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Morning Striders, I apologise for the long post but it is regarding memberships for 2020/21 so please bear with me. As we live in unprecedented times we are organising payments differently this year. 1. UKA have extended the collection of subs this year so the club have have also extended the deadline for online payment until 31st May. 2. We […]

Simon Franklin1966 – 2020 It is with great sadness that we have to report the sudden death of Simon Franklin, one of the founder members of Stopsley Striders, who passed away at home last week. Our thoughts are with his family at this very sad time.

Club is suspended for the time being, following the advice issued by the government today, 16th March 2020. If people wish to meet up and run then they can do so, but please meeting outside. Meeting in the room beforehand seems an unnecessary risk.

The Stopsley Striders Awards night was held on 21st February 2020.Thanks to Malcom Rankin for taking the photo’s.Thanks also goes to Liz Evans for additional photos. Senior Man 2019 The Senior Man Award is a prestigious award in any club. In many clubs though many men who run at the level and distances of our Senior Man Award winner just […]

Unfortunely the Stopsley Challenge has been cancelled due to adverse weather.  The route has been blocked by fallen trees during the storm last night.

Tickets are now available for our annual awards which is on 21st February 2020 at Crawley Green Sports Club on Crawley Green Rd. Tickets are available on the link below or paper tickets can be purchased on club nights. 80 are available online and 20 at club nights. Ticket cost is £6. All ticket holders are entered into a raffle […]

By Richard Hardy The Everest trip was definitely the trip of a lifetime. Nepal and the Himalaya are amazing. It seems a life time away that I left home on 14th November for the trip. In the 4 weeks we packed so much in. I managed to do all the trekking and got to Everest Basecamp and also climbed a […]

Have you seen the league? Do you want to be beaten? If not get yourself to one/all of our next league Cross Country races at:- Wootton on Sunday, 8th December Letchworth on 15th December Dunstable on 12th January. We need 8 scoring male runners and 5 scoring female runners, but that doesn’t mean we only need 13 runners; we need […]

Charity skydive for Stopsley Striders charity of the Year 2019 On 5th September Amanda, Liz, Jenny and her husband bravely took on a tandem skydive for the Stopsley Striders Charity for 2019, Alzheimers research UK. Amanda and Liz, raised over £1000 for Alzheimers research UK and Jenny and her husband also raised over £1200, half of which is going to […]