Sandbach Striders

We'd like to congratulate the fantastic members of our most recent couch-to-5k programme who have now completed their first 5k run at Congleton parkrun..
In just ten weeks the runners have worked their way from beginners to seasoned distance runners!Well ...

This week saw the culmination of the most recent free Couch-to-5k programme run by Sandbach Striders Running Club. Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrunThe graduates have done exceptionally well working up from being non-runners to running 5 kilometres ...

This was to be the first of my sponsored events for the Samaritans and my big city marathon tour. The second would be the London marathon in two weeks’ time. 
This one though never got off to a good start, on Wednesday after the club run I came home wi...

At the recent Monopoly Run 2015 Striders were given the tasks of taking photographs along the route on one or more Monopoly related themes.

There are 15 entries all in all, please view this page and consider all the entries, then visit the Doodle poll an...

It was a quieter week than usual for members of Sandbach Striders Running Club with only six Striders running the free weekly 5k Congleton parkrun around Astbury Mere.  Denise Dowling, Tracy Howe, Denis Culloty, Lucy Lee and Tony Taylor at the Congleton...

South Cheshire Harriers held there annual 'Air Products 10k' on Sunday 5th April. This is far from being a glamorous race, without a hint of any countryside, trees or hills, it's possibly the most uninteresting, boring run on the race calendar, its basica...

Members of Sandbach Striders partook in four different parkrun events this week. The popular free weekly 5k events continue to extend their reach around the country and provide runners with an excellent way to gauge their progress. Sandbach Striders at C...

Newcastle  (Staffs) AC, held there annual 10k road race on Sunday 29th March. Denis and myself were the two Striders taking part in this race. Denis had some unfinished business at this race, after not being happy with last year's time (1 hr 2 mins), for...

Of the 173 finishers at the free weekly parkrun at Congleton, 16 were members of Sandbach Striders Running Club. This included two more members of the couch-to-5k group, Barbara Evans and Claire Dalton, who started only eight weeks ago but have already ac...

Back by popular demand - the London Monopoly Run will take place again on Saturday 11th April 2015.
Starting at 11am at the Seymour Leisure Centre, Seymour Place, London W1H 5TJ ( ahort walk from Euston Station), the route is a 15.7 mile trip around every...