06/10/25 Manchester. Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Mel Stride delivers keynote address at Conservative Party Conference. Photo by Edward Massey / CCHQ

Elephant bull marching determinedly to take over the best drinking spot www.wildcast.net

Both have passed on now.

You've got to move with purpose; you've got to stride right.

For CM: I wanted to catch this woman with her dynamic stride and her individualism (and to see how high her skirt could ride...)

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Sneyd Striders Pud Run 2016

"Treacherous ashes hide

The fires through which you stride"

— Horace

So, I went up Helvellyn for the first time ever this visit - but I didn't go this way - no siree Bob! It has taken me a long time to pluck up the courage (and fitness) to go up here using the 'easy' routes; I shall never ever try any of the edges. Nice to look at though!

The walk up from Swirls car park was fantastic. Not too hard, beautiful weather. The walk down to Grisedale Tarn not too bad. After that, the thunder, lightning and torrential rain came down. Unpleasant but all part of the fun. Glad we'd got the climbing out the way, but the walk was still quite tricky down by the side of a beck.

Striding Edge Pre-scramble

An attempt to photograph a water strider in the Wallkill river.

Striding out

Looking across to an atmospheric Striding Edge from Catstye Cam.

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This is a guerilla campaign idea for Stride Gum. In the supermarket or convenience store there will be stickers on the ground that look like chewed up gym thats stuck on the floor. These stickers will lead up to the gum aisle or where the gum is located to promote interest in the product and to try to make gum more of a thoughtful purchase rather than an impulse.

On the stickers they will read situations that teens would normally think would be exhausting or 'long-lasting'. Such as "your class lecture" or "your grounding when your friends are out". Things of that nature

Striding Edge- a very popular but slightly dangerous way up England's 2nd highest peak Helvellyn.

Oct 19, 2014 Manhattanville College in Purchase hosts one of the many American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraising walks.

Includes politicians Congresswoman Nita Lowey, Assemblyman David Buchwald. ©maria r. bastone.

Almost at the summit, Phil and Chris on Striding Edge, 26 August 2007

A new incarnation of an original idea.

The first devices of what became the modern bicycle performed the exact same role that these Strider balance bikes. You sat aside it and scooted along with your feet.

This method of riding is the best way to learn to ride. With a standard bicycle you would simply remove the pedals until the rider progresses past the balancing stage. Some riders with special needs may never achieve this pedalling stage - as seen here.

These Strider balance bikes come three sizes allowing anyone between a small child to an adult to enjoy the movement and speed of a bicycle.

www.striderbike.co.uk/

A sunny Saturday morning in Washougal. #wsfstride

Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone, call sign 'Strider', of the Canadian Armed Forces at Adelaide Airport, South Australia. 'Strider' is a ship-borne maritime helicopter, attached to His Majesty's Canada Ship 'Montreal'. What was supposed to be a fuel stop on the way from Victoria to Western Australia, turned into an extended stay for the crew due to technical issues.

While I was along the bank of Madison Run recently, trying to photograph Spring Azures in flight, I noticed a few water striders in a slack area of this stream. Looking closer, it became evident that there was a mating pair.

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerridae

March 19, 2012, Madison Run, Shenandoah National Park, Rockingham County, Virginia.