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The normal time for these run session will be 10.30-12.00 following on from the saturday morning swim and giving you time to do something other than training with your afternoon. See the schedule for these sessions on the MTC website: training > sessions > run-off-road-hill

However for this first session only can we meet around 1.50pm to sign in so we're ready for a 2pm start in the main car park (tarmac car park, not the gravel one), which is near the kids play area and Hall. We should finish around 3.20 - 3.30, but as we're doing loops if you want to duck out earlier, this won't cause any issues.

You can either park in the car park (which you have to pay for), or park on one of the local streets (Valley Road is probably the best one) or Cheadle Royal (Sainsburys and John Lewis - then go via the underpass which is accessed near the petrol station) and jog into the park.

The plan is to do a warm up of one lap of the 'course' as a familiarisation route. Then it's up to individuals what you fancy doing. Everyone will set off at the same time, and then you can either do one, two or three laps of the course. The course is approximately the same length as other XC races, and should be similar in terrain to most of the other races. Off road shoes or XC spikes would be best - it's all grass apart from crossing a tarmac track twice (only about 2m wide though). One or two sections can get muddy if it rains, so all good practice for the real thing.

Afterwards, we'll all re-group and do a warm down and stretches.

This should be a useful way of:-
- getting some XC practice in
- trying XC for the first time
- trying out new shoes that you don't want to test in a race
- trying tactics
- or just getting out and doing an off road run with a few other people!

The pace / distance is entirely up to you, so there is no pressure on anyone.
If you have any questions, please post below,

Cheers,

Jonathan