Wednesday 14 February 2018

Watford and Worthing Half and your next half 2018



The Worthing Half Marathon 2018


Worthing Half Marathon 2017

The Worthing Half Marathon 2018 is now live and online (well it was on Monday), as of course is the Watford Half Marathon from last weekend (apologies for skipping a week of blogs)... Links to those two are below in the table.

The Worthing course allows us to shoot a lot more photos than usual per photographers - simply because of the course design itself - so we have a lot of images per runner and the light was quite spectacular even if it was a little cold !!


Free Photos !!
In yet more fantastic news - we're very pleased to announce that Brentwood Half Marathon on March the 18th, organised by the Rotary Club of Brentwood-a-Becket - are bringing all participants free live photos powered by pic2go.co.uk technology - so enter the race, get your race number, and register today http://bit.ly/Brentwood-Half

This brings the photography standard for this very popular Essex race up to that of the English National Cross Country Championships, where once more we will be providing live race photos for everyone at Parliament Hill as the day unfolds on the 24th of Feb - powered by pic2go, just as it was at Nottingham last year - again sponsored by those super nice people at Saucony

Bearing in mind that Brentwood is primarily a top county race to raise money for charity - the pic2go registration allows people to put their Charity Donation URL into the system so that shows with their race photos - so now we not only provide the proof to your friends and family as it happens - we can give them the right place to go as soon as they see it too - which will increase the amount of donations you get for good causes !

Here's the races and recent galleries you need to know about 

Date The Race Enter - The Event Website Race Gallery info
Sun-04/02/2018 The Watford Half http://www.watfordharriers.org.uk/ https://sspimg.com/Watford-Half-2018-Gallery
Sun-11/02/2018 The Worthing Half Marathon http://www.perseverance-events.com/ https://sspimg.com/Worthing-Half-Marathon-2018-Gallery
Sun-18/02/2018 The Hampton Court Half Marathon http://bit.ly/Hampton-Court-Half-Entry
Sat-24/02/2018 National XC Champs http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/ Free live photos powered by Pic2Go
Sun-04/03/2018 The Leicester 10k http://www.townandgown10k.com/leicester/
Sun-04/03/2018 The Nuts Challenge http://www.thenutschallenge.co.uk/
Sun-04/03/2018 Steyning Stinger http://www.steyningac.co.uk/ Free download gallery after the race
Sun-18/03/2018 The Fulham 10k https://www.adidascityruns.com/ Free download gallery after the race
Sun-18/03/2018 Hastings Half Marathon http://bit.ly/Hastings-Half
Sun-18/03/2018 Salomon Richmond Half and 10k http://bit.ly/Richmond-Half
Sun-18/03/2018 Brentwood Half http://bit.ly/Brentwood-Half Free live photos powered by Pic2Go - register now http://www.brentwoodhalf.org/pic2go
Sun-25/03/2018 Colchester Half http://bit.ly/Colchester-Half

And now for some race photos...

first up Watford
Did you know there are two start lines at Watford ?

start line number 2

all ok so far !

swerving for the camera wave

good to run with friends, they shook hands all the way around

the first hilly bit

Mick and Phil, legends of our time

floating around the course

three levels of engagement with the world

putting on the speed to the downhill


the golf course drags out a little bit of a yawn

Paul Martiletti putting down the pace to win after last year off

sitting on the fence - again

Selfie time with friends

jumpy pacing in a 1:40

victory at the finish

He's over the fence this time...

Then over at Worthing last sunday we had this:
The Worthing Half start from amongst the Palm Trees

The picturesque Worthing seafront architecture

Back along the coast - as flat as it gets, and as fast as it gets with that westerly wind behind you

when waving, don't block the two friends behind you

wave to the passing crowds

poise, focus and intent. what more do you want in your image ?

ok, jump, you want a jump in your photos

editorial note - I have added text to this. Can you see why I've added it ?

Brilliant !! (and look at the lovely Goring / Worthing countryside)

Flying in for the win again (lets see how he does at the national xc champs then...)

Take the air for the personal victory

top work to cruise in at the end

ah charity vest but no number, not so handy, despite the hands.

top speed work and poise into the finish

Groom and best man preparing for the big day.

Good sprinting work from the juniors

Perfectly correct application of the Mobot, by Mo. Top winner.
So, that's this weeks update. 

Just a short note for rather a lot of facebook users who ran at worthing - it is against facebook's terms and conditions to post unlicensed (i.e. watermarked) images on their website (you can tell from the writing on our images - if you were unsure). Mobile phone screen grabs are the most common way of copying unlicensed images to then post on facebook.

If you want a very easy and simple way to show your friends on facebook how you did - just use the facebook "share button" - which is right above the images - and that will post a lovely thumbnail and link for your friends to go and have a proper look on the gallery - all for free, and legal and lovely.

In similar news Facebook have a habit of blocking you from their services when they find out that unlicensed images have been used, and if it's a group page - they have a habit of closing the group, without recourse. So our suggestion is don't break facebook's terms and conditions  and make sure you only upload licensed (purchased) images without watermarks on, or just use the share button - which is free. 

And when you do this (like and sharing links - easy and for free) - you should be finding your friends and sending them a little message of congratulations on their achievements. Everybody likes a little pick-up - so make them happy ! (for free!)

[Ed: did you mention the share button is free ?]

until next time - and see you at the Hampton Court Half Marathon !

Anthony



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