Run the Royal Parks Half Marathon with us 9 October 2011

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We have ten places available this year torun the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London this October. Applications willl be accepted for Independent Age Gold Bond Places from March 2011 and successful applicants will be informed by the end of May. We ask runners for a deposit of £50 and to pledge to raise at least £250 for Independent Age. To register interest or to receive a Golden Bond application form, please email events@independentage.org.uk or call Harriet on 020 7605 4288.

If you're after a challenge that's more artistic than athletic, the Royal Parks Foundation have launched a competition to design their official 2011 Royal Parks Half Marathon race shirt.

Details on the competition can be found here: http://www.royalparkshalf.com/runners/running-kit/

The competition closes at noon on Thursday, 10 February 2011, so you'd better (ahem) race to get your entries in.

Sorry, that was terrible. But good luck to you all.

Cheer on our runners in the Royal Parks Half Marathon

This Sunday, October 11, is time for the Brakes Royal Parks Half Marathon. The race starts at 9:30 am in Hyde Park and should take 2-3 hours to complete.

We have seven runners in the race this year, who are all training hard and raising money for Independent Age. Six of them have sponsorship pages on justgiving.com; to sponsor them, click on their names: Julie Alderson, Bernard Bailey, Dawn Sonnemann, Michelle Tierney, Gemma Cook and Sug Sahadevan. Email Harriet Steele if you would like to come along and cheer them on.

Let's hope the weather will be nice, and good luck to all of our runners.