.  

More details can be found at http://www.chaser.me.uk/racing/londonmarathon.shtml

CHRISTMAS CLOSURES

The Talacre Centre will close early over the Christmas period and therefore there will be no club runs on 22nd, 24th, 29th or 31st January.  We'll be back on Tuesday 5th January.  

INDOOR TRACK SEASON

Dates for the indoor track season are on the website at http://www.chaser.me.uk/docs/2015/indoorseason.pdf

CLUB WINTER SERIES 10K IN REGENT'S PARK
Members are needed to marshal the next three races in our winter series. These races are essential to help keep our membership fees low and provide the many benefits that we all enjoy. And if you need an extra incentive above the warm feeling that volunteering and cheering the runners provides, you also get free entry to one of the races. Marshalling is just one of the many ways you can be involved with the club. You can now sign up and see how many marshalls are still needed for each month on the website at http://www.chaser.me.uk/news/calendar.php

THIS WEEK'S SESSIONS:
No sessions on Tuesday or Thursday
Sunday morning long runs - see Facebook for paces/distances  
For more details about runs, cycle rides plus our couch to 5K programme for non-members please see the club website or Facebook page.
 

RACE RESULTS
To include your results in the newsletter please email 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 Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League as these are gathered by the team captains/event managers.

You can now also see a selection of results on the website at https://www.chaser.me.uk/news/results.php

Milton Keynes Half Marathon, 13 December
127 Georg Isola 91:51

Brooks Serpentine Last Friday 5K, 18 December
50 Myles Preston 19:09 PB
86 (16) Dave Renton 20:45 PB
124 (1) Avril Riddell 22:12

Andrea Sanders-Reece has also finished third overall in the Last Friday Annual Championships, where the best 6 age-graded results throughout the year are counted: http://www.serpentine.org.uk/rdb/friday/table.php

Valentines parkrun, 19 December
70 Paul Matthews 28:21

Kingsbury Water parkrun, 19 December
185 Michael Shelton 32:20

Highbury Fields parkrun, 19 December
17 Ian Girling 19:40
28 Georg Isola 20:29 PB
32 Hope Sloly 20:42
34 Fiona Russell 21:07
43 William Watt 21:38 PB

Hampstead Heath parkrun, 19 December
4 Phil Tysoe 19:27 PB
51 Vernon Clement 25:37
60 Anne Caspi 26:23

Gladstone parkrun, 19 December
6 Simon Fitzmaurice 19:49

Finsbury Park parkrun, 19 December
17 John Lynch 20:28
18 David Glencross 20:40
26 David Nelson 21:17
59 Patrick Gilmore 23:26
89 Rafaele Lamour 25:32
113 Angharad Gilmore 28:02

Bedford parkrun, 19 December
76 Lizzy Muggeridge 24:53 course PB

Ally Pally parkrun, 19 December
48 Hannah McQuarrie 25:47


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