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If you would like any of these photos please email here A special thanks goes to our guest professor John Brewer who was a thoroughly entertaining speaker and as a runner himself could empathise with all members of the club.Also to Mark Fairclough who gave us an insight into the history, workings and progress of the Help for Heroes charity which […]

Ken Abbott Award KEN ABBOTT AWARD – This award normally goes to somebody who has suffered a serious or long term injury or set back and has managed to recover and get back to running in the face of adversity. This lady has been a member for 18 years. For many years she was a constant at all cross country […]

If you would like any of these photos please email here Andy Hobdell was our guest of honour for the evening. He’s coach to Andy Braddeley, Britain’s number one 1500m runner. Senior Man Firstly we would like to say how delighted we are to be giving our Senior Man award to this gentleman tonight. He has come very close to winning the […]

If you would like any of these photos please email here I would just like to add my personal thanks to, Paul Dickenson for being our guest of honour for the evening. It was also so nice to welcome Paul’s wife Ann. I am sure that all present will agree that Paul was so gracious in his comments relating to […]

Senior Man This man started his road running year in Woburn in February, and he has hardly stopped racing since. Personal bests started in Silverstone and he has kept improving all year, so much in fact that he is now a consistent scoring member of our cross country team in every race. He has recorded personal bests at every distance […]

Senior Man This man started his year in March and managed to get through the full year up to December BUT at a cost. His first love cross country. But it seems to have been worth it. He ran a total of 14 races and managed to hit an amazing 8 PB’s. He ran PB’s in all distances from 5k […]

I run for Kent AC in London, but grew up in Luton and recently took part in Wardown parkrun.  I have written a bit about the history of running in the town, which might be of interest to you:  http://go-feet.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/wardown-parkrun-and-140-years-of-runnng.html Through searching in British Newspaper Archive I have taken the history back to the 1870s. Let me know if you […]

Over 30 Striders took part in the race with others helping marshal. Bill Barrett was first Strider home in 2:44:12 https://youtu.be/Tfj-0jfIeH8 More information, results etc.can be found on Luton Marathon

12 different parkruns over 12 months At the beginning of 2014 my planned running goal was to try and achieve PBs in all the standard distances. However emergency surgery and a forced 6 week break from running led to a bit of a rethink. It was my husband who came up with the new idea – 12 different parkruns over […]

Newsletter from over 25 years ago Containing….. THE HELEN MORRIS PROFILE by Dave WilsonAbout our former Club President becoming a Strider in 1983 A RUNNING MUM by Karen AshbyRunning while pregnant  BECOMING A MARATHON RUNNER by Dave WilsonTraining for London