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T&F Success for our Junior Athletes

Sarah Dilworth
Several of our young athletes have continued to make great progress in T&F this season.  Jake Rowley, in his new found event of 800m, took bronze at the recent England Athletics U15 Championships in Bedford in a new PB of 2mins 3.85secs.  Jake won his heat on Saturday as the…
Catharine & Marc

Peak District Boundary (PDB) 2022 – Catharine Crossley

Neil Gunn
The Peak District Boundary started as a personal challenge but ended up as so much more. The finish – CC did it! If you’re here simply for a review of Peak District Boundary, here’s the short version: It’s beautiful, there are hills, flats, scrambles, trails & even the dreaded tarmac,…

Road Running Championships at Macclesfield Parkrun

Ray O'Keefe
Yes, we all know Parkrun is not about racing but having a little friendly competition every so often isn’t so bad? So on Saturday the Road Running Championship series took in our popular and challenging local Parkrun in South Park. There were 40 Macc Harriers who came along to either…

Ring of Fire (2022)

Neil Gunn
This had been a long time coming.  From first hearing about it in 2015, to my first attempt in 2021 resulting in my first ever DNF 41 miles into day 2, to this year’s race, and what a race! 135 miles around the whole island of Anglesey, most of it…

2022/2023 Cross Country Season

Neil Gunn
It’s cross country time again!! Update 2nd September: MACCL entry information is now on the MACCL website It may be glorious summer weather outside, but that will no doubt all change shortly and it will be time to think about the forthcoming 2022/2023 cross country season. Cross country may be…

Nutrition for Performance – Issue 4

Neil Gunn
Nutrition for Performance – Recovery nutrition A good recovery strategy helps you replenish glycogen stores, promote repair and adaptation of the muscles and replace fluid losses from exercise so you are able to train well in your next session or, in other words, your performance capacity returns to normal or…

Mid Cheshire 5K Summer Race Report

Ray O'Keefe
The very fast Mid Cheshire 5K summer version on Friday evening Aug 26th did not disappoint with some very fast times and PBs galore. Rob Whitby led the way for the Macc Harriers just dipping under 16 minutes with a blistering PB time of 15:56. Rob was closely followed by…
Samira Cox

Samira Cox success in 2022

Neil Gunn
Congratulations to Samira Australian born Samira Cox who moved to the UK earlier in the year and joined Macclesfield Harriers has had a very successful T&F season in the throwing events.  Samira competes for Macclesfield in league events and mum Vicki has become a regular volunteer field judge for us. …

Youth Development League update

Sarah Dilworth
Round 3 We always knew the YDL would be a tough league for Macclesfield with some of the Northern region’s  top clubs participating, but a good turnout of more than 30 athletes at the round 3 home fixture on 3 July enabled  Macclesfield to secure 5th place overall in this…

2022 Tegg’s Nose Fell Race

Neil Gunn
Tegg’s Nose Fell Race (FRA Category :  BM : 12.4km, 480m climb) In spite of the large number of competing races and athletic events, there were 67 entries for this deceptively strenuous race, hosted by the Macclesfield Sheep Dog Trials and organised by Macclesfield Harriers.  The race was promoted as…