Crossing fingers that the stormy weather will have abated, the 2024 season on the road begins with the Sam Shoebottom Trophy 10 kilometres on Saturday, February 3rd. Roy confirms that the Lady Wilton Hall, Simister Lane, Simister, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 2RX is available and will be open from 11.30 a.m.

The race will start at 1.00 p.m. As usual it would be enormously helpful if you could let Dave Evans at dave.evans08@hotmail.co.uk know if you are attending and in what capacity.

In addition Adrian Edwards will be overseeing the next Club Training Day on Sunday, February 11th at the Stockport Woodbank Park track from 12 noon until 5pm. At the last one earlier this month newcomer Nigel Shaw did a session under Adrian’s watchful eye. In his first ever outing on a synthetic track Nigel clocked 31:23, following it with some sharp intervals. He comments “first time racing on track and was an exact 5k found it very bouncy under foot ,very different to racing on the road”. If possible, try to get over there, it’s an opportunity well worth taking as you work out a session suited to your needs and plans.