A Windy Cycle Ride to Culcheth and Croft

A Windy Cycle Ride to Culcheth and Croft

The Stockport Community Cycling Club ride to Croft via Culcheth is now a well established ride on the clubs cycling calendar. We published a blog post about a previous edition of this ride a couple of years ago for instance. This year Sarah led the ride and Julia was the back-leader. Just nine Stockport Community Cycling Club members turned out today, perhaps put off by the weather forecast of wind and rain. And the ride wouldn’t disappoint!. As usual the ride started from outside St…

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Easter Sunday in Southport

Easter Sunday in Southport

Easter Weekend had begun with plenty of activity for Sarah and I. On Friday we had participated in the Salford 10k, recced the forthcoming Stockport Community Cycling Club ride to Culcheth that Sarah will be leading. On the Saturday we began the day by volunteering at the Bramhall Parkrun and then running 15 miles as our last longer training before the Greater Manchester marathon in a few weeks time. So by Sunday morning we were ready for a rest! We started the…

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Salford 10k 2015

Salford 10k 2015

Good Friday was the Salford 10k 2015 race hosted by Salford Harriers. It was a very wet start to the day and the forecast was heavy rain all day. The race started at Salford Sports Village. When we arrived, it had almost stopped raining, just a bit drizzly. I has not been struggling to fight off a virus all week, Andy was now recovered from his. Arriving at start point, I was really tired and Andy was very determined!   …

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SCCC’s Soggy Sunday Cycle Ride to Henbury

SCCC’s Soggy Sunday Cycle Ride to Henbury

In our last post, which detailed our Wilmslow Half Marathon exploits, Sarah wrote how I had been feeling a little unwell for the last few weeks. This virus continued exerting its effect throughout this last week. In the early part I struggled and then as I began to recover Sarah started to struggle. It has played havoc with our Greater Manchester Marathon training. Unfortunately Sarah was still feeling unwell and so was unable to come along to today’s Stockport Community Cycling Club ride to Henbury. In such…

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Wilmslow Half Marathon 2015

Wilmslow Half Marathon 2015

Sunday 22nd March was the 2015 Wilmslow Half Marathon. It is not an event that we have not done before. The start was on Kings Road near the Wilmslow Rugby Club at 10:30. The event was full well before the date of the event, there being 5000 entries. As the event was being chip timed, there were sign posts along Kings road showing expected finish times, up to the 2 hour mark. We started by this sign as we were hoping…

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