LONDON MARATHON 23 APRIL MARATHON RUNNERS- Please send Emma <emmahayward@hotmail.co.uk> your name, marathon number, details about what you plan to wear (e.g. Chaser vest) and expected finishing time so that the cheering team is ready to spot you as you pass by on The Highway. CHEERING TEAM-The cheering team sets up from around 0800 on The Highway near the junction with Cannon Street Road opposite the BP garage and drive-thru McDonald's. We’d love to see as many chasers there as possible! We’d really appreciate it if a few people can come early to help to secure our spot. The map reference is here. POST MARATHON CELEBRATIONS to be held at The Pineapple Pub Conservatory, Leverton Street, Kentish Town, from 1900 hours on 23 April and everyone is welcome to join in. Coaching update As I'm sure many of you are aware, club coach Urban Bettag has been working with us over the last 12 months, focusing mainly on our Thursday track sessions. Urban has been involved in organising and leading the sessions, as well as in developing and mentoring our volunteer leaders and coaches over this period, which has been a huge success. On behalf of the committee and the club we would like to thank Urban for all his hard work and commitment. Moving forward, the Thursday track sessions will be organised and lead by volunteer run leaders and coaches from within the club. The sessions will be posted as usual on Facebook and will form part of a wider club training schedule, which you can find here. As you can see, this training schedule encompasses our Tuesday club runs, Thursday coached sessions and also weekend runs, focusing on key races in the club calendar. On Tuesdays you will start to notice some new runs being announced which will include technical variations built into the longer runs (e.g. Fartlek, hills). These are optional runs alongside our normal club runs and will be offered at a variety of paces, so please feel free to try them out! If you've got any questions or would like to find out more about opportunities for volunteer coaching, please email coaching@chaser.me.uk New Beginners Group The next Beginners Group will start next Tuesday, 25th April. If you'd like to help out guiding the runners, please contact Stephen at beginners@chaser.me.uk. It's a simple way to give something back to the club, increase our membership (and funds!) and you don't have to help out every week. Coached sessions this week This evening’s (Tuesday) coached session builds on last week with the main set being 200s but this time with 'roll-on' recoveries at Regent's Park track. Warm-up drills and finishing with race tactics (the exact format depends on numbers). Thursday's session will take place at Parliament Hill track as per John's schedule below. Summer League- Training Schedule John has put together a training schedule to get everyone ready for the first summer league race in Gunnersbury in June. These races are suitable for all abilities and everyone is the club is encouraged to attend. Race Report- Southern Athletics League The first fixture of the Southern Athletics League took place on Saturday at Finsbury Park. A small Chasers contingent represented at the Women’s 1500m (Claire), 400m (Carmen) and Men’s 1500m (Jeff). Lizzy and Stephen provided vital officiating duties. The next fixture will take place at St Albans on the 20th of May. These events are really friendly and suitable for all abilities. If you’re afraid of getting lapped don’t be, or alternatively sign up for the 100m, 200m or 400m events. Sign up here. 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. Date Event Type Sign-up link Sun 23 Apr 2017 London Marathon Elite drinks volunteering Other Sign up to volunteer (0 of 10 left) Sun 23 Apr 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Road We are also currently taking names for the following events. Date Event Type Sign-up link Sat 20 May 2017 Southern Athletics - Match 2. St Albans Track Sign up to run Sat 17 Jun 2017 Southern Athletics - Match 3. Lee Valley Track Sign up to run Sat 8 Jul 2017 Southern Athletics - Match 4. Mile End Track Sign up to run Sat 19 Aug 2017 Southern Athletics - Match 5. Parliament Hill Track Sign up to run Results If you want to upload a photo or your results are missing, visit log in to our website and update your picture and Power of 10 ID. Victoria Park Open 5 (London Victoria Park), 01/04/2017 5M Ronan Hoare 30:34 (30:27), 39   Stephen Nash 30:47 (30:41), 42 (8) NEW PB Regent's Park Summer 10K Series (London Regent's Park), 02/04/2017 10K Clare McLaren 50:55 (50:40), 175 (3) NEW PB Parkrun 08/04/2017 Bradford Philip West 26:38, 165 Finsbury Park Eamon Byrne 25:52, 181   David Glencross 26:00, 188 Gladstone Park Alex Renton 22:18, 19 Hampstead Heath Daniel Berry 20:06, 8 (1)   Carl Heron 20:16, 11 (1)   Gary Homewood 24:32, 86 Highbury Fields Ralph Dunham 19:12, 19 (1)   Ian Girling 20:54, 43   Fiona Russell 21:41, 64 (1)   Georg Isola 23:11, 98 Kingsbury Water Park Michael Shelton 35:56, 329 London Southwark Park Lauren Longhurst 19:55, 25 (1) NEW PB   Simon Fitzmaurice 24:35, 162 Tooting Common Simon Fuller 27:14, 274 Brighton Marathon (Brighton), 09/04/2017 Mar Myles Preston 2:52:52 (2:52:40), 46   John Armstrong 2:56:33 (2:56:15), 64 (11)   John Mehrzad 2:59:47 (2:59:35), 104 (23) NEW PB   Adrian Cathersides 3:11:55 (3:11:34), 232 (42)   Matt Thomas 3:16:30 (3:16:02), 331 NEW PB   Gary Clarke 3:28:44 (3:28:16), 644 (130) NEW PB   Mansour Radjabi 3:49:30 (3:47:33), 1380 (27)   Tina Allardyce 4:20:34 (4:03:07), 3305 (121) NEW PB Rotterdam Marathon (Rotterdam, NED), 09/04/2017 Mar Donal Moran 2:56:56 (2:56:56) NEW PB Parkrun 15/04/2017 Alexandra Palace Mike Hurford 20:05, 4 (1) Bushy Park Simon Fitzmaurice 18:33, 34 Conkers Park Daniel Berry 19:26, 14 Finsbury Park Ronan Hoare 20:05, 12   Heather Marshall 24:52, 75 Gladstone Park Alex Renton 22:09, 25 NEW PB Halifax Carl Heron 20:16, 12 (1) Hampstead Heath Simone Stoppa 24:04, 63   Gary Homewood 24:52, 80 Harrogate Nicola Timmins 19:13, 13 (1) NEW PB Highbury Fields Russ Hall 17:55, 3 (1)   Fiona Russell 21:57, 38 (1) Kingsbury Water Park Michael Shelton 19:41, 8 (1) Leicester Victoria Danielle Smreczak 22:43, 45 NEW PB London Southwark Park Matt Thomas 19:22, 14 Margate Palm Bay Georg Isola 22:39, 23   Hope Sloly 23:03, 26 Mersea Island David Nelson 20:32, 12 Minehead Hannah Jean McQuarrie 22:43, 34 Oak Hill Park Philip West 25:45, 71 (1) NEW PB Southport Annaka Charters 20:58, 28 (1) Tooting Common Simon Fuller 26:55, 179 NEW PB Wormwood Scrubs John H Grigg 35:22, 47 (1) Sweatshop Southern Athletics League Division 3N (Finsbury Park), 15/04/2017 1500 Jeff Bannister 4:47.04, 5 400 Carmen Harrington 94.49, 4 NEW PB Beaconsfield 5 (Beaconsfield), 17/04/2017 5MMT David Thorne 31:25, 20 (7) Links Send your stories to newsletter@chaser.me.uk. 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