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by Josh Pearson Earlier this year I picked this race out as my first main goal race of 2024. I had planned out a whole 6 week plan specific to this event, working on improving the body's fitness in a variety ways. The night before I had a look at the forecast for the first time and saw that it was actually a nice day for a change, cool and dry with winds of 5-7 mph which was very good to see. On

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by Brad Wight What an unbelievable turnout for Crook! 66 runners across 14 teams with all age categories represented. More runners than any other club! The organisers weren’t joking when they responded to our entry submission with “I’m beginning to worry I haven’t ordered enough numbers.” Alistair Hart had to run with a hand drawn number and I noticed a few XC numbers being re-cycled too! The first race of the day saw the Women, Veteran Women (over 35) and V50 men

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by Josh Pearson I only signed up for this race around 1 week before the event took place. I thought it would be great to test myself over a harder and hillier 10k with mainly up and downhill and basically no flat sections at all. I arrived at the event around 1 hour before the race. I had a wander around the small village and the outskirts of the village and the views were out of this world. I managed to check

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by Brad Wight Where to start? Safe to say from both a running and a weather perspective it was a right mixed bag! All week the weather forecast was looking far from ideal for distance running. Brendan Foster wrote to runners saying “Sunday will not be a day for PB’s.” Well, what does he know? I’ve counted NINE personal bests in the results, and there may be more as some of our newer members registered without a club name. At the front end, starting

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by Rob Teasdale A decent turnout of 7 Crookites lined up to do business this morning in Middlesborough. This one was always one of the to do races on the calendar and a very popular one lap loop but since Covid it's changed hands in organisers and also had a route change. Although it's now been like this for a couple years this was my first go of running the new route. It was a pretty decent route with a few turns but completely