The race followed a scenic and challenging route down the west side of Derwent Water out into the fells of Borrowdale before finally racing back down east side to Keswick. Spurred on by the great views and exciting trails I managed to hang in with the leaders although suffering a…
Summer Series, Race 12 Sunday June 14th. The first view expressed to me about Passing Clouds was that it would it be ok for fell runners but would be too challenging for the rest of us. I then found it had been in the Series once before and was not…
Summer series, race 12 Sunday June 14th. The results are a product of Tony photographing the hand-written result sheets, which he then emailed to me to decipher and type. It's quick, if a little laborious, and doesn't guarantee total accuracy, please check. 15 Mike Hill 1:20:01 20 Allan…
Andrew (winner at Radcliffe) is the Series leader, followed by Jim (Kype Pool), Tom (Bluebell) and Allan (Cloud 9). Then come Diane, Sharon, Matt , Steve, Louisa with Paul completing the top ten of the 32 who have the 7 qualifying races. Damien has won his four races and leads…
Saturday 6/6/15 Team Hill turned out in force at Congleton, since Gail saw the age graded trophies she has had her two boys doing extra training, it certainly paid off, Gail finishing in 25.20, Lucas and Jacob a few seconds in front. Gail…it's Bramhall where the trophy can be won!…
I want to float the idea of stealing the one-hour concept from cycling. Would there be interest in one Thursday evening, instead of the normal run, we see how far we can each run in an hour? I've not spoken to Paul, am not down Tuesday, but if there is…
Thursday 4th June 2015 Pos No Name Cat Club Time 2 548 Damian NICHOLLS Senior Man Wilmslow RC 16.03 8 38 Andrew WHITTINGHAM Male Vet 45 (1) Wilmslow RC 17.33 12 69 Jim PENDRILL Male Vet 40 Wilmslow RC 17.43 22 (1L) 142 Diane MCVEY Lady Vet 35 (1)…
Five of us headed to Snowdonia this weekend for a fell running training course, where we learned about kit, ascending, descending and map reading…. Sharon, Sarah, Julie, Nina and I will share a few of our tips in the next newsletter. It was an excellent weekend and we can thoroughly…
Saturday 30/05/15 I headed for Congleton along with Don. The only thing worth reporting, the coffee was good. I struggled round in 25.52, passed Tony on the second lap who only just made the start and didn't actually finish, it appears he had to take a comfort break and didn't get…
Birchwood 5K 29th May 2015. Spectrum Striders introduced this race to replace the Lymm 5K in the North Cheshire 5K series. The start was the long straight which we are familiar with from the finish of the Birchwood 10K. The course breaks down into 1k of road then the remainder…
