Sandbach Striders

On what seemed a pleasant Sunday morning, I made my way to Bollington for there annual 'Nostalgia Hill Race', a charity race in aid of the Bridgend Centre  (formerly 'Bollington Drop In Centre). This is a 7.11 mile multi terrain race with bits of everyth...

Sunday morning at the seaside it must be the Blackpool Hilton Half Marathon. This race was organised by Fylde Coast Runners and has been run for the last 16 years in aid of "Hilton in the Community Foundation". The weather was hot with a strong breeze com...

I signed up for the Eastridge trail race, not fully appreciating what was in store!I knew it was a half marathon, and that it went up onto the Stiperstones ridge, but that was about it.

The race started and finished in Snailbeach, south west of Shrewsbur...

'Rudyard', is race five of the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series, a 5 mile trail race around lake Rudyard. Three 'striders' were in action for this race, speedy Darren, Paul and myself. We arranged to meet at the club car park, and made are way there....

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)...

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...

Saturday 30 May saw 8 striders run the demanding but scenic 9K Wincle Trout race. Liz on the river crossingIt's described as a trail race but realistically it's a fell one.  Every year the race starts at a different place because it's rotated between th...