A friendly and social running club that welcomes everyone, regardless of ability.
The Stour Striders Running Club did their bit for the Chartham area with a Plogging session on Tuesday 10th September 2024. What is plogging? Plogging is an eco-friendly fitness activity that originated in Sweden around 2016. The term is a combination of the Swedish word “plocka upp,” meaning “to pick up,” and “jogging.” Essentially, plogging …
Do you want to learn to run? Coming back from injury or just trying to improve overall fitness? Our 8 week C25K training programme will give you the plan you need to run 5km without stopping culminating in a fun race on 26th March 2024. When is it? We have a new intake starting Tuesday …
Do you want to learn to run? Coming back from injury or just trying to improve overall fitness? Our 8 week C25K training programme will give you the plan you need to run 5km without stopping. When is it? We have a new intake starting Tuesday 3rd October at 6:30pm and sessions start at Chartham …
Stour Striders are aiming to raise money for Millie Martin, who lives in Chartham, and has been diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) – which is ranked among the world’s most painful incurable conditions. Read more or donate here. Her family are fundraising to raise money to get her to Arkansas in America for treatment …
As of Monday 19 July, most restrictions in England relating to COVID-19 have been eased and as such we have taken guidance from England Athletics which will mean no pre-booking, no required list of runners, removal of COVID-19 forms for new members etc. This is fantastic news for Stour Striders, and the sport of running …
In order to safely organise our Striders training sessions we’ve now implemented a new booking system on our stourstriders.co.uk website. Previously attendance was confirmed via Facebook but collating details and reminding people of the 9pm Sunday cut-off time for confirmation was proving problematic and so we’re excited with this new system. How do I book? …
Organised sports have been given the go ahead by the government to resume from 29 March 2021 and so we’re pleased to announce that Stour Striders Running Club will see it’s training sessions resume starting with the first on Tuesday 30 March 2021! In order to start we’ve had to update our forms and documents, …
Yes fartlek does sound funny but it’s just the Swedish word for “speed play,” and that is exactly what this type of run is all about. Unlike tempo and interval work, fartlek is unstructured and alternates between moderate to hard efforts with easy efforts throughout. So here’s the plan… After 15 minutes of warm-up jogging and dynamic stretches pick …
Dear Striders, With the government’s announcement that Kent will be moving into Tier 3 from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 I have take the decision to not restart Striders until the new year. In January the leaders will reassess the situation and hopefully we will be able to restart when it’s safe to do so. In …
Christmas is coming, The striders won’t get fat. Put on your base layers and a bobble hat. If you haven’t got base layers, a hip Flask will do! If you haven’t got a hip flask it’s hill reps for you! Yes, it’s the Striders Advent Challenge and 25 days of Christmas-themed challenges to try during …