There was a sack full of PB’s for some of our young athletes at Monday’s British Milers’ Club meeting at Chester-le-Street. This week they were all 1500m races, and as ever, there were some top performances from our endurance experts. Here’s how they got on…. Adam Russell is on fire at the moment. In a […]
Every now and then, we get an update from endurance coach, Bernadette Caygill, on how some of her junior protégés have been doing. We thought you might like to know in a bit more detail how they’ve been getting on over the last month or so. Here goes….. “Just some fantastic results from our endurance
Richard Bowes was in midweek action on the Penshaw Hill race, a race which is approximately 3miles across country terrain.In a small field of 61 runners Richard finished 41st in 23:37 which I believe is a course best. Full results can be found here
This Sunday saw the latest instalment of the Senior League, this time on home turf at Eastbourne.To see how Hayley Richardson, Sarah Johnson and team got on read next week’s report for results.
David Aiken was in Half Marathon action this weekend, this time at the Lakeland Trails Half Marathon. The course utilises the first 17km section of the marathon course which takes in a full loop of Coniston water, takes runners as far as Tarn Hows, before heading back to Coniston. Although official results have yet to
Mike King headed to Kirkby Stephen to take on the 23 mile Upper Eden Yomp – Mountain Challenge. The Upper Eden Yomp Mountain Challenge was established by the Rotary Club of Upper Eden to commemorate the achievements of the British Forces engaged in the 1982 Falklands Campaign. The Full Yomp is a serious undertaking. It
Dave Tomlinson and Becci Butler were in Triathlon action this weekend, Dave taking on his first half Iron Man whilst Becci took on the Olympic distance, both races in Chester. For Dave, a 1.9km swim, 87km bike and 20km run to look forward to and Becci a 1500m swim, 40km bike and a 10km run.
Another race to take place this week was the Darlington Trail 5km race, race 3 based at South park. We had two runners on the evening in Val Clarke and Janice Foster. Val was first of the two ladies to finish in 13th place with Janice in 21st from the low key event. Val Clarke
Last Bank holiday Tony Winward took part in a new event, Summer Redcar Beach Run, a 10km run across the beach.In a small field of only 44 runners, Tony crossed the line in 2nd place in a time of 41:24.2 over a minute ahead of 3rd place and a minute behind Harrogate’s Jamie Dilasser.Good work
Last week we had a handful of our athletes missing from the report as not showing as club members in their respective race. At Northallerton 10km Alex Bos finished in 178th position in 50:45 and Gerda Arts 283rd in 54:30. Further afield Mary MacIvor achieved a new personal best at Edinburgh half marathon finishing the
Becci Butler competed in a Triathlon last weekend in the Gold Coast. Taking inspiration from her sister Jade who achieved GB qualification and competed in Rotterdam Becci achieved a similar result…well done Becci fantastic achievement. Words from a very proud mum.
LIAM STEPS IT UP A GEAR….. Under 17 endurance maestro, Liam Brittle, has his mind focused on a Durham Schools competition on June 9th where he will be taking part in a steeplechase. Although he’s been training for the event throughout the winter months, he’d never actually competed in a steeplechase so was desperate for
The turnout was understandably lower than normal after the English Schools’ competition earlier in the day. However, there were one or two hardy individuals who were back for more – you just can’t keep some people down! ☺ Namely Dylan Wilson, and Liam Brittle who’d hurt his foot earlier that morning but was back again
Another local race to take place on Sunday was Melmerby 10km, a short trip down the A1 outside of Ripon. Three Harriers made the trip which proved to have mixed fortunes for the trio. The course is one big loop so kind of an out and back with a few tricky little climbs to tackle
Sisters Are Doing It….. It was another impressive show of strength as sisters, Rosie and Lily Thompson were back at Monkton for the second Grand Prix of the season. Here’s how they got on….. Shot Putt After some top throwing action, Lily finished an excellent 2nd place with a best throw of 7.53m, a AAA
Sunday brought another large Harrier turn out, this time to Northallerton from the clubs 10k league. This course is literally a run of two halves as runners head to the hills after an initial run through the high street before a quick decent back into the high street to the finish. Colin Taylor was first
Julie Richardson was making her marathon debut on Sunday as she took on the Edinburgh 26.2m event. Fast and flat, this course was voted the fastest marathon in the UK by Runners World, ideal for any marathon runner. This race sells out year on year and is the second largest marathon in the UK, behind
On Saturday evening, Lewis Moses was competing in Oordegem a small town in Belgium in the 5000m. Up against some world class athletes, Lewis really had to bring his A game to the race….and he did just that. Lewis, who recently broke Paul Harker’s long standing record smashed it again taking 15 seconds off it
Who needs the Brownlee brothers when we have the Brown’s at the club. In last week’s report Pauline and Ian Brown were not showing on our list of finishers as the race organisers had mis-allocated them to our neighbours Darlington Tri so weren’t picked up in the results.Well they were both definitely were there and
Mark Milner headed out Friday to take on the Hardmoors 160 mile race. ‘The Ring Of Steele’ Ultramarathon starts at Sutton Bank and head East along the Cleveland Way to Helmsley. Leaving Helmsley the route will continue east across the moors following the Tabular Hills Route to Scalby and the Clifftops of the Cleveland Way
