Darren Bird, from Striders of Croydon, ran well to finish 41st out of more than 3000 finishers in the Hastings Half-Marathon on Sunday, recording 82 minutes 41 seconds. Striders’ first woman to finish was Tina Macenhill who ran 1 hour 40 minutes 34 seconds. On the same day Matthew Chapman placed 50th out of 560
Published on 22/03/2013 and available here : http://www.stridersofcroydon.org.uk/SOC/Newsletters/SOC-magazine-spring-2013.pdf
Iain Harrison, from Striders of Croydon, ran very well in wet and windy conditions to win the Maxifuel Half-Marathon at Eton Dorney on Saturday. Iain recorded a new personal best of 76 minutes 41 seconds, finishing almost two minutes clear of his nearest rival. This lifts Iain to eleventh place in Striders’ all-time half-marathon rankings.
Lee Flanagan led Striders of Croydon to a convincing victory in their second cross-country mob match against Blackheath & Bromley Harriers, held in conjunction with the weekly parkrun at a muddy Lloyd Park on Saturday. Lee won the race in 18 minutes 31 seconds, and was followed home by club colleague Krzysztof Klidzia who placed
Here are the mobmatch results from our race against Blackheath & Bromley at the Lloyd Parkrun. The official parkrun results were used, so if you are not listed here either you didn’t have your parkrun barcode with you or you are not registered as a Strider in the parkrun database. Photos are here.
Iain Harrison continued his fine recent form with a 1o mile personal best at the Sri Chinmoy race at Battersea Park. His time of exactly 59 minutes moves him to 15th in the all-time club records – and came at the end of a 100+ mile training week ! Damian Macenhill, from Striders of Croydon,
Tonight, a speed technique session of: 6 x 250m (starting a rep each 4 minutes) (slower runners may do 3 x 250m, starting a rep each 8 minutes) This is at Croydon Arena, warming up at 7.20 p.m. to start reps at 7.30 p.m.
