Sandbach Striders

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)...

Shutlingsloe fell race is a part of the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series  (1 of 10), which are held on Thursday evenings over the summer. 'Shutlingsloe', is the shortest of the summer series, just 3 1/2 miles accent  to the top of Shutlingsloe and ...

Having ran a good few miles this year I was not really looking forward to this event as I have been nursing a nasty knee niggle for some weeks now which has been restricting my running somewhat. 
However, this was the Bolton Hill Marathon and having done...

Saturday 30 May saw 8 striders run the demanding but scenic 9K Wincle Trout race. Liz on the river crossingIt's described as a trail race but realistically it's a fell one.  Every year the race starts at a different place because it's rotated between th...

My alarm clock woke me up, at the rather unsociable time of 6am on Sunday 17th of May, it was the 'Chester Half Marathon' day, and an early race start of 9am, meant I had to be on the move early. 
Arriving in Chester in good time, I parked and walked to ...

I’ve never taken part in a fell race before so when Steve Treweeks posted on Facebook that he had entered the Cader Idris Fell Race and invited me along it seemed like a great idea. 
Having consumed a couple of recreational beverages I convinced myself...

When I found out that the 2015 London Marathon fell exactly 10 years after I ran my last marathon and a year since I joined Sandbach Striders, it seemed like the perfect race to reacquaint myself with marathon running.  
Somewhat predictably I was not su...

The London Marathon 2015 from Jason!

The Killer Mile is fast becoming a tradition where I work in Kidsgrove, for the 3rd year in a row I’ve helped a team of runners of mixed abilities train to run the infamous race which is quite literally on our doorstep. This year I’m proud to say we t...