Sandbach Striders

Alarm went off before 6am on Sunday Morning. I was heading over to Sheffield to visit my daughter who is studying at Sheffield University. Just a few days before I noticed that there was a 10k race on Sunday morning in Enfield Park, just a few miles from ...

On Tuesday 15th September I did the Teach First Run the River in London. Starting at 7:00 in the evening in More London near Tower Bridge, over 3,000 runners set off to do a 5k or 10k, crossing several bridges across the Thames, and finishing at dusk with...

Having graduated from the couch to 5k, to 10k, I have well and truly caught the bug for running and racing!  So this Sunday saw myself and fellow strider Moe Dutton turn up at Warrington for the 10k course as part of the EHM run festival.  With Phil Tru...

Winchester Parkrun
For any Parkrun tourists in the Hampshire area this is a pleasant 5k round the Winchester ‘North Walls’ Recreation Park.  Although it consists of 3 circuits of the playing fields, the tree lined surroundings make the run more inter...

I ran this event last year with several other striders. This year after a week off I opted to enter late and up my mileage for August which following this run would top 200 miles for the first time ever. 
A plea to see if any of my running buddies were h...

I’ve always tried to have the mindset that you should try and find the positive in every situation, no matter how bad. 2 years ago I received my first ever DNF during a 100 mile ultra, the positive? It would lead me to join the Sandbach Striders a coupl...

You’ll have run a marathon already. You’ll already be marathon fit, it won’t feel that hard. Why not just enter it?”Outside the Britannia Stadium raring to goOr at least that was the advice from some ‘friends’ in the Striders earlier in the ye...

The Wilde one is a multi lap marathon in Worcester. It gets its name from the very sad and sudden death of Black Pears Runners Stephen Wilde and hence the club put on a memorial race in aide of the local children’s hospice. 
The race was due to be a 10...