Alnwick has become the traditional location for the season finale, with the scenic venue being seen as a great way to end the year, but this year’s very wet winter has seen two events re-arranged for later dates. So it was a new experience to have a “mid-season” run around the pastures taking in the …

Although part of the North East Harrier League season, this is a one-off event with clubs scoring points for the performance of all their teams from junior to veteran. The Sherman Cup is the male version, with the Davison Shield being the female competition. In the races that Claremont are involved in, there are separate …

It was a dry, bright, cold day as the North East Harrier League said goodbye to Aykley Heads as a venue – the redevelopment of County Hall meaning that it will no longer be available. I think it is fair to say that Aykley Heads, although seen as tough and hilly, was a popular course …

After a bitterly cold start to the day, it turned into a lovely, mild, sunny afternoon – a great day for travelling up the Northumberland coast to run in the sky blue vest of Claremont Road Runners. And we did travel in good numbers with 17 ladies, 9 men and Charlotte Kerr, who is making …

The Harrier League is back! It seems longer than 6 months since we last donned our trails/spikes for some larking in the mud, but here we were kicking off the season once more at Wrekenton. The forecast had suggested dry, cool, overcast conditions… so naturally we were treated to a good half hour of heavy …

The 2023-24 Cross Country season is imminent. If you haven’t done cross-country before, please come along and have a go! The North East Harrier League takes place over a series of events linking the start of autumn, through the depths of winter, to the promise of spring. They are really sociable events, giving the opportunity to run in the …

This Saturday saw the region’s clubs come together for the last cross-country fixture of the season up in Alnwick. With Spring (seemingly reluctantly) on its way, we were greeted with mostly dry weather conditions, a not too off-putting chilly breeze, and a course less muddy than usual. With a varied terrain, enough incline for the …

It is a strange cross-country season when Temple Park, normally very dry, is a mud heap and Thornley Hall Farm, normally a mud heap, is very dry … some sort of strange effect of climate change? There was certainly a change in the climate compared to the last few days. Gone was the wind, the …

This most recent Harriers League fixture saw a return to Temple Park in South Shields after some of us having been there last month for the Championships. Although part of the NE Harriers League season, this is a stand alone event which awards prizes to the best results overall across all the age categories, from …

We’re midway through this year’s Harrier’s League, and Aykley Heads made sure to deliver, as Charlotte Kerr put it, “cross country that felt like cross country”. A varied and very muddy course, with plenty of inclination to contend with (including some admittedly quite fun downhills), divided opinions between this being some people’s favourite course, while …