A friendly and social running club that welcomes everyone, regardless of ability.
The Ashford Givaudan 10km took place on Sunday 13th October and Stour Striders were out in force, both taking part as well as volunteering for the race organisers Sporting Events UK who put on another great event. It wasn’t just having so many of the club taking part that made for a memorable event, but …
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, …
First lockdown we made it to Tokyo, so this challenge needs to be bigger and bolder! So ladies & gents (drum roll) we will be virtually running around the world 🌎. That’s a mere 24,860 miles or 40,009 kilometres! The Striders family has beginners through to advanced runners. So it’s your own race- your distances, …
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 …