Blaydon Race, 9th June 2022

Oh me lads, you should’ve seen us gannin’
Passing the folks along the road
Just as they were stannin’
Aal the lads and lasses there
Aal wi’ smilin’ faces
Gannin along the Scotswood Road
To see the Blaydon Races

And some of wu were gannin canny fast too, mind! It’s nee surprise that wor Kris ran geet quick to finish 34th, but have we got fast lasses too? Why aye, we have! Wor Sarah and wor Catherine had proper good runs to finish in the top 20. Howay the lasses!

It was a lush neet for the 40th Blaydon Race, and most of wu had a reet good time and scoffed the well-earned Geordie grub and necked the well-earned Blaydon beer at the end. It made me reet proud to be a Claremont Road Runner, but divvent mention the al’ gadgie race, or ah’ll gan aal radgie, like! Ah know that ah shudda won, but there’s nowt ye can de if them buggers at UK Athletics give prizes on position not chip time!

With apologies to the real Geordies, but I have only lived here for 32 years so I am still learning the language! If any of more articulate runners are willing to furnish us with a race report in the Queen’s English**, then that would be most appreciated.

** Or any language really! French? Italian?

I have put our results in time order, which is different from our race positions.

Position	Runner	Chip Time
34	Kris Axon	33:02
212	Paul Robinson	38:39
209	Roberto Marzo	38:48
218	Sarah Kerr	39:02
226	Catherine Young	39:12
288	Tom Tinsley	40:08
447	Laurie Johnson	42:34
443	Lucas de Rosa	42:38
485	Heather Steel	43:16
518	Maddie Day	43:43
534	David Lydall	43:58
564	Izzy Neatrour	44:20
550	Nicki O’Brien	44:23
657	Howard MacLennan	45:23
762	Dean O’Brien	46:46
1043	Liz Denyer	48:08
1001	Richard Slack	49:22
1080	Brian Hegarty	49:38
1607	Clare McKitterick	50:15
1488	Michael Teasdale	50:46
1228	Luke Woodend	51:52
1928	Tara Hipwood	53:01
1706	John Bell	54:19
1555	Kat Truong	54:21
2710	Lena Lou	61:26
2800	Cath Robson	62:47
2908	Rose Hawkswood	64:42
2986	Elizabeth O’Mahony	66:58