Joined Crook AC: Brad Wight
Mile: 5.09
5K PB: 18.24
Favourite Discipline: One Mile
What do you enjoy about Crook AC: The camaraderie! Regardless of how fast or slow people are we’re great at motivating and encouraging each other in training sessions, relays, and races, and getting together for a post race pint or coffee and cake after a parkrun.
What’s your favourite race?: Hard to single one out, I love racing on the track in summer and cross country in the winter, but if I had to choose one it would probably be the monthly mile hosted by Darlington Harriers from March-September..
Proudest moment as a Crook AC Member: In our first season competing in the North East Senior Track & Field League, along with our partner club Middlesbrough Mandale, we won Division Two by a country mile and earned promotion to the top flight. I was very proud to Captain the team and also picked up a trophy for the most individual points contributed.
How/why did you end up joining the club: I’d been running on my own for 18 months after taking it up to lose weight in 2019. My pal Ian Thompson badgered me to come to the club but I put it off for ages as I mistakenly thought you had to be young, fit and fast to be in a club. I was hooked after my first track session but unfortunately a covid lockdown meant I had to wait three months until the next one!
