40 hours in Marrakech might well be an environmentalist's nightmare, but the chance to run my first (and possibly only) African marathon was too good a chance to miss. A summer flight to Marrakech is easy to arrange, the previous summer I'd flown there fr...
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Put this date in your diary!
Sandbach Striders Award Evening 2012
Friday 24th February
The Limes, Sandbach
Hot & cold buffet, variety of awards, live music.
Tickets will be on sale from Wednesday 1st February (price tbc).
Blown away, beaten and broken at Helsby Half.Well what a day that was! After meeting fellow Striders at the club we set off for Helsby just after 9am to make sure we were early arriving to get a parking spot, and only just got into the carpark at the ...
On Monday night I finally plucked up the courage to join in a torchlight run (thanks to Jason for the loan of his head torch). We met at the club at 6:30 ready for our journey to Delamere Forest - on arrival we were the only people there not on wheels how...
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Endurance life Anglesey Coastal Marathon
As I lay in bed on Friday night listening to the shipping forecast, the man with the Radio 4 voice worked his way round Fisher, Viking, Tyne, Dogger (my favourite), Rockall, Malin and eventually to the Irish Sea...
Greetings to you all from sunny/smoggy Essex. Fear not even though I am far away near the big smoke I have been working hard on setting up the bike ride. I hear there have been a few questions at the club about the what and the when so here goes. We w...
Thanks to the diverse range of park runs and locations hosting these events all across the country I was able to quickly and easily find a park run near me in glorious Essex. The event is hosted in Valentines park in Ilford some 40 mins away from my ho...
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Last night was my first ever torchlight run. As I left my house my wee hubby shouted it was minus 1 degrees and I was mad to even contemplate running in the dark! – “you’ll end up with a cold again”. So with his words of wisdom ringing in m...
Well it’s almost ancient history now but here’s the write up for Hanley Park Run on December 24th 2011 …..
I arrived just before 9.00am with one of my elves dressed as a 12 year old girl and one of the reindeer wearing a dog costume. We met with Sn...
Congratulations Clare!On raising an incredible £1,467.70 this year for The Christie Charity.
For more information on The Christie and to learn about their excellent work, click here.
By the time you read this there might still be time to donate to ...
