Gun Run - Tue 14 Jul 2009

[DazTheSlug]

I'll be doing this one as part of my Mersey Watershed Series

anybody else doing it?

route map/description much appreciated...

[lantern rouge]

I am sure you'll find something on the Macc Harriers site Daz.

Never done it before myself.

Forest 5 is on there again as well

[DazTheSlug]

there are no route details on the Macc Harriers site
not really a problem, but I am a bit of a "map geek" and like to muse over routes in advance...

Macc Forest 5... aahhhh! my fave race ever - one of the few "nail on" dates in my calendar every year

and in between there's Shining Tor! and Gravy 6! gosh I love July!

[Grough]

Tues 14th July 2009
Swythamley Gun Run 5.8m 7.15pm
Swythamley & Heaton Community Centre, Swythamley GR SJ 96555 63163
Barbecue after race
Last year the bar was also open after the race in the Community Centre

Here's a route map Daz

[DazTheSlug]

Thanks for that Grough!

Looks an ace route!

I especially like the fact that it takes in the "mythical" Turner's Pool

[XRunner]

I especially like the fact that it takes in the "mythical" Turner's Pool

Mythical?

Below the rocky escarpment known as the Roaches which is found in the Staffordshire Moorlands, can be found a man made pool known as Turner's pool, which seems to be a corruption of its original name of Thornehurst's Pole. It is mentioned in a royal grant by King Henry VIII, to W.M. Trafford in A.D. 1534, and it is thought to have been constructed by the monks of nearby Dieulacres Abbey.

[DazTheSlug]

Mythical?

maybe mythical was the wrong word
"legendary" maybe?
a key point on the Trent-Mersey watershed <geek_smiley>

[Jolly Beggar]

Also has some massive roach in it.

[DazTheSlug]

Splendid race last night
excellent organisation and a lovely course - nothing particularly steep/technical, all nicely runnable
massive turnout from Wilmslow and Congleton
Damian Nichols, Rob Downs, Malcolm Fowler 1-2-3 - they must get sick of the sight of each other!

rain started just after start (just how I like it!) and I had one of my rare "good runs" where I felt vaguely like I knew what I was doing

burger + pint afterwards

[ultracollie]

good job for them that messrs bailey and taggart had been preoccupied at wasdale at the weekend eh