The Hampton Court Half Marathon Gallery is now live and online here:
http://sspimg.com/HamptonCourtHalf-2017-Gallery
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| The start of the 2017 Hampton Court Half Marathon - closely supervised by Henry VIII. The eventual winner is in the yellow Hercules Wimbledon vest and orange headband. |
With a new starting location and event site on the Gigg's Hill Green - making for a clearer first two miles of the route - meant a much better early start to the race in the early stages. With the Xempo paced waves being set off and roughly 3 minute intervals it meant that the main body of the race was thinned out quite early. There were still large busses of people following the pacing groups - especially 1:50, 2hr and 2:10 flags - which always makes it difficult for us to get a shot of runners behind the pack leaders, but we do our best !
Overall the weather for photography was near perfect (can always ask for a bit warmer) but the light was through milky thin clouds - which always leads to gentle illumination and nice soft shadows. Nice ! we just needed that slight wind to die down and a degree or two warmer and it would be wonderful. And it's still only February !!
Next weekend
We're at the
Brutal Temple Valley - a new location so a new Brutal Course - so with new surprises (have you seen the steps in the woods?) and we are also at the
English National Cross Country Championships - in Nottingham on Saturday - and we will be using Pic2Go to give all the competitors their images live during the event - courtesy of the sponsors
Saucony.
Here's some photos from the Hampton Court Half for you, and some fun moments from the morning...
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| I shouted "Catalogue pose" and even the marshals joined in |
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| Here the bikes are signed to ride the correct way around "#OH" you say.. |
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| Good work from burgess hill runners at the 2 mile mark |
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| The best Man Tights there are. Mr Man Tights. |
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| Great to see Jenny out - we've been capturing her in action for the past 15 years. |
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| Dominic Kiralyfi won in 1:12:54 for Hercules Wimbledon |
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| The "Birthday Princess" rosette had a special outing - Happy Birthday ! |
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| Start them young ! |
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| Busy scenes at the finish as runners come into the finish line |
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| With friends like this, Hayley is sorted. No that's not an "R". |
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| The 1hr30 Xempo pacing bus |
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| Bemused rowers look on |
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| IF only we had her race number this Mum would be able to find her images easily - now she'll have to search through the "000" results - which she probably won't realise to do despite the instructions. |
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| Hayley celebrates getting near the finish. |
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| Here's looking at you |
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| All going well at 6 miles |
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| Here's looking at you too |
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Dabbing - a hip hop dance move to impersonate a sneeze from circa 2012.
Bless you ! |
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| When you're friend drags you round a race, but it works out ok. |
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| Badabing - badaboom |
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| "Siri - why am I running in again when I've already finished" |
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| There's a whole world of celebration going on here - excellent ! |
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| That look that says "I think you're mad" |
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| I've a feeling this isn't the way Winston Churchill used the sign to those behind him. |
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| "Help I'm being chased by wild animals. And a Rhino" |
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| Jenny was in disguise - she's actually MI6 |
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| when you get photobombed but are completely unaware of it |
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| Cool High-fives |
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| I know our photographers are good looking, but no need for this. |
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| Tight tights ? |
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| 799 dutifully eyes the curb |
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| Good to see teamwork at the finish |
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| Viceroys cyclist gets swept up in the moment |
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| Might be related |
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| Cyclists - please ride inverted. Simon wasn't sure what was going on. |
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| Rachel MacKley eyeing up some cirrostratus clouds adds to our collection of Weather Presenters in sport going back some 30 years - including John Kettley, Kaddy Lee-Preston, Hellen Willetts, Tomasz Schafernaker and Carol Kirkwood in our collection. |
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| Full on red corduroy direct motivational support being imparted |
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| Make sure you get your entries in for next year in good time ! "Or Else" says Henry. |
That's it for this week - we're going to be full on for the next four weeks with big major events - and the 19th of March seems to have been the weekend of choice for the very busy pre-london half marathons this year.
sort of apologies in advance if we fill your facebook timeline with loads of running pictures on Saturday...
until next time, enjoy the warmer weather, but mind out for Storm Doris...
Anthony
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