Sandbach Striders

Did you enjoy the Chester Spring 5 yesterday evening?Fancy another bash at running 5 miles?The Striders' at Mobberley in 2010Well, you're in luck as there are two more excellent local 5 milers coming up!Mobberley 'Round the Runway'Thursday 10th May 7:30pm...

Please give a big welcome to this months Member of the Month - Jill Jenkins!
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Those people who are close to me know exactly when I'm about to run a marathon. Apart from the slightly tense atmosphere, they know my pre marathon rituals are always the same and have been for the last ten years. Breakfast is a baguette with banana and ...

As you may well have guessed from the title this is was not a race within the great shire of Cheshire. I now have official dual nationality as a  Cheshire lad and an Essex boy so with that in mind I recently joined forces with Billericay Striders runni...

Monday night hill training - Mow Cop

Heather, Kay, Perry and Paul enjoy a post-training drink
5 runners
1 hill
4th steepest road in England
25% gradient
10 reps
10 sore legs
5 beers

‘Nuff said?

Tom

 Fun was had by all...whether it was a six lap slog of a hilly field (Terry, Jo and Jason), 



alternating 2x(run[in the hilly field]-walk[around the monkeys]) for 4 miles (Catherine, Clare, Garry, Molly & Heidi plus friends Vicky, India, Jessica an...

The weather conditions were excellent for the Stafford Half Marathon.  Cool to start off with and heating up as the day progressed.  With over 2,500 entries  I edged my way to the 1hr 50 mark. I felt that I should really try and push forward.  How...

Wife carrying has a long and murky history. Some say a gang of nineteenth-century Finnish robbers stole other men’s wives, carrying them away. Others say that these robbers ran around with their own wives on their backs in order to be strong and fast e...

As I was heading down south this weekend to take part in another race (in a seperate race report coming soon...) I thought I'd take the opportunity to run only the 2nd Parkrun at Walsall Arboretum. It's probably a bit too far for it to be a regular run of...

The preparation I put into this race was not the best. I did a Half Marathon in July 2010 but had done nothing competitive since and was feeling shamed by the exploits of the more competitive members. I saw a poster advertising the race at the Blueston...