Trail Race

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by Joanne Hope I looked at this event last year after doing Chopwell Woods parkrun as it such a beautiful place. Unfortunately I hadn’t been able to make the date. I attended a free trail event with Wild Deer up there earlier in the year where I got talking to someone who recommended the races so decided to sign up early. There’s a family mile, a 4 mile and an 8 mile, the event is canicross friendly. I decided to go for

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by Paul Smith Another action packed weekend, "auld" Frank Best flying the flag for the age cat 70-74 chalking up a triple century of parkruns at Sedgefield, whilst young Ross in his 11-14 age category notching his 100th at Jubilee - throw in North Eastern Cross Country Champs at Temple Park for some and then a wild CrookAC Christmas Party you'd think that would be enough excitement for anybody but no, Joanne Hope swapped her party gear for festive run

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by Geoff Hewitson Described on the race entry form as “A beautifully scenic, always inspirational, often challenging, approximately 5 mile handicap race along the sands between Blyth Harbour and Seaton Sluice Harbour” (wouldn’t disagree with any of that) 2024 was the 64th running of what is one of the regions oldest races. A brief history In the late 1950’s members of Blyth Rowing Club regularly ran along the beach in the winter months with the local harriers. The rowers club house was an

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by Paul Smith Delighted that Gibside Fruitbowl Run is back on the North East race calendar once more and chuffed to bits to be the first Crook AC runner back home across the finish line. A crisp autumnal Sunday morning with a watery wintery sun high up in a clear blue sky. Gibside, once owned by the Bowes-Lyon family, now a National Trust jewel in the County Durham crown, boasting an 18th century orangery along with its Tuscan columns, a 140 feet high

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by Amanda Taylor The first time I ran The Sedgefield Serpentine was in 2014 when the race was 6.5 mile, it started and finished on the cricket field in Sedgefield and you got a bacon or sausage sarnie and a pint of milk at the end. There have been one or two changes since then and it's now a 10k (ish), starting over the road in Hardwick Park then keeping to the original circular route out towards Bishop Middleham on

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by Paul Campbell Brimm brothers missing (unless one is in dinosaur suit…)I was keen to do this one as it was the first event I did after joining the club in 2022, then missed it last year due to injury. It sold out pretty quickly, not surprising as it’s a little different to the norm – a random distance of 5.4m, local, and cheap due to no medals, t-shirts, goody bags etc.Checking the entries there were 10 Crookites signed up. Unfortunately,

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by Claire Weir Geoff and I were having a conversation about upping our mileage and I mentioned to him that I had been given a flyer at Darlington parkrun from LRC about a new Tees Trailtastic 9 miler. Geoff, with a raised eyebrow, pointed out that the running event had been listed for quite a while in his race calendar, published every week in our favourite e-zine Crook-Ed. I assured him I do peruse the race calendar (I do 😊) and

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by Sarah Fairclough After seeing lots of Crook AC members completing Saturn Runs and various other ultras, I nervously entered this 5 days before the run. My friend surprised me and entered the day before, as I was going to run alone. I had joined the Facebook page and read how friendly, inclusive and supportive theses runs were. I had originally entered the 5-10k thinking I would probably just manage the 10k, the last year has been difficult with injury (plantar) and eye problems. I

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by Amanda Taylor 6.20am alarm and I did not like that one bit but it had to be done, as the organisers of this year's P2P had decided the race would start at 9am rather than the usual 10. A 45 minute drive through to Roker, a bus up to Shields, where I sat next to a lad from York who'd chosen to stay in a sea front hotel ahead of the race, hoping to wake up to sunshine over the sea

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by Dawn Milburn 2023 saw our Keswick Mountain Festival (KMF) debut with us taking on the 10km course. The real draw of this was the start on the boat and the anticipated views over Derwentwater. Possibly the most beautiful race we have ran, we wanted more! 2024 saw us take on the 25km trail event. With a start in Keswick’s famous Crow Park, a picturesque start line overlooking the serenity of Derwentwater and Catbells, it was set to be a beautiful day.