Member Profile – Janis Oliver

I was watching TV in 2014 and it happened to be GNR day. I felt totally inspired watching the runners.   I couldn’t even run for the bus and had been overweight all my adult life but had recently lost 5.5 stone a year previously. I’d put some wright back on so decided there and […]

Member Profile – Davey Candlish

I ran my first half marathon when I was 12 years old.   It was in the early days of the Great North Run and they didn’t have health and safety back then, never mind a junior run.   My Dad (who ran with the now defunct Gateshead Congas back in the day) just dropped […]

Fell Series 2017

We have our own internal Fell Race Series the format of which is the same as last year. Men to complete 4 races – short, medium & long plus another.   Best position to count. Women to do 4 races – two short and two medium. The long races don’t count in the womens series. […]

Bob Graham Round Blog 2

So it’s finally 2017 and the countdown has begun, 24 weeks until the big day. Xmas and up to new year went pretty well, I was able to get up to the Cheviots, Roman Wall & Pennines as well as a few hilly runs round Beamish – around 120 miles & 20,000ft of ascent in […]

Headforts and Headaches race report

What better to start the year than a 3 mile fell race! When I looked at the route the day before I was slightly surprised that the race was just the uphill and you had to jog or walk the 3 miles back to the start whether you liked it or not!   Fear not, […]

Bob Graham Round Blog

Next year (2017) on 23rd June I will be 42.   Nothing particularly significant about that you may think, until a number of other factors are taken into consideration:   In June 1932 a Keswick guest-house owner named Bob Graham broke the Lakeland fell record by traversing 42 fells within a 24 hour period. He […]

Eskdale Fell Race Report

I have always wanted to do a fell race, so when I got the chance to do one I took it.   The week leading up to the fell race I was so nervous and kept thinking, what if I can’t do it? What if I get lost on the fells on my own?! When […]

Eden Half Marathon Race Report

When Frank said he was going to do a half marathon in his old neck of the woods where he grew up and asked if anyone wanted to join him, I was sorely tempted. Jacqui said she didn’t want to miss out, so then we had a full car with Phil Young and Naz taking […]

Saltwell 10k Road Race

Entries for the Saltwell 10k road race on 17th December 2016 are now open at http://www.runbritain.com/race/saltwell-10k-road-race   More information about the race http://46.101.9.212/~saltwellharriers/10k/   Paper entry form here