Macclesfield Harriers E Group

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Sunday March 9th - High Legh 10K

The Start

A great 'E (for ELITE) Group' turnout for the annual High Legh 10k.

A beautiful sunny day, a small community organised event (457 runners), friendly marshals, quiet country lanes and brilliant cakes - a good way to spend a Sunday morning.

The results were very good today with a few PBs I think...

Name* Position Gun Time Chip Time
Alison      293        55m44s      55m11s
Carol        368        61m48s      61m15s
Dawn       419    68m25s    67m51s
Neil            46        40m49s      40m42s (1st MV55)
Sarah        400    65m52s    65m17s
Wendy B 346    59m44s    59m12s
Wendy S   292    55m42s     55m09s

* Names alphabetical

Neil & Ali

Cakes waiting for after the race

Team E Group!

Disaster ... a broken nail...

The start

Sarah


Dawn - Half Marathon Training

Carol

Stevie Wonder aka Wendy B

Ali G

Wendy (I love Maps) S

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Saturday 8th March - CAFOD route with a twist

The start

15 group members out today - the forecast was for sunshine, high temperature, the start of spring weather - we got cold and windy weather ... but at least no rain!

Today's session was a combination of routes based upon the CAFOD route (group members chose whatever suited them) - the canal and Middlewood Way were involved - some made it to Whiteley Green and others to Adlington Road - yet again we experienced how easy it is when the wind is behind you and how hard it is when it is against you.

Well done,

Neil and Ali

Louise and Jenny do that 'move our arms, looks like we are running' thing!

Fiona back with the group!

Wendy gritting her teeth about something?

Almost at Adlington Road

On the way back

Discussing 'Brownies'?

Fiona - yet again, a blur

At the start ... full of energy!

By Adelphi Mill

Anna in disguise..

Almost at the Waterside

Margaret and Anna

Almost at Whiteley Green

The mud is still not brilliant

Discussing route choice...

The End

Saturday, 1 March 2014

Saturday 1st March - Dorchester Loop - with a twist

The Start

Yet again we were lucky - the 1st of March and a lovely spring morning for the first E Group Street-O.

20 group members came out and gave this new type of session 100% - it was interesting that most people said that they ran further and faster than usual - I wonder why that was.

After a short session about which way up the map should go and what the strange wiggly lines were all about everybody seemed keen to get going. We have a brief (!) warm-up everybody grabbed the maps and headed off to find the 21 controls on the course (nobody managed to get them all by the way).

We managed to get a few pictures from the course (below) but it was hard to keep track of everybody! ... the course and results are shown below as well.

There seemed to be a sense of achievement as each group returned (pretty much on time) and the general opinion was that it is something that we should do every so often (if anybody wants to get involved just shout out!).

The winning team

The team that won this first session was Catherine Walton and Louise Brown (it must be the new shoes...)

If anybody wants to know more about creating the maps and clue sheets then please visit the Open Orienteering website at www.oomap.co.u k

Well done everybody!

Neil and Alison

ps Please forgive us that a couple of 'controls' could have been better explained - it was a bit of a learning curve for us!