Joe Steward and Tom McGuinness took part in the England Mountain Running Championships on the 4th June in Keswick. This race was up-hill only and incorporated the trials for the European Mountain Championships to represent GB & NI, which will be held in Kamnik, Slovenia on July 8th. Both had great runs, with Joe finishing …
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England Athletics announced their team to run at the mountain running home international at Sedbergh on the 18th June. Both Joe Steward and Tom McGuinness have both been selected to represent England in the event which also incorporates the World Mountain Championship trial, who will both be looking to make the team for the World …
Over-seas ECH athlete Lee Grantham took part in the Anglo Celtic Plate on 21st May which incorporated the National 100k championships. The race took place at Patrington Haven near Hull and Lee was representing England competing against Scotland and Wales. The course consisted of four out and back laps of 25km consisting of narrow country …
The Great Manchester Run took place today with various races taking part including races for junior athletes, the usual 10k race and the new edition this year being over the half marathon distance. There were some excellent performances from our ECH athletes with a good turn out from the club. In the 9-11 year old …
Last weekend East Cheshire’s Angela Oldham was in the parkrun news at Croxteth Hall on her way to her target of completing 65 different parkruns before she turns 65! Angela managed to break the course record for a female vet 60-64 with a fantastic time of 21.47. See below article: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/croxtethhall/news/2017/05/09/run-report-event-number-110/ It doesn’t stop there …
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The Greater Manchester Track & Field Championships took place over the weekend of 13th and 14th May at Trafford AC. East Cheshire’s Jake Smith has made the headlines this weekend with a brilliant Gold medal in the under 17 men’s high jump, with a magnificent jump of 1.66 meters. Jake had a special supporter with …
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The British Inter Counties Fell Running Championships 2017 took place on Saturday 13th May at Broughton in Scotland. As you can imagine the course was very tough over 9.6km with 600m of climbing. East Cheshire had 3 representatives taking part in Joe Steward, Tom McGuinness and Scott Matthews who were representing Greater Manchester on the …
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The London Marathon 2017 took place today with 5 East Cheshire representatives taking part in what were very good conditions, but getting warmer as the day went on. First to complete the 26.2 mile distance for ECH was overseas athlete Lee Grantham with a terrific new personal best time of 2.21.43 to finish in an …
The Manchester Marathon took place today in nice, sunny conditions with 9 East Cheshire athlete’s completing the 26.2 miles. Chris Swire was first home for ECH running a brilliant time of 2.50.37, finishing 132nd overall and 13th in his Vet 45 age category. Next home was Mark Millns in 3.17.24 (1067th overall and 249th Vet …
On a beautiful spring Saturday morning there were always going to be distractions but those who turned out found a very well organised relay race hosted by community club East Cheshire Harriers. The venue for once was not the clubs track or grassy cross country course but the tarmac of the cycle track next door.Totally …