Macclesfield Harriers

About 8 club members have suggested that they might be trundling along for the Fellsman this year.

It's on the May Day bank holiday weekend (a week after the Anniversary Waltz which would prove an excellent warm up!) so an extra day up in the Yorkshire Dales, where it never rains.

It's a grand day (and possibly a bit of night) of eating and drinking tea - with a bit of walking (and occasional jogging down the hills if you feel like it) thrown in.

https://www.fellsman.org.uk/

All abilities welcome: no experience necessary - though a bit of training over longer distances would probably help - there are plenty of long distance walkers' events and long fell races between now and then.

It'd be great to see a few more folk along for the weekend: I'm hoping to do a bit more than the 4 mile I did last year before injuring myself.

Julian I'm interested. Dependent as always on other commitments!

Cheers
Graham

It's a good tester, as you'll be on your feet for a while and get to see a bit of night.

If you can see off the fellsman in 18 ours or so then a slightly longer jaunt round the Lakes in the summer - with your mates leading the way and carrying all your clobber - should be well within your range.

In fact there used to be a steady stream of folk training for the BG who'd do high peak marathon, edale skyline, haworth hobble, fellsman, old county tops, and a few more: get round most of that lot and the BG should be fine !

Would be good to see a few folk out for my anniversary lap: I might even bring a cake.

Think it's the week after the OCT this year?
Also think there's an MCR Paddy bid (shhhhh) on that weekend too?
Kirsty x

By way of encouragement to enter this 48 hour eating competition, we were helping out at a similar Long Distance Walkers event earlier today,, and a couple of the ladies at the finish suggested they might be tempted by another portion of the apple crumble.

Most of the spare cake will be off to the Cannock Chase trig points race tomorrow, if the car suspension can cope: I don't think anyone will be going home hungry.

And there's more food on the Fellsman.