Macclesfield Half Marathon - 26th September 2010
Message from Colin Ardron...
The race is fast approaching and we are down on entries compared to the same time last year! Are you doing your bit to publicise the race?
It would be great if every member of the club recruited one person to run the race. How you do this is up to you -it could be by encouragement, nagging, bribery, threats or a combination of all of these. If you are not helping on the day, then why not enter the race yourself? Don't want to hear excuses, if my daughter can do it off virtually no training last year, then so can you. She said that completing her first half marathon gave her more satisfaction than eating a giant bag of honey coated popcorn. Now if you knew my daughter's sweet tooth you would be as amazed as I was by this confession. So don't be a wuss, there is still time to get some training in and recruit someone else as well. It's a highly rated event judging by the very positive feedback from previous participants and all proceeds go to two deserving charities, East Cheshire Hospice and the Macclesfield Track Appeal. So what are you waiting for?
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Written by John Bunyan
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Athletes - please see the coaching structure article .
| | Day | Time | Group | Place | | Monday | 6.30 – 8.00 | All ages from 13 upwards *See note below | Meet at Macclesfield Leisure Centre overflow car park for on and off road training runs |
| 6.30 – 8.00 | U13's 1st and 3rd Monday in month only **See note below | Meet at Macclesfield Leisure Centre overflow car park for supervised training runs | | Tuesday | 6.00 – 7.00 | Juniors (under 11 and under 13) track training | Meet at Macclesfield Athletics Track pavilion |
| 6.30 – 8.00 | Other ages from 13 upwards including Seniors Track training | Macclesfield Athletics Track | | Wednesday | Fell runners, various venues | | Thursday | 6.00 – 7.00
| Juniors (under 11 and under 13) track training | Meet at Macclesfield Athletics Track pavilion | | | 6.30 – 8.00 | Other ages from 13 upwards including Seniors Track training | Meet at Macclesfield Athletics Track pavilion
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| 6.30 – 8.00 | All ages from 13 upwards *See note below | Meet at Macclesfield Leisure Centre overflow car park for on and off road training runs | | Saturday, Sunday | By arrangement according to races. | | *Note: To cater for a a variety of abilities and goals we now have four groupings for senior runners on these nights: ATHLETES. Athletes are racers who go out for 8 - 9 miles. BOUNDERS. Bounders bound for 6 - 8 miles at 8 - 9 minute pace. Note in the summer, on Moday niights only, this group usually meets at Tegg's Nose (Top) car park rather than the Leisure Centre. COASTERS. Coasters coast 5 - 6 miles at 9 minute pace BEGINNERS. A starter group for real joggers which jogs as slowly as the group wishes. | | **Note: Excessive training on hard surfaces is detremental to the long term health of young people. Therefore we restrict "on road" and "distance" training for U13's to two sessions per month on Mondays. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 October 2008 )
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