Sandbach Striders

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)...

Member of Sandbach Striders took the famous Sandbach Cross logo that identifies and unifies the club across the globe this week in a typically diverse selection of races.
Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrunClosest to home were the thirteen Striders who...

Members of Sandbach Striders Running Club once again travelled the length and breadth of the country to participate in a wide variety of running events. Striders at their annual club 10kIt all started closest to home with the annual running of the club 1...

A big well done to all of the 56 Striders who finished last night's Club 10k Race! The rain finally cleared to leave us with a warm and humid evening, not ideal running weather by any means but it could have been a lot worse!

There were some absolutely ...

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...

Members of Sandbach Striders running club once more competed in a wide variety of events around the country.
Sandbach Striders at the Congleton parkrunIn Congleton at the free weekly 5k parkrun around Astbury Mere, fourteen striders finished the three la...

Members of Sandbach Striders Running Club once again competed in four different 5k parkrun events around the country. Closest to home were the fifteen Striders who ran the three laps of Astbury mere that make up the Congleton parkrun. Sandbach Striders a...