An early newspaper cutting featuring Goole Viking Striders runners — The early years

Goole Viking Striders team at Kilburn in 1998 — Kilburn 1998

Goole Viking Striders gathered beside a coach on a club trip — Club trips

Goole Viking Striders celebrating together at a recent race — Today

Established January 1985

Striding out
for 40 years.

From Goole Joggers and Runners Club to the gold, white and royal-blue community that runs together today—told through the club's own archive.

The beginning

Sweeney, Todd and a new club.

Anne Sweeney and Bob Todd founded the club in January 1985 under the name Goole Joggers and Runners Club.

Members soon adopted Goole Viking Striders, a name devised by Paul Peacock. Chairman John O’Neil chose gold, white and royal blue as the club colours.

The first 20 years

The Striding Out story.

The early club produced a regular typewritten magazine called Striding Out. Angela Dryden preserved the original copies and a number have since been digitised.

Club legend and former treasurer Nigel Warner, who died in August 2024, brought those stories together in a book covering the club’s first 20 years. The complete 94-page history can be read online or downloaded for reading on another device.

1985–2005 · 94 pages

Read Striding Out

Nigel Warner’s complete history of the club’s first two decades, including photographs and memories from the archive.

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The story continued

Seven annual appendices.

After completing the original book, Nigel continued chronicling club life with annual summaries, race reports, presentation-night coverage and photographs from January 2006 through January 2013.

2006