Club President DAVID BARKER Welcomes LEIGH - Pitchero

WILMSLOW RUNNING CLUB
With the Half Marathon now just two weeks away, Running Club chairman,
Nick Bishop writes about their continuing success and prospects for club
members in the race.
With a still growing membership of over 100, we continue to dominate many of the running events in which they compete.
In the summer we retained both men’s and ladies “Cheshire Road Running” championships while in the winter , the men
won the Cheshire Cross Country Championships .
During the winter , the club competes in the Manchester Area Cross Country League run over five races and includes the
20 clubs in the Manchester and Cheshire Area. The ladies won both Senior Ladies and Vets Ladies championships
with the men winning the Vets championship and finished third in the Senior Men. The winter season finished with
both teams running in the National Cross Country Championships, the blue ribbon event of club cross country running.
This year the club also provided two further runners to the English Vets international team.
watch from the Marathon team.
The Asics Wilmslow Half Marathon is now
just two weeks away tomorrow (27 th March),
and many of the clubs runners will be competing.
All three of the Men’s team that finished 9 th in
the Virgin London Marathon will be running
and watch out for Mike Halman who should
be just inside 70 minutes .Mike ran 2.29 in
the Virgin London Marathon last year . Rob
Downs and Jim Pendrill will be two others to
We expect the ladies to be lead home by their captain, Kate Sutton who will be instantly recognisable from her main of
red hair!!
And take a moment when you’re in the bar to look at the trophy cabinet and pictures.
Scenes from Kirkby Lonsdale : MacCallum about to score, the grandstand
and Wilmslow cognoscenti waiting for 3.00pm outside the clubhouse
8th. February 2011
A great day for
Wilmslow High
School in the quarter
finals of the Daily
Mail RBS Schools
Cup against QEGS
Wakefield