Herts 10k 2018 now live, and Adidas Shoreditch 10k live first thing tomorrow

The http://www.herts10k.com continues to be one of the longest standing charity organised events we cover for the Rennie Grove Hospice near St.Albans. Despite the lashings of fierce rain over night, and all the way up to the start, there was still a good turnout of runners and walkers with 1427 participants - the fastest 1200 of which would have made it around the course in the dry spell before the rain begun with vengeance again at 11:15am - which was 80% of the field judging from the results on here - https://www.resultsbase.net/event/4267

And they're off - StAlbans Striders try to put in an early show

That's not to say at one point I was surprised that nobody had a headtorch on. At the end of the race when we had a little bit of light as the cloud thinned, I worked out it was 16 times brighter. For those of you interested we were running at ISO12500, F3.2, 1/640th of a second for extended period of time, and then you'll know why we use the cameras and lenses we do... I was asking for floodlights at the finish at one point. Afterwards I went to the indoor athletics track at Lee Valley to watch my kid racing - and the light levels were about twice as good - indoors...  ISO8000,F3.5,1/800th

Meanwhile in London at the Adidas Shoreditch 10k, one cloudburst before the start and then they had it dry for the rest of the race. Those free download images will be ready tomorrow morning on the official Adidas website - so I won't be posting links from here to that gallery - go to their site and await their official email !!! (I can't steal their thunder can I now!!!).

We have the fantastic Cambridge Town and Gown 10k next weekend along with the flattest Marathon in the country at Abingdon but I think that's sold out, so see you at Cambridge if you're still looking for a race entry...

Table of links

Date	Event	Gallery or Event link
Sun-07/10/2018	Royal Borough of Kingston Half Marathon	http://sspimg.com/RBK-Half-2018-Gallery
Sun-07/10/2018	Tonbridge Half	http://sspimg.com/Tonbridge-Half-2018-Gallery
Sun-07/10/2018	PP Reading O2O 10k	http://sspimg.com/PP-Reading-O2O-10k-2018-Gallery
Sun-07/10/2018	Clarendon Marathon	http://sspimg.com/Clarendon-Marathon-2018-Gallery
Sun-07/10/2018	Chichester Half	http://sspimg.com/Chichester-Half-2018-Gallery
Sun-07/10/2018	Basingstoke Half	http://sspimg.com/Basingstoke-Half-2018-Gallery
Sun-14/10/2018	Shoreditch 10k - Free Downloads	https://www.adidascityruns.com/shoreditch/overview
Sun-14/10/2018	Herts 10k	http://sspimg.com/Herts-10k-2018-Gallery
Next time
Sun-21/10/2018	Cambridge Town and Gown 10k	http://www.townandgown10k.com/
Sun-21/10/2018	Abingdon marathon	http://www.abingdonmarathon.org.uk/index.php
Sat-27/10/2018	Beachy Head Marathon and 10k	http://www.visiteastbourne.com/events/BeachyHeadMarathon.aspx
Sun-11/11/2018	PP Grand Union Half	http://www.purplepatchrunning.com/index.php/grand-union-canal-half-marathon-2
Sun-18/11/2018	Fulham 10k - Free downloads	https://www.adidascityruns.com/
Sun-18/11/2018	Brighton 10k	http://www.brooksbrighton10k.co.uk/info
Sun-02/12/2018	The Hogs Back	http://aat-events.com/race/hogs-back-road-race

So here's some pictures of people running in the rain, and more importantly - had the determination and self sacrifice to get up and out on a very very wet Sunday morning to do something meaningful !

Always show me your number !!

First corner, and starting to look a bit like autumn

It's only a little bit of rain !

nothing like a bit of fresh weather for a run

A bit of rain doesn't put him off

still smiling

Laura had a smashing time

Got a bad knee ? get your mates to carry you

Get another bad knee with your mates dropping you

hard finishing into the rain at the finish

all is forgiven at the end

Achievement done !

Top running with friends

The open fields are fun to run

for the MO-ment

full arm flying in at the finish

it's a teamwork thing sometimes !!

All done for the weekend then, enjoy your training this week and I hope you raise loads of money for your chosen charities - remember - it's statistically proven if you use a race photo you are going to on average raise about 50% more... and people say advertising doesn't work... (as they then use google to check...)

Until next time,
Anthony