Run and talk – charity donation

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For those not on FB Hi all 46 attendees at tonight’s run and talk sessions. The committee have agreed that the club will match the subs total meaning £92 was the total collected. Topped up by a further £8 means the club will be donating £100 to a local mental health charity. A great effort. Thanks to everyone that was able to attend the session and those who stayed back for the tea and coffee. With a great selection of cakes and biscuits tea and coffee nights are now very much back on the agenda. Andy J
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Merchandise

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For those not on FB Run & Talk - Thursday Following on from Liz’s post earlier this week. Whilst enjoying the free tea, coffee, biscuits and a good old natter in the clubhouse on Thursday the plan is to put the club merchandise on show. Whilst we only hold limited stock we can place orders as necessary with our suppliers. In addition to the traditional training vests, t-shirts, hoodies and sundry items we will also be taking orders for training tops with reflective club logo and lettering. Ideal for the dark club Tuesday and Thursday night sessions. The reflective tops will be available in vests (worn over a skin), short sleeved and long sleeved options. No cash needed on Thursday. All purchases will be via BACS and payment is on…
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Striders Naked Run 26.10.21

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For those not on FB - from Sam Johnston Stockton Striders Naked Run Hi All, Thank you for your response to our initial post about hosting a SSAC Naked Run on Tuesday 26th October at the Tees Barrage. We now have enough volunteers for the run to safely take place. Thank you to the following people who have kindly offered their services: Gail Robinson Ben Robinson Helen Johnston Suzanne Brodie Martin Greensitt Janice Long Jackie Bennett Amy Galilee Tony Galilee Steve Harrison Andy Johnston Now we turn our attention to the run itself! As explained before, a naked run is where you run without site of your watch so you do not know what time/pace you are running. You will be asked to give a predicted time before the event,…
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Session meeting point arrangements

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For those not on FB Hi all It now understandably is too dark to meet on the grassed area in front of the college on official club session nights. With immediate effect unless advised otherwise official club session meeting points will now be in the clubhouse. Conscious of current government Covid advice on meeting indoors members are encouraged to arrive in the clubhouse no earlier than 1825 hours on club session nights. Sessions will start 1830 prompt. Members happy to meet in the clubhouse from 1825 hours will be directed to their session meeting point. The aim being to minimise members congregating en masse in one area of the clubhouse Those who wish to attend sessions but currently prefer not to meet indoors in a group environment are asked to…
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Important date for your diaries – Stockton Striders AGM – Thursday 18th November 2021

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As the club continues to return to some sort of normality post covid, plans are underway for this years AGM. This has been arranged for Thursday 18th November 2021 in the studio at Stockton Town FC at 7:45pm. An agenda will follow in the next couple of weeks but if anyone wishes to submit an agenda item please e-mail stocktonstriders@gmail.com by Tuesday 26th October please. As we approach our 7th anniversary we now  have a number of vacancies post covid on the committee and feel therefore the time is right to reflect on its roles and responsibilities.  Therefore it is proposed to reduce the size of the current committee membership from 15 to 10, but with with a wider portfolio for those 10.  Whilst statutory roles continue - Club Chair,…
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York – Striders doing what we do

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For those not on FB All safely back from York. Another great day out, great times by everyone in both the 10 miler and marathon. The support, camaraderie and club banter was as always a pleasure to be part of. If Carlsberg did running clubs 💙💚 Until the next time…. Andy J (more…)
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York bus – fares please!

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York bus peeps as we now have 43 people on the bus tomorrow the return fare per person is £10 please - cash payment please as we need to give the balance of the invoice to the driver (I’ve paid £50 deposit from my own money!). The £10 will include the tip for the driver 👍🏻👍🏻 thanks Helen
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York bus – COVID guidance

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Don’t forget gang York bus leaves the club at 7am promptly so please be there by 6:50am. Just to reinforce the Covid guidance sent from race organisers - we ask that you please consider your fellow bus buddies in the same way. There are 43 of us on a 49 seater bus so not many spare seats for social distancing. From race organisers We, therefore, ask that all entrants adhere to our COVID 19 guidance and respect their fellow runners, volunteers and staff at the event. All runners must undertake a self-assessment for COVID-19 symptoms. Do not travel to the event if you are showing any symptoms of COVID-19 currently recognised as any of the following: A high temperature A new, continuous cough A loss of, or change to, their…
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NYSD cross country event #2

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This takes place on Sunday 24th October at Fox Rush Community Woodland, Redcar. Post code for sat navs is TS10 5PZ. See maps below for parking, race times and the XC running routes. Spikes or trail shoes recommended. Stockton Striders colours must be worn to take part. Our tent will be there along with our flag flying high; we are hoping for a good Striders turn out given the marathon events will be over with and we’ve heard this is a flat route 👍. To tempt you further, refreshments will be available post run. If you haven’t registered to take part, but after seeing the post and photos from what was a very successful and enjoyable first cross country, you’re now thinking I want to do this, please comment below.…
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Flowers for Debbie

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On behalf of the Club the committee arranged for some flowers to be sent to Debbie Edwards as she continues her treatment for breast cancer. Debbie has asked us to thank everyone as below : What a lovely surprise albeit looking a bit scary in the photos 🤣 Thank you so much to our lovely SSAC 💚💚💚 family for the beautiful flowers and continued support throughout the last few months. Honestly will never be able to thank you all enough. Onwards and upwards with the positive news continuing 🤞    
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