With the triple challenge of Summer Series, Grand Prix and Cheshire County Championship, Birchwood was never going to be an easy place to pick up mug points. As we set off mob-handed in Mike Cooper’s Vectra the five of us talked up our excuses and wondered how many of our…
I wasn’t there – still lost in the High Peak – but such a successful outing shouldn’t go unrecorded. Sunny weather made for an interesting race with happy holidaymakers sitting around eating ice creams and digging holes down the length of the course. Mike and Stuart mastered the art of…
A recent issue of Runners World highlighted the Millennium Walkway in New Mills in their Dream Run* feature. Jim and I decided that it was worth a run and along with Nick and Mike Cooper aimed our Sunday “Boar’s Head” training run in that direction. I had imagined a straightforward…
Orienteering involves finding your way quickly between cunningly hidden “controls” – at points that are clearly marked on your map. It requires a fine balance of speed and navigation. Well that’s the theory and a Thursday night taster session was kindly arranged for us in Macc Forest. Maps were handed…
STOP PRESS Club Night THURSDAY 18th AUGUST, MACC. FOREST .. will be an orienteering event around Macclesfield Forest, at 7:00pm. Start is at SJ 977 714. If you don’t understand the map reference don’t worry, you’ll do great at orienteering. To get there – from Macclesfield take the A523 Leek…
30th July 2005 The Burtonwood 5 was listed in the July newsletter but attracted only a minimal Wilmslow support – well in fact just me – but I’ll write it up so that you know what you missed. It was a flat rural course, HQ’d at a pub and all…
Training next Tuesday will be at Alderley Edge , meeting at the Festival Hall car park ( behind Running Bear ) same place as last time.Meet is 6.50 for 7.00 start. Nick.
Stop Press – Thursday 30th June there will be a run from Teggs Nose (top car park) at 7:00pm. There will also be a group running from the club as normal. To get to Teggs Nose go to Macclesfield and at the ‘Arighi Bianchi’ junction take the A537 (Buxton Road). …
With the club having used two (Dunham and Bowdon) of the five North Cheshire GP races for our own Summer series , I had decided to enter the overall series . The other races were Hollins Green (separate posting ) and a second Dunham race . Four of five races…
Following Rob’s detail relating to time comparisons , the detail below relates to sports science analysis predicting likely 10k times taking account of achieved 5k times. Assumptions may include slightly adjusted training but for us , I dont think too important . For a male running 18.56 for 5k ,…
