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 15 September 2014

This week's news: 15/09/2014

 Saturday saw the 30th annual running of the Marathon du Médoc in Pauillac, France. 
Sandbach Striders at the Marathon du Médoc 
For the fourth year in succession members of Sandbach Striders took their place on the
line-up in the world’s biggest party marathon. The 26.2 mile route takes place in the blazing hot sunshine of the Bordeaux vineyards. This year on the event’s 30th anniversary 10,000 runners battled their way around a route which included 23 wine tasting stops. All of whom were in fancy dress. Sizteen Striders donned their carnival outfits for the run. 

Needless to say the emphasis is on fun and wine and not speed! The full results were as follows:

05:19:05 Heather Carter
06:22:43 Catherine Greaves
06:22:43 Tom Mayell
06:22:44 Jason Bulley
06:22:44 Clare Pheasey
06:24:47 David Parr
06:44:26 Johanna Bulley
06:26:30 Paul Nicholls
06:27:26 Michael Escolme
06:27:27 Perry Wyatt
06:28:12 Christiana Bunte
06:28:37 Chris Brumby
06:28:40 Jill Young
06:22:36 Gordon Hutchins
06:22:39 Cheryl Hutchins
06:52:03 Grant Stanning

Only a week after taking over all of the marshalling duties at the free weekly Congleton 5k parkrun seventeen Striders turned out once more to run the three laps of Astbury Mere. Andrew Gibson and Fran Gilchrist pushed each other all the way to this finishing line and to new personal best times, closely followed by Matt Wood who also pb’ed. Lou Hayward and Tracey Hale continued their run of good results to complete a tally of five Strider personal bests.

00:22:16 Andrew Gibson                              
00:22:17 Francis Gilchrist                              
00:22:44 Craig Edwards                 
00:24:19 Matt Wood
00:26:17 Louise Hayward                             
00:26:18 Alan Wilcox
00:26:29 Denis Culloty                   
00:28:13 Kelley Underwood                       
00:29:10 Elaine Wood    
00:29:26 Isobel Bennett                               
00:30:45 Karen Lovatt                    
00:31:21 Tracey Hale                      
00:31:54 Sarah Feaver   
00:35:03 Stella Stilwell   
00:37:47 Oscar Hayward                               
00:39:10 Nathan Lee                      
00:39:12 Lucy Lee                            

Meanwhile Tony Taylor found himself up in Lancashire running the Ormskirk parkrun, Tony completed the course in 9th position in 19:40

On Sunday Lucy Darling ran the Lake Vyrnwy half marathon today accompanied by her husband Neil. Neil ran his first ever half-marathon whilstLucy earned a new personal best time by over 10 minutes finishing in 2 hours 3 minutes.



Lucy and Neil Darling at the Lake Vyrnwy Half-marathon
Also on Sunday it was the turn of the Gawsworth 10k. This scenic and popular event around the grounds of Gawsworth Hall had two Striders taking part both of whom had also run the parkrun just the day before.  Stella Stilwell was first Strider home in 56:11 closely followed by Dennis Culloty in  1:02:01

Denis and Stella at the Gawsworth 10k

Posted by Sandbach Striders at 13:56