Posts by Neil Gunn

Welcome to the new Macclesfield Harriers & A.C. website

Neil Gunn
After a lot of hard work by a number of people (and special thanks go to Gillian Lindsey and Ewan Edmondson) we are proud to welcome you to the new club website. The new website has a better ‘look and feel’, easier navigation, is more secure and will hopefully be…

Club COVID-19 Guidance – Reminder

Neil Gunn
As the club has now had three cases of athletes testing positive for COVID-19 after club activities I thought it was a good idea to once again remind everybody of our current guidelines. Please continue to exercise caution while taking part in all club activities. We will continue to operate…

YDL Report (July 2021)

Neil Gunn
It was a blistering hot day at Longford Park for the second round of the Lower age group YDL (for U13 and U15 age groups) on Saturday 17th July. There was a good turn out from the U15 girls and we had a representative in nearly all the events. Olivia Bagley started…

Welsh 1000m Race – July 17th 2021

Neil Gunn
The Welsh 1000m Peaks Race is approximately 20 miles long and starts at sea level, taking in all 5 peaks over 1000m in Snowdonia.  This year was the 50th running of the race, and the last to be organised by the current team of volunteers. The race start was in…

2021 Wizard 5

Neil Gunn
The passing of so called “Freedom Day” on July 19th meant that smaller local races could now restart and the rescheduled Wizard 5 was one of the first ones on the warm evening of July 20th. There was an impressive showing of 27 Macc Harriers who took on the roads…

2021 Alderley Park Trail Race

Neil Gunn
There were 12 Macc Harriers out for the return of the Alderley Park Trail Race – this is run around the woodland trails of the Alderley Park Site. Mark Burley (28:12) was the 6th overall (2nd senior male) and Louisa Whittingham 7th overall (1st senior female) Results can be found…

Road Running Awards from 2019

Neil Gunn
It seems so long ago now, but 2019 was the last year we had a club Road Running competition. Awards for this competition were supposed to be given out at an awards event in April 2020, but we all know what was happening then that prevented this happening. Now that…
Mining Museum
Andrew's Knob
The Start
Poachers Corner
Mining Museum
Donkey Bridge
B & C Group
Kelly's Run
2021 Nostalgia Results

2021 – Bollington Nostalgia Trail/Fell Run(virtual)

Neil Gunn
Event report from Bridgend Centre – they were very happy that so many club runners took part. We had fewer entrants this year than last, probably because runners are enjoying more ‘real-life’ events now as things open up. However, due to a number of people doing the event as a…

COVID-19 – Club Guidance for training post July 19th

Neil Gunn
Please can I urge you to continue to exercise caution while taking part in club activities and training from the 19th July. My best advice is to carry on training in the same manner as now. Small groups (max 12) pre-booked through a group leader operating from locations that minimises…

Frog Graham Round – Tom Whittington

Neil Gunn
The Frog Graham Round – Solo attempt 2/7/21 Tom at the end of his Frog Graham For me there is no greater sense of freedom than the feeling you get as a fell runner when it dawns on you that it is quite possible to drag yourself across a landscape…