Striders hit the ground running in 2013!

CAFOD Fun Run (5 Mile) - 27th Dec 2012

Join CAFOD for a post-Christmas outing at the Bollington fun run and burn off all those mince pies! That was the advert and Strider Martin Colman joined in the fun and ran 5 miles of muddy paths around the local area….and Martin won the race.

Photo by CAFOD Events

CAFOD works with local partners and communities in 40 countries across the world - responding to emergencies, promoting long-term development and raising public awareness of the causes of poverty. They work with people of all faiths and none for a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.

 

Liverbird Marathon Double - 31^st Dec – 1^st Jan

Strider Jason Bulley had to limit his New Year celebrations this year because he was running the Liverbird Marathon Double, marathon No1 on New Years Eve and marathon No2 on New Years day, utter madness.

Starting and finishing on the promenade near Brunswick Dock in Liverpool, opposite the Pipe Centre.

A very simple marathon, you start on the promenade in Toxteth, run along it for 3.3 miles to where it runs out, touch the wall and run back to the start. Complete four laps and your marathon is then complete.

Jason writes, every once in a while you start a marathon and your body says 'no'.

Jason Bulley at the Liverbird Marathon Double

It's not an "I'm injured and can't run" type of no, it's more of a "if you insist on making me do this I'm going to make it really miserable for you. So, no drinks stations (we were pre-warned) a concrete running surface, out and back four times with a smattering of torrential rain and 35mph gusts made for day one to be 'purgatory'.

Day two started with the excitement of the gates to get onto the promenade actually being locked. Being unable to contact anyone who could open them it was decided we would run a mile along the inside of the fence through an industrial estate to a gap which would allow us back onto the promenade.

There was no rain on the second day but the wind was much more constant and much harder than the first. It was straight in our faces on each of the 3 mile homeward stretches which made it almost impossible to run. 

Congleton Parkrun (5k) – 5^th Jan 2013

Saturday was the 4^th Congleton parkrun at Astbury Mere. This Parkrun is getting more popular each week; there were 105 finishers this week, the most yet.

Adam, Tom, Giles, Maxwell, Rick, Liz, Jason, Danny, Perry and Terry  Photo by Amy.

Rick Kelso-Davies (21:26), Terry Coppenhall (21:34) a new PB, Tom Mayell (23:26), Perry Wyatt (24:59), Jason Bulley (25:53), Liz O’Keeffe (26:36), Dennis Culloty (26:42), Danny McLaughlin (28:23)

  

Northampton Parkrun (5k) –  5^th Jan 2013

Sandbach Striders chairman Michael Escolme added yet another Parkrun to his tally at the racecourse in Northampton. 

The run takes place on the Racecourse in central Northampton. The start is positioned behind the Pavilion car park, Kettering Road, adjacent to the basketball and tennis courts.

The course follows the perimeter tarmac paths of the park and consists of two laps going in an anti-clockwise direction. The first lap consists of almost a full loop of the park. The second lap turns left at the start, consisting of a shorter lap.

The finish is 80m past the start and heads in a 30 degree angle finishing on the grass marked by a finishing funnel.