Finsbury Park 5000m What a packed this week is for races. On Friday a Talacre of Chasers will be racing 5000m at Finsbury Park track. Provisional schedule is below 18:45 Race 1 21:00 + 19:15 Race 2 19:50 -- 21:00 19:40 Race 3 18:45 -- 19:45 20:05 Race 4 18:00 -- 18:45 20:30 Race 5 16:55 -- 18:00 20:50 Race 6 15:55 -- 16:55 21:10 Race 7 sub-15:50 Good luck to everybody taking part! Summer League This Sunday all roads lead to Perivale for the next instalment of The Summer League. The format will be a 5 mile race starting at 9:30am followed by a smorgasbord of delights courtesy of the Ealing clubs picnic and then a series of relays. Nick has organised a coach from the Talacre Centre at 7:45am. Shout out to the coach crew! Volunteers are still needed for our home fixture at Regent's Park. Sign up here Cabbage Patch Entries are now filling up for this popular 10 mile race that takes place on 16th October. You can sign up here Marathon Wisdom – Sarah Funderburk This is the first of a new series for the newsletter where Sarah will be imparting valuable nuggets of wisdom. Thank you Sarah! We have crossed the mark of 100 days until the London Marathon, so for many we are right at the beginning of "fall marathon training season". Over the next 3 months, I will be providing you with some marathon training tips and will hopefully be able to collect some wisdom from our fabulous group of coaches as well. To kick off the season, the first tip is: appreciate and accept where you are right now. Whether you're coming back from injury or illness (like me!) or are in the best shape of your life, you are about to embark on an incredible journey. For those making a comeback, don't compare your fitness to where you were previously. Accept where you are and appreciate each day as a step in the right direction. For those who are in top shape, don't get greedy as this can easily end up in injury and/or illness. Good luck, and please remind me of this tip if you see me pouting about a crap session :) Sri Chimnoy 5k – Gaby Anderson (hot off the press) Normally the pressure on race day subsides when you cross the finish line. Unfortunately for me, I got corralled into writing a race report and after so many excellent accounts, I left Battersea very much still feeling the pressure. Hopefully the flurry of PBs can mostly speak for themselves and luckily I can blame the less than 24 hour turn around. Sri Chimnoy was one of my favourite races last year and it was my first proper 5k race (I’d mentally blocked out the horrors of my first 5k at university). It proved that I could run faster than I thought I could, but last year was not an exemplar of pacing. Fly and die was definitely the theme of that race. This time round, I was trying to ignore the mounting pressure on I’d put on myself. I had a proper target to beat and I’d not got near it at my Hackney 5k attempt the previous month (to be fair to myself though, there was a lot of grass and a lot of sun). The usual race rituals helped settle the nerves, although I didn’t quite partake in as many safety wees as the others. We lined up in our Talacre of Chasers and that gave me the confidence that we were there as a team and ready to smash it! The race itself was a bit grim, but then again isn’t that just a 5k race in general? Going out fast - but not too fast - and trying to “stick with the pace” is never easy. Unlike last time, I mostly managed it (kms 3-4 were always going to be a bit of a struggle) and I finished strong. Big shoutout to Juliette for being my buddy for the first couple of kms before she went and destroyed her PB (40 seconds!! I was suspicious of some sandbagging on the start line I must admit), Cos for pushing me through the last km, and Andy who somehow had enough energy to head back to the finishing straight and cheer us on. All in all I ended up with an 11-second PB and a big smile on my face! Congratulations to everyone who ran - some insane PBs (shoutout to Rosie as well for another 40+ second PB) and I hope our good form continues for Friday’s 5000m! 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. 16/07/2022 Athletics Fixture 3 Join - deadline 2022-07-14 03/07/2022 Summer League | Perivale confirmed To let me get a feel on numbers for a coach 17/07/2022 Summer League | Dulwich Park Confirmed 🚌 Get the Bus - deadline 2022-07-01 01/07/2022 Finsbury Park 5000s Are you in?! 08/07/2022 Ceilidh 09/07/2022 Maverick Chiltern Ultra 05/07/2022 Beginners week 3 - Volunteering Volunteers (2 of 5 left) 09/07/2022 Hassocks to Brighton Join 12/07/2022 Beginners week 4 - volunteers Volunteer (4 of 5 left) 19/07/2022 Beginners week 5 - volunteering Volunteer (4 of 5 left) 26/07/2022 Beginners week 6 - volunteering Volunteer (4 of 5 left) 30/06/2022 Track Thursday Sign Up here 19:20 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. Sri Chinmoy 5K (Battersea Park), 07/06/2022 5K Henry Woodward 16:12, 23 [80.14%] NEW PB   Daniel Lewis 23:31, 193 (9) [60.45%] Southern Athletics League Division 3 North London (Parliament Hill), 12/06/2022 400 Rachel Rosenthal 68.22, 2 NEW PB TJ Juliette Westbrook 6.31, 1 Sri Chinmoy 5K (Battersea Park), 14/06/2022 5K Thomas Goodey 19:23, 86 [66.98%] NEW PB   Daniel Lewis 21:52, 116 (12) [65.02%] Tour of Tameside Hero Half Marathon (Hadfield), 18/06/2022 HMMT Christopher Leslie 87:00 (86:55), 11 [67.17%] RunThrough Regents Park 10K (London Regent's Park), 18/06/2022 10K Phil West 59:22 (58:40), 184 (1) [61.62%] Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5K (London Hyde Park), 24/06/2022 5K John H Grigg 37:47, 121 (1) [67.71%] Parkrun 25/06/2022 Ally Pally Stephanie Mercier 25:34, 66 (-, 1) [58.15%]   Sam Blackburn 31:50, 165 [43.66%] Coldham's Common John Bickley 43:50, 281 [38.67%] East Brighton Alina Williamson 27:51, 55 [53.74%] Erddig Rebecca Howarth 26:31, 46 [55.69%] Finsbury Park Rahul Mohindra 19:27, 13 [66.75%]   Rafaele Lamour 26:52, 236 [62.16%]   Eamon Byrne 27:10, 248 [57.85%]   michele griffiths 27:43, 264 [64.52%]   Gaby Anderson 33:44, 422 [43.77%] Gladstone Rendy Prakoso 19:35, 9 [66.81%]   Liam Moroney 21:20, 35 [60.86%]   Andy Davies 24:54, 83 [52.21%]   Alex Renton 26:30, 123 [53.21%]   Ellie Holloway 26:30, 124 [55.72%]   Hattie Lowe 26:31, 125 [55.69%]   Jodie Pearlman 26:32, 127 [55.65%]   Stephen West 30:26, 192 [47.75%] Hampstead Heath Daniel Berry 22:29, 50 [70.42%]   Robin Smale 24:57, 106 [59.12%]   Johnny Chapman 25:12, 113 [51.65%]   Yan (Patrick) Li 25:37, 128 [58.49%]   Gary Homewood 28:01, 185 [55.62%]   Andy Hickson 29:35, 226 [53.97%] Heaton Park Elizabeth Aryeetey 26:35, 244 [70.60%] Highbury Fields Matt Brand 21:26, 58 [61.90%]   Nick Herbert 30:20, 259 [42.80%]   Lizzy Muggeridge 40:37, 330 [39.80%] Milton Keynes Daisy Wooller 30:11, 226 [48.92%] Rothwell Carl Heron 21:19, 14 (1) [74.90%] Sale Water Christopher Leslie 19:01, 2 (1) [68.27%] Sheffield Castle Meryl Walker 40:27, 66 [45.28%] Valentines Paul Matthews 30:18, 131 (1) [66.89%] Walthamstow David Nelson 26:46, 60 [50.50%] Wanstead Flats Jennifer Moore 29:13, 130 [50.60%] Woodhouse Moor Juliette Westbrook 24:38, 101 [59.95%] Links Send your stories to newsletter@chaser.me.uk. 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