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This week's news 27/01/2014

by Sandbach Striders on Monday 27th January 2014

The weekend is no time of rest for the members of Sandbach Striders. 


At 9am each Saturday they don their running shoes for another 5k (3.11 miles) of running at one of the country’s many free weekly parkruns. Because of its growing popularity the parkrun at Astbury Mere near Congleton decided to change its route, moving the start line away from the visitor centre in order to accommodate more visitors. The route also changed from an anti-clockwise to a clockwise circumnavigation of the mere. Ten Striders ran this new course, with new Strider Lindsay Beeston being first Strider home. Tom Mayell managed to record his first parkrun in several months, no mean feat on his wife’s birthday.

00:22:52 Lindsay Beeston
00:23:13 Heather Carter
00:23:52 Tom Mayell
00:26:35 Terry Coppenhall
00:26:36 Jason Bulley
00:26:39 Clare Pheasey
00:26:40 Catherine Greaves
00:27:48 Matt Wood
00:30:41 Karen Lovatt
00:31:35 Isobel Bennett

Meanwhile, a new parkrun in nearby Warrington held its inaugural event. The single lap route around Victoria Park proved to be incredibly popular with 410 finishers in total. Club Chairman was the sole Strider to make the journey north and recorded a time of 24:14.



On Sunday, Liz O’Keeffe and Denis Culloty headed even further north up into the deepest depths of Lancashire for the annual running of the Welcome Tavern 10k near Preston. Liz finished in 57:37 narrowly pipping Denis to the finish line who crossed it in 58:06. A full race report will follow on here tomorrow.

Meanwhile Chris Brumby alongside part-time Strider and Sandbach resident Jon Tatham tackled the Marmot Dark Mountains . This gruelling overnight mountain marathon is run in teams of two. Despite Chris and Jon much to their horror having one of the highest combined ages (kindly pointed out by Jon's wife Elaine), they completed the course coming 6th in their category. They ran 44.4k in total (around 28 miles) with nearly 2km of ascent, through the night in 11:36:32

Sandbach Striders welcome new members and runners of any age and ability can come and run with us for a month at no charge. More details at www.sandbachstriders.co.uk