by Robbie | Nov 3, 2017 | News
Why is there no biography of the most eminent British athlete among his contemporaries of the 1920s – Douglas Lowe ? And why is so little known about what were long believed to be his Mancunian origins ? Lowe, born on 7 August 1902, won the Olympic 800 metres in 1924...
by Robbie | Dec 5, 2016 | News
Stockport 10 mile at Woodbank Park on Sunday, 4th December 2016 The dry, sunny weather was in sharp contrast to last year’s wet and dull conditions, as nearly 1,000 runners set off on the track promptly at 10:00. Out of the track onto the flat paths of Woodbank...
by Robbie | Dec 6, 2015 | News
Northern Athletics 10 Mile championship returned for the second year to the Stockport 10, although difficult to believe it was much drier this year than last. The first mile run through the paths of Woodbank Park , the early leaders could be seen before before they...
by Robbie | Nov 15, 2015 | News
After a night of heavy rain and strong winds, miraculously at 9am the rain stopped, the wind dropped and the sun came out to a great sigh of relief. The weather did not hamper a great race, although the conditions took its toll on the event usually packed fast times....
by Robbie | Apr 6, 2014 | News
Stave Gaines reports as the North sent four teams to the event, held at Wollaton park Nottingham. The event used a very hilly and testing course using mulitiple 2Km laps, the lap used the area immediately in front of the hall – where the old CAU start hill was....
