Milburn Harriers

Thanks to Jim for Timekeeping, Results;

By Finish Time…Ally 34:38, Lorna 34:41, Steve McK 36:07, Steph 36:36, Pat 36:38, Lins 36:51, Elaine 37:41, Yvonne 37:41.

By Run Time…Lins 31:51, Steve McK 32:07, Steph 34:36, Ally 34:38, Lorna 34:41, Pat 35:38, Yvonne 37:41, Elaine 37:41.

Against Handcap…Lins -8 secs, Seve McK  -53 secs, Steph -24 secs, Pat -22 scs, Ally -2mns 22 scs, Yvonne +41 secs

Hope you are all well, it’s Ben here from The 401 Challenge.

Thank you so much for all the help and support you have shown The 401 Challenge over the past year and a bit, its been a rollercoaster year with so many amazing things happening that I will never forget.

I wanted to bring your attention to something that we are organising for the final week of the challenge, maybe some of your club members would be interested.

As you may or may not be aware, we as a team have had to make some changes to the final marathon. Our initial plans were to hold an all singing, all dancing event in Bristol where we would charge £40.10 for people take part. After a long thoughtful process we have come to the decision that it would be best in keeping with the projects objectives to hold the event virtually.

Our objectives have always been:

• To raise £250,000 to support both Stonewall and Kidscape
• To inspire people to challenge themselves and achieve things they never thought possible
• To raise awareness of bullying in the UK
• To run the equivalent distance of 401 marathons in 401 days

If we were to hold the final marathon in Bristol as we previously had planned, the costs of holding this event would have meant that we would’ve needed to sell 1000 tickets to cover basic administration fees. This just didn’t sit right with us, hence why we are now offering this as a virtual event.

So, to explain a little further and to help you understand what this means for you and your club members:

Between Sunday 2nd October and Sunday 9th October, the ‘Marathon 401 Virtual Event’ will take place.

• This event will cost £26.20 to enter with 100% of the proceeds going to help us raise the £250,000 as mentioned above, (yes that’s 100%).
• Individuals will be able to enter either a 10k, Half Marathon or Full Marathon distance.
• They can run their chosen distance anywhere in the world.
• They will be able to run this anytime during the 7 days the event is live for.
• They will be able to run their chosen distance in either 1 day or across 7 days, its up to them.
• They can do this on a treadmill, outside on their own or even as part of a group, i.e running club event? – depends on how social they want to be.
• They can use any event they are doing during the time the virtual event is live and this will count towards their distance, so say they have entered the Bournemouth Marathon on Sunday October 2nd and they register to run a virtual 401 marathon distance, they can use the Bournemouth Marathon distance as their virtual distance.
• They can use #marathon401 to share all their pictures on all social media channels with the entire 401 audience and beyond.
• Once they have completed their set distance and logged their miles, they will then be sent a medal, congratulations letter and goodies from our event sponsors via the post to the address they registered with.

If you are able to share this information with your club members and any would like to register for the ‘Marathon 401 Virtual Event’ please click on the link below.

https://etchrock.com/challenge/info/marathon-401

Please note, if any of you still plan to come to Bristol to run on Wednesday 5th October then you are more than welcome. The route is now decided and you can follow the progress and get any details you need form the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/250289181973570/

The format for the day will fall in line with how everyday so far has been, turn up and run whatever you want to run – runners will need to register through the virtual challenge link and pay their £26.20 and bring their confirmation email with them on the day as proof of payment.

If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to let us know and thank you again for everything you and your club has done for us, you have made this challenge a success as much as we have.

All the best

Ben and The 401 Team

Could you please bring to the attention of your members that the Nigel Barge 10k will be run on Sunday 22nd January 2017 at 12 noon and is now live on Entry Central  https://www.entrycentral.com/NigelBarge10k

Date selected is Tuesday 20th Sept, good luck and hope to see you there

Thanks to Paul for timekeeping and apologies to Yvonne for sending her the wrong way!

1. Lins 57:26, R 26:04, C 31:28
2. Steve McK 58:55, R 26:56, C 31:59.
3. Pat 1:05:01, R 30:40, C 34:21
4. Steph 1:09:26 R 31:25, C 38:01
5. Yvonne 1:24:57 R 31:09, C 53:48

Meet 9:45 at the start, in front of Stuart Macs

Good night for a run, well done everyone, Results…..Daniel 18:14, Lins 19:45, Steve McK 20:07, Stevie C 21:05, Steph 22:01, Pat 22:30, Yvonne 23:16, Caitlin 39:00, Paula 39:00, Jim R 40:22

Meet at the club, usual time, a run round the race route , but in no way a race, just a steady run with lots of rests to take in the (queens) view, very runable, no one left behind, just over an hour with 20 mins drive each way, ALL Millies, friends, associates n ex Millies WELCOME, hope to see you there !

July 2016

Results from tonight’s race; thanks to Stevie and family for organising, hosting, timekeeping, feeding and watering! Jim R for direction and encouragement!

By Finish Time;

Steph 52:23, Steve McK 52:25, Lins 52:55, Elaine 53:06, Pat 53:42, Yvonne 54:18, Stevie C 55:09, Paul M 59:27, Lorna 59:27, Frazer 1:04:48, Paul W 1:24:00.

By Run Time;

Lins 42:55, Steve McK 43:25, Elaine 44:06, Steph 44:23, Stevie C 46:09, Pat 48:42, Paul M 49:27, Yvonne 54:18, Lorna 54:27 , Frazer 55:48, Paul W 1:17.

The Handicaps (in minutes) were;

Yvonne 0, Pat, Paul W & Lorna 5, Frazer 7, Steph 8, Elaine, Stevie McK & Stevie C 9 mins, Paul M & Lins 10.