South Cheshire 20 - Events

CharlieR

03/02/2012 at 22:49

Entries are open for our 20-miler, three weeks before Windermere marathon and four before Edinburgh, and back in the North Staffs Road Runners Association calendar, for those to whom that last fact is relevant.

Online entry is available here, and via UKresults.net, and entry forms can be downloaded from the race home page - http://www.southcheshireharriers.org.uk/clubraces/20m/20m_main.php - where there are details of prizes, past results, map of the course etc.

Otherwise, I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about the race, and direct you to the comments/feedback section for some very gratifying reviews of previous runnings.

Cheers

Charlie Rowlands - race organiser

Neil Jones 1967

22/02/2012 at 19:17

Sorry Charlie, I hadn't realised that you had already started a thread!

Kirsten Owen

11/03/2012 at 19:36

can you tell me about this route, I have seen the map but was just wondering about gradient. Completed Stafford 20 today which was very hard work and hilly !!

CharlieR

13/03/2012 at 15:59

Hi Kirsten - probably similar difficulty to Stafford. The main climb in ours is at about 9 miles: it is probably a stiffer gradient than Stafford, and it goes on a bit, but you don't have to do three laps of it. That isn't the only climb on the course either, though the others are nothing spectacular.

But I wouldn't want to kid on that it's any easier than Stafford.

Kirsten Owen

13/03/2012 at 20:23

thanks for that Charlie,I have found a quick look at the run on map my run and noticed that it was a climb, but like the way that after the climb it is down hill back. I don't mind hills, living and training in Stoke gets you use to them!

again thanks for the advice I would like to try another 20 miles and improve on my time, I think mentally a single route would be better than 3 loops.

Duffs

01/04/2012 at 19:59

All signed up for this one now. Been told I am runner number 33. Hope there's more than 32 others ....

Kirsten Owen

01/04/2012 at 20:30

know what you mean i am number 34 and not that quick worried i will be keeping the marshals from there Sunday lunch!!

Duffs

01/04/2012 at 20:36

Me too. I'm hoping to do it in about 3 hours and checked the results from last year to make sure that there were likely to be others in on or around that time so it wasn't just me so I could ease my guilt a little

john owens 5

01/04/2012 at 20:49

Does anybody know any 20 milers in July/August in Lancashire/Cheshire

Doing Loch Ness marathon in September so want to do a 20 mile race as part of the training.

Kirsten Owen

01/04/2012 at 21:37

Duffs, I did exactly the same thing the minute my number came to a) to make sure there was going to be a few more than 34 and also to look at the times, I am going to assume it is a slow burn with this one!!

btw, it you run in the stafford half last week??

Duffs

01/04/2012 at 21:42

No I did the Liverpool half in March and training for Edinburgh Marathon in May so using this as a bit of a practice.

Heard about the 'hill' in this one though so hoping that Edinburgh will not be quite that hilly to get me to the last 6 miles after

Kirsten Owen

01/04/2012 at 21:49

ahh right, sorry it was the name I saw someone running as the Duff Beer man the other week.

I too ran Liverpool it was a nice race and the weather was great!! I am running Edinburgh but only the Half (looking forward to a downward race). Sorry it sounds like a little stalker-ish but it is all pure coincidence!

I ran Stafford 20 the other week and had a bad race and was hoping to improve on this one, so far not got my name down for a marathon one day!

Duffs

02/04/2012 at 16:13

I believe you. Sorry about Stafford - was it a bad day for you or a bad course? Or both?

Edinburgh Marathon is not a bad course - not hilly but some parts of the course not well supported and the organisation can be a bit chaotic. I'd recommend doing the 26.2 at least once - at least for the bragging rights and if you're doing 20's then you're there or there abouts

Might see you in Edinburgh then (hopefully not sleeping in the bushes outside my hotel room

)

CharlieR

02/04/2012 at 16:23

Hi folks, I don't know the total entries at the moment (there are two online entry systems plus postal entries, and they don't all come to me direct), but I do know they are down on the last couple of years, which I think may turn out to be because of the revived Manchester marathon on the same day. We can't avoid clashing with something, and you live and learn.

However:

1.) There's still a month till the race, more or less, and it has started to pick up in the last few days;

2.) The race is in a local league calendar, and a lot of those who race will, I suspect, enter on the day (I know of quite a few from our own club who are planning to run but haven't entered yet); and most importantly

3.) No one would be made to feel to slow or too much trouble, even if they were the only runner out there! There'll be at least one 'sweep' runner to see in back markers, and in past years our marshals have sometimes run in with people to keep them company. Don't worry about your time.

Hope that's some reassurance - even if it sounds slightly like I'm trying to reassure myself

Kirsten Owen

02/04/2012 at 20:43

Hi Duff, not sure what happened at Stafford, I think a) it wasn't my day and b) don't like a lap course, you know what is coming and you have to go passed the finish! it is so easy to think I am here why not stop! But I soldiered on and managed to finished. My time was terrible which is why I want to run the distance again so I can improve on it.

Looking forward to Edinburgh fingers crossed for good weather!!

Charlie
thanks for the update and yes you have given me some reassurance! see you on the 29th!

Duffs

04/04/2012 at 20:26

Agreed - appreciate the reassurance Charlie - looking forward to it (kind of)

Well done Kirsten on finishing when you didn't feel like it. I know what you mean about lap courses, passing the finish and having to do it all again is not fun.

Good luck with this one and the rest of your Edinburgh training and no doubt I will see you for the 20 on the day - eeek

Duffs

08/04/2012 at 15:57

Happy Easter everyone - 17 miles done this morning and now planning a choc-fest. Feeling a bit better about doing the 20 now. . .

Hope everyone is well and training going well

Duffs

Kirsten Owen

08/04/2012 at 18:36

Happy Easter all, hopefully going out for a long run tomorrow aiming for around 16 miles. Need to do something to work off those Easter eggs!!

See you at the end of the month!
K

snap

09/04/2012 at 12:27

For anyone thinking south cheshire 20 mile or Manchester marathon--- all I can say is-- the south cheshire one is a damn site more scenic !!

Fit-Running-Cat

09/04/2012 at 17:19

Hey Duffs, was thinking of doing this.. Would be good to meet up before Edinburgh.

Didn't realise you were that nearby to liverpool, north west.

As for Manchester marathon, it's more greater Manchester I thought, so not in the city.