The alsager 5 was a interesting race this year after a night of heavy snow in south cheshire and north staffs resulting in a busy morning for the race organisers!

Ken and his team did a fantastic job in getting this race on and despite the calls of some who said it should not have gone ahead no one was making anyone run!

The race despite losing some of the elite field was a exceptional standard once again with luke crag of mansfield taking victory from last years winner anthony ford of sale harriers, in the ladies elle baker of stockport took the spoils from sonia samual again of sale harriers despite the bad weather and with over 1000 entered over 500 runners finished the event.

Off to Norway this weekend freelancing so Alsager good preparation for a ski marathon see some of you week after at the popular village bakery run.

A really nice event with plenty of runners of a nice crisp morning choice of 5k/10k or 15 k so something for everyone made this a enjoyable morning

Mick Hall photos will be attending all Just racing .com events in 2012 so we look forward to seeing you at the events

short video of the event from utube

http://www.youtube.com/user/mickphotos?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/dgmOzJ25LhE

results etc from the just racing website click here

next week am at four villages half marathon a very popular half so if you are there come and say hello

if you fancy another event in the area perhaps with a weekend in blackpool see flyle running website click here for details

Also good to see my friend Cavin from Chorlton harriers running a pb well done gav! looking good for Berlin!

see link below

http://www.youtube.com/user/mickphotos?feature=mhee

results from race at

http://staffordharriers.org/race-reports/archive-january-to-march-2012/

next race up tomorrow is Lancs half marathon !! race full

best wishes and a happy new year to you all!!!

Matt Clowes running a great 4th place

Always a good end of season 10k in cliteroe and always good running several runners under 30 mins

johnny mellow who has had some good results lately and was due a good un ran fantastically to take victory and on his birthday as well!!!

in second place and more use to winning tris this year and one of the favourites to take olypic gold next year was Alistair brownlee

4th place and one of the runs of the day was Matt Clowes from staffordshire improving his pb yet again.

today was one of the last races of the year and one which i always enjoy attending and was for the third year running held on the short course round the resivoir  at tittersworth the event had its normal sprinking of santas elves reindeer etc as well as the “normal” runners.

The event being won by Adam peers from Liverpool harriers followed by damion nicolas from wilmslow rc with last years winner malcolm fowler in third.

The womens race being won by ruth wathorn rice from host club staffordshire moorlands

full results at

http://www.staffsmoorlands-ac.co.uk

photos are now online at www.mickhall-photos.com

The race marked Adela salt one of the areas and country top ultra runners last race in the area before she moves to canda at the end of January she will i know be missed by loads of fellow runners and am sure we all wish her well with her new life in canda.

Nearly the end of the year so i hope santa brings you what you want for xmas and hope to see you all smiling in the new year

but this didn’t put of the runners nearly a 1000 runners in this great event round tatton park

a great turnout of santas red and blue as well as several more costumes etc besides the normal runners!!

results from our friends at tdl event services

http://www.tdl.ltd.uk/index.php

A great win for the second year winning from the peter pan of running Malcolm Fowler from Wilmslow running club

well another year nearly over if anyone is still to take their children to see santa we are at Trentham this saturday and sunday taking photos of santa in trentham garden centre for dougie mac book early last weekend was full up

Hi guys and girls am going to have another go at this blogging lark!

Ok have a new logo thanks to Cavin Cameron of chorlton harriers great job Gav!

Am really pleased with it and sure it will help business and help to promote it

if you could enter the poll below would really help?

Am off to Tatton park yump 10k this weekend hope to see lots of my running friends there a great event and always seems more like xmas when i’ve done this!

many thanks and don’t forget if you have not seen santa yet we are at the trentham garden centre till xmas on saturday and sunday helping the dougie mac santa

best wishes

Mick