We started Monday night group runs again from Monday 20th July 2020, more formalised Wednesday sessions from Wednesday 19th August, and self-programmed runs on 18th September. To reduce the risk of close contact, Monday runs will start from the Bandstand in Exhibition Park with small groups starting at 5 minute intervals and reverse the usual starting …

The Run Nation series of races are back up and running, though not quite as before. To ensure social distancing, they are starting in groups of 6 with a 5 minute gap between each group. A group of Claremonters went to try the Dalton Park 10K and did very well on what was a tough, …

With the Claremont ladies having beaten the men in every team challenge so far, we decided to mix the teams up for this one and have seniors v veterans. As we have more, in UK Athletics terms, more veterans than seniors in the club, it was agreed that, for the purposes of this competition, veterans …

As society continues to take small steps back towards the world as it was before coronavirus, it seems to me that we are living in a strange half-world somewhere between lockdown and normality. This certainly applies to Claremont. Monday evening club runs started again on 20th July, though not as we knew them before. We …

In the dim and distant past, we used to run races and post reports on the website and thought it would always be so. Little did we know that our world was about to change! Now, as we inch our way back to normality, some races are starting up again. So here is our first …

For the second club handicap of the Covid-19 era, runners were given the choice of a 5K route of their own choosing (not downhill!) or running the real Summer Handicap course in Exhibition Park and over the Town Moor hills. The weather wasn’t very kind for those who waited until today – I bet it …

The latest challenge was to make running related words from street signs encountered during a run (or walk) and to score them as in Scrabble. Words could be up to 8 letters long with 8 letter words getting double points. To encourage originality, there was a massive 50 point bonus for every unique word found. …

The Claremont House to House Relay started early on Saturday morning with a long run by Nina from Morpeth to Chris Jones at Ponteland. Being Nina, she did a couplle of extra miles to avoid arriving early! Saturday was a mixed day or the runners weather wise – the early birds caught the rain, the …

As Claremont Road Runners is 39 years old, the latest Men v Women challenge was to see how far we could run in 39 minutes. There were high levels of participation with 51 club members running a total distance of 230.17 miles. This could have taken us as far south as the M25, as far …

As lockdown eases and the regulations have become less strict, it has been getting easier to run with club colleagues and friend. Many at Claremont have been taking advantage of this to get together in socially distanced groups of up to 6. We still haven’t been able to meet more formally as a club, though …