SPECTRUM Striders' women's team earned the Cheshire County silver medal in the North West Counties Road Relay Championships in Blackpool at the weekend.

The team came ninth overall - second in Cheshire behind Macclesfield - with Nabilah Salihi and Ruth Jones running the first two legs before Claire Davies brought the team home with the sixth fastest individual anchor leg time.

The men's section of the club entered four teams in the event and finished fourth, sixth and seventh in Cheshire, and 27th, 39th and 51st overall. One team failed to finish.