Claremont Road Runners were out doing a few different runs this weekend. As well as the results below, Clare McKitterick did a nice-sounding 5K at Rainton Nature Reserve in County Durham. Trail Outlaws Branches and Bays 10K 1:03:08 Nina Jentl 1:09:16 Julia Simpson Tynedale Jelly Tea 10 Miles 1:16:46 Mungai Wairia 1:33:41 Chris Gillie 1:33:49 …

Leazes parkrun At last, it’s here! All Sumanth’s hard work came off with a highly successful launch of Leazes parkrun. It seems that all his efforts to keep the launch date secret worked too as the inaugural event wasn’t swamped as others have been.Sumanth even arranged for the sun to shine as the 136 runners …

17:54 Roberto Marzo22:27 Chris Gillie23:20 Nina Jentl27:00 Daisy Martin (pacemaker) Howard obviously ran, but I can’t see him in the results!

Try on the Tyne was a new series of running and cycling events held on the Quayside. There were 10K and 5K runs, a junior 2K run plus two different duathlons. Clare McKitterick and Howard MacLennan ran in the 5K, with the McKitterick youngsters running the 2K course together. Distance Time Runner 5K 21:49 Howard …

Position Runner Time 9 Roberto Marzo 39:08 93 Heather Steel 45:03 147 Paul Hughes 46:54 242 Chris Gillie 49:04 676 Daisy Martin 57:10

Newcastle parkrun 21:36 Gordon MacFadyen 21:59 Mungai Wairia 25:07 Nina Jentl Whitley Bay parkrun 21:02 Matt Kerry St Helens parkrun 20:44 Tom Tinsley Gateshead parkrun 19:55 Sumanth Nayak 21:56 David Lydall Riverside parkrun 23:56 Dave Wotton Lullingstone parkrun 25:43 Luke Woodend Rising Sun parkrun 22:42 Alasdair Wilson Craw

Chris and Daisy are very busy running races at the moment – parkrun, this and then the Morpeth 10K! Position Runner Time 264 Chris Gillie 1:48:43 265 Daisy Martin 1:48:47

I think the runners may have got a bit wet at the Morpeth 10K, but that didn’t stop Roberto Marzo getting his 10K PB. Well done,everybody. Position Runner Time 24 Roberto Marzo 37:41 (PB) 134 Chris Gillie 47:16 170 Nina Jensen 50:03 219 Daisy Martin 54:21 240 Kenny McCormick 59:08

It was a hot and humid morning in Newcastle Great Park for the Gosforth Relays this year. As the Great Park continues to develop, more of the paths are now tarmac than before, so I think this helped produce some fast times. We had 4 Claremont teams, distributed nicely with one in each category – …

Sarah Bowen and Richard Slack tackled this tough course in the Lake District, but unfortunately both were timed out at Honister. For Sarah, it was “Timed out again but got further than last year… third time lucky for 2020! Had 4 falls, wasp sting, thigh deep in a bog, went the wrong way with a …