The Seaford Striders Mince Pie 10mile 2018 and entries into 2019

All ready for the 24th - Santa gets in a bit of last minute cardio

So that's a wrap ! Christmas 2018 is the next thing on our calendar, and whilst there is a handful of Santa runs around the place, your best-bet for a pre-christmas turn out is a local Parkrun (or not very local if you fancy a bit of "tourism" as they call it).

The next race out for us is the Brutal Longmoor, which is possibly the best of the Brutals - if only to work off the Christmas pudding a few days later, and then there's the classic Serpentine New Years Day 10k - which will blow away your hangover if nothing else works !

Otherwise we're into 2019 planning - if you're London based then the Adidas races are a favourite 10k with free race downloads https://sspimg.com/cityruns2019

If you're putting together your 2018 achievements and trying to work out what to do and aim for in 2019, then why not put it down on record somewhere like Runpage.com and make sure all your medals, times and achievement memories are in one easy place to keep and share - and then plan from there, or take it to your coach and show them what's what and ask what's next ?

I'm going to try to find all the camera  kit from the far reaches of the globe that it all get spread to, get things serviced, cleaned, organised, tested and calibrated (yes, lenses need to be calibrated to their camera bodies so they focus super accurately), and give the office a bit of a tidy up. But first, editing the school nativity play videos...

In the meantime, here's the table of events, galleries and then some photos

Date	Event	Gallery or Event Website
Sun-11/11/2018	PP Grand Union Half	http://sspimg.com/PP-Grand-Union-Half-2018-Gallery
Sat-17/11/2018	Brutal Spider Hill	http://sspimg.com/Brutal-Spider-Hill-2018-Gallery
Sun-18/11/2018	Adidas Fulham 10k - Free Photos	http://sspimg.com/Fulham-10k-2018-Gallery
Sun-18/11/2018	The Brighton 10k	http://sspimg.com/Brighton-10k-2018-Gallery
Sun-02/12/2018	The Hogs Back	http://sspimg.com/The-Hogs-Back-2018-Gallery
Sun-09/12/2018	Seaford Mince Pie	http://sspimg.com/Seaford-Mince-Pie-10-2018-Gallery
Future Races	.	.
Sat-29/12/2018	Brutal Longmoor	http://brutalrun.co.uk/race/longmoor/
Tue-01/01/2019	Serpentine NYD 10k	http://www.serpentine.org.uk/pages/nyd10k.html
Sun-06/01/2019	Tadworth Ten	http://www.tadworth.org.uk/tadworth-ten/
Sun-03/02/2019	Watford Half	http://bit.ly/watford-half-entry
Sun-10/02/2019	Worthing Half Marathon	http://bit.ly/worthing-half-2016
Sun-17/02/2019	Hampton Court Half Marathon	http://bit.ly/Hampton-Court-Half-Entry
Sat-23/02/2019	The National XC Champs - Leeds - Free photos	http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/
Sat-02/03/2019	The Nuts Challenge	http://www.thenutschallenge.co.uk/
Sun-03/03/2019	Steyning Stinger - Free Photos	http://www.steyningac.co.uk/
Sun-03/03/2019	The Nuts Challenge	http://www.thenutschallenge.co.uk/

It's pudding time

Good to see the Vegan Runners out after their strong showing at the Brighton 10k

Top superman work

that's not a pair of brussel sprouts 

The Sean Connery fancy dress costume for christmas worked a treat

When Runners get Triathlon thoughts

the leggings have it

sparkly antlers in the sunshine

she skipped the entire route this happy

mince pie hunger cut in with 1km to go

First time for an offroad 10k, hope the meter wasn't on

What's the collective noun for a group of Debbies ?

Special mention to James Baker - took 1:20 off his own 7 year old course record to drop it to 55:14. I think I can do that on the flat, on a bike ?

And a very happy Christmas to you too !!

So that's it for this year's gallery, I hope you've enjoyed my incredibly insightful captions throughout the year, and hopefully I've not caused you to spit your tea out over your keyboard.. but then again what is the real measure of success here ? (ok, it's people buying or downloading their photos...)

If you're a race organiser, even if you're one we cover your race regularly - please get in contact with us to confirm 2019's race because it's already getting more than half booked up, and we don't like to decline races (but we do!).

so, unless something comes to mind that I need to tell you urgently - have a Happy Christmas, and a great New Year !

Until next time
Anthony

The Hogs Back 2018 gallery now live

The Hogs Back race snakes it's way from Loseley

All done on the same day the gallery for the 2018 Hogs back is all live and online with over 1230 runners in this sold out race and over 16,000 fully catalogued images ready for you to search and browse:

http://sspimg.com/The-Hogs-Back-2018-Gallery

The race results are here: http://racetimingsolutions.racetecresults.com/results.aspx?CId=16269&RId=998

If you want to see where last weeks race galleries are, or indeed want to have some idea of where you should be running off those mince pies over the next month - then this is the race table listing for you !

Date	Event	Event Gallery or Website
Sat-17/11/2018	Brutal Spider Hill	http://sspimg.com/Brutal-Spider-Hill-2018-Gallery
Sun-18/11/2018	Fulham 10k	https://www.adidascityruns.com/
Sun-18/11/2018	Brighton 10k	http://sspimg.com/Brighton-10k-2018-Gallery
Sun-02/12/2018	The Hogs Back	http://sspimg.com/The-Hogs-Back-2018-Gallery
Future Races
Sun-09/12/2018	Seaford Mince Pie	http://www.seafordstriders.org.uk/mincepie.html
Sat-29/12/2018	Brutal Longmoor	http://brutalrun.co.uk/race/longmoor/
Tue-01/01/2019	Serpentine 10k	http://www.serpentine.org.uk/pages/nyd10k.html
Sun-06/01/2019	Tadworth Ten	http://www.tadworth.org.uk/tadworth-ten/

Here's a small selection from the Hogs Back for you to enjoy...

Serious Running, for when the Gym isn't your thing

Cairon jumped with surprise when he saw Paul

There's a lot going on in this image, what is 486 thinking, what did 57 just say, and what's the bloke behind 410 doing ?

Don't panic, she has not broken her elbow with jubilation !

bored on a race ? - http://bfy.tw/LADL

Double thumbs up for that then

298 suitably impressed by what's occurring

Bound to be a good run

Centre forward for Stoke next

pink flamingo tropical running vest in December. Reminds me of sunnier climbs.

for the win

"It's all about the fun". Clearly.

Proper hogsback race headgear for the win.

Top Teapot

What they call in the triathlon world - a top "O-face".

Hello Mike !

The realisation that Movember had finished a few days earlier

We're in the quiet season now - which thankfully gives us a moment to look in the windows of shops to think of what we might like to get at christmas. you can get me one of these if you need to - https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Canon/Canon-EF-lenses/Canon-EF-200-400mm-f4-L-IS-USM-Extender-1.4x-Lens 

We also spend a bit of time talking to events for next year - and we are now over 50% booked for 2019 (NB race directors - get your booking in very quickly, we have already had to disappoint some!!), and are very pleased to announce free race photos with pic2go.co.uk at the Basingstoke Half Marathon 2019. Get your entry in quickly here - now (as a present for your beloved?) sspimg.com/Basingstoke-half-2019-entry - there's also a 10k if you fancy that too !

So, next weekend is the mighty Seaford Mince Pie 10, which is almost always sold out - so that's the last of the runs sorted before the end of the year... remember to wrap up warm for that one...

Until next time, have a good training week and enjoy the mulled wine...

Anthony