The Seaford Striders Mince Pie Ten Mile gallery is now live and online for free downloads here:
https://sspimg.com/2022-MincePie10-Gallery
Sponsored by those nice people at David Jordan Estate Agents https://sspimg.com/David-Jordan-EstateAgent-Sponsor - worth checking out the house scene in Seaford and have a nose about ! Perhaps find a place with a reindeer paddock ? They run wild on the hills you know.
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| Normal scenes at the 2022 Seaford Striders Mince Pie 10 Miler |
With just over 500 runners on the day in perfect winter conditions for a 10mile run - the Seaford Striders Mince Pie 10 showed us the best of Christmas fancy dress - from Elf's to Santa's to Reindeer all the bases were covered.
Motivational shouts at the 9 mile mark seemed to lead to an injection of pace to get that fabled Mince Pie. I say fabled - because when I got back to the HQ - there weren't any. Not that I was going to let my gluten free self imposed lifestyle stop me eating one if I did find any. I snaffled some crisps to warm my core temperature up from the negative air temperature the wind-chill had subjected me to.
Marshalling is hard at the best of times, but the Seaford Striders make this a club-member compulsory marshal event - which is great because as a runner you really get a feel for the camaraderie of the local running club and their ability to all pull together as a team to put something special on. On the plus side you still get to move about to keep warm, unlike us photographers... I'm going to get some Antlers for next year though.
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| check out Sam in her antlers |
Other bits of news in the local running scene that I've been curating slowly for your enjoyment:
Breaking news update - the London Marathon is nominated subject to further contractual negotiations to be taking over the Brighton marathon. More information here:
https://sspimg.com/2022-brighton-marathon-saved
Asics acquires njuko the event entry platform (so they can get your data and sell you more shoes)
https://runsignup.blog/2022/11/22/asics-acquires-njuko/
How sport can act for nature - because without nice places to run, you won't have nice places to run, so try to keep places nice - for running (obvious research conclusion alert issued)...
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2022/november/sport-for-nature-report-launched/
But frankly you're only here for the photos.. and I've not done the race attendance stats - so I'll skip that boring information this week, because Christmas in'nit...
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| waves hello to Nina - good to see her out and running |
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| what's the collective noun for Elves ? |
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| The Hulk Elf when happy |
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| jumping Elfs |
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| he's the real deal - that's no fake beard that... |
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| excellent team running |
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| here comes the Christmas rush |
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| All ok for Mrs Clause ! |
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| Hark the Herald Angels run |
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| Mr Tree ! |
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| He won because he takes it seriously. Also new course record... |
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| Top headbanding |
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| this reminds me - I need my haircut (personal reference - she used to cut my hair) |
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| HO HO HO! Santa is on the run... |
So with that I bid you all a very merry christmas, and a happy new year - and if anything crops up in the meantime, train safely
Until next time
Anthony
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