Juniors

U11 and U13 winter training

Sarah Dilworth
On Tuesdays between 18 October 2022 and 31 January 2023, the Club will offer a choice of training for U13s: – Indoor Track & Field (from 6.30pm to 7.30pm), and – Outdoor Endurance (from 6pm to 7pm). For U11s, there will be Indoor training only on Tuesdays during this period…

Committee Minutes – September 29th 2022

Neil Gunn
The Club Committee met on 29th September to discuss the future of Macclesfield Half Marathon and the minutes from the meeting are now available (along with all previous meeting minutes). Link – COMMITTEE MINUTES SEPTEMBER 2022 Link – PREVIOUS MINUTES Kim Eastham Club Secretary

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…

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…
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…

Committee Minutes – June 6th 2022

Neil Gunn
The Club Committee meet on Thursday 10th February and the minutes from the meeting are now available (along with all previous meeting minutes). Link – COMMITTEE MINUTES JUNE 2022 Link – PREVIOUS MINUTES Kim Eastham Club Secretary

Northern Inter-Counties T&F Report

Sarah Dilworth
Congratulations to the three young Macclesfield Harriers who represented Cheshire at the Northern Inter Counties T&F championships in York on 2nd June.  Hayden Blunn (U17), Will Roberts (U17) and Jake Rowley (U15) enjoyed the experience very much and put in some great performances.  Will placed 6th in U17M javelin, Jake…

Cheshire T&F League Round 2 report

Sarah Dilworth
A band of 30 hardy athletes made the short trip to Crewe for Round 2 of the Cheshire League on Sunday 5th June. Macclesfield finished a creditable 2nd place in the Overall competition against the strong host club, and the U11s finished 3rd overall. Well done teams! Many thanks to…