James Bennett, from Striders of Croydon, produced an excellent run to place 13th in a large field in the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday. His time of 2 hours 36 minutes 40 seconds broke his own club record for the distance, which he had set in Amsterdam last year. Striders produced some good performances in their
Results up to 26th May included in these rankings
Beckenham Road Relay 18/05/2016 Each leg is about 2.6 miles Phil Coales Mixed A 14.12 1st mixed team & 6th overall in 44.05 Rachel Lindley Mixed A 15.09 Fastest woman overall Lee Flanagan Mixed A 14.44 ***** Steve Starvis Men A 15.19 13th overall in 46.45 Ali Falconer Men A 15.21 Graeme Drysdale Men A
Darren Woods Chislehurst half marathom 22/05/2016 52nd. 1:42:48 Half marathon. Trail/Road New local race which was undulating. ***** Chris Morton Sri Chinmoy 10K 21/05/2016 45th, 42.41 10K – road – Battersea Park
Striders of Croydon fielded eleven teams in the annual Beckenham Relays on Wednesday. Their A team did very well to place sixth out of 118 teams, and were the first mixed-sex team to finish. Phil Coales ran the first leg in 14 minutes 12 seconds and handed over to Rachel Lindley who did very well
Andy Perks North Down Way 50 14/05/2016 9:32:06 – 48th ***** Nick Kyritsis Orpington Marathon- Marafun 07/05/2016 3:47:56 ( 8th overall) Marathon- Road ***** Sunjay Bhogal Arun River Marathon 14/05/2016 4:43:42 72/141 27.2 Miles Trail Big medal and fry up Breakfast included
Striders of Croydon produced some good performances in their first Southern Veterans League match of the season, at Kingsmeadow on Monday. Their best event was the long jump where Paul Cripps won the M50 event (4.36), team manager David Batten won the M60 event (3.34), and Sam O’Dongo was second in the M40 event (4.50).
These are now here : http://www.stridersofcroydon.org.uk/SOC/owen/owen%20sutton%202016.pdf
james bennett Hackney Half Marathon 08/05/2016 74.04 6th Half marathon Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot! ***** Philip Coales Sutton 10K 08/05/2016 14, 00:36:29 10k road Lee Flanagan 22, 00:37:22 Graeme DRYSDALE 65, 00:40:36 Andy PERKS 107, 00:43:16 Peter LAURENCE 127, 00:44:10 John Punt 143, 00:45:01 John O’MAHONY 147, 00:45:12 Darren WOODS 152, 00:45:26 Michael Turner 158,
Striders of Croydon had an impressive total of 26 finishers in the Sutton 10 kilometre road race at Nonsuch Park on Sunday, which was the second event in this year’s Surrey Road League. They were led by Philip Coales who had a very good run in unusually warm conditions to place 14th out of 459
Also tonight, we have a coached swim session at Trinity school's pool. Meet us there at 8.30pm 🦈
