Summer arrived just in time to make it a very warm night for this year’s Newburn River Run, a 5 mile race along the Tyne Valley. Heather Steel and Laurie Johnson were the entrants from Claremont and they finished very close together, Laurie just pipping Heather by 2 places. The following is a report from …

Well done to Sonam Wangdi, who competed in the World Triathlon Championship Series event at Roundhay Park in Leeds today. It was a very windy day, so conditions would have been far from ideal, so he should be very proud of his achievements. You can see from his results that running is definitely his strongest …

A bright but breezy morning for the North East parkruns. The Town Moor event was called off at fairly short notice, so a lot of runners choose to have a warm-up run across to Leazes Park which delayed the start to accomodate them. There were fewer Claremonters than usual out running, and I think fewer …

Oh me lads, you should’ve seen us gannin’Passing the folks along the roadJust as they were stannin’Aal the lads and lasses thereAal wi’ smilin’ facesGannin along the Scotswood RoadTo 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, …

Another good spread around the North East today, and a couple of PBs to boot. Both PBs were on the Town Moor – for Sarah Kerr and Lena Lou. There was a bit of tourism, with Luke Woodend and David Devennie in the Lake District and Ben Hardy down south. Random stat of the day …

A couple of days before the Edinburgh running weekend, there was another running festival to feature the sky blue vest in the half-marathon. Some of you will remember Philipp Manser, an excellent runner who ran with the club during his short stay in Newcastle, representing the club in the 2019/20 cross-country season before returning home …

The Edinburgh running festival has races at various distances over the weekend, and it is incredibly popular with runners from both north and south of the border. A number of Claremonters made the trip this year to run in the half or full marathon. Laurie Johnson ran in the half and sends this report of …

There was another good sprinkling of Claremont Road Runners around the North East this weekend, with PBs for Ben Hardy on the Town Moor, and Fred Besse and Martin Jobling at Leaxes Park. On the other side of the world, Alice Vialard discovered that you need to be up with the larks to do a …

He may not have been wearing his Claremont vest, but our very own Kris Axon represented the Army in the Inter Services 10K Road Race. The race was incorporated into the Great Manchester 10K. I don’t know how the Army team got on, but wor Kris did us proud with a great run, finishing 58th …

The Weetslade Relay is the event that Claremont organised every year from 2010 to 2019 and which grew from eight teams when it was first run to over 100. We had to change it to a virtual event in 2020 and 2021 but we are delighted to be back to holding a ‘real’ race in …