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by Josh Pearson Brass Monkey Race MorningAfter grabbing a morning Lucozade sport I headed out the door around 7am before nearly falling flat down on black ice before even getting in the car. Change of plans meant I was driving down to York and meeting the rest of the guys there. Anyone who was up early on race day will know how bad the ice was and the thoughts going through my head were I hope it is not like this

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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 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 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 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 Amanda Taylor This Northern Athletics 5k Championship race welcomed a squad of 11 Crook runners - 10 lads and me - to join almost 500 other athletes in this fast, traffic free, road race. Billed as one of the fastest courses in the country, it's ideal for anyone looking for a PB and of course, I was. On arrival I bumped into Clare R with Harry then Mark S and Lee T who were all telling me I should go for