Saturday 28th February - Middlewood with additions

E and D Group at the start

Numbers were down a little this week as so many people are running at Tatton, High Legh or Anglesey. Welcome to new group member Lisa.

Despite early damp conditions a good group of runners headed off along the Middlewood Way to do some 'progressive sprints' and a 'paced kilometre' - Some VERY good running today and I think a few people surprised themselves with pace!

Post run discussion (with crumpets) was at the Tythy Club.

Good effort!

Neil

...with Mel in the picture ...

Off we go .. straight to a hill!

Tytherington Park

Progressive sprints

More sprints

Debroah back after a short break..

Rippon - not easy when you have a cold!

Paced Kilometre - Kate and Catharine

Karen really pushing the pace - well done

Lisa - the furthest she has run!

Judith working very hard!

Nice smile ...at the end of the km.

Catharine and Rippon

The end ... well done

Saturday 21st February - Macc Garden Centre

13 brave E group runners looked out the window this morning and decided they fancied a run in the snow. We met at the garden centre and set out onto the canal. 2.5 miles later we crossed the road at Fools Nook and headed up the hill to Leek Old Road. With a bit of a detour to avoid muddy fields, we ran back through Sutton making the route just over 4.5 miles. There was some excellent looping back this morning, some good puddle jumping and an overall good pace.

Many of the group (including two members of D group) enjoyed tea, coffee and tea cakes at the garden centre post run. 

Enjoyable run - thank you everyone. 

Jenny & Wendy

                                          Before the off 

                              Kate leading the group

                        Jo and Sue avoiding the puddles 

                               Hungover Charlie?

                      Lovely to have you back Kathryn 

                           Catherine with 'the jazz hands'

                                 Mid run snow shower

                   Wendy and Jo running up the hill 

                                        BLIZZARD

                     Charlie smiling nearing the end....

                                          Blue sky.....

                       Being all princess about the puddle.....

                                    Muddy and wet feet!

                             The route 

                                 Splits

Saturday 14th February - Valentine's Run

The Start

18 runners appeared from the mist on a damp Saturday morning to enjoy Dawn and Wendy's 'Valentines Surprise' run.

After a thorough warm up session led by Louise,a future leader, we set off towards Kerridge via Tinkers Clough, Jenny's gate and Neil's Hill. At the top of Neil's hill we unveiled our first surprise, which was a right hand turn up yet another even tougher hill ( yet to be named, suggestions welcomed). We then ran down Lidgetts Lane towards the base of White Nancy and across the path towards the waterfall where we bumped into D group and wished them luck before their climb to Trig no 2.

Before returning to the Skate park, we ran around the football pitch in a crocodile formation for Dawn's surprise which was later unveiled as a very pretty heart shape on our Garmin workout maps.

A tough hilly run today but everyone put maximum effort in and a few of us surprised ourselves when we conquered some of those hills !

Wendy, Dawn and Louise 

Coffee break at the top of that loooong hill. ;-)

The end ... time for coffee and cake!

Saturday 7th February - CAFOD or a D group 'taster'

This week, a group of E runners joined D group for a taster session, leaving a small but beautiful team of 8 running a shorter version of the CAFOD route.

Excellent running in cold and icy conditions, the group enjoyed the changing scenery, including an iced up canal, with birds finding limited access to the water.

Upon joining the Middlewood Way, the group happened upon the marathon training session, which spurred them all along.

Support this week from Abi Leyland and Kathryn Moore, 3 miles was covered in the session.

Well done everyone

Cheryl

Start Selfie

Making Tracks along the Middlewood Way

Chilly Canal

A bridge breather

Stretch is best

Happy Runners