Well done to all the finishers today, there were some fantastic results and many targets achieved or surpassed. The results are here courtesy of the world class chip timing from HS Sports: http://www.chiptiming.co.uk/results/?sport=1&year=2013&event=151&...
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The Crewe Déjà vu 3 is nearly upon us!
The ones to blame on race day: Giles, Michael and JasonWe currently have a 15 members of Sandbach Striders on the start list and are also expecting a full contingent of other runners. Some familiar faces, some ...
View the rest of the photos from the Sandbach 10k at Dstockton1946's photostream on Flickr.If you haven't already checked out the results, see them online here.
Last December, as I rolled over the hill of middle age (50th birthday), I had an idea.
“I’m really not a morning person,” yawned Gordon at 0600.
I had always wanted to run an ultra-marathon and, in my slightly OCD sort of way, a 50 mile ultra at...
A big WELL DONE to all of the 189 intrepid runners who braved today's Sandbach 10k!
Thank you for coming to Sandbach, we sincerely hope you had a great race.The results can be seen online here.
What ever happened to Sunday morning lie-ins? At this rate I may even make a striders Sunday morning run now that I’m so used to getting up for half marathons.
Birkenhead’s own Brandenburg gate which we ran through.
Anyway, a dark, blustery and sho...
(Belated) race report – Mars London Marathon (1984)
As dawn was breaking on a clear, dry. Late-March morning in 1984, I set out from my sister’s flat in Tooting for Blackheath Common ready for my first London Marathon.I joined a couple of other runner...
The Sandbach 10k fun run started outside the cricket club and was two laps of the cricket pitch
It was a cloudy drizzly day but that did not dampen the fun and determination of all the children lining up at the start with a mix of very small children ...
During the race that we ran out in France!
This is our report, albeit fairly short, of a race that we ran out in France!
There was early-o'clock,
there was a passport drop,
there was a well needed caffeine stop...
During the race that w...
Having booked myself in for the new Wirral half marathon on 13th October, I wasn’t expecting to do one the week before. However, Gordon decided that when both Heather and Tony were unable to do the trail run, he volunteered us both for it, insisting tha...
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