Like many of our road races these days, the course has had to be changed on a number of occasions over the years due to traffic restrictions and road closures but the course around Gosforth Park Racecourse is now starting to establish itself as a popular one amongst runners.
Marc Elliot and Morag Stead were the victors in the traditional Norman Woodcock 5 mile, organised by Elswick Harriers.
Like many of our road races these days, the course has had to be changed on a number of occasions over the years due to traffic restrictions and road closures but the course around Gosforth Park Racecourse is now starting to establish itself as a popular one amongst runners.
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Blaydon Harriers played host to the second North East Harrier League series around their Shibdon Pond course with victories for Durham City's Ben Douglas and Birtley's Tracy Millmore. Fastest times in the two senior races went to Morpeth's Peter Newton and Ashley Gibson as the cross country season gets into full swing. Controversy, injuries, a restart and wins by two of our region's International athletes, this year's Heaton Harriers Memorial 10k certainly wasn't without incident! More than 530 athletes toed the line and observed the traditional 1 minutes silence in one of the most popular and traditional races on the circuit. Little did they know that 15 minutes later they would be back on the start line to try again! As most of us know by now, the parkrun series is a regular fixture in our race calendar with 11 events in the North East region alone (and the 12th starting in December in Darlington). We recently sent our roving reporter to spend the morning with the officials at the Whitley Bay event to see how much organisation goes on behind the scenes. In the first of two reports we see what is involved for the organisers to ensure the smooth running of the event while in Part Two who speak to Race Director, Heather Gould. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Last month we rounded up the statistics from the local parkruns from September and we’re back again looking at October. So what did October look like from a parkrun point of view then? With the Great North run now a distant memory and the Harrier league kicking off to change the face of Autumn/winter Saturdays we were expecting a bit of a dip in numbers. But turns out actually it was a bit split across our North East. |
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