Author: ian_ashcroft
Club Handicap – Friday December 27th.
Your Handicap will be based upon your times in the Summer Series races, Round the Runway, the Festive 10k and your best times at the Wilmslow, Bramhall and Lyme Park park runs. You need to have run at least 3 of these to compete for the Sue Hool trophy (otherwise…
Woodford 10k
Sunday September 29th. Summer Series, race 15. I understand that Richard Coen was on his way to a race in Preston, heard the weather had caused it to be cancelled, turned round, came to Woodford, entered, and took first place. Our weather forecast had been awful, heavy rain from 8am…
Quarry Bank Trail Race
Summer Series, race 13 Wednesday August 7th. Wilmslow were first Men’s team; Richard, Damian, Robert Wilmslow were first Ladies’ team; Nicola, Diane, Janine First Lady; Nicola, her first race win First Man; Richard It does not get much better than that. This is a great course, one many of us…
Bollington 10k Summer Series Race 12
Sunday August 4th. Summer Series, race 12 In a week in which climate change brought the monsoon to North Cheshire, there were concerns, given Bollington was badly affected, as to how it might impact on the race. In fact, as it turned-out, not at all. There was, however, a tropical…
Wizard 5
Tuesday July 9th. Summer Series, race 10 Rob Downs has often said that the best route to winning a race is the invent your own. So it proved for Wilmslow R.C. who dominated the Wizard 5. Whilst the first lady was an outsider, if Rob’s daughter, Ellen, can be classed…
Unofficial Club Rankings
The rankings below are based upon the data I use to determine our start times in the club Christmas Handicap (probably Friday December 27th. this year); namely the Summer Series races, Round the Runway and your best times in the Wilmslow, Lyme Park and Bramhall parkruns. The rankings are unofficial…
Colshaw Hall 10k
At Colshaw in 2016, Simon and I had finished only 10 seconds apart. As two years earlier, I went into the lead from the gun. At halfway Simon says I was 100m ahead, I had no feel for my lead, only my watch as a guide, it said that I…
Dunham Massey reverse 5k
Summer Series, race 8 Thursday June 13th. The word is that Dunham reverse, now commonly nicknamed downhill, is 10 seconds faster than Dunham 1. Having run 18 seconds slower, I hoped a bit of statistical analysis would expose this as a myth. However, the opposite was true – if you…
Tittesworth Reservoir Trail Race
Summer Series, race 6 Staffordshire Moorlands Series, race 1 Thursday May 30th. As at Dunham a week ago, running conditions, both weather and underfoot, were near perfect although I understand from those reckless enough to take-on a Half at Buxton, things were a little different there. Our make-up was that…