After starting to run aged 55 it’s taken me 10 years but I have managed to run for England in the OAP category. It started when club member Craig Stokes (thanks Craig !) forwarded to me an England Athletics Facebook post inviting people to enter a qualifying race to run for England. The prize was […]
Author Archives: Mark Brown
Paul Bainbridge- A Brief History of Time VLM 2019 Oh no, not another marathon race report I hear you gasp! Well, I’m not one for writing reports but I feel it is my duty as I won one of the two club places AGAIN! So I feel in debt (almost). Let me rewind a little […]
Cleveland Way relays – Sunday 23rd June 2019 I’m now going to start putting teams together for the CW relays once again. For starters I hope to get 3 full teams out – a male A team, a male B team and a full female team. So that’s up to 3 x 16 runners, potentially […]
Manchester marathon 2019 I didn’t know what to expect going into this marathon. It was my third marathon and every time I’d slightly tweaked and attempted to perfect my training. The first time I did Manchester in 2017. I did pretty much all my long runs at a fairly quick pace. This meant that when […]
We had 6 runners complete the Manchester Marathon today. The conditions were good for some fast times and people didn’t disappoint. Some cracking times by everyone, keep an eye out for race reports. Name Bib Category Gun time Chip time Paul Mclean 332 MO35 02:41:48 02:41:47 Andrew Ackerley 1184 MV45 02:49:01 02:48:59 Richard Atkins […]
As is tradition we'll be having a Christmas Curry Night, it's kind of self-explanatory. This is planned for Tuesday 11th December. The venue will once again be Jolsha on Marton Road, which is here. Training will still be on that Tuesday and will be on at the Sports Village so there are plenty of showers […]
More details on the social page, so just a reminder that you turn up on the night to register and run but if you want Pie&Peas you need to let Mark Brown know in advance.
It is with great sadness we found out on Thursday that one of our friends and club members Tony Holland had sadly passed away. Tony was a relatively new member to the club, in his second year with us, but was a massively popular member of the running scene in the North East having owned […]