Sandbach Striders

I’ve always tried to have the mindset that you should try and find the positive in every situation, no matter how bad. 2 years ago I received my first ever DNF during a 100 mile ultra, the positive? It would lead me to join the Sandbach Striders a coupl...

You’ll have run a marathon already. You’ll already be marathon fit, it won’t feel that hard. Why not just enter it?”Outside the Britannia Stadium raring to goOr at least that was the advice from some ‘friends’ in the Striders earlier in the ye...

The Wilde one is a multi lap marathon in Worcester. It gets its name from the very sad and sudden death of Black Pears Runners Stephen Wilde and hence the club put on a memorial race in aide of the local children’s hospice. 
The race was due to be a 10...

On what seemed a pleasant Sunday morning, I made my way to Bollington for there annual 'Nostalgia Hill Race', a charity race in aid of the Bridgend Centre  (formerly 'Bollington Drop In Centre). This is a 7.11 mile multi terrain race with bits of everyth...

Sunday morning at the seaside it must be the Blackpool Hilton Half Marathon. This race was organised by Fylde Coast Runners and has been run for the last 16 years in aid of "Hilton in the Community Foundation". The weather was hot with a strong breeze com...

I signed up for the Eastridge trail race, not fully appreciating what was in store!I knew it was a half marathon, and that it went up onto the Stiperstones ridge, but that was about it.

The race started and finished in Snailbeach, south west of Shrewsbur...

'Rudyard', is race five of the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series, a 5 mile trail race around lake Rudyard. Three 'striders' were in action for this race, speedy Darren, Paul and myself. We arranged to meet at the club car park, and made are way there....

A quick dash up the A50 on Thursday evening saw me on my way to the Warrington 10K. According to the billing the course is flat fast 10K. The race has been hosted by Warrington Road Runners for the last 35 years and it is the longest established 10k in W...

I hate midges! Nasty tiny biting flying biting irritating biting things midges... I hate them.

So when, after 2 hours in the car, we arrived at the Coed y Brenin visitors centre on Friday evening at twenty to eight and stepped out of the car, the swarmi...

So firstly let’s deal with elephant in the room; the Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Half Marathon organised by “In the Running” was actually a 12.6 mile race due to a mistake in how the course was marked.  

As the race was not cheap to enter (£22.50)...