Last week at the XC road relays at South Park we told you that both our men and women had performed brilliantly, the ladies finishing first, third and fourth with our fourth team just outside the top ten in 12th.Our men also had some very good performances, teams finishing in 2nd, 6th and 9th place […]
Despite being under the weather, Charlotte Rutter still took part in the England Athletics U15/U17 Indoor Combined Event Championships last weekend. She’d been looking forward to this event all season, but unfortunately, like many at the moment, she wasn’t on top form when it came to the big day due to another bug doing the
Under 13 endurance expert, Daniel Richardson, has been out of action for a while due to an injury……so much so, he had to withdraw from the UK Inter County Cross Country Championships at Loughborough last weekend. He was devastated not being able to represent the North East, but the good news is he was given
The second Dishforth Dash 10K event being held at the recently decommissioned MOD Airfield near Ripon North Yorkshire in support of the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) was held on Sunday morning. The event offers a fantastic opportunity for runners of all abilities to run on this former WW2 airbase. The route takes runners initially around
On another busy weekend of racing, we had a small number of Harriers racing at the Ropner Park 5km which forms part of the Winter Series and is pretty much like a parkrun around the park. Colin Taylor, Tony Winward and Bernadette were all part of a small field on the day, results have yet
Sunday saw the club enter teams into the Northern Road relays at Birkenhead for the first time since 1977, an event which sees runners run laps of 4 or 8km. Fantastic performances from both our men and women teams,the men qualifying for the nationals by finishing in the top 25. Big thanks to Karl Hume
At Kielder this weekend we saw three events,10mile, 14mile and marathon races. Sarah Tomlinson was the only Harrier competing in the 10mile race finished in 44th place in 1hr 39:40, and 4th in her age category. In the 14mile event we had a number of athletes in the field, David Brown first to finish for
Photo courtesy of Gillian Buckley The indoor athletics hall at Gateshead College was a hive of activity last Sunday as athletes from all over the country came to take part in the final indoor meeting of the season. There were two competitions running concurrently; the NECAA Pentathlon for the North East athletes, and the Open
Our Under 13 Harrier, Alex Boyer was in action last weekend. This time he was competing for his school, Carmel College at the Under 12 British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace. The Biathlon is perfect for Alex, combining two of his favourite disciplines; a 50m swim and an 800m run. The first event
Saturday was the culmination of a long journey that, for some, started back in October with their local town cross country championships. Qualifiers went on to the County Championships and if successful, were selected to wear their County colours at the Inter-Counties; so as you can see, just reaching the National Finals is a massive
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Sunday saw three of our runners in London for the Vitality Half Marathon, a community running festival also offering a free one mile run mass participation run for all ages and abilities. Of our three runners, Tony ‘Kenny’ Williams was first home in 1:38:39 with Tom Addison and Michael Watson finishing in 1:47:45. Good work
On a busy weekend for the club, our final race had five of our club members heading to Ripon to take on the Lightwater Valley 10km challenge a race that takes competitors out on a rollercoaster scenic country route and back into theme park parking area. Shaun Marshall was first to finish in 4th place
Another race to take place on Sunday, was the Locke Parke 10 and 20 mile events. To some people these are a big turn off with the thought of going round and round the same loop but these type races have a massive benefit to those who are training for a half or full marathon
On a week that had seen the North East of England hit with some freakish weather, the wind that runners were exposed to atThirsk was probably as good as they could have hoped for. Thirsk 10 is one large loop with only a few slight inclines to tackle so given the right conditions,a personal best
Saturday saw three of our runners in action at the Hardmoors 55, an Ultramarathon which sees participants running from Guisborough to Helmsley. The 55 mile race takes competitors through the North York Moors and the Cleveland Hills in tough conditions. The race contains over 2000metres of ascent and has a time limit of 16 hours
Last Sunday, we told you about Shirley Gibson’s exploits at the Chester 10km race. Well we also had John and Julia Clifford racing under the club colours after their recent transfer from Evenwood.John put in another excellent performance to finish 18th and 3rd in his age group in a speedy 34:30 while Julia finished in
With the last of the NYSD cross country meetings now just a distant memory, Darlington played host for the final event of the series before the focus returns to Track & Field again next month. The South Park Relays are always an exciting finale, producing the usual thrills and spills of a relay race, but
Last Saturday was another big date on the cross country calendar where the UK’s top club athletes came together for another National competition. Teams had been selected by the relevant governing bodies, in our case NECAA, and five of our DHAC juniors had been chosen to represent the North East Counties at this prestigious event.
Tom ‘The Fist’ Addison was in midweek action at the Run Eat Sleep one mile event at South Shields. In a field of 81 competitors Tom finished in a very respectable 9th position with a new personal best of 5:27 ? Great work Tom!
On Saturday morning we had three of our runners at the Dentdale Run which is a 14.2 mile (or a 7.9 mile) road race staged on the roads and lanes around Dentdale in the Yorkshire Dales. The course follows a figure-of-eight course, it winds up hill and down dale, starting and finishing at Dent Primary
