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Gerry is closing the Striders entry for the Essex Senior XC Champs  in Gloucester Park on Sat 4th January  —   ON SUNDAY 22nd  DECEMBER AT NOONPlease email Gerry with your dob and EA number     Once the entry is closed that’s it   — ITS CLOSED 

2019 HOWARD WILLIAMS’ TROPHY HOLDERS: Tiptree Road Runners for the TIPTREE 10 It’s time to vote for the race which you think was the best organised in 2019, within the County of Essex. Please email Dave Sweet directly with your nomination by end of December The race must be completely on road and you have […]

As the last Tuesday run before Christmas this year falls on 17th December, the Committee voted to move the Traditional Mince Pie Run / Evening to Thursday 19th December to have it closer to Christmas, and it will therefore be the last club run before Christmas. Whilst this breaks with tradition I hope it will […]

Basildon AC will be hosting the race at Gloucester Park, Cranes Farm Road, Basildon SS14 3DE on Saturday 4th January 2020. Entries close on Saturday 21st December. Please email Gerry on gerryodoherty01@gmail.com if you are interested in taking part

The new Championship rules for 2020 are now on the results page of the website. Grant and Anthony are ready to answer any questions you may have and our aim was to improve the championship so that it might be more competitive and interesting to follow. We will be doing this by providing monthly league […]

Well done to all Striders who turned out at Writtle for Round 3 of the Essex XC League today   — a proper tough cross country course in windy cold muddy conditions ! Coach’s choice ‘Run of the Day’ goes to Barry  – finishing 76th, –   thirty places higher up the field from R2  — and […]

For many years Gerry has run a coached session at Gloucester Park at 8am on Saturday mornings. He organised this for members of David Lloyd, where he is a fitness coach, but he also welcomes runners from any of the local athletic  / running clubs.   Some of the Striders do attend but he feels more […]

November 17th          Hadleigh (the dryer course)               Benfleet host club December 29th           Hadleigh (the wetter course)             Leigh on Sea host club January 12th               One Tree Hill                                       Pitsea host club February 9th               Weald Park                                         Billericay host club February 23rd             Thorndon Park South                         Brentwood host club March 8th                   Reserve Date

R1  = Oct 12 @ One Tree Hill R2  = Oct 26 @ Cambridge R3  = Dec 14 @ Writtle R4  = Jan 11 @ Hilly Fields R5  = Feb 15 @ Braintree

This week is the week when Billericay Striders will takeover all the volunteer positions at parkrun, including the pacers. Leaflets are available to hand out to anyone interested in finding out more about the club. Hope to see you all there!