1. Series Update
Wow what a quiet month on the runfurther series! Hope it has given your legs a break and your body and mind has found lots of other challenges to keep you busy?

The next race is Osmotherley Phoenix and is supperb event to have a go at, very popular as the village has a summer fete on and the local pub is great!!! Right opposite the finish with the chippy round the corner!! To get an entry click HERE

Then just three weeks later is the Downland Ultra which also has a festival to keep you and your family entertained. To get an entry click HERE

2. Series Leaders
The leaders are:

Julian Brown - Mens
David Waide - Mens Vets 50
Adrian Dixon - Mens Vets 60
Karen McDonald - Female
Wendy Dodds - Female Vets 50

This will of course change as more racers get four races in. Keep an eye on the scores here.

3. Grand Slamming
Still two runners qualifying for the slam at the moment. Karen McDonald and Stuart Walker.

4. SPOT PRIZES - May 2008

Each month of the series races we will be giving away spot prizes to registered runners of the Vasque Ultra-running champs 2008.

Vasque trail shoes - Euan McGrath

Box of Cliff Bars - Ross Litherland

Thorlo Sox - Rob Pyle

OMM Pack - Louise Watkins

Capestorm Base Layer - Emma Wharton

Contact us

The prizes will be posted here on the monthly newsletter and again on the website HERE. the winners will then have to email us their preferred delivery address and size if necessary and we will send out the prize or voucher. Click on the sponsored links to see what sort of stuff is on offer each month.

Some of the previous Spot prizes have not been claimed yet - please click here to see if you are one of them and if yes please contact us to claim your prize. All unclaimed prizes will go into the bag for the prize giving at the end of the year as spot prizes at the presentation.

5. Web news and updates.

We are fully into Bob Graham and all the other Rounds season now and we would like you to write about your experiences on these as a runner or a supporter. Lets get the word out there so more of us can see what it is all about, who's done what and where and how long it took etc

If you want to write us a race report for the series or any other Ultra you have taken part in please follow these instructions for sending in the information. We are looking for articles all the time from everyone not just the top racers, we want to know everyones experiences out there on the hills.

Here's some new record attempts and articles for you to read all about our runners efforts over the last month.

Scottish Munro Record - Stephen Pyke - read all about the attempt HERE

John O'Groats to Lands End - Mimi Anderson - her attempt starts on 16th July 08 and you can see here schedule HERE and read all about her and how she got into running on her "Featured Runner" page HERE

6. End of Season social.
We are sorting this out during July and we will tell you all about it in the next newsletter. It will be in the Lakes, include a day of activities and/or a race. Be around the beginning of November. Include a meal with a bar and some slide shows/talks from some inspirational runners. It will be a great chance to meet everyone and get to know some of the other runners and hear everyone's stories and of course be in with a chance for some spot prizes whilst we hand out all the series prizes.
If you are interested please let us know by emailing us HERE with a "YES Please I want to party with all the other runfurther runners in 2008!"

Hope the training is going well, plan your 2008 races, get your entries in early and check back to http://www.runfurther.com/ over the next couple of weeks for lots of news, exciting stories and a new (spam free) forum.

Cheers

Karen, Mark and Si - Team Runfurther

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