The Hurt, GYBR, Mud Monsters, Dorking 10 and Seaford Half Marathon 2015 - galleries now live

The start of this year's GYBR (Great Yorkshire Bike Ride)

A busy weekend with over 76,000 images of top sporting action across the nation catalogued and uploaded ready for your enjoyment.

Perfect conditions for playing at the weekend - nice and sunny, but not too much UV flying about with a little bit of cloud cover, and a chill in the wind which is perfect if you're running to keep everything at optimal working temperature, which meant we saw some good times and fast performances, and lots of smiles !

Race	Gallery Link
The Hurt	http://bit.ly/The-Hurt-2015-Gallery
The GYBR	http://bit.ly/GYBR-Gallery-2015
Mud Monsters	http://bit.ly/Mud-Monsters-Gallery-2015
Dorking 10	http://bit.ly/Dorking-10-2015-Photo-Gallery
Seaford Half Marathon	http://bit.ly/Seaford-Half-Gallery-2015

At one point last night over 160 people were browsing away at the same time, so apologies if things go a bit slow when that happens, it's the searches on the gallery that make the server CPU work their socks off... it does do everything in turn, so don't keep hitting search if it is going a bit slow, as that just resets you to the back of the queue as you submit a new request to the CPU...

Anyway, I know you like to see our pick of the weeks, so here they are for your enjoyment, a few fun faces in there....

Hello from Yorkshire

It's not flat in Yorkshire, but very scenic !

Holmbury Hill in Surrey, quite scenic too

Correct poker face after climbing Holmbury Hill on "the south face"

Yes it should Hurt. Trade description correct.

"Almost at the top" is a favourite shout at these races. Alas I was lying.

Nobody has the right to look this cool at the top of *THAT* climb

He did climb the climb. Not that you can tell. I might hate him for this.

Yep, only two more climbs left

Correct Hurty face. 10 points.

Little did they know the hills that were to be discovered

Thank "goodness" for that !

Fastest of the Day at Dorking 10

The road out of the start onto the laps of the course

Caroline had a pleasant run out, especially after the Hurt the day before !

Vince and his excellent Carpe Diem fab face

No surrender at 4 miles

Collecting high 5's

romance blossoms in the mud

Teamwork in the mud

It's really just about the buttercups, and the field they stand in.

Top muddy action

what do you mean "enema" ?

He hadn't expected *That*

Sorry this was clearly a private moment

All is good in the mud for Gavin

Wella moments abound

Strictly NO Petting in the water.

that's quite a large makeup mirror ?

Feeling confident 2 miles into the Half

3miles in and great views already

Don't jump too near the edge

Survived the hills !

All looking good along the finish straight

Debbie does it again !!

Right, that's a fine weekend sorted out, and onto the next and the next and the next !!!

Do make sure you get them before they are archived - we have had a few people asking for recently archived images, and they do cost a bit more to get them from the archive, so save yourself some money and get things sorted early. 3 months is the timeline... So everyone from the Nuts challenge in March - if you held off - make sure you're on the case as that's almost had it's time...

Next weekend and entries you need to get sorted out (if you're not too late already):

Saturday the 13th June
The REP Arundel Ironman Swim : http://bit.ly/REP-Events
The Summer Breeze Running Festival :http://bit.ly/summer-breeze-entry

Sunday the 14th June
Mid Sussex Tri : (free downloads) www.midsussextriclub.com/the-mid-sussex-triathlon.aspx
Events to Live Polesden Lacy 10k :http://bit.ly/ETL-races

Sunday the 21st June
Back to the Trenches - The Big Push : And a discount code !! : BACKTTTPHOTOS
http://bit.ly/B2TTSSP

Saturday the 27th June
Leeds Sprint Tri and Junior Aquathlon:  http://bit.ly/Leeds-Castle-Tri

Sunday the 28th June
Leeds Standard Tri :http://bit.ly/Leeds-Castle-Tri
Marlow River Sprint Tri :http://bit.ly/f3-events
Capital to Coast Cycle Ride :http://bit.ly/C2C-ride-info

Right, we had better get on and plan where all the photographers need to be for that lot !
Have a great week and hope to see you at the weekend,

Until next time
Anthony

Celebrate National Running Day and Women's Sport Week 2015

www.runningday.org

Did you know it's national Running day today ?

No ?
well to be honest neither did we until we heard Chrissie Wellington (awesome triathlete) on the radio this morning (I think it was on radio 2 - hopefully will be in his podcast at the end of the week here http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/evans) . Yes it might be an american based thing, but when it comes to running, nobody really owns it. Unlike football, where Fifa now own it, or like F1 where Bernie Eccleson owns it. So we are all free to get stuck in and enjoy it !!

www.womeninsport.org

It's also Women's Sport Week  #wsw2015 https://www.womeninsport.org/wsw2015/ which means if your a woman, and you like running, frankly that's all the excuses you need to get out there !!!

Anyway, apart from us doing our bit to tell you that it's National Running day and women's sport week - here's a list of races this weekend we should really be telling you about - so you can enter before you go out for your training run tonight - because we will be there to take your photos and help you to have a lovely time of it all and then have something to talk about next monday when it starts raining again...

So here's our top three of the best and friendliest and uncrowded races of the weekend for you to do:

Hill Running - only Hurts if you do it right. How reassuring !

Saturday 6th June
1. The Hurt - http://bit.ly/the-hurt-entry
Synopsis - it only hurts if you run up the hills so that it hurts. There are Hills. There are flat bits. There are downhills. 5k, 10k, 20k options so you can take plenty of people along and all finish in the field to your desired level of hurt... And the views from the Hurtwood over the weald are fantastic.

Sunday 7th June

Seaford Half Marathon descent off the Head

2. The Seaford Half Marathon - http://bit.ly/Seaford-half-marathon scenic off road half around the fantastic south downs and cuckmere haven, as well as a descent of Seaford Head and finish on the beachfront promenade. If you don't like rivers, views, a bit of hills, fields, farms, national parks - then this one is not for you.

The Dorking 10, along nice country lanes, with nice people

3. The Dorking 10 mile - http://bit.ly/dorking10-entry the Surrey Championship 10 mile road race with lovely country lanes, tree lined avenues and finish at the rugby club fields. A distance to let your fast-half marathon pace really shine !! Slight undulations is about as hilly as it gets - so good for a blast or a nice sunday morning soujourn...

ENTER NOW !!

All these races have entries still open (as I type) so there's no reason not to do it - and of course - the weather is going to be better on Sunday too...http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2654308

So there you go, 3 popular classic races that will all take you through the summer countryside in varying degrees of verticalness and view across Surrey and of course, Sussex.

I look forwards to seeing your tweets, facebook posts and the comments on the gallery when they are all online on monday, that is after I have seen youall when we were doing the image cataloguing...

Have a great national running day, and Women's Sport Week 2015

Until next time
Anthony