South London Harriers

This has already been put on the e-group, but I volunteered to put something on here too as this is only 3 weeks away.

This is a 26.2 mile relay race split into 5 stages, each varying in length from 4.9 to 6.51 miles. It starts in Virginia Water (at 9 a.m.) and finishes in Kingston upon Thames. It will involve knowing the route for your stage as their is limited marshalling between handover points.

We need teams of five and the only stipulations are that one team member should be a woman and no more than 3 senior men per team. We would also need one car per team as each team is responsible for getting their runners to each handover point (and of course collecting the finishers at each stage - unless they want to run to the end for fun (errm I mean training) )

We need also to nominate a medical or handicap charity in the event that should one of our teams be in the top 3 our charity will receive a share of the proceeds.

Here is a link to the Stragglers' site, where you can find more details of the stages and maps etc.
<<www.stragglers.org/index.php/races/club-.../river-relay>>

NB - the only way I could include the link was by adding >> at the end, which makes it not work so copy+paste and remove >>

So far I believe the following have expressed an interest:
Pippa Major
Andy Tindall
Natalie Glover
Ross Gentry
Francis Upcott (depending on knee)
Matt Saunders
John Foss
Myself

So we have at least one team - let's see if we can get more + drivers of course.

I am happy to be one of the drivers if need be.

Closing date for entries is 30th August (discretionary after then) but we only need to register and pay by then, final running order does not need to be declared until the day of the race. I do not know the cost, but I very much doubt it will be prohibitive.

I will email and let them know we are interested now so anybody who would like to run please let me know ASAP by replying to this topic.

I've now found out that entry is £8 each (per runnner = £40 per team) and we need to enter and pay by 31st August and it's postal only.

I'm going away on Friday, so anyone who wants to enter let me know and I'll do the necessary - no need to send me money in advance, we'll worry about that later.

I will still be in the country and will be able to post the entry next week as long as I know before Wed 29th.

Oh, and anyone with any good ideas for :
1) team names
2) nominated charity

Please also let me know.

Poor connection here so my plan is to sort out 2 teams as there are only 2 ladies. I'm not sure how the transport between handovers will happen. Thinking! Will post teams when I get better broadband but will apply for 2 to stragglers.

Suggest St Christopher Hospice, who looked after Mark Burtwell, as the charity

Good call, Francis. I was trying to think of the name but couldn't get Internet to look it up in time. Anyway I've told them I'll confirm it.

I've used highly original team names: slh a , slh b! Which are as follows:-
Slh a
Pippa (capt.), Andy, John, Francis, Bill.

Slh b
Natalie (capt.), Ross, Matt, robin, Peter.

I've decided Pippa and Natalie are the team captains as without them there wouldn't be any teams.

This is based on first come first served more or less but obviously Pippa and Natalie couldn't be on the same team and I've assumed Ross would like to be on Nat's team.

Can you all let me know dates of birth please as they wanted these on the applications and of course I didn't have a clue.

As I said before I am happy to act as a driver but haven't thought about how to cover 2 teams let alone one of five so if anyone has any ideas or is planning to handle their own transport please advise.

Also each team is responsible for their own times of legs.