The Gateway, East Didsbury – 10km

Another low turnout for this, the first warrior meet since spring has sprung. Also my first absence (I think) since the start of this blog in October. I had a good excuse as I was attending a party at Aumbry (Manchester’s finest restaurant) to celebrate their recent refurbishment. So for once I was consuming fine wine and canapes on a Wednesday night instead of bitter and pork scratchings.

Since the clocks have gone forward it was the first opportunity for an off-road route:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/78762096/

From Gateway, down Wilmslow Road, onto river and down to Pyramid. Back up Brinksway/Stockport Road, through Cheadle Village, then left on Cheadle Road towards Cheadle Hulme, right onto Broadway, under Kingsway, back up Kingsway then through the underpass back under Kingsway and home.

  1. Biggs (full distance – 51:26)
  2. Ben (full distance – 56:17)
  3. Owen (8.1km – 47mins)
  4. Kev (8.1km – 47mins)
Thanks go to Biggs for this artistic shot of the pub.
I will be back next week to restore some much-needed discipline to proceedings.