Royal Signal Relays Race Report

A few of us had decided to spend our valentine’s day competing in the North East Road Relay Championships also known as Royal Signal Relays at Hetton Lyons Park.   The course was 2 laps of the country park totalling 2.2miles with two steady uphill climbs which were harder than had been expected by all. […]

Bedewell Park Race Report

Report from the latest cross country race at Bedewell Park courtesy of Darren Smiley.   It was Saturday the 31st January, 9 o’clock and my alarm woke me up. For a minute the realisation didn’t hit me. Why is my alarm set for 9am at a weekend I thought? then it came apparent Cross country […]

Internal Cross Country Standings

As most people will probably be aware we have an internal cross country competition within the club. Every runner is awarded points corresponding to the position they finish in the race (from a club perspective), so first place gets 1 point, 2nd place 2 points and so on. The runner with the lowest number of […]

Pontefract XC Race Report

Race report from the Northern Cross Country Championships at Pontefract at the weekend courtesy of Phil Robertson. The day started with the debate of what time do you set off for a Northern Championship race at Pontefract. Some of the elderly fraternity decided upon leaving at 9am to leave time for coffee breaks on their […]

Bedewell Park Cross Country

This Saturday sees the return of the Harrier League after a couple of months break. The event is at Bedewell Park in Jarrow with Senior ladies off at 1.10pm, followed by the Senior men at 2.15pm. The postcode for the event venue is NE32 5NJ with a map and information available on the Harrier League […]

2015 Fell Race Series

Every year the club holds an internal fell race series, details of which are below   Men to complete four, at least one at each distance, women to complete three – either two short/one medium or one short/two medium:   Short Brough Law 8/3/15, Causey Pike 28/3/15, Beacon Hill 9/7/15   Medium Coledale Horseshoe 11/4/15, […]

Durham Cathedral Relays

Contratulations to all the hardy folk who turned out yesterday for the Durham Cathedral Relays and battled round a wet and windy course.   Results are as follows:   Veteran Men Scott Garrett 11:48 Darren Smiley 12:55 Rob Brooks 10:53 35:36 (26th out of 94) Senior Men Bill Wilson 12:32 Andrew Softley 13:25 Graham Stephenson […]

2015 Race Calendar

The start of a new year for runners often means choosing races as we try new things or work towards our new PBs! To help with this, we’re really keen to find ways for all club members to find race information and to communicate between eachother about who is entering what. We are therefore currently looking to develop areas of the […]