Last week we had only Michael Bloor on show at the NYSD at Middlesboro. Michael who is a sprint specialist finished in 2nd place in a speedy 11.83 seconds just outside his personal best of 11.58.As you can see from this photo, he certainly wasn’t holding back!Well done Michael
Champion Performance! Following in his big sister’s footsteps, Under 13 Harrier, James Wilcock also competes in the Modern Pentathlon. This consists of swimming, fencing, show jumping on an unknown horse, running and laser pistol shooting. He recently travelled to Bath and took part in the British Championships, and came home as the 2018 Under 13
It doesn’t seem that long since the first NYSD meeting got underway on a cold, dark evening in Darlington back in April. Now here we are, four months later, and the final meeting of the season is already upon us. It’s been another action packed series of events, as popular as ever, with some terrific
Four of our junior Harriers were selected to take part in the Northern Athletics Inter Counties T&F Championships last weekend. Emma Hart, Megan Noble, Charlotte Rutter and Darcey Garbutt were representing the North East Counties as part of a team taken from the NECAA clubs of the region. They were competing against teams from Cumbria,
Sunday afternoon took four of our runners to the Kilburn Feast 7. The 7.3 mile course gets off to a flying start slightly downhill for about a mile and then the promised ‘undulations’ begin. After climbing up into Coxwold village the route flattens out slightly continuing onto Bylands Abbey. The remaining 4 and half miles
Graham Bell and Danielle Clark were in action at the Burn Valley Half Marathon on Sunday morning. The course is run entirely on minor roads. Starting in Marsham’s market square and taking runners through the grounds of Swinton Castle the course then follows the picturesque Burn Valley. It rises to the Leeds Pals war memorial
Phil Teece was again in midweek action, this time at the Lordstones 5km, a multi terrain course with a few hills to test you over the 3.1 miles. Playing pacer to young Gabby Hall now at Middlesbrough AC, Phil finished 28th in 22:35, young Gabby picking up 2nd female on the night. Full results can
Den Dale was in Triathlon action for the first time this Sunday in Washington. Den who has started to do a number of Duathlon’s of late has gone that one step further and added a swim to his range of skills.As you can see from Den’s results he had a pretty good event covering a
The Castle Howard event on the southern border of the North York Moors played host to two of our athletes this weekend. This spectacular run course takes runners through the undulating Howardian Hills and boasts a finish that tops everything off in style – right in front of the main doors of the house. Iain
Susie Stephen was in action this weekend at Kaena Poin Firecracker 10mile race. This race is a fast, flat, out-and-back course that is a little longer than 10 miles and parallels the ocean along jeep trails and an old sugar cane rail line. The course runs from the end of the pavement at Mokuleia past
Sunday morning a small numberof Harriers headed to Gateshead to take on the Great North 10km. This is a good event which takes runners away from Gateshead stadium, along the Quayside then back to the stadium finishing inside the international arena. This is a little undulating but quite a quick course with a fast finish
On Saturday we had two runners in action, Mike King in the Pennine 24 and Darren Gee in the 39 equivalent event although Darren reported the 39 was closer to 36.5 miles. The longer version of the 24 that Mike raced started from Low Force to Alston the same start and finish as the ‘24’
In the 10km race Colin Taylor was once again came first home for the club on a very warm evening for all competitors. Surprisingly Colin was only 4th fastest M40 which shows the quality of runners in the men’s event with the vets taking top 4 spots. Shaun Marshall finished 3rd in the senior men’s
On Wednesday evening at Croft circuit, the pitstop festival took place, excellently executed by Georgie Rutherford and team. In the 5km race Paul Cook came home first for the club in 3rd and 1st V40 followed by Peter Armstrong 4th and Dave McKenna 6th and 2nd V40 on the evening ensuring the men picked up
Barry Talman, Karl Hume and Emma Morley were racing at the Bridges of the Tyne 5 mile race which takes runners along the quayside and back again. It was no surprise to see Barry first Harrier come home as he was suited to this type of race the Talman out and back training programme, with
Anna Stephens was a notable absentee from last week’s report after signing up for the Ali Brownlee 5km race prior to joining the club.Anna had a good run finishing in 34:41 although by the look on this photo she was enjoying it way too much after telling the cameraman that it was coming home.Nice work
It’s time for another update from endurance coach, Bernadette Caygill, on how some of her junior protégés have been doing. Plenty of impressive performances worthy of a mention. Here goes….. Dan Richardson won the Under 13 boys 1500m at the NYSD and, in doing so, improved his own club record, running 4:51.1. Dylan Wilson was
Last weekend, Middlesbrough Sports Village played host to many a talented athlete from the North of England as they battled it out in the Regional Finals of the English Schools Combined Event Championships. Three of our own junior harriers as they represented their County with pride. Here’s how they got on… Junior Boys The Durham
Two of our best young female athletes were in action last weekend as Loughborough took its turn as host for one of the ever popular British Milers’ Club meetings. This meeting was a mix of 800m, 1500m and 5000m races, and our middle distance maestro, India Pentland plumbed for one of her favourites, the 1500m.
