Chesh News

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  Great Manchester Run 2017

  The Great Manchester Run took place today with various races taking part including races for junior athletes, the usual 10k race and the new edition this year being over the half marathon distance. There were some excellent performances from our ECH athletes with a good turn out from the club. In the 9-11 year old age group for girls we ..

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  Angela Oldham completes 10 marathons in 10 days!!!

  Last weekend East Cheshire’s Angela Oldham was in the parkrun news at Croxteth Hall on her way to her target of completing 65 different parkruns before she turns 65! Angela managed to break the course record for a female vet 60-64 with a fantastic time of 21.47. See below article: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/croxtethhall/news/2017/05/09/run-report-event-number-110/ It doesn’t stop there for Angela and she is ..

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  Greater Manchester Track & Field Championships 2017

  The Greater Manchester Track & Field Championships took place over the weekend of 13th and 14th May at Trafford AC. East Cheshire’s Jake Smith has made the headlines this weekend with a brilliant Gold medal in the under 17 men’s high jump, with a magnificent jump of 1.66 meters. Jake had a special supporter with the Civic Major of Tameside ..

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  The British Inter Counties Fell Running Championships 2017

  The British Inter Counties Fell Running Championships 2017 took place on Saturday 13th May at Broughton in Scotland. As you can imagine the course was very tough over 9.6km with 600m of climbing. East Cheshire had 3 representatives taking part in Joe Steward, Tom McGuinness and Scott Matthews who were representing Greater Manchester on the day. Joe Steward had a ..

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  London Marathon 2017

  The London Marathon 2017 took place today with 5 East Cheshire representatives taking part in what were very good conditions, but getting warmer as the day went on. First to complete the 26.2 mile distance for ECH was overseas athlete Lee Grantham with a terrific new personal best time of 2.21.43 to finish in an amazing 11th place. Lee ran ..

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  Manchester Marathon 2017

  The Manchester Marathon took place today in nice, sunny conditions with 9 East Cheshire athlete’s completing the 26.2 miles. Chris Swire was first home for ECH running a brilliant time of 2.50.37, finishing 132nd overall and 13th in his Vet 45 age category. Next home was Mark Millns in 3.17.24 (1067th overall and 249th Vet 35), followed by Franny Day ..

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  Tameside Primary School Relays

  On a beautiful spring Saturday morning there were always going to be distractions but those who turned out found a very well organised relay race hosted by community club East Cheshire Harriers. The venue for once was not the clubs track or grassy cross country course but the tarmac of the cycle track next door.Totally safe and with a circuit ..

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  Gold & Silver for Mike Coogan at the World Indoors!

  ECH athlete Mike Coogan competed for Great Britain in the World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Daegu/Korea over the weekend. Mike ran in the 400m vet 40 category taking part in the preliminaries and semi-final on Friday 24th March. Mike won both the preliminary and semi final heats in 54.91 and 53.44 respectively to make the final on Saturday 25th ..