This week's news: 31/08/2015

Thirteen members of Sandbach Striders running club ran the three laps that make up the free weekly parkrun at Astbury Mere near Congleton. Ben Collett and husband and wife team Steve and Gillian Fallows all earned new personal best times.

Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrun

The full results were as follows:

Race Report: Sandwell Six Towns 30/08/2015

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 having a go soon got a response from fellow strider Craig. This was good as the last time I ran a distance event with Craig was the Sandstone ultra and we had a bit of a giggle as well as Ice creams that day. With Craig using the event as training for the Round Rotherham 50 and me just using it as a miles on the clock/ chalk another off the list we opted to just go and have some fun.

Entries now open for the Sandbach 10k 06/09/2015 sponsored by Butcher & Barlow!

ENTRIES STILL AVAILABLE

Entries are still available for the 10th Anniversary of the Sandbach 10k & Family Fun Run sponsored by Butcher and Barlow.

Sunday 6th September 2015 -11.00am


There will be an array of family friendly activities going on before, during and after the run including:

This week's news:23/08/2015

Five Striders travelled north to the outskirts of Warrington to run the Birchwood 10k. 

Tom Mayell, Denis Culloty, Heather Carter, Andy Thomas and Andrew Gibson at Birchwood 10k

The results were:

Race Report: Birchwood 10k 23/08/2015

Five Sandbach Striders headed north on Sunday morning to join around a thousand runners taking part in a 10K race. The event took place in and around Birchwood, starting near the railway station and shopping centre.

The weather was warm, humid and windy – not ideal running conditions (for me anyway!).

This week's news: 17/08/2015

Ten Striders crossed the finish line at the free weekly parkrun in Congleton. Denise Dowling and Lindsey Beech both ran new personal best times. 

Sandbach Striders at the Congleton parkrun

The full results were as follows:

This week's news: 10/08/2015

This week was the annual running of the Pie and Peas 5 mile trail race in the village of Moutlon near Northwich. Forty members of Sandbach Striders ran this popular event.

Sandbach Striders at Pie and Peas

The full results were: 

This week's news: 03/08/2015

Holiday season means the opportunity for members of Sandbach Striders to participate in a spot of parkrun tourism as they find themselves in different parts of the country. This week Striders were represented in 8 different events around Britain. Duncan Robertson ran the Swindon parkrun in 39:42 narrowly beating his daughter Milly who ran her first ever parkrun event.

Milly and Duncan Robertson at Swindon parkrun

This week's news: 27/07/2015

As the summer holidays begin the number of organised running races decreases, as such members of Sandbach Striders mainly participated in the free weekly 5k parkruns that continue to grow in popularity around the country. Striders took part in five different events.

Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrun

At the Congleton parkrun ten Striders completed the three lap of Astbury Mere with Rick Kelso-Davies earning himself a new personal best time.

Race Report: Race to the Stones 11/07/2015

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 couple of months later to reinvigorate my running. Shortly after we found my wife would be having some operations over the next year and I took the decision to take a break from ultras as I wouldn’t have the time I needed to train, the positive? I’d spend a year training for shorter distances and smashing all my PB’s.

Race Report: Potteries Marathon 05/07/2015

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 go

Or at least that was the advice from some ‘friends’ in the Striders earlier in the year, trying to talk me into joining the first Potteries marathon for twelve years. A few months later, and two months after the London marathon, I’d entered it but I was seriously doubting their advice. The training for London felt a long time ago, and I definitely hadn’t trained for heat. Seven Striders were on the start list but unfortunately only three had been able to make it on the day. So it was me, Heather and Fran who met up at the Britannia stadium. The stadium with enough capacity for 30,000 fans was open for about 1000 runners, so the facilities at the start were probably the best of any race I’ve ever been to.

This week's news 20/07/2015

It was an uncharacteristically quiet week for the members of Sandbach Striders running club. Despite that Striders took part in four different parkrun events and two longer distance events.

Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrun

At the free weekly parkrun at Congleton thirteen Striders completed the three laps of Astbury Mere, with Martin Gunther earning himself a new personal best time.