Winter 5K Handicap

A race where the goal is not to get round the quickest, but closes to your predicted time. Before the race, please submit a target time, and surrender any watches to the marshals for safe-keeping. Then, run 3 laps around the Y club. Your finish time will be recorded, compared against your predicted time, and whoever got closest will win the prestigious and bulky Winter Handicap trophy for a year, to be awarded at the Christmas party.

Just turn up, that's all you need. You don't have to be a member. You don't have to have run with us before. You can submit your goal time through whatsapp or tell it to a marshal before you set off.

Meet us outside the Y Club at 6:30pm on Thursdays, ready to run, and you will be welcome to join us.

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We meet at the Y Club for our Thursday group runs and Sunday morning marathon training runs.

Use of Y Club facilities

You must be a member of the Y Club to use the Y Club's facilities, including the changing rooms, lockers, showers and toilets.

Y Club membership can be arranged with the Y Club reception.

Y Club Social Membership

The Y Club offers a special Social Membership option for Manchester YMCA Harriers members. Y Club Social Membership allows you to use the changing rooms, lockers, showers and toilets before and after our Thursday evening group runs and Sunday morning marathon training sessions.

Y Club Social Membership is priced at £5 per month, payable by Direct Debit.

Y Club Gym Membership

The Y Club offers various gym membership packages that allow you to use all of the Y Club's facilities.

More information on Y Club gym membership options is available at the Y Club website.

Car parking

Y Club and Castlefield Hotel

The Y Club and Castlefield Hotel has limited off-street parking, which is accessed from Potato Wharf. The car park costs 70p for Y Club members.

Postcode for sat-navs: M3 4NB

Youth Hostel Association

There is a nearby car park at the YHA, also on Potato Wharf.

Postcode for sat-navs: M3 4NB

Stone Street

There is a small car park with 12 spaces on Stone Street, a short walk from the Y Club.

Postcode for sat-navs: M3 4NE

On-street parking

There are some on-street parking bays nearby:

Liverpool Road - M3 4JR
Duke Place - M3 4JL
Duke Street - M3 4AG

Public transport

Tram

The nearest tram stop is Deansgate-Castlefield, which is in Metrolink zone 1 in the city centre.

Deansgate-Castlefield live tram times