Sandbach Striders

Annual General Meeting 27th March 2013

Annual General Meeting

As you will no doubt know it's the AGM on Wednesday 27th March so there will be no running that evening. 



Instead we invite you to attend the annual general meeting where we will report on the year's activities, answer any ques...

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Catch up with all the news from this weekend!



Congleton parkrun (5k) – Saturday 9th March

The eleventh parkrun to be held at Astbury Mere in Congleton was well attended with 85 runners taking part. Strider Chris Coppenhall finished in 4th place in a time of 20:02 followed by his father Terry Co...

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Delamere parkrun (5k) – Saturday 2nd March


Back:     Robert Kettle, Rick Kelso-Davies, Joanne Smith, Tony Taylor, Matt Simister, Perry Wyatt, Karen Lovatt, Michael Escolme, Heather Carter.
Front:    Jill Young, Steve Treweeks, Liz O’Keef...

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Race Report: Knypersley Pool 5m 24/02/2013

Organised by Biddulph Running Club, the race was run in aid of the Mayor charities, Staffordshire Moorlands Cancer Support Group (Biddulph Branch) & MacMillan Cancer Support. This was a 5 mile multi-terrain race at Greenway Bank Country Park in Biddulph...

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Worsley Woods parkrun (5k) – Sat 23rd Feb

The run starts with a flat mile along a disused railway line from Monton running towards Worsley Woods, a loop of varied terrain through the woods and then a final fast mile and a half back to the finish.


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Race report: Telford Parkrun / Hardmoors Osmotherley Trail Marathon 16+17/02/2013

Telford Parkrun 16/02/2013

My weekend began with a trip down to Telford for their inaugural parkrun . I wouldn’t normally have travelled quite so far for a 5k but the chance of bagging both a new parkrun course and another inaugural event was to good t...

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Congleton Parkrun (5k) – Sat 9th Feb


Eleven Striders, along with several family members ran this weeks Congleton parkrun at Astbury Mere. There were 125 finishers and a very close finish between Chris Coppenhall and relatively new Strider Tony Tayl...

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Race Report: Southport Mad Dog 10k 10/02/2013

The Southport Mad Dog 10K #3 - Judgement Day...




So the third Mad Dog 10 rolls around and together with Liz O'Keeffe and Karen Lovatt I bowl up ready to once again take on the worst that Southport can throw at us. We arrive in good time and are deli...

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Race Report: Braintree Boggle 10/02/2013

 The Braintree BoggleDefinitely more 'bog' than 'ogle', this run was not particularly pleasant.I thought the toughest challenge of the day was going to be getting Jo out of the apartment before 5am but how wrong could I be?Nearly all of the 26.2 mile co...

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Marshalling at the Congleton Parkrun

Today (Saturday 2nd February)  I volunteered to marshal at Astbury Mere since I was going to race the Alsager 5 on Sunday. I got there at 8.30am but first I had to meet a young girl who won a Kindle White prize from a competition I had organised at th...

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