Welcome to June’s mid-month club update. A lot to look forward to for the second half of the month – see below!
Summer League (1) – this Sunday
Our first Summer League fixture is upon us at Headstone Manor on Sunday. The Summer League is a series of friendly running races of either 5 miles or 10k hosted by different London running clubs – all are welcome and everyone who finishes contributes to our score, regardless of pace. It’s a great series to run in to track your time and improvement over the races. After the main race there will be a series of fun relays and children’s races, and an excellent picnic from the host club.
The race at Headstone Manor is a 9.30 start. The nearest station is North Harrow on the Metropolitan line – we suggest taking the Overground to Canada Water (07:33 or 07:48 departures from Forest Hill), then changing onto Jubilee and Metropolitan lines to get to North Harrow. The station is a 20 minute walk from the park. Please make sure you bring a water bottle and wear your club top!
More details about the Headstone Manor race are here.
Summer League (2) – DPR hosting on 9 July
The Summer League event we host is the biggest event of the club’s calendar, and this year it’s on 9 July. The event is a 5 mile race starting and finishing in Dulwich Park followed by a junior ‘Tenderfoot’ race, a children’s race and some relays. We are hosting seven other clubs so we need to pull out all the stops.
We need lots of volunteers to help make the event a success. We need the following volunteers:
- Race timers;
- Someone to video the finish;
- A funnel manager;
- Someone to hand out finish tokens;
- A relay organiser;
- A tail walker;
- Volunteers to hand out water (children are great for this);
- Someone to create mile markers;
- Someone to put these up prior to the race and take them down afterwards;
- Lots of marshals;
- Someone to look after the food tent during the race;
- A couple of people to supervise the food tent and hand out food and keep things tidy.
- Some people willing to coordinate the above (e.g. race organisation, marshalling, marking the course, relays)
As well as the Headstone Manor and Dulwich events, we have three other Summer League events this summer – see below.
Our next relays appointment is in our own Dulwich Park, hosted by Dulwich Runners on Wednesday 21 June. We still have spaces, so if you’d like to take part please email IB Lilley at treasurer@dulwichparkrunners.co.uk.
