The second Manchester XC League fixture is always interesting as it's the first of the season for U11s and the first for U13s without a school clash. For the U11 boys, we could do very well this year if we can get the numbers out. It was disappointing to only get two...

If you'd asked me last year what the best performance was from our U13 girls, I'd have said their amazing 28th place at Mansfield. On that occasion a stunning performance by Aisling in particular bumped them well up the order. It would be a huge challenge this year to...

The first Manchester League of the season is a struggle for us. We always have a clash with the local school race that we host and this year lost a good portion of our team to that. Nevertheless, we did manage to get an U13 girls team out and an U13 boy, with Thomas...

For the second year in a row the girls were out in force at the NW Road Relays. We had three teams out for the U13s and two teams out in the U11s, matching last year's five teams when we gave this event a big push for Don Nichol's retirement celebration. This time the...

  From team manager Mark Simpson.  

It's always exciting to see how new athletes get on when they take part in a club competition for the first time.  Every great athlete needs to start somewhere and many will be able to point to a modest first performance as where it all began.  Club competition is...

The National Cross Country is perhaps the best event on the British endurance running calendar.  The quality is immense, but also the numbers competing are impressive.  No venue brings it home quite like Parliament Hill.  Seeing the masses of runners...

The rain was beating down hard on the window.  The street was full of puddles.  Do I really have to go out in that?  That was me being soft.  Imagine young athletes wanting to go out in that?  Just try and stop them! Wythenshawe Park is one of the flatter courses in...

After a top 40 finish in the National Road Relays and some very promising early season cross country performances, our promising U13 girls team took on the best in the country at the National XC Relays in Mansfield. We had the same A team as at Sutton Park, with...

Our senior men may not have qualified for the National 6 Stage this year, but the club were still represented at Sutton Park by our fantastic U13 girls team. Racing over 3.88km is a new experience for these girls and is a little on the far side for their age group. ...

The club hasn't had a much of a presence at this event in previous years, especially in the junior section, so it is quite astonishing that we managed to complete 7 full teams at Blackpool.  This is partly down to the introduction of the U11 section of the event for...

We waved bye bye to the 2017 track & field season with our final fixture on the glorious blue track of Warrington.  The meeting saw us lock horns with hosts Halton & Frodsham, Trafford, Crewe & Nantwich, Stockport and Bury. In total we had 18 athletes...

Altrincham had an impressive turnout at the latest Trafford Medal meeting, particularly among the U11s.  In total 15 athletes laced up their trainers, several attending one of these high quality medal meetings for the first time. The biggest improvement from the club...

We had our best turn out for a long time among U11s at the Cheshire League, including managing to field relay teams in both age categories.  There were 4 boys (Dylan Hanrahan, Fred Vaughan-Hawkins, Henry Bellingham and Josh Mulholland-Wells) and 2 girls (Alexa Watkins...

A big congratulations to Jade Buckley-Ratcliff who has had multiple successes in multi-event competitions held at Woodbank Park, Stockport. First up was the Tri-Athletics held across several week nights.  The idea of these events is that your best jump, throw, sprint...

Altrincham had 8 junior athletes in action at Salford Met's Eccles track for the second match in this season's Cheshire League.  While this is a far lower number than we would have liked, their were still some great athletic displays from our athletes. Jade...

On Monday 19 June Aisling McHale went to Birmingham for the Independent Schools Association 600m final.  Aisling had put in fantastic performances to win this event the previous two years and had hopes of completing a hat-trick of titles. She has been in fantastic...

The sun was shining in Ashton-under-Lyne as plenty of our primary school youngsters displayed their cross country potential with impressive performances. This was the second staging of this event, and has caught the attention of plenty of clubs in the Manchester area....

National XC - JuniorsWhat makes a good cross country course? Hills? Tree roots? A pancake flat route? How about mole hills and streams? Yes, streams! Streams are awesome. They increase the mud factor exponentially. Every athlete should come back caked with mud on...

The juniors were again out in force at Woodbank Park in the final race of this year's Manchester XC League. The U11 girls had six representatives, even though four of the girls that did the last two races were away for half term. The A team finished a creditable 5th...

On a lovely day at Heaton Park lots of our girls were running in the Greater Manchester Schools XC Championship.  Qualification for this event was based on the local schools XC leagues, with most of our girls representing the borough of Trafford.In the U11 girls race,...

It was a real baptism of fire for the U11s. Many times were the words "proper cross country" heard. A bit of a change from the nice grass at John Leigh Park and Crossford Bridge. So typical Manchester Cross Country League then. Except one thing wasn't typical. That...