Wrekenton, the incongruously urban, traditionally balmy opening to the cross-country season. One can be reasonably confident of drier, firmer ground than the muddy bogs that come later in the year, with almost uncomfortably warm temperatures that see the runners sweat their way round Whitehills Nature Park. Not this year. Due to the fixture re-shuffle, runners …

Lynne Cornell stepped up from water-carrier to take part in this year’s Newcastle 10k: “I volunteered at the inaugural event last year, but decided to have a go myself this year. As I scraped the ice off my car I wondered if I had made the right decision and also wondered if I was going …

With a lot of club runners taking part in the Newcastle 10K, there were slightly fewer of us braving the cold at parkruns this morning. Indeed, the cold had led to Leazes and Denton Dene being called off due to icy paths. Up the coast, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea did survive the weather, allowing Chris Jones to clock …

It was a bitterly cold morning and frozen ground greeted the runners for the first relays of the year at Birtley. Indeed, the ground was deemed too hard for cross-country spikes, with trail and even road shoes being preferred. As we did not have a team in the veteran men’s race, we had a more …

The cold snap continued waging its relentless war on parkrun this week, with only three of the thirty-odd north-east events surviving cancellation. Despite the Frozen conditions, a handful of Claremonters were unable to ‘let it go’, despite the paucity of available options. Anton Mirafsari and Chris Jones joined the coastal crowds at Cotsford Fields. They …