The Green Belt Relay takes place over the weekend 19th/20th May 2007 and is organised by The Stragglers. The race is a two day, multi-stage, multi-terrain relay around London’s Greenbelt countryside and surrounding towns. The route is divided into 22 sections (between 5.7 and 13.8 miles each), and teams consist of 11 runners. This means that runners must run at least twice, once on each day of the race. This is pretty tough as you are racing two days in a row, but it’s also great fun and, as many of you will know, this is one of best Serpie weekends away as well as being an excellent race. We all travel around the course in a few minibuses, supporting other runners as we go. On Saturday night we’ll stay at a hotel near the half-way point.
Serpentine are currently planning on having five teams (including a fast men’s team and a fast women’s team) and every Serpie who registers will get to run on a team. We need drivers and navigators so please volunteer if you can help.
This year, to try and reduce the amount of cash changing hands on the day and to hopefully instill a greater sense of commitment from those signing up to take part, we have decided to take the money for transport and dinner in advance as a non-refundable deposit of