Steel City Striders welcomes new members at any time of the year. The club welcomes runners of all standards from beginners to established runners. Although primarily a road running club with a strong presence in local road races, its members are also active in cross country and fell races. Formed in 1982 by a group of runners as a result of the first Sheffield Marathon, the club now has well over 200 members. How to join>> The club holds weekly training sessions at venues across Sheffield. It also organises a full programme of club events each year including the 10km Championship Race, the X-country Championship Race, the Road Race Championships, the Fell Race Championships, the Long Distance Strider, the Steel City Mile, the Sheffield Way Relay, the Dronfield Way Relay, the Curry Run and New Year's Eve Training Run. These are often combined with social events.

For enquiries about membership contact club membership secretary Stewart Robinson. See also the club Membership Form for more details. For other enquiries contact the club secretary Matt Surgeon. Alternatively just turn up at one of the training venues and join us for a run. See details of weekly training venues>>

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Monday, Heeley Baths, 7.30pm
Wednesday,Graves Tennis Centre, 7pm
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Tuesday - Millhouses Park, 7pm
Thursday - Don Valley Stadium, 6pm
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Team Striders is a concept aimed to try and promote a ‘Whole Club’ approach to participation in competitive events, irrespective of ability. See full details >>

Club vests are available in small, medium, large and extra large sizes for both men and women priced at £8.50 each.. They can be purchased from club kit coordinator Eileen Ludlow. She can be contacted at the club training run on Wednesday evenings at Graves Tennis Centre, by email, or by phone (0114 2749867). You can ollect them from Eileen or have them posted (at an extra cost) - details from Eileen.

Following some confusion on this matter it should be noted that chip times aren't the official times so they don't count for records; they are just there for the runner's own benefit and interest. The official race time is the gun time. With that in mind the places and points for each event in the Road Race Championships and the Fell Race Championships are decided on the gun times and positions. Similarly club records should be the gun times.

Top 500 in the UK? Top 100 in your age category? Top 50 in the local region? Top 10 in the club? Find out hwere your time puts you in the governing body'sofficial UK road running rankings, runbritian.co.uk........... Click here to go to their website >>

Sheffield FC have an initiative to send football boots to Africa for underprivileged children. (see boots for africa website). We have teamed up with Sheffield FC to extend this program to include running shoes and trainers which would be useful for the fitness side of sports in general.... Read full details >>

Thursday Session - change of venue.....posted 6th February 2012
Unfortunately, the annual outing to the indoor track at the English Institute of Sport on Thursday 9th February has had to be delayed/postponed as the facility is closed due to preparations for the Aviva UK Indoor Athletics Championships being held the following weekend. The session, a "coach's special" will therefore revert to Don Valley Stadium, start 18.00 as usual.. ......See details>>

Club AGM - return of the club trophies.....posted 1st February 2012
The 2012 AGM takes place on Thursday 29th March and will be followed by the prize presentations for the year. The following trophy holders from last year are respectfully requested to return their trophies to Richard Maxted by Friday 24th February to allow time for them to be engraved before the AGM: Ben Beattie (2 trophies), Simon Bennett (2), Barry Gyte, Roger Stevenson (3), Steve Hargreaves (2), Paul Stewart, Trevor Burton (2), Pete Brown, Trevor Watson, Peter Heathershaw, Carol Beattie (2), Joanne Wright (2) and Helen Calder (2). Richard will be at Heeley Baths (Mondays) and Graves Tennis Centre (Wednesdays) for the next 2 weeks or you can ring him on 07764486391 to arrange the return of the trophies. ......See details of the AGM>>

South Yorkshire 5 mile race series - details and venues......posted 29th January 2011
The South Yorkshire 5 mile Race Series consists of four 5-mile races and is organised by the South Yorkshire Athletics Association. The series is only open to members of running clubs in the South Yorkshire area. Race numbers are £6 for the series (free to members of Steel City Striders as part of their subs). Collect your race number at Striders training venues in the weeks prior to the series or on the evening of the race. If you need a number on the day of the race please arrive early to allow the Striders race secretary to run in the race as well! The 2012 races are to be held on Wednesday evenings 28th March (Oxspring), 11th April (Silkstone Common), 25th April (Bradfield) and 9th May (Brodsworth). Full details of the venues and how to get there have been posted .......see details>>

Striders results from races in January.....posted 29th January 2012
Striders results from the Brass Monkey half marathon, Yorkshire X-Country Championships (now with photos!), Cleethorpes 10km, Kent Fitness League X-Country Race, Park Run #74-77 have been posted. ......See details>>

Striders Road Race Championships - nominated races......posted 25th January 2012
The provisional list of nominated races for the 2012 club road race championships have been posted... see right hand column of this page.

Striders Long Distance Strider - final results......posted 25th January 2011
The final (provisional) results of the 2011 Long Distance Strider competition have been posted. As it it difficult to track every mile raced by every member of the club there may be some omissions. If you see any errors/omissions please email Michael Greer who puts the results toegether before the end of February. This will enable him to produce a more accurate list before the presenations at the AGM in March.........See full details>>

Speed sessions on Tuesday night.....posted 25th January 2012
Details of the Tuesday speed sessions until the end of March have been posted. ......See details>>

Striders Fell Race Championships 2012 - list of races.......posted 17th January 2012
The list of nominated races for the 2012 club fell race championships have been posted......See full details>>

Striders at the British Fell Relays.....posted 7th January 2012
the race took place in October......See photos of all 5 Striders in this race>>

Yorkshire Vets X-Country Champs, Doncaster - club entries......posted 2nd January 2012
Whilst veteran athletics may well be a side show at times, the last time we got teams out for this event we actually came back with some gongs! These championships include a mob match so the more athletes we get out the better. Entry fee is £4.50 paid for by the club. The venue is the Northern Racing College, outside Doncaster (the venue for the last South Yorkshire X-Country). The course is firm so fell/trail shoes would be ok as well as spikes. The women vets and the men vets over 50/60/70 start at 12 noon, the men vets 35 - 49 start at 1.15pm. If you want to run give your details to Pete Brown ring (0114) 2553324 or email Pete. Closing date is 11th February but don't leave it that late. Club vests should be worn unless we want to cause a fuss!....Details of the Yorkshire Vets>>

Annual New Year's Eve Training Run around Ladybower......posted 2nd January 2011
The (now) traditional club training run to help burn off some of those thousands of calories we all add during the christmas period took place as usual on the morning of New Year's Eve, photo below.
The run went anti-clockwise on good trail and tarmac around Derwent and Howden reservoirs .....See full details, map of route and photos>>

New women's club records set.....posted 23rd December 2011
Congratulations to Mary Howarth who has set three new club records during 2011. She also won the Yorkshire Vets O/60 10km Championship held at Barnsley in November......See full listings of womens club records>>

London marathon - club entries......posted 22nd November 2011
Steve Hargreaves, James Fletcher, Daniel Palmer and Nancy Stuart have been given club entries to the 2012 London marathon. Steel City Striders (along with all other affiliated athletics clubs in the country) receive an annual allocation of guaranteed places for the London Marathon. The custom and practice of Striders has been to allocate these places, through an open ballot, to club members who have been unsuccessful in their applicant for the race. The draw took place on 3rd November and the above named 4 were drawn out first.

Striders Road Race Championships 2011 - final positions
Congratulations to: Richard Maxted, David Palmer, Pete Brown, Luigi Cazzatto, Joanne Wright, Helen Calder, Dawn Jackson and Carol Beattie for winning their respective categories in the 2011 club Raod Race Championships. They will receive their trophies at the next club AGM in March 2012.............See details>>

Striders Fell Race Championships 2011 - final positions
Congratulations to: Dean Young, Paul Stuart, Trevor Watson, Pete Hethershaw, Kate Wilkinson and Carol Beattie for winning their respective categories in the 2011 club Fell Race Championships. They will receive their trophies at the next club AGM in March 2012......See full results>>

Andrew Ward (right, Clowne AC) and Fiona Davies (Barnsley AC) won the respective trophies in 2011 Percy Pud which took place on Sunday 4th December.

The South Yorkshire 5 mile Race Series consists of four 5-mile races and is organised by the South Yorkshire Athletics Association. The races are held on Wednesday evenings during the late spring and early summer months. Details of the races:

●Sunday 4th March:
Norton 9
●Sunday 11th March:
Dronfield 10km
●Sunday 18th March:
South Yorks half marathon
●Wednesday 11th April:
South Yorkshire 5 (Silkstone)
●Wednesday 25th April:
South Yorkshire 5 ( Bradfield)
●Wednesday 16th May:
Askern 10km
●Sunday 27th May:
Sheffield half marathon
●Friday 6th July:
Striders 10km
●Sunday 26th August:
Chesterfield Spire 10
●Monday 27th August: (tbc)
Askern 10
●Sunday 7th Oct:
Cusworth Hall 10km
●Sunday 28th Oct:
Worksop half marathon
●Sunday 18th Nov:
Barnsley 10km
●Sunday in Dec:
Bolsover 10km

The Striders Fell Championships is a series of nominated races through the year in which club members are competing against others from within the club. see details>>

Points are gained according to the respective finishing positions relative to other Striders in the same age/gender category. Dates of races: