Saturday 30th May - ParkRun at Astbury with the C25K graduates

The Macc Team

Today E & D Group ran at the Congleton ParkRun to celebrate the graduation of the C25K runners. It was a brilliant turnout in lovely conditions. There were lots of PBs and lots of happy faces.

Well done to all the runners today. The results can be found here at CONGLETON RESULTS

There are lots of pictures from today (including a few of certificates being presented). All the pictures can be found in the FLICKR album - CLICK HERE

There was a lot of cake afterwards as well... ;-)

Neil, Alison & Dawn

Harry on a mission

Lap 2...

Jazz hands...

A very competitive finish

PBs all round

Graduation

Graduation

Graduation

Saturday 23rd May - Mount of Opportunity.....

By popular demand, we met at the Leather Smithy, & set out to tackle THAT hill!! 

The weather was perfect, & there was great running by everyone! 

Once at Stepping Stones car park, we decided to head through Macc Forest - with beautiful views, & a nice bit of down hill, & along the reservoir, back to the cars. 

Tea and toast/teacakes at Macclesfield Garden Centre afterwards. Lovely to see Wendy Swindells, & Dangerous Dave there too!

Those who can....run up hills!

From Wendy, Louise and Abi.

Saturday 16th May - Fallibroome Frolic

17 E group runners met at the Leisure Centre for Dangerous Dave's Fallibroome Frolic route across the rugby club & fields to Withinlee Road, Prestbury & back.  The route took us through some mixed terrain including fields, woodland, track, mud, long grass & even a bit of tarmac.  Not a huge amount of mud today but lots of lovely bluebells, cows & horses & we even came across a couple of lone Macc Harriers :)
Everyone managed brilliantly on the undulating course- shame we lost a leader half way round to a calf injury - thanks to Tracey for looking after me & Deborah's lovely husband for driving me home.
Here are some photos from the first half of the run - apologies for the quality!
Dawn D & Dangerous D

 

 

Raring to go & get muddy



A little slalom at the Rugby Club (Kate got carried away)



Across Derby Fields



Steve leading the way



Where's the mud?



Lovely bluebells



steadily down the slope



anticipation of mud



stream crossing



another stile!



wonderful aroma of flowers



phew survived the cows & horses



powering up the hill



phew - who put that hill there



camera-motivated running :)



Dangerous Dave



great running - all the way to the top!



another bridge



chance meeting with Julie & her gorgeous dog



Sorry last pic - bye bye Dawn & the camera!



Sunday 10th May - C25K homework support (3.5k)

Meeting Place

Meet in Clough Bank Car Park (Grimshaw Lane) for a 3.5km run with the C25K participants - this is all about supporting the new runners. They really appreciate all our help.


I will do an extension for E (and D) runners afterwards if anybody is interested.

Coffee/cake in The Waterside Cafe afterwards.

Neil

Saturday 9th May - Dawn & Wendy's Bolly Bound

The start

10 hardy E Group runners met at Clough Bank in the drizzle for our tribute to the Bollington 3 Peaks Race - the 'Bollington 3 Hills'.


We had a lovely surprise when Venessa, Shona and Damien (C25K) and a friend joined us for the first mile along the Middlewood Way.  It's lovely to see them doing so well.

We headed up the farm track and along the road to tackle the whole of Neil's Hill.  Some fab running up there with a number of members getting all the way to the houses without walking breaks for the first time. After that we had a relatively flat section along the road, then the second hill up to 'base camp' of White Nancy.  Here, following a discussion, we split - some members bobbing up for a look at White Nancy with Wendy, DD and Louise and the other group heading off to the waterfall with Dawn D.

After that we followed the lane to our third hill, Lord Street and then back down Grimshaw Lane to the start.  That was a challenging just over 4 miles with loop backs.  Great running by all.

De-brief was in the Waterside Cafe for those who were able to make it.

Happy running! Keep an eye out on the Facebook page for members looking for company on 'unofficial' runs during the week.

Dawn, Wendy, DD and Louise

Judith - all the way up Neil's hill without stopping

They must have known we were coming...

Mirror Mirror on the wall - Wendy and Lisa

Some C25Kers joined us for a bit!

Attention!

Anna digging deep

Julie is so good she can run with her eyes closed

Go Dawn and Louise

Look at those closed eyes!

Smile

Nearly coffee and cake time

A couple of extra soldiers

Doesn't Nancy look amazing?