My Great Manchester Run 2024 - What An Experience!!😀💪🚀✅

The highlight of my running year, the Great Manchester Run is a fantastic event, so much more than a run! The atmosphere is electric, this year we had 30,000 people taking part in the 10K and Half Marathon, probably 25,000 for the 10K! The weather was a worry but it turned out fine in the end. Great memories and an event showing the city at its best!

[@SwimBikeRunStu]

Great running. Looks like a huge event 👌

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Thanks Stu, I think I’m definitely improving, it’s a very special event✅

[@theaverageparkrunner]

Great time. Definitely earned the beers afterwards

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Thanks Paul, I always think, 10K is a lot harder than you think😩

[@raleyadventures]

Looked like a hugeee event there, can't quite believe how late the race actually started 😅 great work on the improvement time, looked so well organised

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Yes, it’s the largest 10K in Europe, such an amazing atmosphere, glad to be on the way back to quicker times😀

[@RunFreeandStrong]

Congrats Andy, smashing your goal by 2 minute is impressive! And never apologize for not filming a race, hard to run fast when holding a camera.

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Thanks Reto, it was a great day, overall happy with my performance and think I’m almost back to pre-COVID fitness levels😊

[@TheRunningWhale]

Well done Andy, looks like you had a blast and the times are going in the right direction.
The blister will for sure be with wet feet. I have suffered with them after running though a river or chucking down rain. Anyways, hope the recovery has gone well 👍

[@AndyCliffMTB]

Thanks Craig, it was a great day, probably the highlight of my athletics year. I struggled a bit from km7 but overall I felt pretty good. I’ve never run with wet feet before, certainly not that sort of distance and it receded within 24 hours. I only had 3 days recovery before a mtb race on Wed, that was tough, 16K cross country and lots of mud😩😂

[@TheRunningWhale]

@@AndyCliffMTB sounds amazing, hope there's gonna be a video 👍👍

[@AndyCliffMTB]

@@TheRunningWhaleIt was full on racing for over an hour, no video as I wouldn’t be able to get decent footage with the low budget action camera I have (Akaso). It made the 10K look easy😂

[@alldone1116]

Well done Andy great time always find it too busy at the start then after a bit get more space to move. I did the original Manchester 10k before the Great run events started Done a lot of them over past 25 years. If you've not done Trafford 10k it's a fast flat course.

[@AndyCliffMTB]

@@alldone1116 Thanks, it was very cramped as we went through the timing gate but the crowds and the atmosphere made it feel electric! I haven’t done the Trafford 10K but I’ve heard it’s a really fast course🚀😊