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This year’s Club Christmas Parkrun was held at Tetbury Goods Shed (Parkrun # 262 on 20th December).  A first for most of us on this refurbished faster out-and-back route. Some good results being achieved with first in age categories for: Emma Barlow (VW35-39), Marian...

YASS Member, Matthew Ferguson’s account of  his experience running a marathon at the “Running Grand Prix, Goodwood Motor Circuit” on Sunday 7th December 2025. "It's overcast and spitting rain a little as we pull into the Running GP at Goodwood Motor Circuit, I'm...

There was an icy cold wind, bib number confusion and a number of events all happening at the same time!  Travelling up to Mallory Park in Leicestershire, Yate and Sodbury Striders arrived early to set up camp and collect bibs for our two teams, VW65+ (Mary Derrick,...

A fantastic cross-country performance from YASS teams at Long Eaton on 26th October 2024. This very competitive relay event consisted of a relatively flat 3km lap for each of the three runners across muddy fields and through a soggy wood. The course included a...

This event provided an opportunity for Yate and Sodbury Striders EA qualified members to compete for England against some of the very best runners representing England and Wales. A sunny hot day with more than 14,000 runners meeting up at the start line created an...

Yate and Sodbury Striders are proud to be fielding five England Athletics qualifying runners (Martin Hamm, Marian Grace, Caroline Nicholas, Caroline Lavis and Mary Derrick) to represent England at the Great Birmingham Run 10k Road Race on 5th May 2024. Senior Coach,...

March 16th saw Yate and Sodbury Striders' Mary Derrick excelling in this years British Masters Cross Country Championship held in Corwen, North Wales.  Mary achieved a excellent 2nd place in Age Cat VW65+. During the previous weekend, Mary participated in the Castle...

Yate and Sodbury Striders’ Caroline Nicholas excelled herself once again in the March 2024 Castle Combe Chilly 10k. Running a fast 36:58 minutes 10k, Caroline crossed the line as 1st lady, 4th overall. Caroline said, “not a PB but a good benchmark training run in...

Yate and Sodbury Striders’ Marian Grace recently ran the Leicester 10k England Athletic’s Masters' qualifier resulting in 2nd place in the VW65 age category and 2nd out of 7 other very competitive EA participants trying to qualify.  With a time of 47:09, an amazing 10...

Participating in our first Gloucestershire Cross Country League with four events spanning the months of November, December, January and February and taking place in very muddy conditions at Cirencester Park, Bath University, Cotsworld Farm Park and Cheltenham’s...

Yate mother of two, Caroline Nicholas a member of Yate & Sodbury Striders running club, achieved her ambition at Knutsford on Sunday 1st October 2023 to qualify and represent England Masters. Running the Knutsford 10k in the VW40 age category, Caroline achieved a time...