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Grand Prix Updated
The standings have been updated to include the results of the Highworth Five Mile.
Jackie Evans and Spencer have both now broken the 30 point barrier:

Highworth Five Results

Current Standings

Highworth Five
Both Veronica and Guy & Sarah have submitted photos of the recent Highworth Five Mile race.

They can be found on Flickr.com here or by clicking on one of the pictures below:

Pete            Santhosh

The race saw some good perfomances from the Striders, results can be found here:
Download Excel file from Highworth running club site


Two New Club Records

Congratulations to both Helen Audrain and Caroline Niblett who posted new Striders records for 20 miles in the recent Gloucester race.
Helen notched up 2:26:53 in the Senior Women category whilst Caroline came in at 2:38:07 as a Vet. 45 Lady.

If you think you might have run a new club record, check on our records page and if you have, get in touch: website@swindonstriders.org


London Marathon
There were some great performances from the Striders in this years London Marathon, well done everyone.
Special mention has to go to Carole though; who finished 8th in her age range!!!

Results Page

"Burnley" Steve has also kindly sent in a link to some photos he took at the event: Facebook

Grand Prix Updated
The standings have been updated to include the results of the White Horse Half Marathon.
Jackie Evans and Spencer are building nice leads for early in the season:

White Horse Half Results

Current Standings

Also, a link to entry form for the up-coming Ramsbury 5 can be found here: External Link

White Horse Half Marathon

Veronica has submitted some pictures of the recent White Horse Half Marathon.

They can be seen on Flickr.com either via this link or by clicking on one of the pictures below:

Chris Thumbnail          Jackie Thumbnail

Grand Prix Updated

The Grand Prix Standings have been updated to correct Spencers omission (sorry!) and to add the results of the Devizes 10K:

Devizes 10K Results

Grand Prix Standings


The Terminator

Well Done Striders!


The first fixture of this year's Grand Prix got off to a flying start in Pewsey yesterday, as a strong Striders team put in good performances all round in 'The Terminator'. The favourable weather meant conditions underfoot were ideal (although some seemed to end up much more muddy than others???) this gave everyone the best chance of beating last years times so we should have some interesting results. (Watch this space!)

If you are still interested in participating in the Grand Prix it's not too late to enter. Submit a completed registration form to Sarah Wintle, another committee member, or check out our Grand Prix page for more details
. Forms are available on club nights from a committee member
.

New Links Added
The Striders links page (here) has been updated with links to two different sites:

Runing For Fun is a great non-profitmaking site with interesting articles for all levels of runners.

The Big Adventure Store is a Swindon based business that specialises is Triathalon and Adventure Racing.

Both sites are well worth checking out.

Special General Meeting Outcome

During the Special General Meeting held at the Link Centre on Friday 22nd February 2008 the club voted to ask members to contribute an extra £5 in addition to their club fees to enable that member to use the showers and toilets at the Link Centre and the Oasis all year round.

Please give your £5 to a commitee member a.s.a.p.; ideally in the next couple of weeks.

Striders Grand Prix 2008

Entries for the Striders 2008 Grand Prix have opened! Details can be found here.

Please remember that you must complete an entry form and send or give it to Sarah before you run your first race!

Please support this initiative as Sarah and Jenny have invested a lot of their own time into running it.

Final 2007 Grand Prix Standings
Congratulations Veronica & Chris

The Lakers (pictured here just before the New York City Marathon) scooped first place in both the Ladies and Mens sections of the inaugural Striders Handicapped Grand Prix

Final Grand Prix Standings



Well Done Guys!

Also a big well done to everyone else who supported the races that were part of the Grand Prix, ensuring a successful first year.

As always, thanks to Sarah and Guy for organising the Grand Prix format and compiling all the results!


More Pictures Posted
Picture galleries from the Swindon Half Marathon and the Striders BBQ are now available
Click on the relevant photo to take you to the gallery.

       

Results for the Swindon Half can be found: here



Vale of Pewsey Half Marathon

Big congratulations to the Striders Ladies who won the female team prize this year.
The winning runners were: Jayne Parker, Sarah Wintle, and Ann Lonie

Full Results can be found on the Pewsey Vale site: here

Ridgeway Challenge
86 miles and still smiling!

Ridgeway Challenge - Neil at Finish

Huge Congratulations to Neil Pringle who completed the 86 mile Ridgeway Challenge just before lunch on Sunday 26th August in an impressive time of 23 hours and 21 minutes!

It was an inspirational run and, as always, Neil did it with a smile on his face!

Finishing Time

A few more photos of Neil completing this event can be found here.


Not got a GPS???

Then try out this nifty little utility on the London Marathon website:
http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/routeplanner/index.php
It allows you to plot the routes you run and it'll give you a fairly good  idea of the distance travelled......it's probably slightly more accurate than Andy Smith's assurances that it's "about six"!!!


New Striders Merchandise

We are now able to order T-Shirts and Hooded Sweatshirts with the Striders logo on:

T-Shirt  hoodie  Logo

Click here for more details


Just done a PB?

Have you checked our Club Records page here?
Do you now hold a Striders
age-group record?
If so, please let us know at the usual e-mail address: website@swindonstriders.org

                 

Need a Running Log?
Lee Armitage, the partner of one of our runners, has developed a rather nice (Microsoft Excel format) running log and very kindly agreed to let us all give it a "test run"!

You can find a link to it here
Please feel free to give it a try and send us any feedback so we can forward it on to Lee.

Thanks Lee!



This site is a resource for members, so please let us know what you would like to see.

Also if you've got any pictures, race results, links to running-related web sites, or details of up-coming events please let us know and we can get them posted up.

Send an e-mail to the club: website@swindonstriders.org




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