Race Recap   Well done to Chasers who completed the Abingdon Marathon. Big shout out to John Armstrong who broke the club record for a V50 marathon. Brap brap brap!   Club places for the London Marathon 2023 Next year’s London Marathon is on Sunday 23 April and, all being well, we should have a couple of club places to award to members. To be eligible for a club place, you must: be a fully paid-up, first claim member of Mornington Chasers, have been a member for at least 12 months, have entered and been rejected in the ballot (proof of this is required), not have used a club place for the marathon within the last three years. If you would like to be considered for a club place, please could you email Phil West, the club’s Secretary, on plwest6@hotmail.com by Saturday 5th November at the latest. Places will be awarded based on past and present contributions to the club, rather than athletic prowess, so please include a statement of your contributions in the email. Fred Hughes 10 The London Marathon is very good but the really prestigious race of the year is the Fred Hughes 10 which takes place in St Albans on 22nd January (two days before my birthday). It’s a lovely course mostly through the countryside (don’t let that put you off, it doesn’t stink of cow poo). Get involved New Year’s Day 10k The Serpentine Running Club is happy to announce that the 31st edition of the New Year's Day 10k will be taking place on 1 January 2023!  The NYD10k is an iconic race in the London calendar that has been taking place since the mid-1980s. The race starts at 11am in Hyde Park and is run on entirely traffic free paths through Hyde Park, with the majority of the event taking place in Kensington Gardens.  Runners complete two short laps in Kensington Gardens before returning to Hyde Park, finishing on the north side of the Serpentine by the Boat House. The course takes in many iconic landmarks including Kensington Palace, the Italian Gardens and the Henry Moore statue. The race is held under UKA rules.  This is a great way to celebrate the new year with friends and family, and start working towards your 2023 new year's resolutions! Entries are now open at Active Training World for the 10k and the 3k Fun Run and are limited to 650 runners - sign up now to secure your place. If you don't want to run, but want to join in the festivities, why not volunteer? If you would like to help us marshall the course or have any other questions about the race, please do not hesitate get in touch with the organising team at nyd10k@serpentine.org.uk.  Eamon Byrne – 100 Marathons Good luck to Eamon who is running his 100th marathon in Dublin. What an achievement, well done! Cross Country Update The calendar is full of cross country races coming up and it’s great to see so many events return. This weekend there are the North London Cross Country championships at Greenford on Saturday and the second fixture in the Sunday XC League at Trent Park. Spooky Run Date: Tue 1 November 2022 Time: 19:00 A headtorch run across Hampstead Heath. Approximately 10k, but there will be a shorter option. Fancy Dress recommended. Meet at Talacre at 19:00 for a 19:15 start. Bring a headtorch if you can, but we do have some that people can borrow. If you want a shorter route, meet at Gospel Oak for a 19:25 start. After the run, it's pub night at Tapping the Admiral. "At the end of the day, if we don't hang together, we die alone." (Horatio Caine) Hertfordshire Sunday XC Fixture 1 - Cheshunt Park – Tony Him The leaves are turning beautiful shades of orange and red and there’s a definite chill in the morning air - which means Cross Country season is upon us. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get across London to join the Talacre of Chasers running at Cabbage Patch, but good fortune came in the form of a post by Rafaele saying that the Chasers had entered a Sunday cross country league and the first race was much closer to home for me, kicking off at the hangover friendly time of 11am in Cheshunt Park. I’ve not run all that many XC races before but there’s a mystique about them - they are for the purist club runner. No mile markers, no medals, 5 mile courses that could be anywhere between 4 and 6 miles long, and the prospect of encountering an ankle-breaking rabbit hole accompanying every heavy step into the long grass. I bought my first pair of spikes perhaps 3 years ago and have only worn them once - that was at this year’s unbelievably muddy national championships at Parliament Hill - and despite the shoes only just making it through to the other side, I had caught the bug.  Spikes were not required at Cheshunt Park. The dew and the long grass meant that trail shoes were probably the wisest option, but I went for road shoes and they did the job. The field mostly consisted of runners from the many Hertfordshire clubs - the event was very well organised by Broxbourne Runners, with marshalling by Welwyn Garden City Runners - but I also saw a few Serpies in the pack (they get everywhere!). With this event competing with Cabbage Patch I was the only Chaser running, so I couldn’t get a selfie with the Chaser flag - I had to make do with everyone else’s flags in the background instead. The course was 3 laps, taking in open fields, beautiful woodland and a herd of cows whose effort to come down and cheer on the runners was appreciated. I’d forgotten how quick club runners actually are when they are filtered from the mass of entrants at most events, and so halfway around lap one when I hit the long steady upward slog of the main hill for the first time I realised I’d gone off way too fast and had to settle back in with a slower group or I would have been walking by lap two. At my new pace, with my breathing and heart rate back under control, I was able to fully appreciate the joy of running through the woodland. It’s exhausting but exhilarating trying to run at pace while looking out for tree roots and other obstacles and trying to find gaps to overtake. My lack of hill training this year showed by the third lap, when I had to grind my way up the long climb breathing heavily. Some Kenyan Hills need to be booked in over the next few months. I tried a bit of a spriiiiint finiiiish at the end but didn’t have a whole lot left in the tank and my final position was 113 (I think), which was probably about halfway down the pack. It was a very enjoyable start to the cross-country season. For those like me who struggle to make the Saturday fixtures, this league is a nice opportunity to get their CX fix. The next fixture is at Trent Park on Sunday 30th October. I suspect it will be too wet for road shoes by then. I’ll be getting the spikes out from under the bed. Which is exciting! 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. 01/11/2022 Chingford League- Hog Hill race 12/11/2022 Met League XC - Fixture 2 - Wormwood Scrubs Sign-up to run 20/11/2022 St Neots Half (Cambs) Get the coach - deadline 2022-10-31 06/11/2022 Mornington Chasers Regents Park 10K 19/11/2022 Southern XC London Championships Sign up to run - deadline 2022-11-03 29/10/2022 North London XC Championships - Greenford SIgn up to run (deadline 12 October) 06/11/2022 Mornington Chasers Regent's Park 10k marshalling 01/11/2022 Volunteer with beginners week 6 Volunteer (1 of 5 left) 05/11/2022 North of the Thames XC Champs - Kingsbury 30/10/2022 Sunday XC League - Fixture 2 - Trent Park SIgn up to run 01/11/2022 Spooky Run IX 08/11/2022 Volunteer with beginners week 7 Volunteer (4 of 5 left) 15/11/2022 Volunteer with beginners week 8 Volunteer (3 of 5 left) We are also currently taking names for the following events. 03/12/2022 Met League XC - Fixture 3 - Uxbridge Sign-up to run 11/02/2023 Met League XC - Fixture 5 - Trent Park Sign-up to run 18/12/2022 Sunday XC League - Fixture 3 - Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage Sign up to run 15/01/2023 Sunday XC League - Fixture 4 - Royston or Cassiobury Park, Watford Sign up to run 19/02/2023 Sunday XC League - Fixture 5 - Royston or Cassiobury Park, Watford Sign up to run 26/11/2022 GRADUATION PARKRUN Run 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. Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Chicago IL, USA), 09/10/2022 Mar Keith Jordan 3:13:01, 3675 [72.98%] NEW PB Start Fitness Metropolitan League (Claybury Park), 15/10/2022 8KXC Daniel Berry 36:17, 251 (4) [71.84%]   Rafaele Lamour 42:55, 101 (-, 8) [63.81%]   Fiona Carr 43:06, 106 [56.15%]   Carmen Harrington 43:36, 113 [55.24%]   Eamon Byrne 44:59, 354 (24) [56.91%]   Elizabeth Aryeetey 46:21, 132 (-, 5) [66.88%]   Collette Farnol 47:47, 137 [50.51%] Parkrun 15/10/2022 Hampstead Heath Keith Jordan 22:27, 44 [67.26%] Cambridge Town and Gown 3K / 10K (Cambridge), 16/10/2022 10K John Bickley 86:37 (82:41), 1777 (70) [42.81%] Cabbage Patch 10 (Twickenham), 16/10/2022 10M Donal Moran 56:41 (56:39), 16 (1) [85.47%] NEW PB   Russ Hall 58:51 (58:48), 28 [76.67%]   Marc Cohen 59:33 (59:30), 34 (4) [78.07%]   Rendy Prakoso 60:05 (59:59), 39 [73.38%] NEW PB   Thomas Goodey 64:20 [68.39%]   Matt Thomas 65:19 (65:03), 110 [67.67%] NEW PB   Nicola Payne 65:30 (65:19), 113 (15, -) [75.58%] NEW PB   Jonathan Thomson 66:18 (66:12), 126 (24) [69.61%]   David Gouldstone 67:54 (67:16), 175 [67.02%] NEW PB   Janine Makaronidis 68:00 (67:51), 180 (23, -) [73.25%]   Rachel Rosenthal 68:30 (68:14), 191 (24, -) [72.84%] NEW PB   Philip Barnes 71:31 (70:52), 253 [62.09%] NEW PB   Alex Renton 71:43 (71:27), 259 (42) [65.55%]   Jodie Pearlman 72:36 (72:01), 283 (42, -) [68.53%] NEW PB   Hattie Lowe 72:47 (72:12), 289 (46, -) [68.35%] NEW PB   Johnny Chapman 74:46 (73:31), 339 [59.85%] NEW PB   Rosie Young 74:14 (73:39), 323 (56, -) [67.01%] NEW PB   Daisy Wooller 75:25 (74:24), 355 (63, -) [66.35%] NEW PB   Ellie Holloway 76:15 (75:37), 380 (68, -) [65.26%] NEW PB   Fiona Russell 76:43 (76:01), 392 (71, 18) [76.58%]   Camilla Ray 77:31 (76:50), 412 (76, 16) [67.38%]   Marcos Cuevas-Nunez 79:10 (77:56), 478 (100) [63.20%]   Mabel Ellerker 79:10 (77:58), 477 (95, -) [63.30%] NEW PB   Ciara McManus 82:48 (81:33), 598 (134, 24) [63.48%] NEW PB   Gaby Anderson 84:05 (82:52), 638 (145, -) [59.55%]   Tina Sharkey 87:25 (84:59), 720 (179, 59) [64.50%] NEW PB   Tilly Franklin 88:30 (86:31), 752 (189, 64) [64.86%] NEW PB   Elizabeth Aryeetey 89:28 (87:28), 784 (207, 23) [73.88%] NEW PB   Rafaele Lamour 90:15 (88:15), 810 (220, 73) [64.36%] NEW PB   David Nelson 91:03 (89:04), 830 [50.34%]   Eleanor Childs 91:17 (89:17), 841 (231, -) [55.27%] NEW PB   Diane Morrison 95:34 (92:16), 964 (284, 38) [65.52%]   Eamon Byrne 95:52 (93:51), 972 (201) [56.33%]   Jennifer Moore 96:34 (94:37), 986 (295, -) [52.28%]   Fiona Carr 96:35 (94:38), 988 (296, 24) [52.68%] Yorkshire 10M (York), 16/10/2022 10M Christopher Leslie 61:53 (61:49), 39 [71.18%] NEW PB Yorkshire Marathon (York), 16/10/2022 Mar Pete Calvert-Barr 3:13:59 (3:12:54), 251 [63.91%] NEW PB   Andy Davies 3:21:10 (3:20:23), 357 [61.36%]   Nick Johnson 3:42:22 (3:38:44), 758 (103) [60.12%] NEW PB   Yan (Patrick) Li 3:52:15 (3:49:52), 1005 (93) [60.74%] NEW PB   Juliette Westbrook 3:56:58 (3:51:42), 1149 (141, -) [58.44%] Parkrun 22/10/2022 Ally Pally Stephanie Mercier 25:39, 71 [58.09%] Barking Dawn Curtis 34:21, 88 [45.75%] Bellerive, AUS Stephen Nash 20:45, 9 [69.00%] Burgess Jodie Pearlman 23:45, 130 [62.18%] Clevedon Salthouse Fields Rachel Rosenthal 21:46, 24 (2, 1) [68.15%] Finsbury Park Rahul Mohindra 21:33, 70 [60.25%]   Rafaele Lamour 27:00, 251 [61.85%]   michele griffiths 28:14, 284 [63.34%]   Sophie Fenner 28:55, 307 [51.07%]   Marcos Cuevas-Nunez 45:18, 472 [32.56%] Forest of Dean Rebecca Howarth 26:13, 41 (-, 1) [56.33%] Gladstone Rendy Prakoso 19:28, 8 [67.21%] Grovelands Alex Renton 21:32, 14 (1) [65.48%] Hackney Marshes Elizabeth Aryeetey 25:22, 102 (-, 1) [73.98%] NEW PB   Jennifer Moore 27:44, 147 [53.31%] Hampstead Heath Daniel Berry 23:03, 52 (1) [69.27%]   Janine Makaronidis 25:08, 91 [59.02%]   Sarah Funderburk 25:11, 94 (-, 1) [60.23%]   Paul Dickens 25:26, 100 [52.75%]   Rebecca Taylor 26:57, 137 [59.99%]   Lydia Thomson 26:58, 138 [54.76%]   Stephen West 42:25, 301 [34.26%] Highbury Fields Philip Rutnam 21:18, 36 (1) [73.16%] NEW PB   Amanda Taylor 30:03, 242 [60.23%] NEW PB   Janet Kidd 30:12, 243 [58.55%] NEW PB Linford Wood Daisy Wooller 27:28, 42 (-, 1) [53.76%] Lordship Recreation Ground Carmen Harrington 25:13, 117 [58.69%]   Gaby Anderson 27:25, 151 [53.86%]   Andy Davies 27:25, 152 [47.42%]   Juliette Westbrook 27:26, 153 [53.83%]   Tony Him 27:39, 157 [50.63%]   Lizzy Muggeridge 29:55, 199 [54.04%] Moors Valley Liam Moroney 18:35, 6 (1) [69.87%] NEW PB Richmond Park Christopher Leslie 18:39, 4 (1) [69.62%] Severn Bridge Ellie Holloway 23:44, 48 [62.22%] Sunny Hill Daniele Biagi 18:45, 1 (1) [71.11%] Tooting Common Myles Preston BA (Hons), CIMA (Cert), GDL, LPC, PGCE, MA, MSc, A* A Level in Government and Politics 17:30, 5 [76.19%] Valentines Paul Matthews 31:38, 140 [64.07%] Victoria Dock Alina Williamson 22:57, 58 (-, 1) [65.21%] NEW PB Wormwood Scrubs John H Grigg 37:03, 99 (1) [69.05%] Beachy Head Marathon (Eastbourne), 22/10/2022 Mar Eamon Byrne 06:17:04 (06:17:04), 762 [39.10%]   Andrew Disley 06:55:13 (06:55:13), 937 [36.88%] Ipstones 5ish (Ipstones), 23/10/2022 5MMT Nitesh Thakrar 37:47 (37:40), 56 (4) [69.04%] Links Send your stories to newsletter@chaser.me.uk. 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