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by Brad Wight I entered this event in Leeds as I was away overnight with work. I’d raced the night before at a small scale one mile race in Lincoln and I’d mistakenly thought this would also be another race with a couple of dozen runners max but I was very wrong. On arriving at the park I realized it was quite a bit bigger than that! Club tents, coffee and food vans, the big inflatable finish line, digital timing board,

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by Amanda Taylor Hosted by Elswick Harriers, the Newburn River Run is a 5 mile out and back course, it's as flat as a pancake and uses the tarmac path along the Newburn Riverside park and Wylam Wagonway and it's such a pretty route. I had no idea who else from the club might be there but as I was waiting in the queue at the Newburn Activity Centre to collect my bib I spied Jayne H, Denyse H and Paul W

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by Danny Oakley 17 Crook runners lined up on the start line of the Blaydon race last night, myself somewhat apprehensive knowing this was about to be the longest I’d ran since October due to an ongoing niggly injury in my foot. We had relatively good conditions, despite a pretty heavy shower before the race started. The route has changed quite a bit in the past few years with the organisers putting it down to “logistical issues”, and therefore this year’s iteration

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by Clare and Harry Rose Harry and I signed up for the Manchester Half Marathon way back in January when he needed a focus. To say training was hit and miss was an understatement, with me being admitted to hospital and Harry not really having any idea how to train for 13.1 miles. Then, Kate beat him at Middridge and welcome competitive Harry. Race day was perfect conditions; we were up, prepared and ready. Harry set off first with a 20 minute head start

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by Paul Campbell I found out about these events through previous Crook-Eds, and thought it ticked plenty of boxes, including being close to home, and not breaking the bank to enter. For anyone who hasn’t ran one of these, its essentially a 4.4 mile lap, and participants do as many or as few as they like, within a cut-off time.I thought it would be a good test of fitness and distance for the Great North Run having been injured for most of

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by Brad Wight You may remember I entered this race last year, it’s a famous old race on the border of Cheshire and Staffordshire dating back to the early 1980s. It was intended to be the opposite of New York City’s slightly downhill Fifth Avenue Mile which attracts the best milers in the world. The Killer Mile is a road race, exactly a mile long, but up a ridiculously steep hill with gradients ranging from 12% to 25% and 550 feet

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By Andy Turnell This was my third time at the Gateshead Half. I've started to look on it as a useful early season benchmark for how I'm doing at longer distances.Last year I manage to finish first in the V65 category and was hoping for a similar result this time. Crook had 3 entries in the 10k but I was the sole representative in the half. The race starts and finishes in the Gateshead International Stadium and is well organised with start

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by Milo Pickering Me and Caleb arrived at Gateshead stadium about 1 hour before the race. First we got our chip and race number. To kill some time before the race we played some of the activities which were Bean bag toss and giant connect four. We also watched some of the half and full marathon runners come in, then it was time for the warm up. In the warm up we did jogging on the spot and some high knees then

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by Geoff Hewitson Last Wednesday evening (1st May) the ‘team relay season’ was in full swing, with the ever popular Neptune Relays at Sedgefield clashing with the NEMAA (North East Masters Athletic Association) Road Relay Championships. Whilst our club had a massive presence at Sedgefield, it was just the one MV65+ team of Mark Standbridge, Andy Turnell and myself who made the trip to Jarrow to fly the flag for Crook AC. Our event took place in its usual home of Bedewell

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by Geoff Hewitson A reasonable turnout of 9 Crookites were present for this annual event, much healthier than in 2023 when I was the sole club representative, and 2022 when I think it was just Stan and myself. A less than encouraging weather forecast (to put it mildly) for Sunday morning unfortunately proved to be spot on, and we were greeted on arrival with lashing rain and what felt like a freezing cold Northerly wind. As we took refuge inside the