Club AGM
The Club’s Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 27 April at the usual venue UK Paper Pavilion Club 7.30 for 8.00 pm start (where we meet on Tuesday evenings). Everyone is encouraged to attend as this is a chance for any ideas you have for the club to be heard.
Please let the Chairman or Secretary know of any item you would like included under any other business by 13 April. As well as the normal bar facilities there will as usual, be a buffet. Everyone is encouraged to come along after all it is your club.
Nominations for the Male and Female Strider of the year.
Any nomination must have a Proposer and a Seconder together with a couple of lines as to why they are nominating that person. Please either email your
nomination to sittstriders@ukonline.co.uk or give your nomination to Wendy Knee at the Clubhouse on a Tuesday evening.
Closing date for Nominations is 31 March 2010 |
Striders On Tour - Summer 2009
Once again, we will be holding our popular “Doddington” run this year. As stated at the AGM, it is on Tuesday, 23 June, starting at 7:30 pm at The Chequers PH, Doddington. Non – Striders / guests are very welcome.
Those master course craftsmen, Pateman and Shrimplin, are planning a similar 5 mile cross country route as in previous years, including the favourites, “happy valley” and “the sting in the tail”.
Always keen to improve the evening, they are negotiating with a well known local celebrity – “Bobsleigh Bob”, to give a short, free presentation afterwards in the PH. “Bobsleigh” is, like many Striders, getting on a bit in years but he will show that you can still be inspired to meet new challenges. “Bobsleigh” will tell us how he gave up a life as a city-slicker (a big thing in “tin” apparently) to concentrate on his ambition to make the UK National Bobsleigh Super Veteran squad, intent on competing in the next Winter Olympics. Being old and often thought of as being “past it”, he can be an inspiration to many a Strider.
 “Bobsleigh”
We are also planning a second “on tour” evening, on Tuesday 21 July, again at 7:30 pm, but starting at The Ringlestone PH. It will be a part road – part Pilgrims Way 5 mile route, including a slight incline or two. As a bonus we are hoping that we can…at no cost…get a chap called “Pyschic Bob” to come along afterwards (don’t worry – he is not a runner), and tell us about what his techniques have revealed in the Ringlestone. As some of you may know, the Ringlestone is supposed to be haunted, but “Pyschic”, drawing on his experience working on the paranormal with the Swedish Police Force, will sort out the facts from the fiction. So…don’t be scared ladies, it should be a date you dare not miss! Again, guests welcome.
Steve Shrimplin |
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Liz’s contribution to the club over the past year has been immense. A regular at club nights on a Tuesday and representing the club at numerous races, but it is in the X Country that she has really made a difference. With Liz’s contribution the club finished 3rd overall our highest finish ever, she finished as the 5th lady. Not content with that she has now taken over the club web site, and you can see the results of her endeavours for yourselves. |
Kent Fitness League Cross Country - 02/02/09
After 7 gruelling races, Sittingbourne Striders have achieved an excellent 3rd Place in the Kent Fitness Cross Country League. A big team effort in the final race of the season at Knole Park on Sunday allowed us to over take Canterbury to take 3rd Place - our best result ever.
Overall, the mens team came 3rd and the womens team came 6th.
The full results and individual standings can be viewed on the Kent Fitness League website.
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