Author: Alex Hird

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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

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by Andy Turnell. After achieving a lifetime best in the half marathon at this event last year, I had high hopes for a better time when I entered this years race. By the time I reached the start line however, I had other targets in mind. I'd struggled to recover from the calf strain I suffered back in May and, although I'd managed a half decent time at the Darlington 10k in August this would be the first time I'd attempted more

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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,