Ealing Half and Tonbridge Half Marathon 2014 now live

The race galleries for the Ealing Half Marathon and the Tonbridge Half marathon are now live and on line on the Official Race photo galleries at Sussex Sport Photography.com - direct links below

The start of the 2014 Ealing Half Marathon

Race logo	Race Gallery Link
	Ealing Half Marathon 2014 http://bit.ly/Ealing-half-2014-photo-gallery
	Tonbridge Half Marathon 2014 http://bit.ly/Tonbridge-half-2014-photo-gallery

There are some great race reports on the websites - Run247 has the Ealing report and the main Tonbridge Half Marathon website has theirs. I'm not going to even try to compete with those ones, so I'll stick to the photo diary format you've become familiar with...

Very big congratulations to Kelvin and Sandra at Ealing and to Andy and the Rotary at Tonbridge for putting on two very large community events. Both of these races are huge undertakings taking on board the co-ordination and organisation of hundreds of staff and volunteers, the traffic management, the whole event village area - it's all massive and very hard to do.
Tell them how much you enjoyed their race by giving them the feedback directly here:
Ealing Feedback (or their Facebook page here)
Tonbridge Feedback (or their Facebook page here)


As ever - a few race entries you need to think about :
Up coming Half and Marathon races for October and November

October
5th Oct: Basingstoke Half (Major Area race, closed roads) NB will sell out
5th Oct: River Thames Half Marathon (Flat and Fast)
12th Oct: Chichester Half - road and trail, and Hills
19th Oct: Abingdon Marathon (flattest and fastest with PB potential) NB Will sell out
25th Oct: Beachy Head Marathon (not flat, not fast, offroad) NB will sell out

November
8th Nov: Bexhill Poppy Half Marathon
9th Nov: Purple Patch Grand Union Half Marathon NB will sell out
16th Nov: Brighton 10k (Major Area race, closed roads) NB will sell out

Here's a few pictures from Sunday, possibly the last sunny one of September for about a year...

A message from Kelvin for you #YMF

Ealing Dan handily points out the bollard we were standing behind

Kelvin and Sandra grab a moment for me before the winner turns up

Getting the water ready - it was almost all drunk

Lovely bit of support for Ben, He was grinning broadly in the next shot, but you can't see the happy supporter in that one. He had a bit of a lead even here.

Rebecca put in a good sub 1:30 time. The floating shoes helped.

Sam senses victory as she headed for a 2:04

James was enjoying it a bit more than Emma at this point....

It's the little details that count - great caption on the hat !

Naughty Nick - we'll spot you cheeky

Paul Cuddeford https://twitter.com/PaulCuddeford did the Rhino beat you ? 2:38 !!

Sam, now is not the time to check your emails.

Don't drop those precious Jelly Babies !

Grace got a bit caught out by Haszena, but then, she has headphones in. (cue start my usual rant against headphones...)

Rachelle starts to suffer from low sugar levels

Thomas the Giraffe put in a sterling 2:16 - the Rhino didn't get him

Lewis and Anthony fight it out at the sharp end finish in 1:40:18

Adam and Liam complete it in style carrying their packs in 2:48

It can get a bit busy at the finish sometimes - makes for a great atmosphere

Tom runs in the mandatory Ealing Eagles flying finish

BBC Tech correspondent Rory runs in with his gadgets for a 2:06

I'd like to know what the main course was later.

It was a thumbs up kind of a day at Tonbridge

Things were going well at Tonbridge

It's this big a deal running a half marathon

No surrender. Only 3 miles in, 10 more to go.

Call Batman.

Cheeky smiles and miles

So far so good !

So another excellent weekend of races, we have five to go this Sunday on the 5th of October, Reading, Basingstoke, Clarendon, River Thames, and the Warrior Run. So times to get our admin heads on and get ready and planned for it all!!

Until next time
Anthony

Pilgrim Half and Full Marathons, and B2TT No Man's Land 2014 now online

It's a week of very brief blogs, because it's very busy here and the team are giving me the dagger eyes across the office...

So, after the perfect weather of last Sunday we managed to get Reigate online Monday, the Pilgrim races online Tuesday, and the Back to the Trenches No Mans Land online Wednesday.

That's a total of over 112,000 images online, all captioned so you can search for them nice and easily (unless your number was on your back, or ripped off, or covered in mud, or of course on a tri-belt - [because they don't work]) in which case you're going to have to go through the 000 (that's three zeros) search results and enjoy the challenge just like we do !!

Here's the gallery links !

Race logo	Race Gallery link
	Back 2 The Trenches - No Man's Land http://bit.ly/B2TT-Race3-2014-photo-gallery
	The Pilgrim Half and Full Marathon http://bit.ly/Farnham-Pilgrim-2014-photo-gallery
	The Run Reigate Half Marathon http://bit.ly/Reigate-half-2014-photo-gallery

This weekend is the Tonbridge Half marathon, and also the third running of the Ealing Half Marathon.  but I think they are both sold out - go and have a quick check if you want !!

We are busy planning where we are going to see you on the day - please can someone remember to book the nice weather ?!

Pilgrim 2014

These are the people that make your race happen

We think there was some crazy background music playing somewhere

Can't beat a bit of cool purple leopard print

The BHR salute - full width horizontal

The BHR salute again... but no thumbs - must be optional

See, Fleet have a different style. Ok you don't see because he's carefully hidden himself. I didn't photoshop in the others. Honest.

and a bit of Race director corner...

Hello Heather !

Hello Hillary !

Hello Dave !

Yes, he just ran up and down that hill that he's pointing to

One for the insurance claim

Honestly, running along the coutryside. It doesn't get any better than this.

well, the marathon runners were all smiling when they left...

Back to the Trenches - No Mans Land

Tim and his nice shiny new shoes. Looks like he forgot to buy a top though. Now where could he try ?

Who has time for Kung Fu in an obstacle race? This man.

Air shot, All in syncro. Even Sy managed it. Smiling ? Are you sure Sy ?

Who ate the curry ?

Meanwhile Wilma Flinstone seemed to be enjoying it.

Surprisingly the water was only about 18inches deep.

You were allowed to wallow about in it if you wanted to

Just mind your friends joining in unexpectedly

Up and over at the start. Clearly too much bouncy energy here.

Very well done everyone - it was a glorious weekends racing !

The team are flat out here in the office getting through requests, questions, caption corrections and orders - it's been very busy and we are working at it really quickly, so please bear with us if it's a bit more than 24hrs for some of you. Your Order confirmation email should have the full details in there for you. And as Monty Python didn't say - always check your SPAM first. It's lovely. Just in case.

Until next time

Anthony