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 pa...
Anglesey Ultra-marathon (or Ultra-marathon de le Somme)
At last- it had taken it’s time but this time it was going to happen. Those regular readers of the race reports might remember that last year I and a few other Striders travelled all the way to A...
Wdll done Liz at the North Staffs Road Racing Association awards night!1st over 55 Veteran Female with the maximum 600 points2nd in W group with 570 points.
For more information visit the NSRRA website.
It’s competition time!
Over the past year our membership has grown slightly and we are now at around (I think) 60 members-ish. For such a small club we over-achieve in so many ways. And that over-achievement forms the crux of the competition!What I nee...
Hardmoors Roseberry Topping marathon.
The time had come, the time for me to reach my goal of the year and finish the job of running 13 marathons in the year 13. A feat that would mean an awful lot more to me than it would to many of the running buddies I ...
I blame Liz – you know the sales pitch – “beautiful run on the edge of the Peak District” – “well organised” – “excellent Christmas pudding at the end”.
That’s how Liz, Phil & I came to sign up for the Cheddleton Christmas pudding ...
My daughter Kat and I both ran this race and combined it with a shopping to see friends who live in Yorkshire.
It wasn’t a race that I had planned to do but I was told that it was a flat course and I didn’t want to do another hill after (the ‘s...
The Flying Fox is a 10 mile race which is undulating to say the least! For the past few years it has always been a wet and cold miserable day.
Well 3 November was no different with the exception of rain. I set off from Sandbach and
on the way ...
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. Well, it might not just be the goose! Don't let the temptations of the season ruin your winter training.
Here are a few interesting running events coming up over the next few weeks which might interest you...
You ever get that feeling that your addicted?
Well I think I do, no not think, I am sure I am. There i was sitting out in the lovely French sunshine in the Vosage mountains when that little bleep came through on my phone. It was the upcoming race em...
