City of Birmingham Striders Running Club

Friendly running club based in the city centre. Sessions on Tuesday and Thursday for all abilities. New runners always welcome!

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Good luck to COBS runners @LiamPav, @rimmer_iestyn, Lisa, Claudia, and Marv who are running the @LondonMarathon today! Hope you have a great time! #LondonMarathon #running #marathon

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Last year we lost count of the number of races she did! A massive congratulations to our runner of the year, Claudia! Hope you enjoy your prize of a race with @endurancelife !

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

What a day! Started off with COBS taking over volunteering duties at Edgbaston @parkrun - big thank you to everyone who took part so parkrun could happen!

#running #parkrun #runningclub #BirminghamUK

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Our amazing run leader of the year, Nav! A great coach and has put so much into the club to make it what it is!

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

@sneydstriders Thank you!

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

We're excited to announce we'll be doing our 20 mile social run again in preparation for London marathon and other spring marathons - come join us at St Paul's Square on Saturday 18th March at 8AM!

https://t.co/I7ut8HHs6k

#marathon #LondonMarathon #Manchestermarathon

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

@sneydstriders @KingsHeathRC @BhamSwifts @TAWSociety @BVHarriers @aldridgerunning @RunBrumCrew if you have runners doing spring marathons and want to do a long run in a group, we'll be happy for them to run with us.

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Yesterday we had our second session with @castlecoaching
This time the aim was to help develop a pace change and better judge pacing. The team really enjoyed the opportunity to have such a good insight and appreciated the feedback from Chris!

#runningclub #runners #birminghamuk

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

And well done to COBS runner Matt who completed every race of the Ilmington Winter Series this winter - the hoodie is well earned! 🙌👏🙌

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Well done to COBS members who took part in the @RunThroughUK Birmingham Running Festival this weekend. We had runners covering all distances as well as several COBS members volunteering! Another great event! #birminghamuk #birminghamrunning #running #halfmarathon #10k

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

And that’s a wrap for this year's cross country season … massive well done to everyone who involved in the amazing final race at Coombe Abbey, and those who've taken part during the season.

#run #runningclub #crosscountryrunning #birmingham #birminghamuk #midlandscrosscountry

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Big well done to COBS runners @LiamPav , @rimmer_iestyn, @BurtSnook and Matt who completed the @RunThroughUK Warwick Half Marathon. And well done to Claudia who completed Cascais Half Marathon - fantastic running all! 🙌👏🙌

#running #HalfMarathon #warwick #birminghamuk

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Well done to everyone who attended our session of hill reps, and especially to our two newcomers who did this for the first time and loved it!

#hillsprints #hillreps #BirminghamUK #running #fitness

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Happy Birthday GoodGym Birmingham 🎉🥳🎉

[GoodGym Birmingham & Sutton Coldfield @GoodGymBirming]

Today is our birthday! 🥳 GoodGym-ers - help us celebrate six years of doing good while getting fit in Birmingham by getting stuck in to the January Challenge 👀 https://t.co/nSnu0M4dXU

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Big well done to COBS coach Lisa giving a great talk at @nationalrunshow alongside @DeeringRob today based on her experience on completing three ultramarathons last year 👏👏👏

#nationalrunningshow #running #birminghamuk

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

And we also fielded full teams for the mens and womens races! Big well done to all runners in what were very difficult conditions 🙌👏🙌 #birminghamuk #crosscountry #running

[City of Birmingham Striders Running Club @cobsrc1]

Great day and another first for the club: co-hosting men and women races for the cross country league with @aldridgerunning. It could not have been done with the help and support of everyone who came and dedicated their Saturday. Thank you all!
#running #crosscountry