Sandbach Striders

A few weeks ago, I remembered that I had said I would run the 30 mile ultra at Dig Deep, which was in 4 weeks time. I quickly devised a training plan which meant I needed to find a 13 mile race on this particular weekend. I found this one advertised on th...

Last Monday Sandbach Striders running club held their annual relay competition for their members. Perry Wyatt, Lucy Lee and Steve Treweeks at the club relayThis year it was held at the Cumberland athletics track in Crewe. The race was held over three hea...

Well what did I let myself in for. I finally got to Wincle after waiting at traffic lights for 20 minutes before I got through the town which was setting up for the commonwealth torch. 


As I was massaging before and after the race,  I borrowed the...

Trail races in Wigan don't actually conjure beautiful images of rolling countryside like the Peak District or Lake District,  but more of coal mines and  Britain's industrial past, and this was exactly what this run was on, an old disused coal mine. 
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A big well done to all the Striders who braved both the rain and the awful school PE team selection system to run the inaugural track relay event this evening at the Cumberland Athletics track in Crewe.

The winners! Perry, Lucy and Steve in the red team....

The free weekly 5k parkrun at Astbury Mere continues to attract bumper crowds from across the region and this week included another 15 runners from Sandbach Striders running club.

Mandy, Karen and Sandra at Congleton parkrun Lindsay Beeston continued his...

I ran Liverpool Rock n Roll Marathon on 25th May; the first marathon I had ever run in my new home city. 
 
I knew loads of Liverpool Running Club, other friends and of course Sandbach Striders who were running it so had been looking forward to running ...

When people were booking up for Edinburgh  some were booking up for rocking and rolling around Liverpool I had my eye on a little event in the marathon world.  Mat and PaulThe event I had in mind was a marathon near to Stafford in a tiny place calle...

A good turn out from the Striders at Liverpool.  Steve, Cheryl and Elaine before the race.Cheryl, Perry, Karen and Mik started alongside me with Steve up front somewhere.  I'm sure there were more Striders out there today.  I ran the first 5 or so wi...

The free weekly 5k parkrun in Congleton once more attracted a good number of runners from Sandbach Striders running club. 
There was a debut from new member Francis Gilchrist recording an impressive time on his first parkrun. There were also appearances ...