Macclesfield Harriers Trail Group: September 2014

28 Sept 2014

Sunday 28th September - Macclesfield Half Marathon

Today is the annual half marathon (plus 5k and fun run) organised by Macclesfield Harriers. Once again this event will donate 100% of the profit to charity.

This is a good day to volunteer your time and put something back into the sport which gives us all so much pleasure during the year.

We need well over a hundred volunteers to make the event happen so please offer to help if you can.

The jobs that need doing are :-

Course Marshalling
Start & Finish help
Catering
Car Parking
Entries
Baggage Drop
Results help
Publicity

Everybody who helps each year says what a great time they have - I hope you can spare a couple of hours to help out. Please contact me if you are willing to help out.

Thanks

Neil

27 Sept 2014

Saturday 27th September - Flat-and-Fast

The start

What a lovely morning for a run. 12 D groupers set off for a 'flat and fast' run North on the Middlewood Way and back along the canal. It was good to see E group warming up at the same starting point and also to see them at our halfway point (they were working hard today).

Sadly Anna and Savitri had to cut their run short ()not feeling so well) but always best to take the safe option and run another day. Thanks to Kathryn and Alison for staying with them as well.

So - we did a bit over 5.5 miles at 9m43s/mile pace (one mile was at 9m26s/mile) - exactly what we set out to do!

So, well done everybody ... see you next week!

Neil

Pace chart ... the lower it is the faster we went!

Pre-run hug for Gemma and Mel - captions please...

What a lovely sunny morning

Gemma after a shoe-lace stop...

Running very well....

9m45s/mile ... good effort

Alison now in her stride!

Janette, Gemma and Harry

Sally working really hard...

ABout 1.5 miles to go...

Group stayed together well.

Harry - training for Congleton

Chris and Gemma

White Nancy in the background

Fast finish...

The end...

Route

23 Sept 2014

Monday 22nd September - Street-O - Event 3 - POSTPONED

Event HQ

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND IS RE-SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBER

Neil

Sample Map

20 Sept 2014

Saturday 20th September - Teggs Nose Figure of Eight

The start

At 7.00am the weather was 'pants' but by 9.00am it had cleared and we had a very pleasant run around Teggs Nose. 7 hardy runners came along today.

This was a challenging route with over 1000' of ascent and some tricky terrain but up and down. I was extremely impressed with how much effort everybody put in ... there was some grinding of teeth on the 'ups' and, like most fell runners, there were some choice discussions about bodily functions!

Well done, seriously well done - I reckon you will 'fly' next week on our 'flat-and-fast' run!

Neil