About us

Sandbach Striders was born back in 2003. Since the early days, membership has grown with a firm ethos of the club being not just about running but social activities as well. The club is affiliated to UK AAA and has its own qualified coaches. Many other special events take place on various nights too.

The club meets on Wednesdays at 18:30 and Sundays at 09:00 at Elworth Cricket Club.

Whilst many members compete in races from 5k to Marathons, the emphasis remains purely on keeping people motivated and having fun. Why not scan through our race reports to see what we’ve been up to? Having read them, you’re sure to see why Sandbach Striders has developed the motto of being

"No Ordinary Running Club!"

Monday 19 October 2015

Race Report: Rivington Trail Half-marathon 03/10/2015

Having returned from Holiday and still nursing an injury I opted to utilise this trail half to find some way of regaining some fitness. Now, being as I now frequent the area of Rivington on many occasions due to that four letter word work, I have been mixing  with a few of the Burnden runners and gaining some familiarity of the area and more importantly some significant hill training over the Pennines. 

So I turned up not really expecting much, thinking a Lancashire man and a few pigeons and maybe the odd whippet and a few runners running  over the pike. 



Well I was surprised for after following a tough foggy drive parking was very much restricted. And then there must have been 500+ runners getting ready to go. I met up with a couple of Burnden runners and a few other runners I knew to discuss the route. It was quite simple really, a very hard first 2 miles followed by a mixture. 

 With all being checked in and with me opting to start at the back we set off. A lap of the school field started the race before we headed up on a monstrous climb up towards the Rivington Pike. This climb was in itself a real killer with it being run over an old very rough cobbled track. This sort of trail running was technical and brutal with the climb being so long and steep. Eventually we reached the top of the climb and although we started to descend the road down were still very rocky. 
As the race unfolded we started to see some separating in the pack. The race remained pretty much on trail for the whole affair. Up and down, tricky trail, bits of mud and pretty much everything that constitutes a trail race. There were a great mixture of runners in this race with some being your proper competitive runners, the standard club Hobby  runner and the charity/fun runners 

 The route was really really nice, gorgeous scenery other than the odd gel wrapper (why do people do this) tough terrain, great company and some great organisation couple with a moderate goody bag no medal but a nice Tshirt.  

Paul N.
Posted by Michael Escolme at 10:50