For many, this is “the” marathon and 7 Claremont Road Runners were lucky enough to take part this year. For some it was their first every marathon and all had their own targets, but I think that they have all done themselves and the club proud! Here are some of their thoughts and experiences: Lynne …

A sunny morning for parkrun across most of the UK today, with several Claremonters taking advantage to impressive effect. Firstly however, the tourists. An hour ahead in Amsterdam, Ann Smith was finished before anyone else had started. On his annual pilgrimage to Belfast, Chris Jones ticked off another Northern Irish parkrun in the shadow of …

The word legend is bandied around so frequently these days, that I believe it to have lost some of its meaning. However I do not hesitate to describe our very own Mungai Wairia as a North East running legend! Having completed all the 6 major marathons by running at Tokyo last year, Mungai became only …

Another weekend and another Claremont Road Runner making their marathon debut. This time it was Aaron Mansell, who made the trip down to Manchester to take on the 26.2 miles for the first time. Aaron enjoyed the experience saying: “The support and atmosphere was unbelievable, really caught me off guard with how electric it was!I …

Billed as a fast, flat race around the city of Lincoln, this is very popular 10K attracting some 6,000 runners. Lucy Ward went down to Lincolnshire to try it. Lucy enjoyed the race despite it being “flatter than I am used to!”, and finished in 1218th position (219th female) in a time of 52:00. She …

Thanks to Lucy Keating for this report on this year’s Sand Dancer 10K. “Two Claremonters – Nina Jensen and Lucy Keating – turned out for this scenic annual race organised by South Shields Harriers. After a somewhat underwhelming Easter, weather-wise, it was quite disorientating to see the South Shields seafront looking gloriously sunny. The Sand …

Although it was still a bit blustery, there was nothing like the recent high winds and it was much milder too. Perhaps encouraged by the spring-like weather, there was an excellent turnout this weekend with over 40 Sky Blues participating in a parkrun. We spread ourselves around too, but the prize for tourist of the …

Isabel Neatrour decided to run her first marathon at Brighton this weekend. After all the hard training, she ventured down south with some trepidation, worrying as to what Storm Kathleen would have in store for the runners. However, on the day it didn’t have too much of an impact. In her own words: “The wind …

Plenty of Claremonters were out parkrunning on a blustery morning this Saturday. Furthest afield was Holly Porter, finishing as 3rd lady in the grounds of Tamworth Castle. A little further north, in similarly grand surroundings, Alexia O’Rourke was accompanying her aunt on her maiden parkrun at Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire. Meanwhile, Luke O’Neill was staking …

As for the Good Friday Relays, the weather was very kind to us again for this Easter Sunday morning 10K in sunny North Tyneside. Indeed, it was a pleasant surprise to be able to congregate outside in our vests and t-shirts as opposed to cramming into the Sports Centre to keep warm! The route was …