Aldridge Running Club

Aldridge Running Club has been well establshed in Aldridge for over twenty years and is based at the "Stick and Wicket " cricket and hockey clubs.

The club meets each Tuesday at 7.15 and there are runs from one to nine miles, depending on what members want and what they are training for. There is a strong emphasis on safety for all members, so training runs are supported by running marshals.

Members compete, as a matter of course, in many events including the big international marathons such as London and New York and have arranged for groups of runners to run in the Paris and Barcelona Marathons. There are Men's and women's cross country teams and these compete in leagues.

Aldridge Running Club is very much a social club as well, welcoming all ages of runners from their twenties to over seventy so it is "A club for all ages." The emphases within the club are to run and to have a good social life. It is very much part of the club ethos to hire transport, run a race in the morning and have lunch and libations on the way home.

This is very much a local club and has been a steady supporter of local initiatives, which include being actively involved in funding the Christmas tree in Aldridge.