November 2024

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by Paul Campbell I’ve never ran a 10-mile event, and after flagging at around the 10 mile point on my last 2 half marathons I wanted to give the distance ago, knowing I didn’t have the equivalent of a parkrun tagged on at the end. A quick google search found the Tadcaster race on the same date as the more popular Brampton to Carlisle event. The logistics swung it for me, easy to find, less than 5 miles from the A1 and

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by Paul Orange At this time of the year, the sunrise has a beautiful yellow/orange tint, and so it was a pleasure to be heading up to Slaley Hall on a bright, crisp Sunday morning on 17th November to participate in the Slaley Hall half marathon. This is a WIld Deer event and there is a 10k event at the same time - in fact the half marathon follows the 10k route, popping out for an extra section after about 2.5

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by Paul Smith Delighted that Gibside Fruitbowl Run is back on the North East race calendar once more and chuffed to bits to be the first Crook AC runner back home across the finish line. A crisp autumnal Sunday morning with a watery wintery sun high up in a clear blue sky. Gibside, once owned by the Bowes-Lyon family, now a National Trust jewel in the County Durham crown, boasting an 18th century orangery along with its Tuscan columns, a 140 feet high

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by Steve Mills Beautiful setting. Start and finish in front of the cathedral on the sea front.Set off in the dark at 6am from the hotel to catch the bus to Palma for an 8am start. Really well organised (not enough toilets) and the sun came up as we set off.Really congested at the start but after a few miles could settle down. The half is a one lap course going around the port, back along the coast past the cathedral