Author: Helen Johnston

Well done Jonathon Archer representing Stockton Striders AC with its club place at London Marathon - fab running finishing in 3 hours 42 mins Details of the rules for club ballot for our 2025 place to follow 😊💚💙

NYSD Track and Field 2024 The club have previously participated in the NYSD Track and Field season albeit in low numbers pre covid days however numbers overall at events have diminished drastically post covid leading to the majority of last years meetings being cancelled. League organisers are keen to promote it this season - Track and Field meetings are planned for: 18/06 – Darlington track 30/07 (TBC) – Middlesbrough sports village 20/08 – Darlington 10/09 – Middlesbrough and include a variety of track and field events. Field events include Hammer, discuss, Triple jump etc and runs include 100, 400m and 5K. The start time is usually around 6pm but be prepared for lots of hanging around on the night! Seniors are permitted to participate in 3 events per meeting. You…

EA Affiliation processing We’ve been advised by EA that due to the high volume of traffic, that affliations are unable to be processed at this time on the EA portal (the website keeps crashing!) therefore they are looking to improve their website. I’m sure you’ll appreciate our frustrations around this but unfortunately we’re reliant on EA and their systems and can only proceed once we receive the notification to do so. Thanks to Sue King for all of her patience today whilst trying to resolve our portal issues before the above info was shared with us.

England Athletics renewal   Hi all, if you are wanting to renew your EA membership for 24-25 please can you complete the form below and send £19 by BACS to account 12616651 sort code 09-01-29 by 31March. Please put name and EA as reference. https://forms.gle/jPgqm8QyvbBbS88i7 No need to reply to say completed as we get an automatic notification.

Foodbank Run 2024 Thank you for all the donations received & well done to all those who took part in another show of Striders team & in this case community spirit. 24 bags of donations & the additional contents of everyone’s rucksacks were shared between the two community pantries. St Chads had a thank you card & message for us which I’ve shared in the photos 💚💙  

Foodbank Run tomorrow 💚💙 If those doing it can we meet in the car park between 9:30 & 9:40am please so we can load the surplus items that people aren’t carrying as they run, into the support cars. If you are carrying some items I would suggest using a small rucksack & not carrying the heavier items! We’ll depart from club around 9:50am and head to St Chads Church at Roseworth before going on to Norton Methodist Church on Norton Road. The route does allow for opportunities to do a shorter distance if preferred. I’ve added the link to my Strava for last years route hopefully people can see it ok ? https://strava.app.link/FxgHoR8rcIb Please remember this is an all inclusive run so please be considerate to the pace of all…

Well done Jill Abel on your 500th parkrun this morning - celebrated at Sedgefieldwith fellow running buddies & cake of course

Stockton Striders Foodbank Run - this Sunday 24/03/24 This coming Sunday is our food bank run … plan is to meet at club at 9:45am and run to St Chad’s community pantry in Roseworth (approx 1.5 miles from club). The pantry organisers are looking forward to seeing us all and have arranged tea, coffee & biscuits for us 😊. The plan is then leave there and to run to Norton Methodist Church on Norton Road before returning to the Stockton Town club house for a cuppa & chat 😊😊 max miles will be about a 10k ish with opportunities to do less ! We appreciate that it’s a very busy time what with marathon training & the XC relays etc but we would love as many people as possible to…

Thirsk 10 Race Report At the start of the month we welcomed a brand new race to the area as well as the club league for 2024. Fast forward 2 weeks and we were at Thirsk, an old favourite. I think it is safe to say there were quite a few tired legs before the event. Many members not feeling 100% or in the midst of tough marathon blocks. However, despite this everyone ran really well and posted some fantastic times. We are not robots and can’t be 100% for every event we do, if it was that easy.. we’d all be setting personal bests every week. This years edition of Thirsk didn’t see the usual gale force winds, but it was overcast and actually quite warm. As we set…

*** THIRSK 10 Mile ADMIN*** Hi all, As the Thirsk registration doesn't seem to cater for unaffiliated members of clubs, I can't guarantee that I won't miss someone out when compiling the results. Once the points are posted here, they won't be amended unless the mistake is ours. To that end, could we ask everyone who wants to collect league points that has NOT been able to select the club at sign-up to comment below this post so I know who to search for. (Michael & Zaheer, we already know about you.) thank you Glenn c