Archives: December 2023

Striders dominated the South Norwood parkrun on Saturday, with the first two male and the first two female finishers. James Rhodes placed first overall out of 150 finishers (18:04), one place ahead of club colleague Andrew Aitken (18:06). Kara Boaks was the first female finisher, placing eleventh overall (21:25), with Niamh Vincent placing 15th overall

Ally Whitlock had an excellent run to be the third woman to finish the inaugural Centurion Winter Downs 200-mile race, starting and finishing near Box Hill and including parts of the North Downs Way and the South Downs Way. She completed the course in 71 hours 07 minutes 43. Club colleague Debra Bourne was the

Consuelo Kennefick, from Striders of Croydon, had an excellent run in the Valencia Marathon last week. She set a new club W50 record of 3 hours 36 minutes 31, which was more than 13 minutes faster than the previous record, set by Maria Gabriel in 2019. This made Consuelo the oldest female Strider to run

Striders of Croydon produced some good performances in the British Masters five-kilometre road championships at Battersea Park on Sunday morning. Steve Corfield ran very well to place fourth in the M60 age-group (17:54). Andrew Aitken placed tenth in the M45 age-group (17:13) while Tatsuya Okamoto placed 13th in the M40 age-group (17:47). At the same