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 […]
NECAA Fell and NEHRA championship races
Please find details of the 2015 NECAA Fell and NEHRA championship races and scoring details here.
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 […]
Cathedral Relays
It’s great to have so many enthusiastic runners in the Cathedral Relays taking place on Sunday January 11th. The race times are: Vet men – 10.15am Senior and Vet Women – 10.55am Senior Men – 11.35am Teams need to be registered 20 minutes before the race so if people could get there about […]
Captain Cooks Fell Race Report
On the 1st January when most sensible people were still nursing a hangover, others were running on the Town Moor or up at Morpeth, I decided to have another crack at Fell Running. This time it was the Captain Cooks Race down in lovely Cleveland. Having dragged Lyndsey out of bed for moral support and […]