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Welcome to the Swindon Striders web site Have you ever thought about Running or can you run, and want to improve? From Tuesday September 30th 2008 - The Swindon Striders will be running a 10 week course for people who want to either start running or who have run before and want to improve. We are planning a 10 week course meeting at the Oasis leisure centre – bottom of the stair case behind reception, meeting at 7.00 pm and run at 7.30 after a warm up and stretching session. We will have qualified coaches to guide you and also Swindon Striders members to help and support you. You must be over 18 years of age and each session will cost 50p. You can e-mail us at beginners08@swindonstriders.org if you have any questions. Summer Training Schedule Kev and Bob have updated their training schedule: (All other club run locations will remain un-changed)
Lethbridge 10k Well done to all the Striders who ran in the latest Grand Prix race, the Lethbridge 10k. Link to the results: here A picture gallery can be viewed by clicking on one of the photos below:   Apologies to those Striders who the cameraman missed. Second Half of the Striders Grand Prix Sarah and Jenny have been working hard to plan the second half of this years Grand Prix. The races have now been decided upon and can be found: here Grand Prix Updated The standings have been updated to include the results of the Ramsbury Five Mile. Jackie Evans is stretching her lead, while Spencer is trying to hold of Chris Laker: Ramsbury 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:   The race saw some good perfomances from the Striders, results can be found here: Download Excel file from Highworth running club site Helen Scores a New Club Record Congratulations to Helen Audrain who posted a new Striders records for 20 miles in the recent Gloucester race. Helen notched up 2:26:53 in the Senior Women category. 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 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:   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. Final 2007 Grand Prix Standings Congratulations Veronica & Chris 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 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!
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!
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:
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
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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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