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Ealing Blues Festival WALPOLE PARK This weekend’s Ealing Blues Festival held in Walpole Park, Ealing Broadway, was headlined on the Main Stage on Sunday night by California-based Earl Thomas. Mr Thomas first played the Festival in 2014. > see pages 4-5
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Q&A Ealing is a running town, what with the award-winning Ealing Half Marathon coursing through its streets every September. Northfields based Darren LeRoy Halford is on a mission to get more Ealing people into road running. Last year he set up the Ealing Half Marathon Training Group on Facebook. With the race only two months away, Darren has revived the group.
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o do your runners really go from complete beginners to medal-biting finishers? > Yes they do. Last year we had around 15 who had never run a half marathon before. Some had never run further than the bus before they started training, and every one of them finished. We do our long run on a Saturday or Sunday morning; a hill session on a Monday and a speed session on the track at Perivale on a Wednesday. Providing you’ve entered and done the training
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Darren (above and at left) sporting the green and yellow vest of Ealing, Southall and Middlesex AC.
you will have every chance of completing the race. And possibly quicker than you ever imagined. How do you do it, just push them a longer distance at each training session? > We break the training sessions into four parts: a very slow warm up of 1.5 miles; the run out at a pace where you can comfortably talk in short sentences; the run back which is done at a hard pace; and then a progressively slower cool down for 1.5 miles. The idea is to warm the body up sufficiently so when you start to push it you’re not going to tweak anything, the cool down brings you gently back again without stopping suddenly and seizing
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up. The harder section gets your body running at race speed. And yes, the mileage increases each week, from 5 miles up to 15. Getting miles in the legs is the secret to completing the Ealing Half Marathon. You’re involved in so much locally – from your Ealing Events group on Facebook to running Grindhouse Cafe at Ealing Studios, to cycling, and more running with ESMAC (Ealing, Southall and Middlesex Athletics Club) – do you think the average Ealing person really makes the most of being part of this community? > People tend to be involved in their communities within the larger community of Ealing.
It’s a big place. Someone from Northala might not be particularly enthusiastic about the Acton Carnival for example. But each community seems to be well supported if the Ealing Events Facebook group is anything to go by. Fetes, fairs, workshops, food events, music evenings – there is something going on every day of the week if you want it. And getting out and doing stuff is infinitely more rewarding than sitting on the sofa watching Eastenders. @WhatsOnEaling groups/ EalingEventsWhatsOnInEaling groups/EalingHalfGroup – Carlene Bender
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Two days of blues WALPOLE PARK The latest instalment of the Ealing Summer Festivals, organised by Ealing Council, was last weekend’s two-day Ealing Blues Festival. For updates on the summer’s festivals (the Jazz Festival is on next weekend, 23-24 July), follow @Ealing_Summer on Twitter. Below: Alabama’s Debbie Bond & the TruDats, playing Bonnie Raitt style music on the South Stage on Sunday night. Below right: The usual festival food stalls, serving all sorts from Spanish paella or German sausage to Thai chicken or French crepes. Bottom: Headliner Earl Thomas cranks it up. Opposite: the Main Stage tent.
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Ealing Tweetup at Pho EALING BROADWAY The glittering Twitterati of Ealing turned out in their numbers to meet up at the latest Ealing Tweetup, hosted at Pho Vietnamese street food restaurant on New Broadway. Co-organisers Michael Greer and Catherine Gunnewicht plan the tweetup every few weeks or so – it is always held on a Tuesday evening, to coincide with #EalingHour on Twitter. Follow on @EalingHour for news about the next tweetup.
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It’s not called “London’s biggest tweetup” for nothing... Below: Hilary Nicholl (@Barnabites) who was live-tweeting as #EalingHour host for the evening – with @CraigODonnell88. Bottom: Members of the Ealing Trailfinders team (@ealingtfrugby) pose with Pho’s Libby Andrews (centre, back @PhoRestaurant) and other guests (@AmrikSekhon, @EalingSoup, @OfficialHayleyS, and @BodyWorks_). Bottom right: Delectable and healthy samples from the Pho kitchen. Opposite: The tweeters catching up, with no need for any sort of mobile phone application.
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Acton connections CHURCHFIELD ROAD The West London region of The Athena Network, led by Hanwell-based entrepreneur Joanne Sumner, held its monthly informal networking session, Cappuccino Connections, in Acton for the first time last Friday. The morning event, at Churchfields cafe on Churchfield Road, attracted 16 local businesswomen including several based in Acton itself. Follow on @AthenaWLondon to find out about future upcoming events. Below: event organiser Claudia Whitehouse welcomes visitors. Bottom: Christina Martin explains her work as metabolic balance coach. Below right: networking inside and out.
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Clare’s cricket South Ealing based cricket club Old Actonians Ladies were thrilled when TV presenter, author and sportswoman Clare Balding stopped by to have a go with the cricket bat while her wife Alice Arnold gamely offered to keep wicket. Clare had just formally opened the Super Saturday of Sport event in Turnham Green, Chiswick.
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Home Workers have lunch CHURCHFIELD ROAD Members of the West London Home Workers group on Facebook met up for a smoothie lunch at The Blend House cafe in Acton last Thursday. Main photo, l-r: Maria Araneta, The Blend House; Ahisha and Josh Ferguson, My Next Level Health; yours truly Carlene Bender; Zahra Shah event organiser; Amina-Karine Kermous, AKK Marketing.
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Garden meetup Hoping for good weather for our next Contactus networking – the Acton Business Meetup on Monday 25 July from 1pm to 2pm at The Coffee House on High Street in Acton (along the same stretch as the Acton Town Hall) – so we can get to sit outside in the garden.
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