Gary Read: The Heart of Darlington parkrun How did you get into running and why? I have done the Great North Run in 2003 and 2004 (when I was...
October 2014: Gary Read
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May 2012: April Corbett
How did you get into running and why? I used to aim to run for a mile on a treadmill about 10 years ago and then I entered the Race for Life to...
July 2012: Julie Whinn
How did you get into running and why? I started about 10 years ago just by myself, plodding around the streets just to keep fit then Diane Adkins...
November 2011: David Todd
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July 2011: Lucy Jefferies
How did you get into running and why?My mum and brother already ran and I took it up to lose weight. I started to run the race for life in memory of...
August 2010: Sarah Watson
How did you get into running and why?My dad has a rare long term illness and out of the blue one day for some crazy reason my mum suggested we...
May 2011: Ian Hammond
How did you get into running and why?Wanted to loose a bit of weight so started running, entered the Great North Run in 2004 and to help me with the...
August 2010: Mark Colling
How did you get into running and why?I really started running because Wendy seemed to enjoy it so much, and to improve my fitness for football...
March 2010: Anthony Corbett
How did you get into running and why?Injured a shoulder doing Boxercise and didn't want to waste my gym membership while it healed - so moved...
January 2010: Wayne Bramley
How did you get into running and why?I used to enjoy playing 5 a-side football until a broken ankle and six weeks in plaster prompted a re-think,...
July 2009: Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes from July 2009 How did you get into running and why?I started running about 10 years ago when I reached 18.5 stone, and had started...
July 2009: Julie Jefferies
From February 2009 Julie Jefferies from July 2009 How did you first get into running?...
October 2010: Jeff Marriott
How did you get into running and why? I played football till I was 34 (before the knees gave out) and I was challenged to run the GREAT NORTH RUN -...