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by Meadow Winham It all started when I woke up at 9:00AM. I got up and I got dressed into my Crook running vest and my shorts, when I was finished getting ready, I had my breakfast, I had a cup of tea and some toast. My mam put my hair in two plaits, when she was done, we set off to the cross county [my first ever one.] When we got there, we were struggling to find our tent because we did not

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By Paul Smith Whilst you lovely CrookAC lads and lasses were out running at such events as, Ali Brownlee 5k, Great North 10k, and parkruns, including Ken’s palindrome 202 parkrun celebration run at Hackworth, apologies for my absence as I was otherwise engaged, obviously it was running related, of course. Yours truly was down in Derbyshire for the weekend, Chesterfield to be exact, to be even more precise, The Technique Stadium, the home of Chesterfield Football Club. Last time I was at

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So, trundling down the A19 from work having sneaked out slightly early, my thoughts turned to the notoriously tough Thornley Hall XC. I was thinking it’s a tough old course that, but now it’s in reverse format so happy days. Then as you do while you’re driving my thoughts went to a chat with Geoff on our Thursday night session and his words were "it’s bloody hard either way", oh dear.  On arriving it felt so weird, no time for pre-race