The Jingle Mile - A Christmassy East Angular FetchEvent.

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EdJ
Oct 2023
11:35am, 12 Oct 2023
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EdJ
Do you want me to investigate Sandy? It may not have much else going for it... but it's got a track, and good transport links!
Oct 2023
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GeneHunt59
I can maybe look at availability/cost of local track in Harlow, (Essex)?
Oct 2023
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GlennR
Sandy was good last time we were there. I don't know the Harlow track.
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GeneHunt59
GlennR Harlow track has toilets & showers, good transport links and a parkrun close by. I need to check availability. What cost can we reasonably go up to and any idea, very roughly, how many Fetchies are likely to attend?
Oct 2023
1:33pm, 12 Oct 2023
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Rosehip
Yes please, Ed

But it does sound like there might be a bit less interest this year?
If Sandy or Cambridge were to happen how many takers are there?
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Ness
I think if it was at Harlow that would be at least a two hour drive for me so probably too far. Sadly.
Oct 2023
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HellsBells
Cambridge track is now £60 per hour, so for 2 hours we need a minimum of 24 people prepared to pay £5 each. I made a significant loss when I last organised one (2021 I think?). If there are enough people to make it worthwhile I’ll enquire about availability. I’d be very keen to keep it to a fetch mile, rather than a broader running community event though
Oct 2023
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Fenland Flier
Harlow would be over 2 hours for me too but would consider it. Sandy is closer for me personally but I'd just be very grateful for anyone to organise a Fetchtogether Jingle mile.
Rich also included anyone interested from his running club to help share the costs. My local running track cost twice as much as Rich paid at Cambridge.
EdJ
Oct 2023
1:57pm, 12 Oct 2023
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EdJ
Sandy is £20 per hour (assuming just track - i.e. no throw or jumps, and no floodlights). I'll enquire about availability.
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Fenland Flier
That's cheap Edj.

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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