May 2024

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by Milo Pickering Me and Caleb arrived at Gateshead stadium about 1 hour before the race. First we got our chip and race number. To kill some time before the race we played some of the activities which were Bean bag toss and giant connect four. We also watched some of the half and full marathon runners come in, then it was time for the warm up. In the warm up we did jogging on the spot and some high knees then

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by Geoff Hewitson Last Wednesday evening (1st May) the ‘team relay season’ was in full swing, with the ever popular Neptune Relays at Sedgefield clashing with the NEMAA (North East Masters Athletic Association) Road Relay Championships. Whilst our club had a massive presence at Sedgefield, it was just the one MV65+ team of Mark Standbridge, Andy Turnell and myself who made the trip to Jarrow to fly the flag for Crook AC. Our event took place in its usual home of Bedewell

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by Geoff Hewitson A reasonable turnout of 9 Crookites were present for this annual event, much healthier than in 2023 when I was the sole club representative, and 2022 when I think it was just Stan and myself. A less than encouraging weather forecast (to put it mildly) for Sunday morning unfortunately proved to be spot on, and we were greeted on arrival with lashing rain and what felt like a freezing cold Northerly wind. As we took refuge inside the

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by Alex Hird Wednesday evening saw the return of the NEGP track and field series at Monkton Stadium. Three Crook members were entered; Matty Richardson, Rory Hart, and myself. All of us taking part in the 1500 metres. Rory and I were up first in heat C. We ran the first 400 side by side, then Rory started to show his talent and engine and kept up with the leader who made a breakaway from the pack. The leader probably should've been in

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by Alex Hird On Saturday I made the trip down the A1 to Doncaster, for my 2nd track race in the space of a few days. It's the first time I've been to the facility, which is situated right next to the Doncaster Rovers football stadium, and it's a cracking setup. I was told that it was built at the same time as the football stadium, and given to the athletics club, which now boasts over 700 members. The event was a well

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by Jill Berry Denyse Holman & Jayne Henderson convinced me that it would be a nice idea to register to run Hamsterley 10k trail race. The day of the race we all met up at the Nest car park looking a little nervous and not sure of what to fully expect. We met with Mark Standbridge and Jason Marr too and we all went to collect our race numbers. The run nation marshals were lovely and the event was very well organised. Looking

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by Phil Healy From 5 stops over a 400m distance (One Lap) to 42.4km Non-stopThe event was organised & marshalled as you'd expect for such a big race, athletes from around the country & across the globe had congregated to participate. The great atmosphere amongst the runners was evident from warm up to the start line & continued all along the 26.2 mile (My Garmin logged 26.46 mile). The course is generally flat & down hill section, the naughty incline everyone