Swindon Striders Running Club

Club Trip 2010

The Striders are planning on competing in the Athens Marathon in October 2010, the 2500th anniversary!!!
(There are 10k and 5k options available too)

Details can be found in Bob's e-mail, or please feel free to ask Birdy for more information.

http://www.athensmarathon.com/

Membership fees are now due

£15 for existing members (which rises to £17 if paid after 31st January 2010)
£17 for new members

Please see a member of the committee on a club night

Striders Newsletters
The new Striders newsletter is out now!

This month's, and previous issues, can be found under the "Newsletters" link
to the left side of this page.

Cross Country
The Striders compete in the Oxford Mail Cross Country League. Details of up-coming races can be found here.
This is a great team event for runners of all abilities, so get involved!

Broad Town Pictures
Thanks to Simon who sent in a selection of pictures from the BroadTown race this summer.

A picture gallery can be accessed by clicking either picture.

Striders - Back in a Flash
Great performances by all brought both the Mens and Ladies team prizes home for the Striders in the recent Back in a Flash 5K.
Claire Smith was third lady and Chris Sykes was fourth man.
Full details and results can be found on http://www.grassrootsevents.co.uk/

Photo reproduced by kind permission of Steve Goulding

More Back in a Flash Pictures

Henry has kindly submitted some more pictures of this event, a gallery can be viewed by clicking on one of the images below:

XC '08/'09 Pictures
Paul Batsford has kindly submitted various pictures of the men (sorry ladies) running in rounds four and five of last years' Oxford Mail Cross Country league.
Click on the pictures below to take you to the gallery:

Club Constitution Updated
All members should make sure that they are familiar with the updated version of the club constituion.
It can be found here.

The Striders gather before a Monday night club run.

Picture courtesy of Paul Batsford.

A Busy Day for the Striders
Sunday 12th October was a busy day for the Striders as members competed in the Swindon Half Marathon, Swindon Multi-Terrain 5 Mile, and the Commando Challenge!
There were some great performances on the day, despite the un-seasonably warm weather!

Swindon Half Results.

5 Mile Multi-Terrain Results.

Results of the Commando Challenge.

Links to image galleries:

A big thank you to Dave, Ray, and Wendy for the Commando Challenge Pictures.

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.realbuzz.com/flmroutes/map.html
(now requires (free) registration)
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"!!!

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!