The Jingle Mile - A Christmassy East Angular FetchEvent.

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May 2015
11:09pm, 19 May 2015
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Rosehip
13th June, 11m sandy track
looks like we can make times official without being too serious or too much work, although the more info I get on entrants up front the less scribbling an potential panic on the day :)
May 2015
10:20am, 20 May 2015
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RichHL
I can send a message to all the people who have joined the group. Just give me the wording you want.
May 2015
10:45am, 20 May 2015
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Rosehip
If all the Fetchies put their predicted time into the race thingies in their race portfolio that would help I'm putting a spreadsheet together - we can add real names on the day unless people want to Fmail me those as well

If you have a tranch of non-fetchie clubmates coming could I have their names and predicted times before hand as well -- doesn't matter if we don't get them all but I think you usually try to pre-sort the groups for the races.

Next Q
How many a time do you normally have running a mile?

How many people are interested in the shorter distances

What is your favourite cake ?

do we fancy a silly relay?

is anyone up for rounders/picnic/pub afterwards?
May 2015
10:11pm, 20 May 2015
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RichHL
We usually have up to a dozen but that's because of the limitations of our hand timing system.

The shorter distances are usually very popular. It's rare for most of us to get a chance to set a 400m time and I don't think we've ever recorded 100m.

There is no such thing as a favourite cake. Every cake is my favourite cake.

Silly relays are always fun.

Socials are important.
May 2015
6:16am, 21 May 2015
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Rosehip
:) Good ;0

Apart from an attempted 60m in a mum's race at youngest's school a few years ago i haven't run anything short since I was always last at school :) Unfortunately, I think attempting to sprint would finish my foot off, so i can't give it a go this time either

( ;) phew! excuse in early )
May 2015
11:16pm, 21 May 2015
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RichHL
:-)
Jun 2015
8:31pm, 5 Jun 2015
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Rosehip
Hello all :)

paid for the track today, so I hope lots of you are coming!
not many names down via your portfolios yet - can I get a roll call of whose coming so we can start to prepare.

Looks like we will be playing with the photo finish kit, but nt sure about officialness.

In the assumed absence of club officials, what does anyone have in the way of stopwatches for back-up to the PF? what do you usually use?

I have no idea what I'm doing - panic !
Jun 2015
8:34pm, 5 Jun 2015
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HellsBells
We're coming, I'm not running, L wants to do 400m but probably not a mile as she her first ever 10k on Sunday.
I can bring cake and a garmin and lots of hugs xx
Jun 2015
7:24am, 6 Jun 2015
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Rosehip
Fabulous :) x
Jun 2015
7:28am, 6 Jun 2015
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Rosehip
Rich - if you get a minute is it possible to change the thread title to hint at the June 15 date of this and/or send a quick 1 liner email to those in the group to look here as the Christmas group has 40-odd members?
many thanks

About This Thread

Maintained by RichHL
Okay, here it is. Again. And again. And yet again. And once more. And this time with feeling. And this time in the summer which probably means it's going to piss it down. And now again at Christmas. And this time not even in East Anglia, really (which is probably just as well). And back in Cambridge with bells on. And this time it's a bit Disnae. Yet again, eighth time for luck. Like Tokyo 2020, Jingle Mile 2020 has been postponed to 2021 but we can't afford a rebrand. Instead there is a Virtual Jingle Mile. Make up your own swears. And back for a Not The Jingle Mile 2020 In 2021 thanks to Hells Bells. The Jingle Mile 2020 is happening in 2022, thanks to the magic of television. (It's not the magic of television.)

fetcheveryone.com/races/jingle-mile-2022-it-apos-s-happening-again-7105729

Saturday 3 December 2022
12:00pm - 2:00pm

Cost £5.00

Directions to the track:

DON'T ENTER WILBERFORCE ROAD FROM MADINGLEY ROAD!

It's blocked off about a hundred yards down.

From M11 - Exit at J12 (A603, Sandy & Cambridge), follow the A603 along Barton Road to Grange Road on your left. Up Grange Road to Adams Road on your left. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A14 Eastbound - Exit at J31. Follow A1307 Huntingdon Road towards Cambridge city centre. Follow signs for A1134 Ring Road and turn right onto Mount Pleasant and follow the one-way system down onto Madingley Road. Turn right onto Madingley Road, first left onto Grange Road, and second right onto Adams Road. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A428 Eastbound - Exit for Cambridge and American Cemetary. Follow the signs for Cambridge city centre past the American Cemetary, across the M11 bridge, Churchill College on your left until you reach Grange Road where you turn right. Take the second right onto Adams Road. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A14 Westbound - Exit at J31 onto the M11 Southbound and follow the directions above.

For anyone who is coming by train, there is now a bus service U from the railway station to Robinson College, Grange Road, which leaves a half mile walk along Adams Road to the Wilberforce Road University Track.

You could also walk from the station. It's a couple of miles. Head out of the station and onto Station Road, right onto Hills Road then follow that all the way into the city centre to Petty Cury. Turn left there and go down onto the Market Square. Cross the square diagonally then bear down the side of Great St Mary's. Turn right at the end then immediately left down Senate House Passage. Follow Trinity Lane round to the right and then left onto Garrett Hostel Lane. Over the bridge then straight on over Queens Road and up Burrell's Walk. Bear right at the end and up onto Adams Road. The track is at the end of Adams Road.

Swimmers and paratroopers, you're on your own. Weirdos.

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