The Jingle Mile - A Christmassy East Angular FetchEvent.

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Jun 2016
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HellsBells
can we have some races to add to our shiny portfolio's please :-)
Jun 2016
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GlennR
If anyone wants to come up with some names? My brain is currently dead after wattbiking.
Jun 2016
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Flatlander
A starting point for names could be http://www.fetcheveryone.com/forum__51582__163__the_jingle_mile_a_christmassy_east_angular_fetchevent
Jun 2016
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Fenland Flier
My fingers are crossed I can get, and I don't feel so broken :-)
Jun 2016
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RichHL
Sidebar updated with latest time and date and the race names stolen wholesale from Flatlander. Glenners can add them to the Race Finder or delegate that task in a project manager stylee.
Jun 2016
8:28am, 17 Jun 2016
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Nicholls595
How does this work then? Do you have to run all the races? What if a mile takes 2 hours? Do you have to pre-register or just turn up?* Do back markers get picked off by snipers? Are football mascot style animal costumes compulsory? Is there a bar?
Just hypothetical questions.

*by just turn up, what I really mean is make excuses to get out of a previously confirmed golf day, miss the monthly club parkrun tour, drive for 2 hours (111.5 miles) each way and risk being eaten by inbred yokels, just to meet some weird sorts who spend all day buggering about on t'internet. Please carve all answers into a large turnip and send it up to Trent Bridge on the back of a hay wagon.
Jun 2016
8:53am, 17 Jun 2016
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Flatlander
I haven't got a large turnip, so you'll have to make do with ether mail.

Are animal costumes compulsory? Yes, given the rabbit and squirrel theme of the races ;-).

Do you risk being eaten by inbred yokels? This is Cambridge, so you'd be at risk from GlennR's rabid rabbits and squirrels!
Jun 2016
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HellsBells
Pre-registering helps by giving a rough idea of numbers but is by no means compulsory
You do as many or as few of the races as you want
Miles are broken down into groups based on predicted times - I'm always in the slowest group and you'll easily beat me
There are no snipers but an awful lot of cake
Jun 2016
9:06am, 17 Jun 2016
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Jigs
I don't have an animal costume, but do have a snowman one. Not sure that I fancy wearing it to run a mile in July.
Jun 2016
10:10am, 17 Jun 2016
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RichHL
Snipers would add a certain frisson to the event.

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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