Sandbach Striders: This week's news 28/09/2014

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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!"

Sunday 28 September 2014

This week's news 28/09/2014

This week the free weekly 5k parkruns proved to be popular with the members of Sandbach Striders running club. 18 Striders ran the event at Astbury Mere near Congleton.

Sandbach Striders at Congleton parkrun

Three Striders finished in the top 10, new Strider Darren Varley was the first Strider home in a new personal best time with Heather Carter also running a new personal best to be the first female finisher home. Grant Stanning, Isobel Bennett, Tracey Hale, Oscar Hayward, Gayle Robson also ran new personal best times and Tracy Howe ran her first ever parkrun after recently joining the club. Club chairman Michael Escolme collected his 100 short after running 106 parkruns so far.

The full results were as follows:

00:18:24 Darren Varley
00:19:50 Tony Taylor
00:19:52 Martin Coleman
00:20:02 Heather Carter
00:20:55 Terry Coppenhall
00:23:04 Andrew Gibson
00:25:59 Denis Culloty
00:27:04 Craig Edwards
00:27:04 Louise Hayward
00:28:23 Grant Stanning
00:28:53 Isobel Bennett
00:29:52 Karen Lovatt
00:30:48 Tracey Hale
00:31:33 Michael Escolme
00:32:57 Tracy Howe
00:33:51 Oscar Hayward
00:35:22 Gayle Ronson
00:37:24 Sarah Mitchell

Martin Gunther was at the Coventry parkrun and finished in 22:21

On Sunday Paul Nicholls ran 13.1 miles around the quiet country lanes of East Cheshire in the Macclesfield Half-marathon, finishing in a time of 2:02:08

Paul Nicholls at Macclesfield Half-marathon

Sunday also saw the annual Treasure Hunt organised by the club’s welfare and coaching officer Jason Bulley. Five teams of Striders ran around 10 miles attempting to find the answers to as many clues as possible in a 2 and a half hour time limit. As well as trying to find the clues which ranged in difficulty, each team was given the task of carrying a large inflatable, its points value increasing in proportion with its size! The winning team of Philip Truman, Francis Gilchrist, Andrew Gibson and Martin Gunther won by carrying a 5 feet high cactus.