Springfield Striders

Springfield Striders

Announcements

Upcoming Training

Upcoming races

Announcements

Upcoming Training

Upcoming races

Announcements

Upcoming Training

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Upcoming races

Championship Tables

Quiz Night

NESS XC

November

December

January

Championship Tables

Quiz Night

NESS XC

Route

Route

Route

Route

Route

Route

November

December

January

On behalf of the committee, I’d like to welcome you to the new Springfield Striders website.

We’ve created a modern, up-to-date site that brings together everything you need to know about the club, from our training sessions and races to social events and other club activities. We also want it to give newcomers a clear idea of who we are and, most importantly, that Springfield Striders is a club for runners of all abilities, whether you’re just starting out or have been running for years.

We hope you find it easy to navigate, informative and a useful resource for discovering everything Springfield Striders has to offer.

As part of the redevelopment, we will be launched two dedicated race websites Currently in development: –

Friday Night 5: https://springfieldstriders.org.uk/FN5
Pleshey Half Marathon: https://springfieldstriders.org.uk/PHM

Please take some time to explore the site. If you spot any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please feel free to get in touch using the email address below.

Website@springfieldstriders.org.uk

Thank you for visiting, and we look forward to seeing you at a club event soon.

Adrian

The calendar below shows the planned training session for each date, along with other Springfield Striders social events. Sessions may occasionally change at short notice due to safety considerations, weather conditions or coach availability. Some, such as our social runs, include additional information and route maps.

The coloured key at the bottom shows the different event types. The coloured bar next to each entry corresponds to the key at the bottom and indicates the type of event.

Efforts

Short Efforts

Social Runs

Social Events

The calendar below shows the upcoming races. The coloured key at the bottom shows the different race types. The coloured bar next to each race corresponds to the key at the bottom and indicates the type of race.

Road

Trail

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
26	27	28	29	30	31	November 1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15 10:00 amHilly Fields NESS XC 10:00 am 15 November 2026 Hilly Fields Sheepen Road Colchester, Essex CO3 3LL View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal
16	17	18	19	20	21	22 10:00 amNuclear Races NESS XC 10:00 am 22 November 2026 This race 4 of Mid Essex XC league and is organised by us. All cross country races entry fees are paid for by the club. As with all our events, club members are encouraged to take part, but we also rely heavily on volunteers to help make the day happen. Events like this simply would not be possible without the continued support of our members, and it’s that involvement that helps make races like these so well regarded within the running community. Nuclear Races Kelvedon Hatch, Essex CM15 0LA View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	December 1	2	3	4	5 12:00 amGloucester Park Essex XC 12:00 am 5 December 2026 Hosted by Basildon AC and Southend AC Gloucester Park Cranes Farm Rd Basildon, Essex SS14 3DE View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal	6 09:00 amLittle Baddow Mid Essex XC 09:00 am 6 December 2026 Little Baddow Sports Ground Riffhams Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford, Essex CM3 4AU View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal
7	8	9	10	11	12 11:00 amChingford Essex XC Vets 11:00 am 12 December 2026 Gloucester Park Cranes Farm Rd Basildon, Essex SS14 3DE View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20 09:00 amGrange Farm & Dunmow Mid Essex XC 09:00 am 20 December 2026 Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31	January 1	2	3

3 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm600s (Humber Road) 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm 3 November 2026 Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

5 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmFlying 150's 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 5 November 2026 These sessions combine speed work and running technique to help improve your pace. You’ll run sections faster than your usual pace, with plenty of recovery at a slower pace or walking. When we arrive, the session format and number of efforts or sets will be explained. Once the leaders finish their final effort, everyone completes the effort they are on before we return to the club at a relaxed pace Session This session replicates the final 150m of a race where runners are making one last sprint for the finish line. Yet again we take advantage of the lampposts in Chelmer Village having selected two lampposts 150m apart as the start and finish points. Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal, 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmKings Palace 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 5 November 2026 This is an approximately 5 mile social run and is open to runners of all abilities. If you are new to the club, please feel free to come into the clubhouse beforehand and introduce yourself to one of the run leaders, who will be happy explain how it works. As with all our social runs, we encourage everyone to stay together where possible. Not only does this help keep the run sociable and welcoming, it also improves safety should anyone take a wrong turn or require assistance along the route. We will have runners covering a range of paces, including a backmarker to ensure nobody is left behind. However, as with all our routes, we strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the course in advance. Please see the route map and GPX link below. Route Number: W5 Main Route: ▬ 5.3 (Approx) Short Route: ▬ 3 (Approx) Extended Route: ▬ 7.2 (Approx) GPX: Kings Palace - W5 Route Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

10 07:30 pm – 09:00 pmBig pyramids (Avenues) 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm 10 November 2026 Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

12 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmFartlek 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 12 November 2026 These sessions combine speed work and running technique to help improve your pace. You’ll run sections faster than your usual pace, with plenty of recovery at a slower pace or walking. When we arrive, the session format and number of efforts or sets will be explained. Once the leaders finish their final effort, everyone completes the effort they are on before we return to the club at a relaxed pace Session Taken from the Swedish words for speed and play Fartlek is a session that can be used just as a bit of fun or can mimic race conditions where you must react to someone else’s pace or instruction. The session is less scripted than others as the group leader will choose the route and what the runners are going to do. He/she will shout out where the runners are to run/effort to and off they go, they then come back to the leader and reform as a group before they are sent off again. Sometimes the leader will give you a lot of short bursts with very little recovery, sometimes it might be a longer effort with longer recovery. The whole thing is unpredictable and often includes running games. This is the only speed session where you sometimes won’t be allowed to get a full recovery as you do in the other sessions. Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal, 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmPrison Escapade 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 12 November 2026 This is an approximately 5 mile social run and is open to runners of all abilities. If you are new to the club, please feel free to come into the clubhouse beforehand and introduce yourself to one of the run leaders, who will be happy explain how it works. As with all our social runs, we encourage everyone to stay together where possible. Not only does this help keep the run sociable and welcoming, it also improves safety should anyone take a wrong turn or require assistance along the route. We will have runners covering a range of paces, including a backmarker to ensure nobody is left behind. However, as with all our routes, we strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the course in advance. Please see the route map and GPX link below. Route Number: W1 Main Route: ▬ 5 (Approx) Short Route: ▬ 3.8 (Approx) GPX: Prison Escapade - W1 Route Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

17 07:30 pm – 09:00 pmLong & Short (Helston Road) 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm 17 November 2026 Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

19 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmBridge 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 19 November 2026 These sessions combine speed work and running technique to help improve your pace. You’ll run sections faster than your usual pace, with plenty of recovery at a slower pace or walking. When we arrive, the session format and number of efforts or sets will be explained. Once the leaders finish their final effort, everyone completes the effort they are on before we return to the club at a relaxed pace Session Hill training is a form of resistance or strength training and will help you with your climbing and descending. We use the bridge over Chelmer Road by the Rugby Club for this session, which unlike the other effort sessions is a timed 25-minute session rather than a set number of efforts/sets. Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal, 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmBridge 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 19 November 2026 This is an approximately 5 mile social run and is open to runners of all abilities. If you are new to the club, please feel free to come into the clubhouse beforehand and introduce yourself to one of the run leaders, who will be happy explain how it works. As with all our social runs, we encourage everyone to stay together where possible. Not only does this help keep the run sociable and welcoming, it also improves safety should anyone take a wrong turn or require assistance along the route. We will have runners covering a range of paces, including a backmarker to ensure nobody is left behind. However, as with all our routes, we strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the course in advance. Please see the route map and GPX link below. Route Number: W2 Main Route: ▬ 5.2 (Approx) Short Route: ▬ 3 (Approx) GPX: Bridge - W2 Route Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

20 07:30 pm – 08:30 pmAnother Quiz in the Wall 07:30 pm – 08:30 pm 20 November 2026 This is a Springfield Striders quiz night! The bar will be open and run by Barfiles from Cricket club, it's a great event we have a maximum of 12 teams and seven people per team. Details of the quiz are below and at bottom is an Enter here link. THE QUIZ The quiz consists of 6 rounds with ten questions plus a picture round submitted at half-time. Should scores be tied, the winner will be determined by a nearest-answer tiebreaker. TEAMS Each team can include up to seven people, so gather your friends and family for an evening of fun and friendly competition and a chance to win a prize. Bring your own snacks to share with your team and enjoy refreshments from the bar. (If you are not a member of team then do not worry. We will happily fit people with a team on the night just come down.) If you have any questions, please feel free to talk to me (Adrian Lock) at the club. Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Enter Here Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

24 07:30 pm – 09:00 pmLong Efforts (Avenues) 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm 24 November 2026 Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal

26 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmAsda Loop 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 26 November 2026 This is an approximately 5 mile social run and is open to runners of all abilities. If you are new to the club, please feel free to come into the clubhouse beforehand and introduce yourself to one of the run leaders, who will be happy explain how it works. As with all our social runs, we encourage everyone to stay together where possible. Not only does this help keep the run sociable and welcoming, it also improves safety should anyone take a wrong turn or require assistance along the route. We will have runners covering a range of paces, including a backmarker to ensure nobody is left behind. However, as with all our routes, we strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the course in advance. Please see the route map and GPX link below. Route Number: S1 Main Route: ▬ 5.1 (Approx) Short Route: ▬ 3.1 (Approx) GPX: Asda Loop - W3 Route Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal, 07:00 pm – 08:00 pmLong & Shorts 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm 26 November 2026 These sessions combine speed work and running technique to help improve your pace. You’ll run sections faster than your usual pace, with plenty of recovery at a slower pace or walking. When we arrive, the session format and number of efforts or sets will be explained. Once the leaders finish their final effort, everyone completes the effort they are on before we return to the club at a relaxed pace Session This session takes place in Chelmer Village, yet again we take advantage of the lampposts and other street furniture. The session comprises of a 400m effort, a 200m recovery, then a 200m effort followed by a recovery, which completes a set Springfield Striders Club House Coronation Park, Timsons Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6AY United Kingdom View Location Add to Calendar Google Outlook Live Office 365 iCal