September 2024

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by Alex Hird. Saturday saw the curtain come down on the 2024 Track & Field season with the Pentathlon at Monkton Stadium in Jarrow. I've always wanted to give it a go, and for once I was free to enter. In the men's competition, we had: long jump, Javelin, 200m, Discus, and 1500m. I threw a Javelin once in PE about 20 years ago, and I've never thrown a Discus or taken part in the long jump. What could possibly go wrong?

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by Amanda Taylor The first time I ran The Sedgefield Serpentine was in 2014 when the race was 6.5 mile, it started and finished on the cricket field in Sedgefield and you got a bacon or sausage sarnie and a pint of milk at the end. There have been one or two changes since then and it's now a 10k (ish), starting over the road in Hardwick Park then keeping to the original circular route out towards Bishop Middleham on

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by Geoff Hewitson The penultimate NEMAA Track & Field League meeting of the 2024 season took place on Monday 29th July. Once again, it turned out to be a successful one for both of our teams. The Men’s team collectively scored another impressive 115 points to consolidate their 3rd spot in the league table, whilst 56 points was enough to move our Ladies team up a place from 4th to 3rd. It was great to have Jason Marr making his first

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by Amanda Taylor Apologies this report is a bit late, I have no good reason other than I'm forgetful. Anyway, Hexham Sundowner wasn't really on my plans, I only entered because a running friend said she was thinking about it but then forgot so I ended up driving up on my own, which was fine as I knew Peter, Frank and Matty were going to be there, so I wouldn't be a lone Crookite. Advertised as being a fast and 'largely' flat road

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by Paul Campbell Brimm brothers missing (unless one is in dinosaur suit…)I was keen to do this one as it was the first event I did after joining the club in 2022, then missed it last year due to injury. It sold out pretty quickly, not surprising as it’s a little different to the norm – a random distance of 5.4m, local, and cheap due to no medals, t-shirts, goody bags etc.Checking the entries there were 10 Crookites signed up. Unfortunately,

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by Geoff Hewitson Last Monday’s fourth NEMAA Track & Field League meeting of the 2024 season turned out to be a particularly successful one, on both a whole club and individual level. The Men’s team racked up a season’s best 126 points (probably our highest total on a single night for quite a while) to move up to 3rd in the League, albeit with just a 2 point advantage over North Shields Poly. Meanwhile our 6 ladies collectively scored 63 points

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by Simon Pickering This was this year's “I’m really not looking forward to this race” event for me, probably down to the fact of last year's organisational nightmares on just about every aspect of the race. I knew they’d changed the route (again…), and thankfully I’d not looked at the route, and certainly the elevation, until a couple of days before. I don’t think I’d have bothered if I had! The route now started outside the Radisson Blu, going down the waterside, then

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by Andy Turnell Due to the races on Wednesday and Thursday there was a reduced representation for Crook AC at the Newcastle Frontrunners LGBT 5k this year with 6 participants in the race. A small but perfectly (ahem) formed team. We had a lot to live up to after Milo's exceptional run in the Junior 2k. What he didn't mention was that he was first back of all the runners, beating the U11 boys and girls as well as those in his

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by Brad Wight Me and my 10 year old daughter Adelaide went down to South Park for the monthly mile. Heather Jones was also there. It's a very similar route to the parkrun, only you take the high road along the river meaning you don't have to do that little hill. Usually it's a proper handicap where runners line up beside a cone with your predicted time on and are released at ten second intervals on the whistle. Unfortunately, due to one

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by Brad Wight Myself and Sam Etherington travelled up Weardale to St Johns Chapel last Tuesday night. We thought it might be hard to get parked in a small village but there's a decent sized car-park right beside the village green where the start line was. Torrential rain in Bishop and Crook probably put a lot of people off entering as numbers were half what they normally are but the weather was perfect up the dale. Mild with a tiny hint