Track & Field

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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 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 Geoff Hewitson Last Monday’s fourth NEMAA Track & Field League meeting of the 2024 season turned out to be a particularly successful one, on both a whole club and individual level. The Men’s team racked up a season’s best 126 points (probably our highest total on a single night for quite a while) to move up to 3rd in the League, albeit with just a 2 point advantage over North Shields Poly. Meanwhile our 6 ladies collectively scored 63 points

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by Geoff Hewitson The third NEMAA Track & Field League meeting of the 2024 season took place last Monday evening at the usual venue of Monkton Stadium in Jarrow. The overall turnout from the club was 14 (9 in the mens team and 5 in the ladies). Most of these were the “usual suspects” but there was also a welcome return to NEMAA competition for Sharron Trevor, who reckoned it was about 15 years since her last appearance at the Track

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by Brad Wight Myself and Alex Hird traveled down for the third meet of the series. We’d attended the first event and really liked the atmosphere. This time we weren’t the only representatives of the North East. Darlington Harriers had a few athletes out and a lad from Jarrow and Hebburn won the elite high jump. Hirdy and I both went in the same heat of the mile, Alex took the win in a cracking time of 4:44.44 and I battled

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by Brad Wight Given that we aren’t currently part of the North East youth or senior track and field leagues, it’s not too often we get a chance to race on our own track. Thankfully the league put on a Friday night open meet and Crook showed up in good numbers! Six of us took part in the Mile. Alex Hird finished in second place with track debutantes Alex Mitton and Andy Simpson coming very close to breaking the 5 minute mark.

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by Geoff Hewitson The second NEMAA Track & Field League meeting of the 2024 season took place last Monday evening, once more in near perfect weather conditions. The men's team had a reasonable turnout of 9 competitors, including a NEMAA debut for Mark Standbridge and a welcome return to competition for Danny Oakley. A combination of unavailabilities and missing the entry deadline meant that the ladies only had 4 competitors. On a positive note, however, it was good to have Sharon B

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by Geoff Hewitson The NEMAA Track & Field League meeting last Monday evening heralded the start of the 2024 season, and we were fortunate to be blessed with near perfect weather conditions. The mens team had a reasonable turnout of 9 competitors, whilst the ladies had a squad of 5. It was great to welcome NEMAA debutants Peter Coser, Lisa Donaldson and Mel Riley, who were competing for the first time in the Track and Field League. It is often the

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By Brad Wight The North East Counties champs were held at Middlesbrough Sports Village over the weekend of 11th and 12th May. On Saturday Rory and William Hart were joined by Matty Richardson in the 1500m while Jess Montgomery raced over 800m as well as the 100m and 200m. Alex Hird raced in the senior mens 400m. Sunday action saw Matty and Alex return for the 800m, joined by Brad, and Jess compete over 300m where she progressed through her heat to

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by Alex Hird Wednesday evening saw the return of the NEGP track and field series at Monkton Stadium. Three Crook members were entered; Matty Richardson, Rory Hart, and myself. All of us taking part in the 1500 metres. Rory and I were up first in heat C. We ran the first 400 side by side, then Rory started to show his talent and engine and kept up with the leader who made a breakaway from the pack. The leader probably should've been in