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Practice runs for Stafford Half

The full-distance run is Saturday 8th March

 

  • It will start at the cricket club – meet at 8:45 am for a 9 am start.
  • Club photo  8:50 am — open to all members even if you aren’t running
  • It will start at the cricket club and be 13.1 miles (more with musters)
  • There will be three water stations location tbc
  • Multiple groups to allow different running speeds.

 

Please book our event on the calendar page. Book Here

The dry route — just muddy.

 

 

 

 

Harriers Awards Night – 28th February 2025


 

Bookings will close at midnight 14th February 2025

 

Menu

STARTERS

Roasted red pepper and tomato soup (v) (ve) & (gf)

Chicken liver parfait server with a sticky onion jam

Prawn skewers served on a bed of Thai sweet chilli coleslaw

MAINS

Chicken supreme served with wild mushroom and tarragon sauce (gf)

Fillet of salmon served with a hollandaise sauce

Cajun spice sweet potato and red pepper roulade (v) (ve)(gf)

(All served with new potatoes and seasonal vegetables)

DESSERTS

Lemon zingy cheesecakes served with raspberry sorbet

Chocolate torte served with vanilla ice-cream

Cheese board – French Bri, Silton and Cheddar served with crackers and chutney

 

Book via our shop

Midland Counties Road Relays 29th March 2025

We are putting teams together to run in the Midlands Counties Road Relays.

 

 

This year there is one length for each leg (in previous years there was a long and short leg) of 3.16 miles

Mens event is 12 stages long

Ladies event is 6 stages long

No limit on the number of people who want to run. The more teams the better. Closing date 14th March

Please put your name down below if you want to take part.

Runners for ROAD RELAYS AT SUTTON PARK 2025
Full Name
Optional message to the team manager ie what group you run with (improver, progression, slightly harder), maybe people you want in your team

People so far

Ian hodkinson
 Mark Oliver
 Jake Oliver
 Joanne Oliver
 Chris Skellern
 Martin winkles
 Ruth Edwards
 Michael Dobson
 Amy Oliver
 Nitesh Thakrar
 Mel Deakin
 

 

COACH TRIP and races 12th July 2025

PIECE OF CAKE RACE CHURCH STRETTON

Okay so, this year’s coach trip will be the ‘Church Stretton Piece of Cake Run’ It is on Saturday 12th July and has a start time of 9am. We need to start early, but Church Stretton is only just over an hour away so all good.
There will be 2 options, a 10k and a Half Marathon and both races are in the challenge!!!! There is also a marathon, so if you are really bonkers you can enter this race!
And of course we will stop for refreshments on the way home, definitely beers, and hopefully food too! There will also be fun and games on the coach and goody bags too, as they went down well last time!!!
Get yourselves entered into the race here – https://www.letsdothis.com/gb/e/piece-of-cake-trail-run-193248
So I can get an idea of what size coach we need, please add your name to the list below, thank you! Once you have entered the race please message myself (Sally) or on the info@staffordharriers.co.uk email so we can update the list. Thank you! Let’s do this!!!
Coach Trip 2025
Full Name
Optional message to the organiser

People so far

Sarah Aitkenhead :
 Liz Austin :
 Sam Jones :
 Nitesh Thakrar : Entered Half
 Jo Espley : Entered 10K
 Jess Espley : Entered 10K
 Ian Hodkinson :
 Gill Hodkinson :
 Sally Haycock :
 John Scott :
 Pete Chell :
 Vanessa Parsonage :
 Richard Rea :
 Chris Skellern :
 Adam Llewellyn : Entered Half
 

 

 

 

Membership Renewal 2025

 

Stafford Harriers has not risen for 2025. However, England Athletics has announced that the registration fee has increased from £19 to £20.

So all memberships that include EA membership have increased by £1, and all that don’t include EA will remain the same.

 

This is a gentle reminder that we all have to renew our membership. All membership renewals were due on 1 January 2025.

Renew Here

 

Booking Stats from 2024

We had 4180 people book our training sessions.

If you want to help our coaching/session leaders organize the sessions, please talk to your regular session leader. All it takes is a desire to help others and a bit of time!

 

Here are the top 10 people that booked training sessions in 2024.

Can you do better this year?

 

Name Number of booked sessions
Karen Gretton 96
Liz Austin 90
Sarah Gray 88
Katie Burbidge 86
Leon Stringer 85
Sarah Aitkenhead 81
Jason Littlewood 77
Antonio Treglia 76
Claire Griffiths 74
Rob Mitchell 66

Our training sessions.

Improvers Road Runs (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) 1262 people booked
Speed (Tuesday and Wednesday) 854 people booked
Juniors (Monday and Wednesday) 559 people booked
Progression 420 people booked
Complete Beginners (Tuesday and Thursday) 391 people booked
Middle Group 249
Sessions on the Chase (Thursday and Friday) 184 people booked
Track sessions 84 people booked
Thursday Road Runs 80 people booked
Stafford Half practise 67 people booked
5K Time Trial 60 people booked
Handicap 42 people booked

 

 

 

 

Sponsor Stafford Harriers

Stafford Harriers Running Club Sponsorship Package 2025

 

 

To sponsor us for 2025

 

For more information please see our sponsorship  page

It has been prepared to accommodate a range of budgets.

 

 

Thank You to Our Sponsors – 2024

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our generous sponsors: David Wilson Homes (for Gold
level sponsorship and making an additional £500 contribution to cover the costs for County
Showground trophies), Cress Security, Bates Drains Drain Specialists, and Symmetry Sports Massage
Stafford. Your support is invaluable to us and helps us achieve our goals.

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