Author: Helen Johnston

Stockton Striders 9th Birthday Party 🍰🎈 Tickets are now on sale for our 9th birthday party which takes place at Stockton Town on Friday 26th January. We ask all that are coming to please get there for 7pm. Tickets are £7.50 each. If you would like a ticket please comment below. Please also comment if you have any specific dietary requirements. We need final numbers by Tuesday 16th January so please do comment below by this date if you are coming. All payments are to be made to the Striders bank account. Please put: ‘birthday party’ as your reference, we can then tick your name off as having paid for your ticket. A reminder that the theme for this year is a games night along with a disco. We will…

The SSAC Ben Robinson Member Of The Year 2023 Award (awarded to male winner) The SSAC Debbie Edwards Member of the Year Award 2023 (awarded to female winner) Following on from nominations received our 2023 members of the year ballot form with shortlist is attached. A big thank you to everyone who voted and a well done to all the nominee's. Forms will be available at the club on club sessions however for those not able to attend club sessions this week and next we will accept email votes. Please read the attached ballot paper which shows the 5 male and 5 female short listed nominees. Voting by email follows the same rules as manual voting. 2 votes allowed for male and 2 for female, 1st and 2nd choice in…

***Club League 2024 - Race One - Albert parkrun*** Saturday 13th sees the first event in the Striders Club League at Albert parkrun. Please be at the visitor centre at 0845 for the pre-race photo. https://www.parkrun.org.uk/albert/course/ The aim of the club league is to showcase & promote the club in the local running scene with the added bonus of some friendly competition. To that end, a couple of admin points for those wishing to take part: 1. Please edit your parkrun profiles to list Stockton Striders AC as your club. Similarly, when entering non-parkrun events please select Stockton Striders AC as your club. Most results providers have a filter for searching by club, some have terrible search functions. It's simply not viable to look through hundreds/thousands of names at larger…

Happy Birthday us! 9 years ago today was our first Striders session!! Thank you for all your continuing support, the club wouldn’t be what it is today without all of our members 💚💙 Roll on our 10th birthday next year!

2024 House Rules Evening All, I hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas and New Year, and is ready for club returning this evening! With that being said, I just wanted to put a post out with a couple of notices on. Notice 1 As you will know, we use gymcatch to inform you of the sessions, and this is what you use to book on to them. With that in mind, we get a lot of questions from members about how to cancel their booking or sometimes members forget to cancel. Cancelling is really important if you can no longer make it as sometimes there is a waiting list of people wanting to join the session. In addition to this, it’s a requirement that the coach knows exactly who…

IMPORTANT - 2023 Member of the Year nominations deadline extended until 04/01/24. Please take the time to vote for your member of the year All nominations should include 100 words max (can be in list/bullet point format, few sentences, whatever is easier) outlining why the individual deserves the award. Nominations can either be sent via email or submitted manually on club nights. To re-cap. As with previous years winning the award is not just about being the fastest. Whilst it can include notable personal running milestones and PB’s it should also include equally important factors, ie contributions to the club, support for fellow members (both in a running and social context) and input into the wider running community too. Please email nominations to stocktonstriders@gmail.com. Subject line on gmail should be…

STRIDERS FESTIVE NEWSLETTER Thank you to Amy G for our Striders Christmas Newsletter. Hope you all enjoy reading & a  very Merry Christmas to you all ISSUE THREE- HAPPY STRIDERS CHRISTMAS pdf

Club Member of the Year 2023 - nominations closes tonight - dont forget to email those nominations in Members are now asked in the first instance to nominate members who they think should be considered for male and female member of the year. All nominations should include 100 words max (can be in list/bullet point format, few sentences, whatever is easier) outlining why the individual deserves the award. Nominations can either be sent via email or submitted manually on club nights. To re-cap. As with previous years winning the award is not just about being the fastest. Whilst it can include notable personal running milestones and PB’s it should also include equally important factors, ie contributions to the club, support for fellow members (both in a running and social context)…

Don’t forget it’s Striders Christmas Drinks and quiz this Saturday 16th December @ the Moline Cross from 7pm. M Get those Christmas jumpers at the ready gang & we’ll see you there 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Don't forget to vote for your male and female member of the year 2023. All nominations should include 100 words max (can be in list/bullet point format, few sentences, whatever is easier) outlining why the individual deserves the award. Nominations can either be sent via email to stocktonstriders@gmail.com or submitted manually on club nights when paper forms will be available. The deadline for all nominations is 21st December. Thanks Helen J