Sandbach Striders

Race Alert! Cross Bay Challenge 12/08/2012

An important heads up about this years Cross Bay Challenge.


Clare, Danny and Catherine enjoying a cheeky paddle.
As you may know we have now chosen the Cross Bay Challenge as our summer social event - which means a  weekend (or a day trip if you're a l...

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Race Report: International Marathon of Marrakech 29/01/2012

40 hours in Marrakech might well be an environmentalist's nightmare, but the chance to run my first (and possibly only) African marathon was too good a chance to miss. A summer flight to Marrakech is easy to arrange, the previous summer I'd flown there fr...

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Awards Evening 24/02/2012

Put this date in your diary!

Sandbach Striders Award Evening 2012

Friday 24th February

The Limes, Sandbach

Hot & cold buffet, variety of awards, live music.

Tickets will be on sale from Wednesday 1st February (price tbc).

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Race Report: Helsby Half Marathon 22/01/2012


Blown away, beaten and broken at Helsby Half.Well what a day that was! After meeting fellow Striders at the club we set off for Helsby just after 9am to make sure we were early arriving to get a parking spot, and only just got into the carpark at the ...

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Torchlight Run - Delamere Forest 23/01/2012

On Monday night I finally plucked up the courage to join in a torchlight run (thanks to Jason for the loan of his head torch). We met at the club at 6:30 ready for our journey to Delamere Forest - on arrival we were the only people there not on wheels how...

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Race Report: Anglesey Coastal Marathon 21/01/2012

Endurance life Anglesey Coastal Marathon 

As I lay in bed on Friday night listening to the shipping forecast, the man with the Radio 4 voice worked his way round Fisher, Viking, Tyne, Dogger (my favourite), Rockall, Malin and eventually to the Irish Sea...

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Inaugural Striders' Bike Ride this Sunday!


Greetings to you all from sunny/smoggy Essex. Fear not even though I am far away near the big smoke I have been working hard on setting up the bike ride. I hear there have been a few questions at the club about the what and the when so here goes. We w...

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Race Report: Ilford Park Run 21/01/2012

Thanks to the diverse range of park runs and locations hosting these events all across the country I was able to quickly and easily find a park run near me in glorious Essex. The event is hosted in Valentines park in Ilford some 40 mins away from my ho...

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Torchlight Run - Brereton Heath 16/1/2012


Last night was my first ever torchlight run. As I left my house my wee hubby shouted it was minus 1 degrees and I was mad to even contemplate running in the dark! – “you’ll end up with a cold again”.  So with his words of wisdom ringing in m...

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Race Report: Hanley Park Run 24th December 2011


Well it’s almost ancient history now but here’s the write up for Hanley Park Run on December 24th 2011 …..
I arrived just before 9.00am with one of my elves dressed as a 12 year old girl and one of the reindeer wearing a dog costume. We met with Sn...

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