Written by Michelle Dale I took a Friday afternoon flight from Newcastle to Copenhagen, taking just 90 minutes for the flight, and with only hand...
Race Report: Amager Strandpark parkrun, Denmark, July 2025
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Race Report: Charm Bracelet Marathon (13th April 2025)
Written by Lisa Jenkins I was encouraged to enter this race by a friend and literally nabbed the last of 200 places at this new event – 26.5 miles...
Race Report: New York City Marathon
By Dave Murphy This year, I managed to get a place in the New York Marathon, a run I'd always wanted to try, in a city I love. I arrived a few days...
Race Report: Chasing the Z Parkrun – Zamek w Malborku, Poland
By Lou Trainor I have been doing parkrun since 2008 but not until I started attending the Quakers Parkrun Tourism events organised by Diane Lockhart...
Race Report: Zuiderpark parkrun (10th February 2024)
Photo: Lisa and Michelle at Zuiderpark parkrun We took an early flight from Teesside Airport on Friday morning into Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. With...
Race report: NEMAA Inter-Area Indoor Track and Field Challenge 2024
By Viv Hardwick North East Masters Athletics Association (NEMAA) Inter-Area Indoor Track & Field Challenge 2024 This event took place at Lee...
Race Report – Round Ripon Ultra
By LISA JENKINS The Ripon Round is organised by Ripon Runners and is open to solo or relay teams (up to 5 members). Described as ‘the perfect event...
Race Report – Midnight Sun Marathon
Bonkers. I could probably leave my description of this race at that, but then it wouldn’t really be much of a race review! I’d ended up doing this...
The Chevin Chase – Boxing Day 2019
By PIP RAYNER. When you wake up on Boxing Day and your body is made up of 25% alcohol, 25% cheese, 25% chocolate and 25% Christmas Lunch – I...
Race Report – GB Ultras, Race across Scotland
BY EMILY BEAUMONT Apologies in advance – this is long, I’ve left a few details out, so it could have been longer. Plus, I remembered more of the...
Race Report – Sedgefield Serpentine
BY ROB DENT My three favourite races all seem to fall within a five week spell right at the end of summer. This is the middle one, held just up the...
Race Report – LDWA Hadrian Hundred
BY DAVE THOMPSON Before If you have not heard of the Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) before a smidgen of background information.Basically...
Race Report – The British Master’s Cross Country (Part 2)
BY MICHAEL JOYEUX The 2018 British Masters International Cross Country event took place in Swansea, Wales this year. It is held on a rotation across...
Race Report – Trust 10 at Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough – Sunday 27th January 2019
BY LISA JENKINS Ormesby Hall’s FREE monthly 10k trail run takes place on the fourth Sunday of every month. Registration is at 8.30am in the tea...
Race Report – A Year of Master’s Running (Part 1)
BY MICHAEL JOYEUX I like to have one big target to work on over a running year. Sometimes, when the weather is horrid or the sofa is too comfy, it’s...
Race Report – Roseberry Topping Half Marathon – (the Hardmoors version) 9th December 2018
By MICHELLE DALE With the Hardmoors events as popular as they are nowadays, I'd pretty much forgotten that I'd signed up for the Roseberry HM way...
Race Report – Meanwood Valley Trail Race – 15 September 2018
By PHILIPPA RAYNER I entered the 21st (and apparently resurrected) Meanwood Valley Trail Race two days before I ran it. My sister lives in Leeds and...
Race Report – Regent’s Park Summer 10k
By Wendy Thompson Regent’s Park Summer 10k This was not a race that I was planning to do, but as I was in London that weekend it would have been...
Race Report – Kieran Maxwell Memorial Open Track & Field 400M & 200M – 8th April 2018
By Paul Roberts Kieran Maxwell Memorial Open Track & Field 400M & 200M For me this T & F race started way back in October 2017 when I...
Race Report – Ullswater “Dirty Double” – 14-15 October 2017
By REBECCA HOWARD Ullswater Dirty Double Weekend - Running on a Lakeland trail Picture for a moment a merry car of runners. Music chirps from the...
Race Report – Bramham Park 24hr Event
The event is a 24 hour race at Bramham Park which is only about an hour away by car and only a short distance from the A1 turn off. The concept is...
Race Report – Edinburgh Marathon – Sun 28 May 2017
By ANDY DIXON My first, my last (probably not!), my everything... On a lovely warm Scottish Sunday morning in May, I made my way to Regents Road,...
Member Report – My parkrun Journey
By ANTHONY CORBETT I remember where it all began... Looking at New Marske Harriers website for the final date in the 5k Coast Road series and there...
Race Report – Staveley Lakeland Trail – Sat 6 May 2017
By REBECCA HOWARD There’s a sting in the tail…. On the Kentmere trail! Shades out; vest on; music streaming out of the speakers; We were on our way...
Race Report – Reeth Trail 20k – Sunday, 30th April 2017
By MICHAEL JOYEUX Amongst many other things in the world, I must admit that I am occasionally partial to a little bit of off-road running. Sure,...