COUNTY SUPPORTERS COOPERATIVE

ON Sunday 4 September 2022 Stockport County Supporters Cooperative will, for the seventh year , be staging the Stockport Hatters Half Marathon, with the magnificent support of Stockport company RKL Engineering.

Race Director John Giles sticks with the proven winning formulae that keeps this classic road/trail race towards the very top of UK race listings.

Starting at Edgeley Park the race heads via Stockport roads to the Trans Pennine Trail where runners follow the mighty River Mersey that beautiful raging force of nature that for centuries formed the boundary between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria and more latterly Lancashire and Cheshire, returning to the finish at the picturesque Alexandra Park.

Edgeley Park provides a pre-race base from where the race starts, at 9.30 am.

Winners last year were Nick Lee of Horwich RMI in 1.17.28 for the men, and Rachel Rozhdestvenstaya in the Women’s race who clocked 1.29.26.

Entries are already flooding in for this popular event, and a great race is in prospect. To join them on the start line outside Edgeley Park go to https:// hattershalf.co.uk/ Affiliated runners £22, Non-affiliated £24.

Meanwhile, if you are less energetic but would like to help us on the day and be part of this great event please contact johngiles20@ hotmail.com.

Finally, we are offering free race entry to anyone willing to help us raise money for the Danny Bergara Statue Appeal by running the race as one of our ‘Danny’s Heroes’.

Last year Lydia Eames and Rick Ebbage ran the race and raised a brilliant £665. This year DJ, TSBW front man and former Supporters Cooperative board member Nick Lee will run it as a ‘Danny Hero’- if you would like to join him on the start line and raise some money for a worthy cause please contact John Giles at the above email address.