London Marathon – General Ballot
So after yesterday's London Marathon, the focus already turns to next year's race!

The general online ballot opens on Monday 29th April. We're not sure what time the ballot opens, they deliberately don't advertise it. Last year it opened at midnight!! It always fills up VERY quickly so if you intend to enter you have to do it early. Once you're in the ballot, it's fingers crossed!

Next year's race is on 13th April. Expect more details to emerge on the website during this week. (http://www.virginlondonmarathon.com/) read more

So with one race to go, Warren needed to be in the first five on the final night and beat Chris Large by seven place to tie and eight to take the title after finishing third last year. Clearly, Chris just had too stop that happening.

Advantage one went to Warren as Chris was laid up in bed with one week to go, but this may have been counter-balanced by Warren doing a 22 mile run over the weekend as marathon preparation.

 However, the tide turned further to Chris' advantage as the Easter holidays meant that only 13 people turned out for the run on the night, therefore reducing the number who could get in between the two of them. read more

With just the Stag Trophy final positions to be sorted on Wednesday, Easter Monday saw the 35^th running of the Christmas handicap, also known as the Langmay Trophy.

With near freezing temperatures urging people to stay indoors, it was a relatively small group of 11 that met Dave Adams in the Football Club car park at 11am, desperate to get under way, just to try and warm up.

The very simple route heads out along Stanbridge Road, over the bypass before curving round to Billington where a right turn takes you up and over the hill and a straight run back in to town. It is around 5.6 miles and is historical rather than significant in any way. read more

There are two popular relay events in May and June which the club enters several teams for each year. Whilst these are still several months away, teams need to be entered early so if you want to take part you need to let Andy know soon (andy_inchley@hotmail.com).

Each event has vastly differing legs ranging from 4 miles to 10 miles so there is something to suit everyone. The routes are not marked so it is ABSOLUTELY VITAL that you recce them. There will always be other people doing the same leg to recce them with. read more