This was a new venue for the 3rd Harrier League of the season, on a very cold windy day and a testing but very fair course, in the Senior Men’s race, there was more than 600 runners from the 3 pack system started on the day. The club was well represented with runners spread out…
The outdoor track will be closed on Tuesday 27th November for football. The indoor track will be open as usual. The indoor track will be closed for the Indoor competition on Thursday 15th November, speed through registration by entering on line at https://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2018/
Congratulations to Conrad Franks who has been selected by the England Athletics Masters Association to run in the British & Irish Masters International X-country Championship, which is held in Singleton Park – Swansea on the 17th November, he will be running in the V35 age category. This is long over due reward for Conrad who…
The club fielded four young athletes teams at the Northern Cross Country Relays on 20 October. In lovely autumn weather, Graves Park was firm underfoot but the long climbs made it a real test for the runners. An inexperienced under 13 girls team of Aoife Bell, Lucy Oliver and Millie Watson did very well to…
Congratulations to all our Club Champions for 2017-2018 season. These will be awarded at the Presentation Event on Sunday 18th November 2017 at the Hilton, Gateshead between 2-7 pm. The winners are below, Award Category Winner Club Champion NEYDL U13 Boys Hurdles Bailey Peacock Club Champion NEYDL U13 Boys Jumps Thomas Mann Club Champion NEYDL…
It was a busy weekend for our Senior Men’s Road & X-country teams with competitions on both days and at different ends of the country. On Saturday our Men had the long journey to Birmingham where the National 6 Stage Road Relay was taking place in Sutton Park, the team having qualified via the Northern…
Our young athletes, including several new faces, tackled the first fixture of the new NEHL season at Wrekenton with their usual enthusiasm. With races being set off at 5 minute intervals, there was a hectic hour of racing with 2 or 3 races out on the course simultaneously. In the under 11s our finishers were…
The first of the seasons Harrier League fixtures took place on Saturday 29th September at Wrekenton. It was a fine but very windy day and with the spell of dry weather recently the ground was very hard and a lot of the runners opted to ware their flats rather ran spikes which proved to be…
The club fielded 4 teams in the Northern Road Relays, held at Sports City Manchester, on Sunday 23 September. As ever the competition was tough in the surprisingly warm conditions. In the first race, our 13 Boys team of Ben Asquith, Oliver Ezeoke and Sonny Lewins were 22nd, a creditable result and good experience for…
It’s a bit late in the season so not many athletes choose to compete at this championship. However the 3 Gateshead Harrier athletes on show won 2 of the age groups. Georgina Mabbott in her first pentathlon won Gold in the U13 North East Championship and Silver in the Open competition and Philippa Ellis…