Today I ran the Alsager 5, despite waking up at 3am with a stinking head cold. As the weather had picked up at 10am I thought I’d be ok to run it. When I arrived at the race I notices that there were lots or people warming up in only their vests ...
The race that wasn't that was..I had waited for this one for months and months. The Anglesey CTS mountain marathon by endurance life.The journey to Anglesey.This is part of there own series of events organised by endurancelife which take place around the ...
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Congleton Parkrun - Sat 12/01/2013
Saturday was the 5th Congleton parkrun at Astbury Mere. There was a great turnout on a windy day with 143 runners taking part, 10 from Sandbach Striders and three new 5k personal best times. Finishing times were as fo...
"Please Run Carefully. Do Not Fall Into The Canal. This Is A Fun Run Not A Race. But if you come first there is a prize." said the race organiser. And I heard a loud laugh beside me. I looked around and recognised the laugher as an ex-work colleague,...
CAFOD Fun Run (5 Mile) - 27th Dec 2012
Join CAFOD for a post-Christmas outing at the Bollington fun run and burn off all those mince pies! That was the advert and Strider Martin Colman joined in the fun and ran 5 miles of muddy paths around the loca...
Purgatory........'a state or place of purification or temporary punishment'.Jason now on the right side of the fence.......so that's what anti climb paint looks like.
Perhaps all marathons should be defined as "purgatory", I know I've always found som...
Cannon Hill Parkrun – Sat 22nd Dec
Michael Escolme ticked off yet another Parkrun on Saturday with a run at Cannon Hill Park next to Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham. This is an accurately measured 5k
course entirely on tarmac. This was Mich...
On Saturday 23 December I got up and decided to run the Congleton park run.
I met Tom and as we set off the rain was only just beginning. By the time we got there it was a light shower. However, as soon as the race was started the wind picked up and ...
Martin and I have been ploughing through some of the race stats from 2012.
In total 387 races were logged by Striders throughout the year and the breakdown was as follows: 5k
5m
10k
10m
Half
20m
Mara
Ultra
Fell
96
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Catch up on all the latest Sandbach Striders news from the previous month, courtesy of our resident press secretary Perry Wyatt.
Congleton Parkrun (5k) – Sat 15th Dec
The inaugural Congleton Parkrun was held on Saturday at Astbury Mere. The cours...
