Author: Helen Johnston

Well done to our Striders League Winners 2023 as below: 1st Paul Johnson 2nd Jon Archer 3rd Glenn Cooper 1st Emma Fleming 2nd Michelle Ince 3rd Izzy Morgan Age Categories 30-39 - Tom Holland 40-49 - Jon Archer 50-59 - Paul Johnson 60+ - John Wilson 20-29 - Izzy Morgan 40-49 - Emma Fleming 50-59 - Michelle Ince 60+ Gail Robinson and Dinah Owens And all the league spot prize winners Committee Member of the year 2023 Kris Allen SSAC Ben Robinson Male Member of the Year - Andy Johnston SSAC Debbie Edwards Female Member of the year - Liz Simpson And a big winning smile from Angela Stirling on winning the stand up bingo prize of £50 on the night 😊

Thursday 25th January Sessions 🔦🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Next Thursday, rather than having the usual seven groups, members will have the option of taking part in a head torch run or an all-inclusive speed session. Headtorch Run 🔦 The route will start at the Sir Thomas Brown Pub/Sunningdale shops in Eaglescliffe, and will take us along the River Tees to the Blue Bell just outside Yarm, before heading up through Egglescliffe village back to the start. The route can be seen below and will be approximately 3.6 miles. This will be a social paced run suitable for all abilities - no one should worry whether they will be fast enough or not. 🙂 ❗️ All members taking part must have a head torch. ❗️ It would be greatly appreciated if, whoever has spare…

Any takers for the National XC at Telford on 24th February? You will need to be first claim club EA affiliated to SSAC as per entry rules. If you can please comment below if interested. If you can let us know by next Tuesday 23rd January at the latest. Club will pay entry fees but individuals will need to pay for all other expenses, travel etc . Thanks to Jonathon Archer who will be our team manager at the event. https://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/the-national-cross-country-championships/entry-procedure/?fbclid=IwAR0NzCEYY_w4swk_yy2Ssp6fusHbzVSnn-rNDwLfQXAmGTYcN56BZp9UKKw_aem_AdccX4wmHti46dVje-ZZov0e8gV_1dbvS7QOHoCjUGpUTQ5WKEAmA1qU6uudgMDvZps  

All tickets for Striders 9th Birthday party on 26th January have now sold out. To those of you who have purchased one - we’ll see you there! Sorry to those who have missed out, but you’ll appreciate we have to limit numbers due to venue size. Thank you

Time is running out! Don't forget to cast your vote for your member of the year - paper forms will be at the club on Tuesday or alternatively you can e-mail in. Striders Member of Year 2023 ballot paper Its a free tea and coffee night as the sessions too - donation's of biscuits always welcome

Club League 2024 - race 1 - Albert parkrun -a volunteers account. Blimey what a brilliant turn out for our first run of this years Striders League! As most of you will know I’ve not been able to run for several months now & due to a bit of a setback it will still be a good few months again before I can dip a tentative toe back in this running malarkey. I’ll be honest and say I’ve been feeling as sick as a chip these last few days about it all but determined to be more positive I signed up to volunteer at Albert parkrun (official volunteer credit no 89 😊& not many to go to my 100 volunteer tshirt) so that I could cheer you all on. First…

Discount code for SSAC members only - please do not share wider The organisers of the Middlesbrough Half Marathon are now offering Striders not already booked onto the event the opportunity of a £2 discount off the entry fee Please use Code: Club This offer does not apply to the group bookings of 6 as that is still the cheapest way to enter. If you've already entered the race unfortunately you are not able to benefit from the £2 discount

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…