Give a big welcome to our new website feature - the Sandbach Strider member of the Month.
The member for this month is none other than Alan Pearson!
Read more about him here or by clicking the Member of the Month link in the toolbar above.
A big tha...
Towards the end of 2011 (due to a significant reduction in available training time) I made the decision to not run any long races during 2012 & to concentrate on lots of short, quick
Michael, Giles and Chris on the cobbles of Howarth's main streetrace...
Myself, Paul Nicholls, Gordon Hutchins and Cheryl Hutchins ran the Liverpool Half Marathon on Sunday 18th March 2012. The traffic was surprisingly clear for a big city Marathon and there were plenty of parking spaces available that are literally only a...
All winter I’ve wanted to go on one of our club’s torchlight runs so when Jason mentioned on Sunday morning that this was the last one of the season, I just had to go. Well I’d asked for and got a head torch for Christmas and all it had been used fo...
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With only six weeks until the London Marathon, today’s race was a good opportunity to test myself and my race plan. I was chauffeured to the race by John Lawton (thanks John) and we met Bob (the real one) and Liz at the Stafford University campus.
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How do you write a race report for a hundred mile race?Team Moose: 0 down, 103 to go.I mean, I should really try to explain the sheer enormity of the weekend whilst not boring you to tears with a mile by mile account of the torture.......and that's ...
Just a quick reminder that there will be NO club run this Wednesday.
We have something even better than running planned... It's AGM time!
Please do come along and support your club.
Any additional contributions of food/snacks are very much appreciat...
Well it was the morning after the night before, the night before being the Striders' awards ceremony, and myself and Michael met to go and run the Pennington Flash park run. So with a belly still full of cheese and crackers and the hilarious memory of M...
Book Review
Wild Trails to Far Horizons: An Ultra-distance Runner
By Mike Cudahy
"When I stand at the beginning of 100 miles of moor, mountain, valley and meadow, I am standing on the threshold of a dream." - Mike Cudahy
Back in the 1970’s while ...
I found out about the inaugural Golden Fleece Circuit via the LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) website. Many of their challenge events are open to runners as well as walkers and are usually very pleasant, scenic events that are exceptionally good ...
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